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D S Bhandarkar

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PubMed1990

Opponensplasty--an experience of twenty-three cases using three techniques.

Twenty-three opponensplasties were performed in 21 subjects. Flexor sublimis transfer was carried out in 15 hands, brachioradialis transfer in 4 hands, Makin's translocation of flexor pollicis longus in 2 hands and our modification of Makin's procedure in 2. The results were graded as excellent in 13 hands, good in 6 hands, fair in 3 hands and poor in 1 hand. Further, the power of pinch was graded as good in 14 hands, fair in 7 hands and poor in 2 hands. We suggest that it is almost always possible to devise an appropriate procedure to restore the opposition of the thumb.

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Laparoscopic gastropexy for chronic intermittent gastric volvulus.

The traditional surgical treatment of chronic gastric volvulus involves laparotomy for derotation of the stomach and its fixation to the patients. We describe a 36-year-old man with organoaxial gastric volvulus who was treated successfully with laparoscopic gastropexy. He is asymptomatic four months later.

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Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in India.

The first 100 cases of laparoscopic cholecystectomy carried out in a "developing country" are studied. There were 77 females and 23 males. The mean age was 48 years (24-82 years). There was no mortality and 2% morbidity. The mean operative time was two hours and 15 minutes in the first 50 cases, one hour and 50 minutes in the subsequent 50. Twelve cases were converted to open surgery, nine within the first 50 cases, three in the subsequent 50. In developing countries the challenge of financial constraints as also a different spectrum of abdominal pathology calls for greater efforts of innovation and improvization. However, the rewards of laparoscopic cholecystectomy as compared to open cholecystectomy are significant in developing countries in terms of shorter hospitalisation (3.6 vs. 13 days), early return to work (12 vs. 36 days), better hospital bed utilization, and reduced expense.

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