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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…
Junko Nambu, Keizo Sugino, Koichi Oishi, Masatsugu Yano, Masahiro Nishihara, Kiyohiko Dohi
Objective: To review the characteristics of and the procedure for preventing postoperative bleeding after neck surgery. Materials and Methods: A retrospective review of 9 patients (9/893; 1.0%) with postoperative bleeding who required reoperation was performe…
Masami Saito, Naohiro Kimura, Mamoru Tnegawa, Yoichi Tomizuka, Taku Tsukakoshi, Masamitsu Onda
We report our experience with two cases of anterolateral thigh flaps based on the musculocutaneous perforators arising from a more distal part of the descending branch than in the conventional anterolateral thigh flap. Case 1: A 53-year - old man with a skin…
Adala Raviraj, Ashish Anand, Srinivas Vijay
Coracoid process fractures are relatively rare and few cases have been reported in the orthopedic literature. In this article, we report the case of an active, thirty years old, male patient with isolated, displaced fracture of the coracoid process, associate…
Ebrahim Ghayem Hassankhani, Ali Birjandinejad, Farzad Omidi Kashani, Golnaz Ghayem Hassankhani
Background: The treatment of distal femoral open comminuted fractures is a major problem for orthopedic surgeon. The basic and important aim in treatment of these fractures is to assemble the condylar fragments and then fix the condyles to the femoral shaft b…
Joseph C. Maroon, Jeff W. Bost, Darren B. LePere, Stephanie M. Bost, Louis Williams, Austin S. Amos
Introduction: The TruFUSE lumbar facet fusion system is a unique allograft milled bone dowel used to fuse facet joints. We evaluated subjects undergoing TruFUSE fusion for stable grade I spondylolisthesis and stenosis comparing operative time, length of stay,…
Christine Gresik, Thomas Esposito, Dana Hommel, Loretto Glynn, Robert Love
Background: There is a paucity of information regarding the management of blunt thoracic aortic injury in the pediatric population compared to adults. This article adds three cases of blunt thoracic aortic injuries in pediatric patients to the literature and…
Fumi Utsumi, Hiroaki Kajiyama, Kiyosumi Shibata, Hiroko Mitsui, Ryuichiro Sekiya, Mika Mizuno, Shiro Suzuki, Tomokazu Umezu, Eiko Yamamoto, Fumitaka Kikkawa
Objectives : The aim of this study was to identify the patterns of recurrence and their significance in patients with endometrial carcinoma (EMCA). Patients and Methods : After a search of the medical records from single institutions, a total of 49 patients w…
Kursat Rahmi Serin, Fatih Yanar, Orhan Agcaoglu, Metin Keskin, Ozgur Ceyhan, Orhan Bilge
Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome is a rare, autosomal dominantly inherited multicancer syndrome. Disease is predisposed by hemangioblastoma, renal cell carcinoma, pheochromocytoma, pancreatic islet cell and cystic tumors or epididymis tumors under the mutatio…
Shashi Prakash, Satyendra Kumar Tiwary, Manjaree Mishra, Ajay Kumar Khanna
Venous ulceration is the most severe and debilitating outcome of chronic venous insufficiency in the lower limbs and accounts for 80 percent of lower extremity ulcerations. The morbidity caused by them has a serious impact on the quality of life. Sustained ve…
Toshikazu Tanaka, Takeshi Ogawa, Hisashi Sugaya
An 18-year-old girl presented with an osteoid osteoma in the ulnar side of the cortex of the distal radius extending into the distal radioulnar joint. The osteoid osteoma was removed from the distal radius at surgery. The patient’s symptoms were dramatically…
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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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