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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…
Jose Erbella, Alexander Erbella
Laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal (TEP) hernia repair is a well-accepted technique for inguinal hernia repair. Differ ent types of mesh and fixation methods have been described. Recently, a novel, self-fixating mesh has been introduced and used successfull…
John O. Obafunwa, Christopher Pritchett, Siva Maikandanathan, Dahiru Adamu Garkuwa
A 27-year - old male presented with intestinal obstruction due to a jejuno-jejunal intussusception, 23 years after a childhood nasopharyngeal carcinoma. He was successfully treated for the latter by radiotherapy but subsequently required a mandibuloplasty for…
Ikpeme A. Ikpeme, Ngim E. Ngim, Iniabasi U. Ilori, Enembe Oku, Anthony M. Udosen
Background: Surgical wound drainage is practiced routinely by many orthopaedic surgeons despite studies that chal lenge the practice. Among proponents, the advantages of drainage include prevention of haematoma and/or seroma formation which potentially reduce…
Arun Angelo Patil, Arun Anthony, Richard Andrews
Background: The effect of Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) therapy following major resective surgeries has been re ported. However, the effect of VNS therapy following multiple-subpial-transections (MST) has not been reported. The objective of this paper is to e…
David J. Smith, Rachel A. Karlnoski, Ami Patel, C. Wayne Cruse, Kimberly S. Brown, Martin C. Robson
Objectives: Edema in partial-thickness burn wounds can decrease tissue perfusion, increase tissue ischemia, and deepen the burn injury. We report the results of a clinical trial comparing the effectiveness of a hydro-conductive dressing to our standard burn d…
John Anderson, Nathan Jeppesen, Myron Hansen, Chad Brady, Adam Gough, Zflan Fowler
With patients undergoing first time 1st metatarsophalangeal joint arthrodesis using graft material when it was required to fill cystic bone voids, we retrospectively compared the time to fusion (clinical and radiographic), and non-union rate between the patie…
Irene Ortiz-Rubio, María Pérez-Aguilera, Christina Granéli, Pernilla Stenström, Einar Arnbjörnsson
Background: Transanal endorectal one-stage pull-through (TERPT) procedure in children with Hirschsprung ’ s disease (HD) is frequently used worldwide. In order to give the families realistic expectations and to plan the medical care for the years after TERPT,…
Iskander Al-Githmi
A 50-year-old woman with a maxillary giant cell tumor had primary hyperparathyroidism from a mediastinal parathy roid adenoma. Computed tomography showed a mildly enhanced, oval soft tissue nodule (2.5 × 1.5 × 1.7 cm) at the anterosuperior mediastinum. Medias…
Sandra F. Martins, Adhemar Longatto Filho
After liver metastases, Peritoneal Carcinomatosis ( PC ) is the second most frequent cause of death in patients with Colorectal Cancer ( CRC ) , although the precise incidence of Colorectal Cancer Peritoneal Carcinomatosis is not known, as the majority of the…
Raviraj Adala, Surendranath Shetty, Ashish Anand, Rajendran Ravidnran
Stress fractures of the tibia are commonly seen in young athletes or military recruits due to repetitive micro trauma. These are rare in elderly patients. Osteoarthritis knee with varus deformity leading to stress fracture is rare but has been reported in lit…
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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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