Surgeries, Volume 4, Issue 4

Despite the development of new technologies and multimodal therapies, improving the prognosis of patients with UICC stage III right colon adenocarcinoma remains challenging. Several randomized controlled trials have shown the oncological non-inferior...

One of the main objectives of total hip arthroplasty (THA) is to recreate the center of rotation (COR). Accurate reconstruction of the COR is suggested to be within 5 mm of its anatomical location. The goal of our study was to assess whether accurate...

Background: Wilms tumor (or nephroblastoma) is a malignant and solid neoplasm that derives from the primitive renal bud. It represents the most frequent primary tumor of the urogenital tract in childhood, and treatment consists of surgery and chemo-r...

Idiopathic obstruction of the outlets of the fourth ventricle (FVOO) is a rare cause of hydrocephalus, which can be misdiagnosed as communicating hydrocephalus due to the enlargement of all four ventricles. Different surgical approaches are discussed...

Background: Assessing frailty is important in treating surgical patients to predict peri- and postoperative events like complications or mortality. The current standard is not optimal; therefore, new prognostic markers are being evaluated to enrich t...

As medicine becomes more complex, there is pressure for new and more innovative educational methods. Given the economic burden associated with in-person simulation, healthcare, including the realm of surgical education, has begun employing virtual re...

Background: The aim of this study is to compare the surgical outcomes of two different surgical approaches, open transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) and Wiltse TLIF, in the treatment of single-level lumbar spondylolisthesis and also to prov...

Despite the advancements in evidence-based medicine, many hospitals still maintain high rates of patients undergoing prolonged preoperative fasting. The goal of this study is to determine the prevalence of prolonged fasting time among patients underg...

Posterior and transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF and TLIF) allow some variation between surgeons, particularly regarding the extent of resection of the posterior interspinous ligamentary complex (PILC) with uncertain implications for outcom...

Epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) is the most frequent cause of death among women with gynecologic malignant tumors. Primary debulking surgery (PDS) with maximal surgical effort to reach completeness of cytoreduction, followed by chemotherapy, has beco...