South African Journal of Surgery

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Vol. 63 No. 4 (2025)

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Published: 2025-12-13

Guest Editorial

Editorial commentary: Abbreviated laparotomy: advantages and disadvantages in South African practice

MS Moeng, TC Hardcastle

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Perspective

Damage control surgery: Trauma

H Wain

292-293
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Abbreviated laparotomy (damage control) in emergency general surgery: indications, risks and resource-based applications in the South African context

C Pothas

294-297
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Breast Surgery

Microductectomy under local anaesthetic for pathological nipple discharge. Is it time to change practice?

A Khamajeet, F Malherbe

298-302
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Endocrine Surgery

Stakeholder engagement towards establishing a national thyroid cancer registry in South Africa

W Conradie, KJ Baatjes, L Martin, T Luvhengo, J Lübbe, E Archer

267-276
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Hepatopancreaticobiliary Surgery

Preoperative risk factors for 90-day postoperative mortality in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a cohort-based study

CM Clasen, U Kotze, M Bernon, S Burmeister, C Kloppers, E Jonas, H Bayadsi

284-290
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Trauma Surgery

Risk factors for foetal loss in injured pregnant patients: an analysis of 105 patients managed at a major trauma centre in South Africa

LN Yong, CY Chung, VY Kong, J Ko, H Lee, H Wain, W Bekker, JL Bruce, GL Liang, DL Clarke

237-241
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The economic burden of traumatic brain injury at Pietersburg Hospital, Limpopo Province: a retrospective micro-costing study

SN Phaleng, TC Hardcastle

261-266
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Pan CT for blunt polytrauma – Is there a need for more selective indications?

HAW Palmer, L Martin, DL Clarke, GV Oosthuizen

242-246
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General Surgery

The profile and outcomes of patients in a newly established acute surgical care unit in a teaching tertiary hospital in Botswana

AG Bedada, N Tlotlo, B Dibonwa, T Tuelo, B Mogomotsi, MG Collen, HE Sleamsaw

277-283
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Retrospective observational review comparing pre- and post-COVID-19 surgical services at Mankweng Hospital

MMZU Bhuiyan

256-260
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Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery

Audit to evaluate the clinical presentation and surgical management of acute appendicitis at a secondary-level hospital in the Western Cape

I Palkowski, K Polden, C Claassen, Y Lee, AH Stark

194-198
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Surgical Education

Development and implementation of the online undergraduate surgical teaching module at the University of KwaZulu-Natal during COVID-19

S Ebrahim; M Motala; JM Van Wyk

202-233
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Case Series

Preliminary experience of reverse lymphatic mapping technique using indocyanine green dye lymphangiography and patent blue dye in melanoma patients undergoing sentinel lymph node biopsies: a case series

CK Hsu, FY Hsu

253-255
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Case Report

Spinal hydatid cyst with myelopathy: a rare case report

N Deveduthras, T Govender, R Harricharran

247-249
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Missed appendicitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the thigh

K Hendry, OO Jolayemi

250-252
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Eight-year survival with metastatic oesophageal carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

H Kasai, W Begg, M Mihalik

199-201
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Gallbladder tuberculosis: an unlikely diagnosis after laparoscopic cholecystectomy

M Malik, IN Palkowski

234-236
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CPD Questionnaire

CPD Questionnaire (V63N04)

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