Patients with symptomatic inguinal and umbilical hernias often present to the emergency department (ED) when their symptoms change or increase, usually not requiring
Objectives: Thoracic surgery constitutes 2.5% of surgical procedures performed in theater, but these are increasingly foreign to military surgeons. This study examines thoracic sur
Published literature suggests that skills required by deployed US Military General Surgeons are dissimilar to their CONUS practices and skills training. Furthermore, th
Small bowel obstruction has been known as one of the contraindications for laparoscopic surgery. In 1991 Bastug et al. described the first adhesiolysis using laparosc
The use of minimally invasive surgery in trauma, has more and more field in this specialty. Precordial trauma with stable patient can be approached to make the diagno