South African Journal of Surgery

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Vol 56 No 4 (2018)

Published: 2018-11-08

General Surgery

Absence of effect of post-discharge socioeconomic circumstances on the outcome of dysvascular lower limb amputees: a prospective cohort study

Pamela Mathebula, Otto Karusseit, Taole Mokoena

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The effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on pathological response and the hormone receptor profile in locally advanced breast carcinomas

Saha Bikas Subhendu, Roy Shekhar

10-13
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Outcome of liver resection for small bowel neuroendocrine tumour metastases

Murray David Polkinghorne, Jake EJ Krige, Eduard Jonas, Urda K Kotze, Marc M Bernon

14-18
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Compliance efficacy and patient satisfaction with two litre polyethylene glycol ascorbic acid for colonoscopy preparation in a outreach rural setting

David Johannes De Villiers, Paul A Goldberg, Ursula Algar

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Trauma

Is direct consultant supervision of all trauma laparotomies necessary?

Ross David Weale, Victor Y Kong, Joanna Blodgett, George V Oosthuizen, John L Bruce, Wanda Bekker, Vassil Manchev, Grant L Laing, Damian L Clarke

23-27
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A selective vacuum assisted mesh mediated fascial traction approach following temporary abdominal containment for trauma laparotomy is effective in achieving closure

Christien J Steenkamp, Victor J Kong, John L Bruce, Grant L Laing, Damian L Clarke

28-32
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Haemodynamically unstable pelvic trauma: initial validation of a dedicated protocol by a retrospective cohort study with historical controls

Stefano Magnone, Marco Ceresoli, Federico Coccolini, Gabriela Elisa Nita, Luigi Rizzi, Cecilia Merli, Renata Colombi, Dario Piazzalunga, Tino Martino Valetti, Claudio Castelli, Luca Ansaloni

33-39
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Plastic surgery

#PlasticSurgery: an overview of the internet presence and utilisation of social media platforms by South African plastic surgeons

Himal Navin Sooka, Chrysis Sofianos, Efthimios Andreas Christofides

40-43
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Urology

The first series of laparoscopic radical cystectomies done in South Africa

Farzana Cassim, Sunil Sinha, Shameem Jaumdally, John Lazarus

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Neurosurgery

Deep brain stimulation in Parkinson’s disease: analysis of the variation in final stimulating lead placement based on multi-tract electrode recordings

Ryan Kurt Jacobs, Roger Melvill

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Case Reports

Surgical treatment of Dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans with a free anterolateral thigh (ALT) flap in an adolescent

Ernst Lodewicus Möller, Francois Malherbe, Christopher E Price

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A teenager with ductal carcinoma in situ arising in a fibroadenoma: a case report

Oliver Frisch, Louis Johann De Jager, Michael Otto, Jennifer Downs, Francois Malherbe

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Littre's hernia- a rare case of a strangulated Meckel's diverticulum

Stephen-John Martin, Everett Nana Kwame Asante

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Voice prosthesis related expanding tracheoesophageal puncture repair: microsurgical reconstruction to pedicled pectoralis major muscle flap

Mahendra Daya, Desigan Pillay

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