In 1985, Essed and Schroeder introduced a less invasive procedure for the same indication by performing a plication of the tunica albuginea instead of excision. 7 The authors considered the advantage ...

Penile plication is a surgical procedure that reduces or eliminates a curved penis caused by Peyronie’s disease or a birth defect. The surgery is highly successful, and for most University of Utah ...

Diaphragm paralysis has been observed following cervical spinal cord and diaphragm injuries. Patients with diaphragm paralysis require plication of the diaphragm if significant pulmonary dysfunction ...

The first pioneering robotic surgery procedure to be carried out in the UK has taken place in Teesside. Middlesbrough’s James Cook University Hospital is the first to carry out a robotic diaphragm ...

Thirty patients underwent surgery with no mortality; twenty nine of them reported improvement from their major problem, which was the prolapse. Only one patient, a forty-seven-year-old male, had ...

Pichamol Jirapinyo, MD, MPH, director of bariatric endoscopy fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital, explains the implications of her study on the effects of endoscopic gastric plication on liver ...