Cerebrovascular Surgery Update

Cerebrovascular surgery update.

An update for the cerebrovascular community.

As I begin my fourth year as editor-in-chief of Stroke, I look back over what has been accomplished during the past 3 years and forward to what can be done to improve the quality and impact of the journal for all the constituents of the cerebrovascular community. Stroke has led the way among journals in the vascular/neuroscience disciplines in striving to improve the quality and reproducibility...

PEDIATRIC SURGERY Update

Soft tissue sarcomas are a heterogenous group of rare tumors arising from embryonic mesoderm. Almost 15% of such sarcomas arise in the retroperitoneum. Rhabdomyosarcoma and fibrosarcoma are the two most common histologic variants in the retroperitoneum. The prognosis for patients with retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPS) is relatively poor characterized by late locoregional recurrence as principal ca...

Vascular surgery: an update.

Caring for patients with vascular illnesses has become increasingly more complex and has changed dramatically over the past 10 years, with a widening array of diagnostic and treatment options. Carotid artery stenting has the potential to become a viable alternative to open surgery in high-risk patients with carotid artery disease (i.e., patients older than 80 years and those with previous neck ...

PEDIATRIC SURGERY Update

Gardner=s syndrome refers to a group of children born with familial adenomatous (multiple) polyposis and significant extracolonic manifestations. Familial adenomatous polyposis is an autosomal dominant disorder originating from a germline alteration of the adenomatous polyposis coli gene in the long arm of chromosome 5. The most significant extracolonic manifestation of Gardner=s syndrome consi...