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This study aimed to reveal the appropriate timing for the intravenous administration of flurbiprofen axetil for preventing mesenteric traction syndrome (MTS), caused by prostacyclin release.
BMC Surgery 2017 17:90
Published on: 11 August 2017
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Angioembolization is the method of choice for treating haemorrhage after blunt pelvic trauma. The aim of this study was to determine technical factors related to endovascular procedures which might be related ...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:89
Published on: 9 August 2017
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The objective was to evaluate cost-utility of bariatric surgery in Germany for a lifetime and 10-year horizon from a health care payer perspective.
BMC Surgery 2017 17:87
Published on: 3 August 2017
Technical advance
Donor organ shortage is a significant problem in kidney transplantation. Improvement of perfusion techniques can increase the number of available organs. The aim of this study is to investigate the efficiency ...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:88
Published on: 3 August 2017
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We reviewed our experience with patients presenting with trauma and peritonitis who underwent an open abdomen (OA) procedure, and compared outcomes between Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) and a modified...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:86
Published on: 21 July 2017
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Chronic debilitating pain is a rare but significant cause of postoperative morbidity after inguinal surgery. Such pain is usually of neuropathic origin and frequently caused by intraoperative nerve damage. In ...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:85
Published on: 20 July 2017
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The presence and the prognostic significance of perigastric tumor deposits (TDs) in primary gastric cancer have not been extensively studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance p...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:84
Published on: 19 July 2017
Case report
Hyperlordosis is common in facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD), which cannot be controlled by bracing. While the surgical treatment is neither reported nor recommended in previous studies, we report ...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:83
Published on: 17 July 2017
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Spinal brucellosis is a less commonly reported infectious spinal pathology. There are few reports regarding the surgical treatment of spinal brucellosis in existing literature. This retrospective study was con...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:82
Published on: 14 July 2017
Case report
Common complications of pelvic fractures include visceral injury, large-volume hemorrhage, genitourinary injury, rectal injury, and pulmonary embolism. On the other hand, traumatic hernia is a rare complicatio...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:81
Published on: 12 July 2017
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Cost reduction measures in medicine are gaining greater importance nowadays, especially in high-volume procedures such as laparoscopic appendectomy (LAE). Currently there are two common methods of dissecting t...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:80
Published on: 11 July 2017
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One–stage laparoscopic common bile duct (CBD) stone clearance and laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LCBDE+LC) for cholecystocholedocholithiasis ( CCL) can be performed with similar short and long-term outcomes tha...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:79
Published on: 6 July 2017
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Surgical-site infections due to intraoperative contamination are chiefly ascribable to airborne particles carrying microorganisms. The purpose of this study is to identify the actions that increase the number ...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:78
Published on: 6 July 2017
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Since its introduction, the Revised Trauma Score (RTS) has been widely used to determine the prognosis of trauma patients. Recent studies have revealed a need to change the parameters of the RTS. We have desig...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:77
Published on: 3 July 2017
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There is a growing recognition of the importance of patient experience in healthcare, however little is known in the context of emergency abdominal surgery. This study sought to quantify the association betwee...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:76
Published on: 1 July 2017
Case report
Although ectopic pancreatic tissue is common in the upper gastrointestinal tract, the incidence of ectopic pancreatic tissue in the jejunum is low, and malignant transformation in ectopic pancreatic tissue is ...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:75
Published on: 29 June 2017
Case report
Adrenal myelolipoma is an uncommon, benign, and hormonally non-functioning tumor that is composed of mature adipose tissue and normal hematopoietic tissue. Most cases to date are asymptomatic or have epigastri...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:74
Published on: 26 June 2017
Case report
Although foreign bodies (FBs) typically pass spontaneously and uneventfully through the digestive tract, a subset of such bodies may become trapped, eventually leading to significant injury. In particular, the...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:73
Published on: 24 June 2017
Research article
Endoscopic resection (ER) has been widely accepted as the standard treatment for early gastric cancer (EGC). However, in patients considered to have undergone non-curative ER due to their potential risk of lym...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:72
Published on: 20 June 2017
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While immunohistochemistry (IHC) methods have been widely conducted for the diagnosis of Hirschsprung disease (HSCR) in developed countries, there are very few studies on their use in developing countries wher...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:71
Published on: 19 June 2017
Case report
Cardiac tamponade due to aortic injury after blunt trauma is a rare and potentially fatal injury. Most aortic injuries caused by blunt trauma present as aortic dissection or rupture of the aortic isthmus. Seve...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:70
Published on: 17 June 2017
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Body surface area (BSA) is a biometric unit to measure the body size. Its clinical significance in video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) was rarely understood. We aimed to estimate the predictive value o...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:69
Published on: 12 June 2017
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As life expectancy continues to increase around the world, the use of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) could be beneficial for octogenarian and older gastric cancer patients.
BMC Surgery 2017 17:68
Published on: 12 June 2017
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Radical antegrade modular pancreatosplenectomy (RAMPS), first reported by Strasberg in 2003, has attracted increasing attention in the treatment of left-sided pancreatic cancer. The limited number of cases eli...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:67
Published on: 5 June 2017
Case report
Injury to the recurrent laryngeal nerve is one of the most severe complications of thyroid surgery. Several anatomic variations of the nerve increase the likelihood of iatrogenic damage.
BMC Surgery 2017 17:66
Published on: 2 June 2017
