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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…
S. Abdelaziem, Tamer A. El-Bakary, Hamdy S. Abd Allah
Background: Laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (LDG) for gastric adenocarcinoma (GA) is gaining more acceptances worldwide. Its results are still controversial. This study aimed to assess short term outcomes of LDG and compare it to the standard open distal gast…
Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Hideaki Tsubakihara, Shinji Yamazoe, Tomoya Kato, Kazunari Mori
Background: Portal vein (PV) stenosis or obstruction is sometimes observed in patients who were performed pancreatobiliary surgery. These conditions such as pancreatic fistulas (PF) and intra-abdominal infections after pancreatobiliary surgery still represent…
Ashraf Khater, Islam A. Elzahaby, Mohamed Hamdy, Mohammad Zuhdy, Omar Hamdy, Mohamed Ezzat, Mahmoud Abdelaziz, Ahmad M. Farid, Mansour Elmoatasem, Amr Hassan, Khalid Atallah, Mahmoud Mostafa Saleh, Maha A. Abo-Zeid, Amr Yassin, Ola Taha Abd Eldayem, Mona Gad
Objective: Nerve blockade is commonly used in oncosurgical procedures as an alternative to general anesthesia for older patients and those with significant medical problems. We report a single tertiary oncology center experience in performing various lip rese…
Abdullah Al-Busaidi, Tariq Al-Shafei, Huda Al-Moqbali, Sara Al-Kindi, Mohammed Al-Saadi, Nadya Al-Busaidi, Hani Al-Qadhi
The aim of the study was to review traumatic splenic injury following blunt abdominal trauma (BAT), during the period from January 2009 to January 2015 at SQUH. The data for this study was retrospectively collected. It included 768 patients admitted to SQUH g…
Koichi Yoshida, Kenichi Ietsugu, Jyunpei Okamoto, Saki Hayashi, Yoshihide Asaumi, Naohiro Ota, Hiroyuki Sugawara, Satoshi Tabata, Masahiro Kaneki, Mitsuaki Sakatoku, Kaoru Kiyohara
Saccular extended obstruction is generated when the anastomotic site of functional end-to-end anastomosis is extended saccularly and blocked by intestinal contents. This is a specific complication of functional end-to-end anastomosis. Saccular extended obstru…
Fatin R. Polat, Yasin Duran, Havva Nur Alparslan Yümün, Gülay Sariçam
Background: Thyroidectomy for giant goiter is a surgical challenge due to distorted and displaced anatomy. The aim of this study is to evaluate the relationship between giant goiter and its operative complications. Material and Methods: A retrospective multic…
Ahmed. Z. Kaleem, Nabish Naheed, Syed M. Ahmad
Colonic polypectomy remained the first colonoscopic therapeutic intervention which was successfully accomplished with the help of an early snare. This therapeutic procedure was executed by Dehyle in Europe and Shinya in USA in 1971 [1]. Thus, these two colono…
Masaki Tomita, Takanori Ayabe, Kazuyo Tsuchiya, Kunihide Nakamura
BACKGROUND: Although the serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) concentration is the well-known prognostic marker of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), serum CEA concentration has been reported to be affected by smoking status and body mass index (BMI). There…
Fatma Khinaifis Althoubaity, Adnan Merdad, Nouf Yahya Akeel, Nisar Haider Zaidi, Abdullah Omar Sultan
Objectives: To evaluate breast lumpectomy margins by frozen section in breast conservation surgery. Methods: A retrospective study of frozen section of lumpectomy margins of one hundred ten patients was done at King Abdulaziz University Hospital from June 200…
A. Z. Kaleem, N. Naheed, S. M. Ahmad
Diagnostic colonoscopy acquires the status of gold standard investigation for evaluation of colonic problems. Formally, colonoscopy was first initiated in June 1969 in America. Colonoscopic history can be traced back to 1958. Matsunaga from Japan was the pion…
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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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