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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…
Saurabh Piparsaliya, Milind Joshi, Nitin Rajput, Priti Zade
Umbilical granuloma is a very common cause of umbilical discharge. It is managed by chemical cauterization or simple thread ligation. However, it can be a differential diagnosis of patent vitello intestinal duct and this should be ruled out before managing su…
Brendan F. Judy, Jarrod D. Predina, Jay Mittal, Charuhas Deshpande, Sunil Singhal
Angiosarcoma is an extremely aggressive tumor with a high rate of mortality. It can arise in any tissue of the body and is most commonly found in the skin and soft tissue[1]. Pulmonary angiosarcoma is usually secondary to a primary location of the body and pr…
Juan F. Blanco, Susana Gomez-Castro, Ruth Lopez-Gonzalez, Juan C. Paniagua
A 44 year-old women with persistent back and irradiate pain after discectomy in L5-S1 lumbar level presented a osteoblastoma in L4-L5 level. The osteoblastoma mimic a failed back surgery. She was successfully treated by removing the tumour with instrumented p…
Carolyn E. Schwartz, Brian Quaranto, Emily Samaha, Mariam Kahn-Woods, Paul Glazer
Background Context: Patient demographic and medical indicators influence the well-being of spine surgery patients. It may, however, be worthwhile to evaluate other lifestyle and attitudinal factors. We hypothesized that such factors would explain at least as…
Nima Heidari, James A. G. Madden, Mark D. Loeffler
We report a case of acquired genu recurvatum treated with a proximal tibial flexion osteotomy. A partial growth arrest at the anterior portion of the proximal tibial physis following a conservatively treated Meyers-McKeever type II injury of the tibial eminen…
Aarthi Govindarajan, Bhawna Dev, Roy Santosham, Joseph Santhosh
Acute appendicitis is a common surgical emergency with varied clinical presentations. Early diagnosis is absolutely necessary to minimize morbidity whereas delayed or missed diagnosis can cause adverse consequences. Computed tomography is a highly accurate im…
Mehrdad Asgeri, Nisheet Waghray, Kevin Mullen, Nader Nader, Henri Brunengraber, Juan Sanabria
The mechanisms involved in the development of hepatic encephalopathy still remain uncertain. The rodent portacaval shunt is a model that reproduces many of the pathological features observed in humans (1), but is a technically demanding exercise. While the tr…
Bhagwan Satiani, Thomas Williams, Mark Landon, Christopher Ellison, Steven Gabbe
Objective: To estimate the OB/GYN Surgical workforce needed in the U.S by 2030 to meet the needs of our population. Methods: Using a population based analysis, the net supply of OB/GYNs was calculated. Our assumptions included: a ratio of OB/GYN's to populati…
Indraneil Basu, Padmanabhan Subramanian, Matthew Prime, Charlie Jowett, Brian Levack
Nutritional status influences surgical outcome and complication rates. The National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends screening patients on admission; yet traditional nutritional screening tools are underutilised. This retrospective case-cont…
Eray Copcu
Reduction mammaplasty and mastopexy is one of the biggest operation groups which have many techniques and their modifications. Generally accepted that, new modifications are the results of improvements of existing techniques. In this study we present a new mo…
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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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