Selection of the most appropriate treatment to obtain the best results with the lowest rate of
recurrence and minimal morbidity and mortality is mandatory for the management of hepatic …

OBJECTIVE: Despite contrary evidence, the practice of overnight fasting before elective
surgery maintains its place in tradition. However, prolonged starvation, by its catabolic action, …

Med., 2004, 202 (1), 51-56――Elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy is established as the
treatment of choice for symptomatic cholecystolithiasis and is now proposed for the treatment …

Aim. To determine the effect of preoperative skin preparation procedures performed by
nurses on postoperative surgical site infection in abdominal surgery. Background. Despite all …

PURPOSE To study the benefits of ultrasonography for detecting the borders of pilonidal sinus
tissue. The correlation between physical and ultrasonographic examination was used for …

A perforation of Meckel’s diverticulum by foreign bodies is an extremely rare cause of acute
abdomen in adults. We herein present a case of a 30-year-old man who was admitted due to …

OBJECTIVE: Preoperative carbohydrate loading with clear fluids is thought to reduce
surgery-related insulin resistance (IR). However, IR per se is already present in some patients …

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Acute pancreatitis is an important and fatal disease with
high mortality and morbidity. Although the pathogenesis of acute pancreatitis is poorly …

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the importance of serum fibrinogen
level in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis.

Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among females in Turkey.
Predictors affecting the breast self-examination (BSE) performance vary in developing countries. …