Archive for the ‘Surgery’ Category

The curative surgery

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The curative surgery aims to remove the tumor while respecting a margin of safety device and, as appropriate, nearby lymph nodes (that is to say, the lymph draining the area or organ operated).
The margin of safety is supposed to sound the part that surrounds the tumor and which is then analyzed to verify the absence or presence of cancer cells.
If after analysis, the margin is positive, that is to say, it contains cancerous cells, the patient is sometimes operated again to remove that part of tissue.
The size of the margin of safety varies by cancer type and location of the tumor.
The curative surgery can be radical or conservative

  • It is called radical if the body containing the tumor is removed in its entirety.
  • Wherever possible and consistent with the stage of the tumor, surgeons try to preserve organ function and / or body image by making interventions called conservative.

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Rhinoplasty

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Rhinoplasty is surgery to reshape the nose, is one of the most common procedures plastic surgery.
Used for:

  • Lowering the dorsum (hump) or wince nose.
  • Reducing or refine the size of the nose.
  • Define the shape of the nasal tip.
  • Modify the nares (nostrils).
  • Change the angle between the nose and upper lip.
  • Correct birth defects or traumatic.
  • Help improve breathing problems (supplemented with septoplasty).

Rhinoplasty

Rhinoplasty


The best candidates for rhinoplasty are people who want to improve their appearance. Achieve harmony with your face. (more…)

Hemorrhoids

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Hemorrhoids are vascular structures of the anal canal in each individual plays an important role in fecal continence. In the presence of symptoms such as bleeding, pain, itching, there may be a pathological condition called hemorrhoidal disease.
In Western countries at various stages of hemorrhoidal disease affects more than 50% of the population and is thus an extremely common disease.
There are several classifications of hemorrhoids, more or less recent, but the distinction of internal and external to the subdivision into four grades, while not the last created are still the most widely used in clinical practice.
If there are symptoms, the first thing to do ‘a visit that may be performed usually by the attending physician, the specialist surgeon or a Coloproctology: It’ important to put a correct diagnosis and differentiate other benign or malignant anorectal region or colon which may present with similar symptoms.
Once confirmed the diagnosis and defined the stage of disease and the symptoms may consider treatment options.
Most of the patients permanently or temporarily solves the problem with medical therapy, or regularization of the hive, dietary modifications and use of customized local or systemic therapies that address the symptomatic picture. In case of continuation or recurrence of symptoms, however, and ‘possible to consider other therapeutic options. (more…)

Varicocele

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

The high frequency of varicocele in adolescents already, the interest it deserves in recent years is given to it. Since then revealed close correlation with male infertility can understand even more the value of this disease especially in young people. There is to say that not always the surgical correction of varicocele improve the seminology and can be said that it is not always factor as a cause of infertility. In a series of small reports tackle from time to time various aspects of the problem.

DEFINITION

The term originates from Latin and greek Varix ICIS-Ke-le. So the varicocele can be defined as a dilatation of varicose veins of the testicle or internal spermatic veins. These veins originate from the whole testis (epididymis and Didymus) back up along the spermatic cord in the inguinal canal, a small part of the veins back flow into the epigastric vein, most of the veins back up front to throw to the right directly into the vein inferior vena cava and left renal vein. (more…)

Men and Cosmetic Medicine

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

A couple of years of aesthetic medicine clinics also accept men. What are the most vain women, is beyond any doubt, but all this time lacked the courage to ask for advice on what to do to maintain a youthful face and fresh.
The request, rather than legitimate, has always seemed an act of weakness, a kind of feminization. Fortunately, the media has for once managed to explain and reassure the man that simply revitalizing facial or a mundane session peeling did not removed anything being macho.
Men’s skin due to hormones androgens, occurs more often, with good regeneration capacity and increased sebum production, while it is the wrath of every teenager, the other has the advantage of delaying the formation of wrinkles. The film hydrolipidic represents a barrier to excessive loss of water from within and the aggression of external physical agents. (more…)

Laser Skin Resurfacing

Monday, November 30th, 2009

In this technique using a pulsed CO2 laser similar to that being used by more than 20 years in various fields of surgery, adapted and modified for the treatment of skin and defined, for the delicacy of its use, silk touch laser ( Laser touch of silk) (1999). The light emitted by this equipment “steam” the skin allowing for a selective treatment that leaves perfectly free of all surrounding tissues.
Laser Skin Resurfacing

The beam causes evaporation of water inside the cells, creating an accelerated desquamation of tissue treatment and a natural regeneration of skin. This instrument is equipped with computer control and optical scanner (technology devices such that the peeling skin is made with precision and safety).
The U.S. doctors consider the laser as the main weapon anti aging of tomorrow. (more…)

Unwanted hair – half intense pulsed light photo-epilation

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

For the treatment of unwanted hair from face and body, men and women can use successfully to photo-epilation via pulsed light at high intensity (IPL – Intense Pulsed Light). The treatment can achieve a reduction in shareholders bulbar 80%. The unique flexibility of the equipment allows to set parameters on the characteristics of skin and hair, making it possible to customize the treatment according to specific needs.

photoepilation
The photo-epilation session requires a few minutes and a cycle of at least 4 sessions monthly. (more…)