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Surgical Science is a peer reviewed international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in surgery. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and to promote study, research and improvement within its various specialties. All manuscripts submitted to SS must be previously unpu…
Nigel Bird, Ruth Bird, Ali Majeed
Purpose: 1) To compare the survival of patients with colorectal liver metastases who underwent resection as the primary treatment against patients who had chemotherapy as the primary treatment. 2) To compare the survival in patients with recurrent inoperable…
Koji Teramoto, You Kawaguchi, Tetsuo Hori, Yasuhiko Ohshio, Masayuki Hashimoto, Shoji Kitamura, Jun Hanaoka, Noriaki Tezuka
Pulmonary infarction may present as a solitary pulmonary nodule resembling a malignant pulmonary tumor. A 71-year-old woman who had undergone the surgery for abdominal malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) with inflammatory nature presented with a small nodule…
A. Gulati, A. Dixit, D. M. Williamson
Introduction This study investigates the current practice of surgeons in the United Kingdom with regards to their usage of prophylactic antibiotics for percutaneous orthopaedic procedures. Methods An electronic survey of 10 questions was devised and sent to a…
Axel Costilla-Montero, Benjamín Guadarrama-Benítez, Marco A. Aragón-Castro, Omar Morales-Ordaz, Rubén Gutiérrez-Rosales, Claudia Carrillo-Ponce, Marcela Janka-Zires, Luis Gabriel Vázquez-Lavista
Background: neo - adjuvant therapy is usually indicated in locally advanced tumors, the aim is to decrease the tumoral burden and enhance overall survival. Renal cell carcinoma is a chemo and radio resistant neoplasm and this type of approach is not as effect…
Leena Mawaldi, Charu Gupta, Hanadi Bakhsh, Maissa Saadeh, Mostafa A. Abolfotouh
Objective: Ultrasound has been proven to be useful in detecting underlying ovarian pathology. However, its role in the prediction of ovarian torsion has been controversial. The aim of the study was to assess the validity of ultrasound in the prediction of ova…
Ravi de Silva, Simon Messer, Vimal Raj, Stephen Large
Aneurysms of the aortic arch and descending aorta are invariably fatal if left to expand, but also represent considerable surgical challenges. The development of endovascular stent grafts in combination with aortic debranching has produced results at least co…
Neziha Karabulut, Funda Cetinkaya
Aim: The aim oh this study was to detrmine the effects of different training programs implemented before inguinal hernia operation on the pre- and post-operation anxiety level of and pain level the patient. Material and method: This quasi experimental study w…
Kelvin Ramsey, S. Overstall, A. Fleming
We describe the presentation of a patient with sudden, sharp pain associated with a snapping sensation, swelling and pain over the metacarpophalangeal joint (MCPJ) with no history of direct trauma. The finger was held in 30 degrees of flexion and significantl…
Mahendra Singh Gond, Arjun Saxena, Pawan Agarwal, Uday Somashekar, Dhananjaya Sharma
The purpose of the present article is to present an unusual case of internal herniation. In this case small bowl obstruction was due to congenital right trans-mesocolic hernia which had the right ureter at the neck of the sac forming a constriction band. This…
Csenge Szeverényi, Balázs Dezső, Tamás Deményi, Zoltán Csernátony
One form of renal osteodystrophy secondary to chronic renal failure is the osteitis fibrosa cystica, which is the complication of secondary hyperparathyroidism. Osteitis fibrosa cystica is a histologically benign, tumor-like lesion of bones. Since early diagn…
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Surgical Science is a peer reviewed international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in surgery. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and to promote study, research and improvement within its various specialties. All manuscripts submitted to SS must be previously unpu… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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