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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…
Mahir Köksal, Robert J van Ginkel, Jan G Zijlstra
A patient with pseudomyxoma peritonei underwent Hyperthermal Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) with Mitomycin C after which she developed thrombotic microangiopathy. This syndrome mimicked possi-ble surgical complications. Treatment with plasma exchange re…
Paddy D Hallihan, Niamh Ni Choileain, Eddie Myers, H. P Redmond, Greg F Fulton
Background and purpose Infrainguinal arterial reconstruction increases limb salvage rates, however, the fac- tors that predict time to graft failure remain ill-defined. The aim of this study was to define such predictors. Methods A retrospective analysis of i…
Hong-bin Wang, Min Li, Ming Zhang, Yan-ling Zhu, Hao Wen
Objective Tricuspid valve reconstruction was advocated as the operative method for the treatment of tricus-pid valve endocarditis recently. Many people accept that valve replacement therapy should be performed if more than two valve leaflets are involved. The…
Ozgen Ilgaz Kocyigit, Serdar Kabatas, Erdinc Civelek, Ezgi Tuncay, Oguz Omay, Tufan Cansever, Ayda Turkoz
A 68-year-old female patient with previous history of transsphenoidal hypophysectomy operation underwent three-vessel coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery for extensive coronary artery disease. Preoperative neurological examination revealed sequelae vi…
Ahmed M. Kensarah
Objective: To report results of mesh repair vs. the modified Mayo’s suture overlap in the surgical treatment of adult umbilical and paraumbilcal hernias in our medical center. Patients & Methods: The study is a Saudi single center single surgeon trial compose…
Wissam Al-Jundi, Sameer Kadam, Ioakim Giagtzidis, Feras Ashouri, Kunal Chandarana, Mark Downes, Amjad Khushal
Background: Self-expanding metal stents (SEMS) have been used in the management of malignant colorectal obstruction for palliation or as a bridging tool to single-stage surgery. We present the clinical results of a series of patients with colonic cancer in wh…
Hirohiko Kakizaki, Yasuhiro Takahashi, Hidetaka Miyazaki, Akihiro Ichinose, WengOnn Chan
The swinging eyelid procedure is a versatile technique to approach orbital and periorbital surgical fields with less visible scar. Although mainly used in orbital surgeries, this procedure can also be used to expose the zygomatic arch and periorbital areas. T…
Farshad Anvari, Arnold M. Schwartz, Gregory Trachiotis
Thymic carcinomas are unusual tumors of the thymus gland. Basaloid carcinoma, an unusal epithelioid varient of a thymic carcinoma, is a rare histopathological subtype, and is not well charecterized in the literature. We present the anatomical and histogical f…
Junyang Li, Weixing Hu, Zhihong Zhang, Dong Wei
Meningioma-glioma mixed tumor is rare central nervous system tumor. It is necessary to study its clinical and pathological characteristics as well as its possible genesis. This case was a 54-year-old man who was readmitted for recurrent glioma. Magnetic reson…
Mushtaq Chalkoo, Shahnawaz Ahangar, Asim Rafiq Laharwal, Aasim Mushtaq Patloo, Abbass Mohd, Shabir Ahmed Dar
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor is a rare soft tissue sarcoma. Breast is an extremely rare location of this lesion and presentation as a breast lump in the absence of pain or previous benign neural tumor is even rarer. We report such a lesion in a 60…
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