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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…
K. Alexiou, Argyrios Ioannidis, I. Drikos, I. Karanikas, A. Fotopoulos, M. Chorti, N. Economou
Intoduction: The adenocarcinomas of the appendix are rare tumors of the gastrointestinal truct that often reveal no clear clinical symptoms and are not diagnosed in time. In this study, we analyze a rare case of an incidentally discovered adenocarcinoma of th…
Anna Goldenberg, Roy Sandau, Adeshola Fakulujo
A stricture formation resulting in impedance of gastric emptying is a fairly common complication after gastric surgery with endoscopy being the most direct way of diagnosis. When this and other methods fail in detecting the complication, the proper diagnosis…
Nils Habbe, Alexander Reinisch, Wolf Otto Bechstein, Sabine Hannes
Background: Inguinal lymph node dissections (ILND) have been commonly associated with postoperative complications such as lymphedema, lymph fistula and wound infections. The reported complication rates after ILND range from 14% - 77%, and a rationale for thes…
Luis E. Marin, Randy Semma, Nisha Bala Krishnan
Background: The triple arthrodesis was described early by Myerson in 1923 and has been the gold standard surgical procedure for various conditions with the goal to reduce pain, improve deformity and facilitate function. Methods: The procedure consists of fusi…
Nozomu Murakami, Kouichi Tanabe, Shinichi Kadoya, Masanari Shimada, Katsuo Shimada, Masahide Kaji, Mitsuaki Sakatoku, Koichiro Sawada, Hatsuna Yasuda, Tatsuhiko Kashii
Laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) has become one of the standard surgical procedures for gastric cancer in Japan and Korea. However, LADG is currently listed as being in the clinical research phase under the Gastric Cancer Treatment Guidelines. T…
Masahiko Kawaguchi, Yoshifumi Kadono, Masanari Shimada, Hideki Moriyama, Norihiko Ishikawa, Go Watanabe
Background: The mechanism of the development of acquired inguinal hernia, especially indirect inguinal hernia, is not well known. Although anatomical studies have been performed to explain development of inguinal hernia, they have mainly involved autopsy or t…
Kulakhmet Dildakhmetovich Yerimbetov, Askar Shintasovich Zetov, Tleukhan Abildayev, Gulbadan Sabitovna Bekembayeva, Shahimurat Shaimovych Ismailov
In this article, there are given results of comparative studying of efficiency of surgical and conservative treatment of 277 patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis. The effectiveness of the surgical treatment of the main group of patients against the…
Hossein Hemmati, Mohammad Sadegh Esmaeli Delshad, Mohammad Reza Barzegar, Ali Babaei Jandaghi, Behruz Najafi, Mohammad Reza Asgary, Acieh Es-Haghi
Purpose: The use of port catheters is well accepted in the management of patients with malignancy. In this study, we compare the technical success and the complication rates of ultrasound guided Port-A-Cath implantation with doing this procedure by using the…
Rohini Prasad, Arivind Bhamidi, Arunkumar Rajeswaran, Subramaniam Muthukumar, Porkodi Kothandaraman, Meenatchi Sivaraj
Aims & Objectives: To study the epidemiology of workplace hand injuries, to understand relation between mode of injury and prognosis, to investigate into the possible contributing factors and to study the Socio-economic impact. Design of Study: For the prospe…
J. M. Garrido, A. Ferreiro, J. F. Rodríguez-Vázquez, P. Prada, S. Verdugo, J. Silva, S. López-Checa, I. Sánchez-Montesinos
Introduction: Left Ventricle Postinfarction Pseudoaneurysm (LVPS) —false aneurysm occurs after a free-wall rupture contained by the adjacent pericardium. LVPS lacks the normal structure of the ventricular wall and disrupts the normal chamber anatomy. However,…
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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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