Volume 95 (2025) – Issue 2

Small Intestinal Tumours: Histopathological Findings in Enterectomy Specimens. A Ten-Year Experience from a Tertiary Surgical Center in Greece and Review of the Literature

Original Article

Hell J Surg. 2025 Apr-Jun;95(5):55–67
doi: 10.59869/25062

Panagiotis Theodoropoulos1, Georgios Floros1, Georgios Giannos1, Stavroula Papaeleftheriou1, Vasiliki Tseliou1, Konstantinos Bikas1, Dimitrios Matsagkos1, Athina Chrysikopoulou1, Ioannis Tsiampas1, Teresa Bidetti1, Aikaterini Starka1, Stavroula Katsimente1, Marietta Lavrentaki1, Georgios Taibiris1, Aggeliki Koltsida1, Nestoras Georgakakos1, Nikolaos Chatziathanasiou1, Achilleas Koulaksidis1, Evangelos Velaoras1, Panagiotis Psychas1, Filalithis Mamakis1, Konstantina Sitouni1, Nikolaos Kochilas1, Konstantinos Sfakianakis1, Dimitrios Chasiotis1, Panagiotis Prigkouris1, Georgios Papadopoulos1, Charalambos Kokkinos1, Dimitrios Manganas1, Konstantinos Toutouzas5, Christos Kontovounisios1,2,3,4

12nd Surgical Department Evaggelismos Athens General Hospital, Athens, Greece
2Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
3Department of General Surgery, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK
4Department of Surgery, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
5First Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, “Hippokration” General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Immunotherapy in microsatellite stable colorectal cancer. Current evidence and surgical perspectives

Review

Hell J Surg. 2025 Apr-Jun;95(5):68–77
doi: 10.59869/25063

Savvas Tsaramanidis1, Athina Skriapa1, Ilias Sarigiannidis2, Ioannis Boukovinas3, Georgios Zacharioudakis1, Konstantinos Ballas1

15th Surgical Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Hippocrates General Hospital. Thessaloniki
2Veterinary Student, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
3Department of Medical Oncology, Genesis Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Perioperative outcomes and morbidity following pelvic exenteration surgery: A Single-Center Experience

Case Series

Hell J Surg. 2025 Apr-Jun;95(5):78–85
doi: 10.59869/25064

Konstantinos Bikas1, Dimitrios Matsagkos1*, Stavroula Papaeleftheriou1*, Vasiliki Tseliou1, Stavroula Katsimente1, Athina Chrysikopoulou1, Aggeliki Koltsida1, Achilleas Koulaxidis1, Nikolaos Chatziathanasiou1, Georgios Taimpiris1, Teresa Bidetti1, Aikaterini Starka1, Marietta Lavrentaki1, Evangelos Velaoras1, Filalithis Mamakis1, Panagiotis Psychas1, Konstantina Sitouni1, Nestor Georgakakos1, Panagiotis Theodoropoulos1, Ioannis Tsiampas1, Hennady Toka1, Georgios Giannos1, Antonios Kyriakopoulos2, Panagiotis Giannopoulos2, Maria Kotrotsiou2, Ioannis Xoxakos3, Ioannis Efthiymiou3, Maria Zachariadi4, Maria Mis4, Konstantina Romana4, Christos Kontovounisios5-10

12nd Surgical Department, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens (G.N.A.) , Athens, Greece
2Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Department, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens (G.N.A.) , Athens, Greece
3Urology Department, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens (G.N.A.) , Athens, Greece
4Anesthesiology Department, Evangelismos General Hospital of Athens (G.N.A.) , Athens, Greece
52nd Surgical Department, HYGEIA Hospital, Athens, Greece
6Department of Surgery, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, New York
7Department of Surgery and Cancer Faculty of Medicine Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
8School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, Greece
9The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London
10 The Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London

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Fluorescence-guided laparoscopic adrenalectomy: A step-by-step technique

How I do it

Hell J Surg. 2025 Apr-Jun;95(5):92–95
doi: 10.59869/25066

Panagiotis Metaxas, Konstantinos Polyzois, Vasiliki Stamatoukou, Despoina Iordanidi, Eleni Rakka, Fotios Seretis, Michail Psarologos, Maria Sotiropoulou, Vasileios Drakopoulos, Stylianos Kapiris

Third Department of Surgery, Evangelismos Athens General Hospital, Athens, Greece

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Development of a novel Virtual Reality simulation training curriculum for laparoscopic transabdominal preperitoneal inguinal hernia repair

Perspective

Hell J Surg. 2025 Apr-Jun;95(5):96–99
doi: 10.59869/25067

Charalampos M. Charalampous, Panagis M. Lykoudis, Orestis Lyros, Panagiotis Kokoropoulos, Spyridon Christodoulou, Theodoros Sidiropoulos, Nikolaos Danias, Nikolaos Arkadopoulos

4th Department of Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

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A proposed protocol for personalised prediction of opioid response in oncology patients with chronic pain using machine learning methods combining genetic and clinical factors

Perspective

Hell J Surg. 2025 Apr-Jun;95(5):100–102
doi: 10.59869/25068

Anastasia Zompola, George Theodoropoulos, Maria Gazouli, George Zografos

National Kapodistrian University of Athens Greece School of Medicine

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Threats to surgical decision-making in a crisis

Brief Communication

Hell J Surg. 2025 Apr-Jun;95(5):103–106
doi: 10.59869/25069

Surajit Bhattacharya1, Kaushik Bhattacharya2

1MS M.Ch (Plastic Surgery), Consultant Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, Ajanta Hospital, Lucknow, India,
2MS DNB MNAMS FAIS FACS FRCS (Glasg) FRCS (Edin), Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Mata Gujri Memorial Medical College and LSK Hospital, Kishanganj, Bihar, India

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