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Trends in Surgery of Kidney Tumours


Shift to less invasive and nephron-sparing techniques
The incidence of kidney tumours in Czech Republic is the highest in the world In it was in male and in female cases in per year Owing to this fact urologists in Czech Republic are focussed on surgery of kidney tumours At our department we treat over patients with kidney tumour surgically every...
Treatment of Gastric Cancer

Treatment of Gastric Cancer


Role of radiotherapy
Gastric cancer is the fourth most frequent malignancy in the world It is characterised by a high locoregional recurrence rate and poor prognosis Radical surgical dissection is the basis of cure in this disease However because most patients are at advanced stages surgery alone provides longterm survi...
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Transection of the Liver


Overview of techniques
Over the past few decades the management of liver tumours has become a truly multidisciplinary speciality Advances in imaging medical oncology and interventional radiology have now allowed treatment with curative intent for many lesions that previously would have received palliation only However sur...
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Laparoscopic Repair of Inguinal Hernia


Drug Delivery and Molecular Imaging
Minimal access surgery has been a surgical watershed which has ushered in a new era of technologyenabled surgery It has firmly established itself in the armamentarium of most surgeons With the advancement in the technology and instrumentation minimal access surgery has been successfully applied to m...
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Surgical PACS


Design and implementation
Model Guided Therapy MGT is a methodology complementing Image Guided Therapy IGT with additional vital patientspecific data It brings patient treatment closer to achieving more precise diagnosis more accurate assessment of prognosis and a more individualised planning execution and validation of a sp...
Advances in Cardiac Surgery

Advances in Cardiac Surgery


In the past decade minimally invasive surgical techniques have become prevalent in the field of cardiac surgery including minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass MIDCAB offpump coronary artery bypass OPCAB and minimal access atrial septal defect ASD closure and mitral and aortic valve surge...
Quality Assurance Programmes for Surgery

Quality Assurance Programmes for Surgery


How and why in Asia?
A quality assurance programme in surgical practice is quite simply a mechanism to ensure that the patient consumer is subjected to the least threatening journey through the hospital during a period of treatment with an outcome that is deemed acceptable by international standards
Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric Surgery


Experience with medical tourism
Exorbitant costs of healthcare in industrialised nations ease and affordability of international travel favourable currency exchange rates in the global economy rapidly improving technology and standards of care in many countries of the world and most importantly proven safety of healthcare in selec...
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Surgical Skills Simulation


Effect on quality and safety
To give patients the best possible care healthcare providers need to combine the three Ss These are the best Systems the best Science and the best Skills The outline of this is seen in figure Best Science incorporates concepts such as evidencebased care the use of randomised control trial data meta...
Surgical Response to Mass Casualty Incidents

Surgical Response to Mass Casualty Incidents


The Israeli Experience
The frequency of recorded Mass Casualty Incidents MCIs has increased over the past years with almost billion people being affected by disasters during the past years alone Approximately half of all natural disasters occur in Asia even though it comprises only of the total world area In the secon...
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