2019, Volume 35, Issue 4
From The Editor's Desk
Historical Review
The great leader of Turkish surgery is 90 years old
Semih Baskan
Original Article
Clinicopathologic and prognostic features in appendiceal malignancies: does tumor invasiveness matter?
Kazım Şenol, Murat Ferhat Ferhatoğlu, Deniz Tihan
Validation of prognostic scoring systems for predicting 30-day mortality in perforated peptic ulcer disease
Shaili Patel, Devanshu Kalra, Samir Kacheriwala, Mihir Shah, Dipesh Duttaroy
Is intraoperative nerve monitoring useful for surgical training in thyroid surgery?
Candaş Erçetin, Alper Şahbaz, Sami Acar, Fırat Tutal, Nihat Aksakal, Serkan Sarı, Yeşim Erbil
Value of tomography in detecting breast masses and discriminating malign and benign lesions
Hatice Ayça Ata Korkmaz, Miraç İsmet Çakır, Eser Bulut, Sibel Kul
Laparoscopic splenectomy: clip ligation or en-bloc stapling?
Ahmet Türkoğlu, Abdullah Oğuz, Gizem Yaman, Mesut Gül, Burak Veli Ülger
Excision and tension-free primary closure of pilonidal disease
Mohamed A. Alkatta, Abdallah Mejally
Protective effects of spironolactone against hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury in rats
Süleyman Atalay, Belkıs Soylu, Aslı Aykaç, Ayliz Velioğlu Öğünç, Şule Çetinel, Naziye Özkan, Can Erzik, Ahmet Özer Şehirli
Erectile dysfunction after surgery for rectal cancer: a prospective study
Aylin Hande Gökçe, Hakan Özkan
Posterior rectus canal: not a single anatomical entity & morphology – a laparoscopic study during TEP hernioplasty
Maulana Mohammed Ansari
Abdominal palpation and percussion maneuvers do not affect bowel sounds
Ayşe Sena Çalış, Esra Kaya, Lijana Mehmetaj, Büşra Yılmaz, Elif Nurdan Demir, Derya Öztuna, Evren Üstüner, Halil İbrahim Açar, Serhat Tokgöz, Muzaffer Akkoca, Mehmet Ayhan Kuzu
Investigating the effect of gold nanoparticles on hydatid cyst protoscolices under low-power green laser irradiation
Bayram Çolak, Faruk Aksoy, Selman Yavuz, Mehmet Emin Demircili
Case Series
Adult morgagni hernia: a single center experience of 5 cases and review of literature
Cihan Ağalar, Koray Atila, Naciye Çiğdem Arslan, Zekai Serhan Derici, Seymen Bora
Colon resection for endometriosis
Timuçin Erol, Erhan Reis, Önder Koç, Barış Taşbaş
Case Reports
Thyroid hemiagenesis: a case report
Bülent Çitgez, Gürkan Yetkin, Mehmet Uludağ, İsmail Akgün, Abdulcabbar Kartal, Ferhat Ferhatoğlu, Fevziye Kabukçuoğlu, Adem Akçakaya