BACKGROUND/AIMS Distal pancreatectomy (DP) is performed for a range of benign and malignant lesions. Accurate pre-operative diagnosis can be unreliable and morbidity remains high. This study evaluates a 12-year, single-centre experience with open DP to review indications, diagnoses and associated morbidity. METHODS Retrospective review of patients who underwent DP at a UK-based tertiary refer...

T he use of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has grown dramatically during the past 30 years. Several developments have led to the growth of PCI, including improved equipment, new anticoagulant and antiplatelet drugs, and the evolution of coronary artery stents. Simultaneous with these improvements, the indications for PCI have expanded, and the safety and outcomes of the procedure have...

tandardization of reporting outcomes has been aspired to since the inception of laser refractive surgery and a standard format was initially proposed by Waring in 1992,1 formalized in a joint effort by the editorial staffs of the Journal of Refractive Surgery and the Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in the familiar set of six Standard Graphs summarizing efficacy, predictability, safet...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To compare the frequency of airway seal and sore throat with the LMA-ProSeal (PLMA) and the standard Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) during laparoscopic surgery. DESIGN Prospective, controlled, randomized, nonblinded clinical study. SETTING University-affiliated hospital. PATIENTS 60 adult, ASA physical status I, II, and III patients undergoing laparoscopic surgery with genera...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to determine and to compare the oncological outcomes of bilateral reduction mammoplasty to standard breast-conserving surgery for breast cancer. METHODS One hundred sixty-two patients who received a quadrantectomy because of breast cancer (group 1) and 106 breast cancer patients with macromastia who underwent breast-conserving surgery via bilateral reduction m...

BACKGROUND Oncoplastic breast-conserving surgery (OBCS) requires more complex surgical techniques than standard wide local excision (WLE) and the postoperative complication rate may be higher. Since these can have an impact on postoperative imaging, we compared imaging and biopsy results after OBCS and WLE. METHODS Findings for patients undergoing OBCS (n = 83) or standard WLE (n = 128) were ...

Intraoperative angiography (IOA) has proven to be a safe and effective adjunct to surgical repair of cerebral aneurysms. Substantial practice variation exists regarding use of this modality in different centers, including use of IOA routinely, selectively, or rarely. In this editorial, we discuss our experience and review the existing literature to develop an argument for routine use of IOA dur...

UNLABELLED The improvement of laparoscopic techniques that we witnessed over the last decade, also applied to pancreatic surgery. Both worldwide and in Poland, increasingly more patients with lesions located within the body and tail of the pancreas are treated using laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy. The aim of the study was to compare the outcomes of laparoscopic and open distal pancreatectom...