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Featured article: Beliefs of Trainee Surgeons towards Placebo

This is a survey on the attitudes and beliefs of British Orthopaedic trainee surgeons towards placebo in the context of surgical research as well as clinical practice. Results showed that most trainees believe that the placebo effect is real but its mechanisms of actions and its pervasive nature remain underappreciated.

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BMC Surgery is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on surgical research, training, and practice.

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G uangde Tu, BMC Series, Shanghai

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Megan Barling, BMC, London

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Marco Allaix, University of Torino, Italy
Mustafa Cikirikcioglu, University Hospital of Geneva
Maurits de Brauw, Slotervaart Hospital
René Fahrner, University Hospital Jena, Germany
Mark Hammerberg, Denver Health Medical Center

René Fahrner - Section Editor

Dr. René Fahrner graduated in medicine at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany and completed his doctoral thesis in the field of liver transplantation. His research interests are basic and clinical research in general and visceral surgery with the main focus on liver surgery including liver injury and regeneration as well as immunological aspects.

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Impact of the new guidelines of the American Thyroid Association on the treatment of the differentiated thyroid tumor in an Italian center with medium-high volume thyroid surgery

Skip metastases to lateral cervical lymph nodes in differentiated thyroid cancer: a systematic review

Does antithrombotic prophylaxis worsen early outcomes of total thyroidectomy? - a retrospective cohort study

Focus on endocrine surgery

The axillary flap in oncoplastic resection of breast cancers located in the upper-outer quadrants: a new surgical technique

Furuncular myiasis of the breast caused by the larvae of the Tumbu fly (Cordylobia anthropophaga)

Complications and nutrient deficiencies two years after sleeve gastrectomy

Epiploic appendagitis – clinical characteristics of an uncommon surgical diagnosis

Treatment of the diabetic foot – to amputate or not?

Risk factors for early recurrence after inguinal hernia repair

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