South African Journal of Surgery

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Vol 57 No 1 (2019)

Published: 2019-04-03

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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Perspective

Breast cancer surgery: when less is more

Aylwyn Mannell

2-6
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Oncology

Lymph node harvest in breast cancer patients with and without preoperative scintigraphy

Jenny Edge, Michelle Parker, Madelain Maliepaard, Owen Ung

7-10
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The effect of beliefs about breast cancer on stage and delay to presentation: results from a prospective study in urban South Africa

Sarah Rayne, K Schnippel, S Grover, D Kruger, C Benn, C Firnhaber

12-18
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Experiences of women in survivorship following mastectomy in the Cape Metropole

Nicole E Stecher, M A Cohen, E J Myburgh

19-23
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Review

Frailty: what the South African surgeon needs to know

Ngozi Leopold-George; Gladness Dakalo Nethathe

24-29
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General Surgery

Surgical infections at a regional hospital in Gauteng: reasons for delay to care and profile of pathology

Nirav Patel, Pooblan Naidoo, Geoffrey Candy, Christine Jann-Kruger

30-36
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Trauma

An overview of penetrating traumatic brain injuries at a major civilian trauma centre in South Africa

Johannes JP Buitendag, Abraham Ras, Victor Kong, John Bruce, Grant Laing, Damian Clarke, Petra Brysiewicz

37-42
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A review of the complications encountered in a quaternary trauma intensive care unit in South Africa

M Gounder, Timothy Hardcastle, David JJ Muckart

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Intra-abdominal injury identified by CTA in stable blunt polytrauma patients

Mohamed Cassim Mayet, Timothy Craig Hardcastle

49-53
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Plastic surgery

Lymph node transplant in Kenya: a case series of 20 patients

Alex O Wamalwa, F W Nangole, S O Khainga

54-59
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Case Reports

Vascularised free lymph node transfer – a procedure for secondary lymphoedema management in South Africa

Dimitri Liakos, Chrysis Sofianos, Himal Navin Sooka, Rizwan Sheikh
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An approach to the transected umbilical vein catheter: a case series

Anjana Bairagi, Ashwini Girjashankar Maharaj

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Spontaneous extrahepatic biliary tree perforation

Tharuneshan Pillay, Vikesh Ramkelawon, Bugsy Singh

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Amanita phalloides poisoning: one harvest, three outcomes

Angidi Pillay Mauree, Tim De Maayer, Angela Botes, June Fabian, Harriet Etheredge, Eleanor Mary Duncan, Jean F Botha

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Letters to the Editor

Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy of Neuroendocrine Tumors: how important is internal dosimetry?

Christoph Trauernicht, Pieter Du Toit

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Response: Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy of Neuroendocrine Tumors: how important is internal dosimetry?

I Lawal, L Louw, J Warwick, N Nyakale, R Steyn, T Lengana, A Ellman, T Kotze, M Vangu, M Vorster, M Sathekge

58-59
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Obituaries

Professor Victor John Ramsay Farrell

John RM Ouma

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Emeritus Professor Jacquez Charl “Kay” de Villiers

Graham Fieggen

61-62
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