Commentary: Dissecting surgical systems

Surgical aspects of dissecting aortic aneurysms.

From the Departments of Surgery, The University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan and the Alexander Blain Hospital, Detroit, Michigan. Great progress has been made in recent years in the surgical treatment of syphilitic and arteriosclerotic aneurysms as well as other lesions of the aorta (1, 2), but very little advance has been made in the treatment of dissecting aneurysms. We have been...

editorial commentary: prophylaxis for surgical site infections

Editorial Commentary: Prophylaxis for Surgical Site Infections

Despite many attempts to prevent surgical site infections (SSIs), these complications are not uncommon in most hospitals while the precise determination of the burden of these infections in our country has not been performed but crude data in hospitals shows a significant cost of managements. With an estimated 27 million surgical procedures annually, and near 2– 5% rate of SSIs, approximately 3...

Commentary (Moller): Surgical Staging in Endometrial Cancer

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy affecting women in the United States. In 1988, the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics shifted from a clinical staging protocol to one based on surgical factors, making surgical staging the accepted treatment approach to endometrial cancers, with excellent survival compared to other gynecologic malignancies. The manu...

Commentary-arteritis in western surgical practice.

Arteritis is defined as inflammation of the arterial wall and may result in arterial occlusion, aneurysm formation, or haemorrhage. The nomenclature and classification of arteritis is complex and confused. From a surgical perspective, however, the most useful classification is based on the size of the involved artery (box 1). The commonest large artery arteritides encountered in Western surgica...