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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…
Alexander Acheampong Oti, Peter Donkor, Solomon Obiri-Yeboah, Osei Afriyie-Owusu
In African studies on salivary gland tumours, there are considerable epidemiological differences in different parts of the continent. There is no study of salivary gland tumours from the second largest hospital in Ghana, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital. Aim: T…
Ross E. Willis, Kent R. Van Sickle, Richard M. Peterson
We ascertained the opinions of residents and faculty regarding technical skills decay during non-clinical training years and evaluated the effectiveness of a technical skills refresher curriculum (TSRC) offered to residents in the month prior to rejoining cli…
Eugene Lin, Ho Lin, Guang-Uei Hung, Jungle Chi-Hsiang Wu, Huei-Loong Hsieh, Tah-Chong Lin, Chao-Chih Chen, Chien-Hsiang Wang, Mao-Sheng Lin
Seizures can lead to different injuries ranging from minor lacerations to serious head injuries or bony fractures. We report a rare case of a male patient presenting with a history of a distended abdomen and gross hematuria following a seizure attack. After c…
Emerson Budhoo, Dale Maharaj
We report the case of a 33 year old female who presented with endometriosis of the anterior abdominal wall following Caesarean Section at the surgical incision site. Abdominal Incisional Site Endometriosis can pose a diagnostic dilema owing to its relative ra…
Hiroaki Kajiyama, Kiyosumi Shibata, Mika Mizuno, Eiko Yamamoto, Michiyasu Kawai, Tetsuro Nagasaka, Fumitaka Kikkawa
Background : To examine the difference in the survival of patients with recurrent ovarian cancer who received fertility-sparing surgery (FSS) and those receiving radical surgery. Methods: Clinicopathologic data on a total of 90 patients with stage I recurrent…
Okay Güven Karaca, Ayse Gül Kunt, Mehmet Kalender, Mehmet Taşar, Ata Niyazi Ecevit, Osman Tansel Darçın
Acute Type I aortic dissections are fast progressing highly mortal vascular emergencies if management delays. In this particular paper we report a case with a Type I aortic dissection mistreated for first 2 hours as thrombotic AMI, and aortic dissection diagn…
Mazen Almasri
Objective: To investigate if immediate reconstruction of fresh extraction sockets ’ lost buccal wall would reduce the possibilities of implant surface exposure and improve the treatment predictability. Materials and Methods: A retrospective chart review of He…
Hans Rostad
In the year 2000 lung cancer was operated in 349 patients in Norway, in 2010 the number was 461. In the first period fatal surgical hemorrhage occurred in eight patients, in four of them p er operatively. Postoperative hemorrhage occurred in four patients in…
Essam Eldin A. Salama, Ali Hassan A. Ali, Abdullah M. Aldahmash, Saeed M. Abou El Makarem, Tarek A. El Ghamrawy, Gamal M. Aboulhassan, Hisham Alkhalidi, Mohammed Mubarak
Hypoxia, due to impaired cerebral blood flow, has hazardous effects on brain structure and function. To minimize as much as possible the neurological consequences from hypoxic-ischemic (HI) brain injury, neuro-protective strategies are urgently required. Vita…
Xin-Ming Yang, Wei Shi, Xian-Yong Meng, Ying Zhang, Ya-Kun Du, Lei Zhang, Yao-Yi Wang
Objective : To evaluate five drug treatment regimens in the treatment of Brucella spondylitis. Methods : Patients with clinical symptoms compatible and diagnostic test consistent with Brucella spondylitis were randomly assigned to five drug treatment regimens…
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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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