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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…
Ibrahim Abdelkader Salama, Mohammed Hussein Abdullah, Mohammed Houseni
Background: Haemangiomas are the most common benign liver tumors. Treatment is indicated for symptomatic tumors, rapid increase in size, rupture or doubt in diagnosis. Objective: Evaluation the efficacy of surgical treatment of giant cavernous hepatic haemang…
Garri Tchartchian, Andreas Hackethal, Bernd Bojahr, Rudy Leon De Wilde
Purpose: Peritoneal resection for the therapy of oncological diseases as well as endometriosis is associated with major problems as injury to neighboring organs and difficulties in the establishment of the necessary hemostasis. In this paper we present a new…
Jason Marone, Domingo Alvear
Background/Purpose: For decades children have been crowding the offices of Pediatricians’ and Pediatric Surgeons with a common complaint of unexplained recurrent right lower quadrant pain. For years the topic of appendiceal colic as a cause for this recurrent…
Wuttichai Thanapongsathorn, Chayapa Imchit, Jilapon Phunya
Objective: A comparative study of the audiovisual, multimedia, informed consent procedure enhancing the satisfaction and comprehension in laparoscopic cholecystectomy patients within the contexts of the Thai culture. Methods: A prospective, comparative trial…
Masahiko Kawaguchi, Norihiko Ishikawa, Youji Nishida, Hideki Moriyama, Masahiro Kaneki, Go Watanabe
Background: Laparoscopic hernioplasty has gained popularity with significant advances in prostheses. Omega-3 coating mesh (C-Qur) is a prosthesis that can be used in the abdominal cavity, and the coating prevents adhesion of the mesh to the viscera. We planne…
Thomas J. Esposito, Evelyn Clark-Kula, Melissa Crowe, Linda Galambos, Loubna Salameh, Janice Gillespie
Introduction: Performance monitoring and performance improvement (PI) are increasingly important. Little is known regarding unplanned re-admission (UPR) in trauma patients. This study characterizes UPRs at one institution. Methods: Retrospective descriptive r…
Nazım Gümüş
Background: Vacuum-assisted dressing is a noninvasive closure system of the wound, which makes localized and controlled negative pressure. Its mechanical tension reduces edema, stimulates granulation tissue formation and angiogenesis, and prepares the wound b…
Tigist Wodaje, Per Wretenberg
This case report describe severe osteonecrosis of the pelvis more than 30 years after radiation due to ovarian cancer. As orthopedic surgeon it is important to ask about previous radiation to the pelvis in case of total hip arthroplasty and also to perform CT…
Chien-Hua Lin, Jing-Jim Ou, Yueh-Tsung Lee, Hurng-Sheng Wu
Background: Totally implantable access ports (TIAP) could be done in two methods: puncture of subclavian vein and cephalic vein cutdown. Cephalic vein cutdown method has fewer complications but has higher failure rates. We present a method to decrease the fai…
Ahmed Lasheen, Khalid Safwat, Mansour Morsy, Alaa Fiad, Abdelwahab Elmoregy
Background: Pilonidal disease is a common chronic disorder of the sacrococcygeal region; and its surgical management is still a matter of discussion. The ideal therapy would be a quick cure that allowed patients to return rapidly to normal activity, that is m…
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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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