Progress in Surgery

Progress in Global Surgery; Comment on “Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa”

Impressive progress has been made in global surgery in the past 10 years, and now serious and evidence-based national strategies are being developed for scaling-up surgical services in sub-Saharan Africa. Key to achieving this goal requires developing a realistic country-based estimate of burden of surgical disease, developing an accurate estimate of existing need, deve...

Recent Progress in Surgery

Gentlemen,— The honor which you annually confer in the appointment of the orator of our yearly festival im poses no ordinary duty, in view of the eloquence and ability which have so uniformly characterized the lessons delivered from this chair. In instituting this Annual Address, the founders of our Society seem to have intended to call in turn upon its fellows for such lessons as individual ex...

Progress in articular surgery.

The revision of well fixed total hip arthroplasty components can be a challenging surgical procedure, especially if the femoral component is stable and well integrated into the medullary cavity. It can be necessary to create a cortical bone window in the diaphysis to effectively remove all the remaining fragments of polymethylmethacrylate. This was just one of the problems associated with cemen...

Recent progress in thyroid surgery

The management of thyroid disease has evolved rapidly within the past decade. The history of thyroid surgery starts in the second half of XIX century with Billroth, Kocher and Halsted, who developed safe technique of thyroid resection. Since then, the objectives for thyroidectomy are: conservation of the parathyroid glands and preserving laryngeal nerves, an accurate hemostasis and recently exc...

Progress in Clinical Surgery a Sympossium (Churchill)