Merry Christmas!
December 23, 2008 § 5 Comments
Detail from our Christmas tree. Me on the right.
The Sterile Eye wishes all friends and readers a peaceful Christmas and a happy new year!
Christmas Surgery
December 20, 2008 § 1 Comment
Comic strip courtesy of The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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Inventory updated
December 18, 2008 § Leave a comment
2008 is soon a wrap, and it’s time to update my list of the different diagnostic and cancer treatment videos I’ve filmed for the www.oncolex.no project over the last three and a half years.
The project is almost completed, but I still have some filming related to liver-, pancreatic-, gall bladder- and bile duct cancer left. This is a list of all the procedures I’ve filmed, so not all videos listed here are published and some will for various reasons never be completed. « Read the rest of this entry »
Total gastrectomy video
December 17, 2008 § 12 Comments
The stomach exposed through the midline incision.
My last video in 2008, this total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction for stomach cancer, was published today on www.oncolex.no. « Read the rest of this entry »
Self-surgery
December 15, 2008 § 1 Comment
Dr. Leonid Rogozov performing an appendectomy on himself.
I always thought the scene in the movie Master and Commander, where Dr. Stephen Maturin performs surgery to remove a bullet on himself, was a bit far-fetched. But it turns out that even in the field of self-surgery, reality surpasses fiction.
As List Universe’s Top 10 list of self-surgeries shows, removing a bullet from your own abdomen is merely an outpatient procedure, compared to what have actually been done over the years.
Thanks to T for the tip!
Esophageal dilatation video
December 14, 2008 § 6 Comments
The pump used to inflate the dilatation balloon.
Another endoscopic video of mine published recently. This video shows balloon dilatation of the esophagus following an esophagectomy. « Read the rest of this entry »
Gastroscopy video
December 12, 2008 § 2 Comments
Here is a gastroscopy video I’ve made that was recently published on www.oncolex.no. « Read the rest of this entry »
Hepatic artery embolization video
December 11, 2008 § 1 Comment
A radiologist watching the x-ray screens during embolization.
A video I made of an hepatic artery embolization was published on www.oncolex.org this week.
This is a minimally-invasive procedure to purposely occlude selected branches of the hepatic artery. In this specific video the procedure is done to reduce the amount of liver metastasis in a patient with a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas. « Read the rest of this entry »
Inner sights
December 2, 2008 § 11 Comments
A surgeon wielding a big tool (Endo GIA) on Grey's Anatomy. Note the bloody glove.
When you enter an operating room for the first time, you’re probably a bit worried about how you’re going to react to the visual impressions.The only reference most of us have is television. If it’s hospital drama or news footage, the surgery is always only hinted at. They show surgery without actually showing surgery. We get to see some bloody, gloved hands and some skin. The rest is left to Mr. Imagination, and as we know, he needs a reality check. « Read the rest of this entry »
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