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Quick ViewIn this compilation, the authors begin with a focus on the indications for surgery in hepatocarcinoma and how to perform a liver resection. Long-term outcomes and different theories on the causes of recurrence after resection are also discussed. Most patients with hepatocarcinoma have underlying chronic liver disease and are thus at high risk for development…
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Quick ViewPatients undergoing bariatric surgery are special subjects, as they present several features that convert them into high-risk patients, despite often being young and without severe comorbidities. Medical staff is often not used to managing these patients and they do not consider that different measures or doses of drugs should be employed. Moreover, several postoperative complications…
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After nearly three decades of pioneering work, the field of robotic surgery is advancing into the next phase of development: Mainstream adoption. Its scope includes what the authors consider the “Pillars of Robotic Surgery” – urology, gynecology, general surgery, cardiac, and thoracic surgery – while also expanding on these disciplines to include otolaryngology, benign reconstructive…
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While arthroplasty is the preferred treatment for most elderly patients with displaced femoral neck fractures, internal fixation is the treatment of choice in the majority of patients below the age of 65 as a joint-preserving procedure. The osteosynthesis of fractures of the femoral neck in the elderly has been partly abandoned during the last years…
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Quick ViewThere is a critical and continuing shortage of organs and cells from deceased human donors for the purposes of transplantation into patients with terminal organ failure. The use of organs and cells from pigs – i.e., cross-species transplantation, or xenotransplantation – could resolve this problem. Recollections of Pioneers in Xenotransplantation Research is a collection of…
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