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Case report
We present the cases of 2 patients with invasive thyroid cancer, who underwent reconstructive surgery using a deltopectoral flap. Although the overall rate of extrathyroidal extension in patients with thyroid ...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:101
Published on: 15 September 2017
Research article
Burr hole craniostomy is a widely used method for the evacuation of CSDH. However it is not clear whether the irrigation during operation improves the prognosis or gives rise to additional complications instea...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:99
Published on: 11 September 2017
Research article
Case cancellation (CC) has significant impact on the efficiency of operating room (OR) management, which can be mitigated by taking preventive measures. In this study, using the data of the West China Hospital...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:100
Published on: 11 September 2017
Case report
At present, Da Vinci robotic assisted hepatectomy has been routinely carried out in conditional units. But there is no report concerning the use of Da Vinci robots for hepatic hydatid cystectomy and experience...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:98
Published on: 11 September 2017
Case report
Adrenocoricotrophic hormone (ACTH) – independent bilateral adrenocortical macronodular hyperplasia (AIMAH) is a rare cause of Cushing’s syndrome, and is characterized by bilateral adrenal hyperplasia. However,...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:97
Published on: 6 September 2017
Research article
Median arcuate ligament syndrome is a rare condition with abdominal symptoms. Accepted treatment options are open release of median arcuate ligament, laparoscopic release of edian arcuate ligament, robot-assis...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:95
Published on: 29 August 2017
Case report
The metastasis of malignant tumors to the spleen is rare, and only a small percentage of cases can be treated surgically, as splenic metastases generally occur in the context of multivisceral metastatic cancer...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:96
Published on: 29 August 2017
Study protocol
Pancreatic cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related death. While surgical resection remains the foundation for potentially curative treatment, survival benefit is achieved with adjuvant oncological...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:94
Published on: 25 August 2017
Research article
Advanced minimally invasive techniques including robotic surgery are being employed with increasing frequency around the world, primarily in order to improve the surgical outcomes of laparoscopic gastrectomy (...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:93
Published on: 24 August 2017
Research article
In nearly 30% of patients with myeloma, pathological fractures are found to occur in the spine. If the patients are not treated promptly and satisfactorily, the quality of their lives diminishes. Currently, th...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:92
Published on: 23 August 2017
Research article
Over the past decade, mini-laparoscopic cholecystectomy (MLC) and single-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy (SILC) have been the two main successful mini-invasive surgical interventions for the treatment of cho...
BMC Surgery 2017 17:91
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
Research article
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
