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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…
Sachin Patil, Sudhir Jain, Ramachandra C. M. Kaza, Ronald S. Chamberlain
Cholecystectomy is the most common digestive tract surgery performed worldwide and injury to the bile duct lead s to both acute and chronic sequelae. The incidence of bile duct injury is increased in the presence of severe inflammation and is compounded by co…
Tamara R. Tilleman, M. M. Tilleman, M. H. A. Neumann
Background: It has been postulated that elliptical cutaneous excisions must possess a length-to-width ratio of 3 to 4 and a vertex angle of 30o or less in order to be closed primarily without creating a “dog ear”. These dimensions became axiomatic in cutaneou…
Marilien Gebruers, Yves Jacquemyn, Jérôme Cornette
Cervical insufficiency is seen in 0.1% - 1% of all pregnancies and classical treatment involves vaginal cerclage. In some conditions, such as an extremely short, deformed or absent cervix, surgery needs to be done by transabdominal ap proach. We use a simplif…
Xueyuan Wu, Hongbin Zhu, Heng Du, Wei Ma, Chihua Guo
Objective : To determine the efficacy in treatment of vertically unstable sacral fractures with pelvic external fixation and skeletal traction. Patients and Methods: The pelvic external fixation and skeletal traction were applied on 12 cases of vertically uns…
Wolfgang A. Pfaeffl
Flaporhexis, a technique to make the femtosecond laser corneal flap was developed primarily to reduce the mechanical trauma associated with separating the corneal tissue by taking advantage of the cornea’s natural anatomy and was first described in a peer rev…
Massimo Mesolella, Elena Cantone, Vieri Galli, Maurizio Iengo
The authors present a case with a sublingual giant dermoid cyst, rapidly enlarged during pregnancy, which showed itself with deglutition and mild respiratory problems. Dermoid cysts (DCs) are benign lesions arising from entrapment of epithelial rests during e…
Annalisa Paliotta, Giuseppe Pedullà, Daniele Crocetti, Giuseppe Cavallaro, Giuseppe D’Ermo, Andrea Polistena, Giorgio De Toma
Multifocal fibrosclerosis is a very rare fibroproliferative syndrome involving multiple organ systems. In our report we present the case of multifocal sclerosing thyroiditis characterized by multiple fibroelastic foci similar to breast “radial scar”, which ca…
Alexander Acheampong Oti, Peter Donkor, Solomon Obiri-Yeboah, Michael Yelibora
Background: Accurate diagnosis of orofacial tumours is important as this determines the treatment options as well as the eventual treatment outcome. Agreement between clinical and histopathological diagnosis becomes important in this regard. Aims: The aim was…
Aki Oride, Haruhiko Kanasaki, Kohji Miyazaki
Background: Conservative therapies of pelvic abscess are not highly effective and surgical treatment is usually re quired. This study reviewed cases of pelvic abscess treated at our hospital over a 3-year period to evaluate treatment efficacy. The medical rec…
Esther Manor, Netta Sion-Vardy, Peter A. Brennan, Lipa Bodner
Spindle-cell lipoma (SCL) is a variant of lipoma, usually presenting in the neck or trunk. SCL of the oral cavity is rare. Some cases of oral SCL have been reported; however, the clinico-pathologic characteristics of oral SCL are still un known. Here we repor…
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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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