Vol 1, No 1 (2015)

Case Studies in Surgery, Vol. 1, No. 1, August 2015

Table of Contents

Original Article

Height, weight, and body mass index association with breast cancer risk in Iraqi Kurdish women
Sherko Abdullah Molah Karim, Hawar Hasan Ali Ghalib, Fattah Hama Rahim Fattah, Mohammed Ibrahim Mohialdeen Gubari, Aween Baiz Majeed
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Serum lactate as predictor of morbidity, mortality and long term survival in patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy
John Spiliotis, Evgenia Halkia, Andrew Zouridis, Dimitra Vassiliadou, Maria Zakka, Nafsika Kalantzi, Archondia Vaxevanidou, Alexandra Pagoulatou, Nikolaos Vaos, Elias Efstathiou, Anastassios Datsis
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Case Report

Primary leaflet tear without dystrophic calcifications in a 25 years old Ionescu-Shiley pericardial valve in mitral position
Astrid Quessard, Nadjib Hammoudi, Matthias Kirsch
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Extralobar pulmonary sequestration diagnosed intraoperatively in a 37 year-old male with bullous lung disease
Malek Tabbara, Fayez Abou Jaoude
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Recurrent cholangitis secondary to Ascaris lumbricoides – a rare occurrence
Nawin Kumar, Rajesh Nair, Anuja Sinha, Amit Kumar
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Incidental finding of incarcerated De Garengeot hernia during laparoscopic cholecystectomy
E. Hayakawa, T. Hackett
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Ganglioneuroblastoma in an adult patient
Nicholaus Monsma, G. Paul Wright, Mathew H. Chung
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Clostridium septicum fatality: diffuse bowel necrosis associated with cocaine abuse and agranulocytosis
William H. Jacobsen, Joseph D. Losek, Evert A. Eriksson
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Is sclerosing encapsulating peritonitis a rare sequela of peptic ulcer disease?
Ian Solsky, Oscar K. Serrano, W. Scott Melvin
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A sidewalk into the lateral orbit
Surej Kumar LK, Nikhil Mathew Kurien, Moni K Vinod, Varun P Menon, Sherin A Khalam
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Outcomes of multiple myxoma resections with carney complex
Juan A Siordia, Amanda Garlish
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An amputated appendicitis: should we search for distal amputated part?
Sajad Ahmad Wani, Gowher Nazir Mufti, Raashid Hamid, Nisar Ahmad Bhat, Aejaz Ahsan Baba
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Case Study

Listeria monocytogenes infection of a popliteal artery stent graft
Avery S. Walker, Josh P. Smith, Charles A. Andersen, Leo J. Daab
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Review

The role of stereotactic radiosurgery in the management of secondary pontine tumors
Ioannis N. Mavridis
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