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Showing 1 to 20 of 134 for “"Department of Surgery"”.
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Experimental leptospirosis : Leptospira canicola infection in calves
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Department of Surgery and Medicine, 1964
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[Case reports on 6 patients illustrating some of the surgical problems of diverticular disease and its complications]
… a Pilot Survey into the natural history of Diverticular Disease of the Colon. This survey was carried out at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, during the Summer of 1961+ while I was the holder of a Gunning Vacation Bursary, tenable in the Department of Surgery. Accordingly I am …
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Clinical review and experimental evaluation of tumour M2-pyruvate kinase in pancreatic cancer
The treatment of pancreatic cancer is challenging. Patients are often beyond curative surgical therapy and palliative treatment with chemotherapy provides limited benefit. New markers of cancer activity and therapeutic targets are required. This thesis has firstly reviewed the available literature …
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Overcoming skin rejection in composite tissue allotransplantation
The application of composite tissue techniques is constrained by the susceptibility of skin to rejection. The aim of this thesis is to improve our understanding of skin rejection and find ways to avoid it, in order to enable expansion of the application of composite tissue transplantation …
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Optimal allocation of surgical services
… Greater Boston has witnessed the consolidation of multiple community hospitals into larger care organizations and a renewed focus on the delivery of affordable care. In order for the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMc) to respond and adapt to this changing landscape it will be critical …
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A Cross Sectional Evaluation of a Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship in a Low to Middle Income Country: Fellows' Perspective
… and fellowship training in orthopaedic surgery. Data from the United States has shown that over 90% of orthopaedic residents plan to pursue fellowship training and there is a trend in the orthopaedic job market toward seeking fellowship-trained orthopaedic surgeons. Objectives: This …
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Clinical Characteristics of the Pediatric Patients with Pre-natally and Post-natally Diagnosed Choledochal Cysts
… duct union(APBDU). Recently by the help of the diagnostic techniques, choledochal cysts have been much more reported in the prenatal period. The pre-natally diagnosed choledochal cysts were known to differ from child or adult type. This study could be helpful to understand the …
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Complications to peptic ulcer and peptic ulcer surgery
Long term effects after peptic ulcer surgery still exert an influence on some patient groups. Partial gastrectomy increases the risk of gastric carcinoma more than 20 years after surgery and enterogastric reflux is regarded as the main ethiological factor. Partial gastrectomy also gives increased …
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Prospective cohort study on thirty day outcome of perforation peritonitis at the University Teaching Hospitals, Lusaka, Zambia
… the main referral centre in Zambia the outcome of perforation peritonitis following jejunal, ileal, colonic perforation, with the use of the Physiological and Operative Severity Score for enUmeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) scoring system, was unknown. The study aimed to determine …
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Differently charged polypeptides and their impact on peritoneal and pleural postoperative adhesion formation
Organization LUND UNIVERSITY Department of Surgery, Clinical Sciences Skånes University Hospital Lund SE-221 85 Lund Sweden Document name DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Date of issue: November 8, 2013 Author(s): Daniel Åkerberg Sponsoring organization Title and subtitle: Differently charged polypeptides and …
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Surgical catastrophic health expenditure at New Somerset Hospital, a South African public sector hospital
… risk financial catastrophe if they require surgery, mostly affecting the poorest populations in LMICs. Surgical CHE and IHE are not described in the South African context. The objectives of this study were: 1) to determine the proportion of surgical participants at New Somerset Hospital …
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Upper limb ischaemia : a twelve year experience
… well recognized vascular entity. The sequalae of impaired function or amputation of an arm can be devastating to the individual with loss of independence and / or livelihood. There remains much to be learned that can only be established through good quality studies. This project was aimed at …
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Medical student and faculty perceptions of undergraduate surgical training: A comparison between South Africa and Sweden
INTRODUCTION: There is a paucity of literature comparing the views and perceptions of medical students and surgical faculty regarding the surgical curriculum. Additionally, little evidence is available illustrating the prevalence of surgical mentors and role models, as well astheirspecific …
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The pathological outcomes related to symptomatic impacted third molars and follicles as found in a private practice in South Africa
The aim of this study primarily was to review pathological reports of all symptomatic third molar teeth removed in a private practice, and to use the data to support or refute routine removal of third molar teeth. All patients who underwent third molar tooth removal for symptoms,either systemic or …
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A prospective evaluation to define optimal surgical strategies in the management of complex pancreatic injuries based on the analysis of patients treated at a major South African academic institution
… limitations in the assessment and analysis of pancreatic injuries due to the lack of robust data and deficient surgical strategies, this thesis focused on priority topics to resolve existing unanswered and under-researched questions in the management of complex pancreatic injuries. Each of …
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A cost analysis of operative repair of major laparoscopic bile duct injuries
… Few data exist about the financial implications of bile duct repair. This study calculated the total inhospital costs of operative repair in a cohort of patients who underwent reconstruction of the bile duct after major ductal injury sustained during laparoscopic cholecystectomy. A prospective …
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A new microvascular sleeve anastomosis
The bulk of this thesis will be devoted to the development of the new anastomotic technique and descriptions of the various experimental systems designed to test the anastomosis, together with the results obtained.
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CSPINE (Correlating Soft tissue Projections in Injured NEcks) A descriptive study on measuring prevertebral soft tissue thickness as a ratio of vertebral body width in paediatric cervical spine trauma
… trauma, measured increase in prevertebral soft tissue thickness on a lateral cervical spine (C-spine) X-ray is interpreted as swelling, raising suspicion of C-spine injury1,2 . Defining swelling in absolute measurements is cumbersome – children’s sizes vary. Evidence for potentially more …
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Pattern and distribution of peripheral arterial disease in diabetic patients with critical limb ischemia (Rutherford Clinical Category 4-6)
… (1) (2) (11) (5) (10) (8) with relative sparing of the foot arteries (1). This study seeks to investigate the pattern and distribution of peripheral artery occlusive disease and the arterial foot arch status in diabetic patients with critical limb ischaemia Methods: This is a one year prospective …
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