Volume 94 (2024) – Issue 1

Dictum of Success in Pelvic Exenterative Surgery

Editorial

Hell J Surg. 2024 Jan-Mar;94(1):5–6
doi: 10.59869/23021

Christos Kontovounisios

2^nd Surgical Department, Evangelismos Athens General Hospital, Athens, Greece, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK, Department of General Surgery, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK, Department of Surgery, The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK

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Unusual findings during hernia repair surgery. Our experience

Original Article

Hell J Surg. 2024 Jan-Mar;94(1):7–12
doi: 10.59869/23022

Athina Anagnou¹, Dimitrios Lasithiotakis², Nikistratos Vogiatzis², Konstantinos Balaouras¹, George Lianeris², Despoina Daskalaki², Evangelos D. Lolis¹

¹Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Chania Chania, Crete, Greece,
²Department of General Surgery, General Hospital of Rethymno Rethymnon, Crete, Greece

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Optimizing outcomes in symptomatic spinal metastases from non-small cell lung cancer: Evaluating the role of salvage surgical intervention in a multidisciplinary context – A Narrative Review

Review

Hell J Surg. 2024 Jan-Mar;94(1):13–19
doi: 10.59869/23023

Eleftherios Nikolaidis¹, Vasileios Leivaditis², Nikolaos Bolanos¹, Dimitrios Anagnostopoulos¹, Konstantinos Grapatsas³, Efstratios Koletsis⁴, Athanasios Papatriantafyllou², Francesk Mulita⁵, Levan Tchabashvili⁵, Konstantinos Tasios⁵, Nikolaos Baltayiannis¹, Manfred Dahm², Antonios Chatzimichalis¹

¹Department of Thoracic Surgery, ‘’Metaxa’’ Cancer Hospital,Piraeus,Greece
²Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular surgery, Westpfal-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
³Department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, University Medicine Essen – Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany
⁴Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece, ⁵Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece

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Introducing a robotic surgery program in the Greek National Healthcare System: Obstacles we need to overcome

Review

Hell J Surg. 2024 Jan-Mar;94(1):20–23
doi: 10.59869/23024

Panagiotis Dorovinis, Nikolaos Machairas, Dimitrios Dimitroulis

2^nd Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

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Repeated tracheal resection for endotracheal metastasis after sleeve pneumonectomy for squamous cell lung cancer

Case Report

Hell J Surg. 2024 Jan-Mar;94(1):24–27
doi: 10.59869/23025

Maria Athanasopoulou¹, Xenophon Sinopidis², Vasileios Leivaditis³, Konstantinos Grapatsas⁴, Efstratios Koletsis¹, Francesk Mulita⁵, Konstantinos Tasios⁵, Levan Tchabashvili⁵, Dimitrios Chlorogiannis⁵, Nikolaos Baltayiannis⁶, Manfred Dahm³, Dimitrios Dougenis⁷

¹Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
²Department of Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
³Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
⁴Department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, University Medicine Essen – Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany
⁵Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
⁶Department of Thoracic Surgery, ‘Metaxa’ Cancer Hospital, Piraeus, Greece, ⁷Department of Cardiac Surgery, “Attikon” Universtity Hospital, Athens, Greece

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Goblet cell appendiceal adenocarcinoma. How to deal with this rare entity. Case report & review of literature

Case Report

Hell J Surg. 2024 Jan-Mar;94(1):28–32
doi: 10.59869/23026

Petros Siaperas¹, Evangelos Velaoras¹, Andreas Tellos¹, Maria E. Kopaka², Christina Zoumpouli², Ioannis Karanikas¹

¹2^nd Department of General Surgery, Sismanoglion General Hospital, Athens Greece
²Department of Pathology, Sismanoglion General Hospital, Athens Greece

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Management of a large Stage 4 sacrococcygeal pressure injury with surgical debridement and Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

Case Report

Hell J Surg. 2024 Jan-Mar;94(1):33–37
doi: 10.59869/23027

Dimitrios Vouros, Maximos Frountzas, Spilios Spiliotopoulos, Anna Mexi, Konstantinos Saliaris, Panagiotis Theodorou, George Theodoropoulos, Dimitrios Theodorou, Konstantinos Toutouzas

1^st Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, Hippokrateion General Hospital, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

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Perineal hernia repair following tailgut cyst excision: A case report and literature review of optimal management strategies

Case Report

Hell J Surg. 2024 Jan-Mar;94(1):38–42
doi: 10.59869/23028

Dimitrios Linardoutsos^1,2, Despoina Kanata¹, Maximos Frountzas¹, Ioannis Constantinides³

¹First Propaedeutic Department of Surgery, Hippocration General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece
²Department of Surgery, Metropolitan General Hospital, Athens, Greece
³Department of Plastic Surgery, Metropolitan General Hospital, Athens, Greece

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