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Safe care is a prime priority for all health care professionals. Surgical care is associated with potentially high risks. Patient injuries can cause significant suffering to the patients and major costs to health-care ...

BACKGROUND: Cutaneous melanoma in children and adolescents is a rare malignancy, and specific treatment guidelines have not been established for this patient group. Also, Spitzoid tumours in the young pose diagnostic ...

Whole-gland prostate surgery and radiotherapy, the established approaches to localised prostate cancer (PCa), usually cause substantial adverse effects. Targeted image-guided cancer therapy has gained acceptance through ...

Spondylolysis is the most common cause of low back pain in adolescents, explaining up to 47% of low back pain in young athletes. It is a stress fracture in one or both of the pars interarticularis of the vertebra, most ...

Congenital abdominal wall defects are a group of malformations among which gastroschisis and omphalocele are the most common. In omphalocele, abdominal organs are herniated through an open umbilical ring and the defect is ...

ABSTRACT Appendectomy has been the indisputable treatment of acute appendicitis for over a century. Acute appendicitis has been evaluated to always progress to perforation. Current evidence suggests complicated and ...

Aims: This thesis was designed to elucidate the opportunities and challenges faced by the surgeon and the patient in the era of modern rectal cancer surgery. Temporal changes in the treatment and survival of patients with ...

Globally, over 200 million people suffer from lower extremity arterial disease (LEAD). The population is aging and with it the prevalence of LEAD is increasing especially in developing countries. The number of revascularization ...

Background: Severe obesity is an increasing global epidemic. To date, metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) is the only treatment for severe obesity with good and sustainable long-term weight loss and remission of obesity ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) causes increased all-cause and cardiovascular (CV) mortality. These increases have been associated with abnormal ankle-brachial indices and the extent of atherosclerotic lesions as measured ...