Robotic surgery in India

Posted on Wed, 29 Feb 2012

Robotic surgery is the newest addtion to the surgical armamentarium. here the operating surgeon makes use of a mechanical robot with four movable arms to operate on patients. Robot holds a telescope i...

Day care surgery for gall bladder stones

Posted on Wed, 29 Feb 2012

It is not uncommon to see an abdominal ultrasonogram report suggesting stones in the gall bladder when you visit your doctor for pain in the upper abdomen or indigsetion or chronic gas. Stones in the ...

Cancer of the esophagus

Posted on Sat, 05 Jun 2010

Cancer of the esophagus is generally seen in pateints over 50 and chronic smokers. They present with dysphagia or symptom of food getting stuck in the foodpipe while swallowing,. This will be progress...

Abdominal re-operations

Posted on Mon, 31 May 2010

Abdominal re-operation or re-opening is defined as a second operation performed within hours to a few days after the first operation.Quite often a re-operation is perceived by the patien's relatives a...

Abdominal re-operations

Posted on Mon, 31 May 2010

Abdominal re-operation or re-opening is defined as a second operation performed within hours to a few days after the first operation.Quite often a re-operation is perceived by the patien's relatives a...

The magic of minimal access surgery

Posted on Wed, 26 May 2010

Minimal access surgery or laparoscopic surgery has come to stay. Gone or those days when patients after big abdominal operations needing large doses of injectable pain killers , tied down to the hospi...

Surgeons and their mindset

Posted on Wed, 19 May 2010

Recently I was on a panel discussing management of cancer rectum. And I was commenting on surgeon's preference for CT scans to MRI as most surgeons find reading MRI an arduous task. The Moderator (a s...

Training young surgeons

Posted on Tue, 18 May 2010

The two advances in the field of operative surgery in this century have been minimal access surgery and organ transplantation. The present generation of trainee surgeons should be well versed in eithe...

Hydatid disease of the liver

Posted on Mon, 10 May 2010

Hydatid disease is a parasitic cystic disease of the liver commonly caused by a variety of tapeworm with a dog as a intermediary host. Usually handling domestic dogs can give rise to this condition. T...

Abdominal tuberculosis

Posted on Fri, 07 May 2010

Tuberculosis can occur in any part of the body and abdomen is no exception. Abdomen is the commonest site of extra-pulmonary tuberculosis. Patients with HIV infection are more prone to abdominal tuber...