Impact of Ageing on Hepatic Malignancy Resection: Is Age Really a Risk Factor for Mortality?

Background: With an ageing population, it is paramount for surgeons to comprehend the implications of age on surgical outcomes. This study aims to identify the effects of age on perioperative outcomes post-hepatectomy.

Methods: Between 2001 and 2017, 357 hepatectomies were performed in our centre for malignancy.

Peer Coaching as a Form of Performance Improvement: What Surgeons Really Think.

Objective: Coaching has been proposed as a potential form of continuing professional development (CPD) for surgeons. Our study aimed to elicit qualified surgeons' perceptions of peer coaching as a form of CPD and to determine the effect of demographic factors on surgeons' views.

Methods: A cross-sectional paper survey was conducted across 2 South Australian metropolitan hospitals from November 2018 to January 2019.

Progress towards near-zero 90-day mortality: 388 consecutive hepatectomies over a 16-year period.

Background: Hepatectomy has been the gold standard procedure for curative treatment of benign and malignant hepatobiliary lesions for over a century. The aim of this study is to report on the 16-year experience of a single institution.

Methods: All patients admitted to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, South Australia, for a hepatectomy between 2001 and 2016 were included in this audit.

Surveillance colonoscopies frequently booked earlier than the National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines: findings of a single centre audit.

Background: To assess the adherence rate of surveillance colonoscopy booking intervals to recommended National Health and Medical Research Council guidelines at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.

Methods: Patients on The Queen Elizabeth Hospital colorectal unit surveillance colonoscopy waiting list were included in this audit. Patient demographics, colonoscopy findings, follow-up plans and pathology results were analysed.

The safety and effectiveness of liver resection for breast cancer liver metastases: A systematic review.

Breast cancer liver metastases have traditionally been considered incurable and any treatment given therefore palliative. Liver resections for breast cancer metastases are being performed, despite there being no robust evidence for which patients benefit. This review aims to determine the safety and effectiveness of liver resection for breast cancer metastases.

Treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma with radiolabelled lipiodol.

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common solid organ tumours, with approximately 500,000 new cases being reported each year. It has a very high prevalence in Asia, and almost two-thirds of all cases occur in this region. The incidence of this tumour in Australia has nearly doubled in the past decade.

Pablo Luis Mirizzi: the man behind the syndrome.

Pablo Luis Mirizzi (1893-1964), who was born and died in the city of Cordoba in Argentina, dedicated his life to the service of surgery and the teaching of his students. Although known for the introduction of the intraoperative cholangiogram and for describing the Mirizzi syndrome - a partial obstruction of the common hepatic duct secondary to an impacted gallstone in the cystic duct, very little else is known about this man behind the brilliant surgical pioneer of the twentieth century. This biography looks beyond his important contributions to medicine, to the many facets of the man himself.

The clinical risk score: emerging as a reliable preoperative prognostic index in hepatectomy for colorectal metastases.

Hypothesis: The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of the clinical risk score (CRS), a prognostic tool developed by Fong et al, when translated to another center.

Design: This study assesses 5 independent preoperative prognostic criteria, nodal status of the primary lesion, disease-free interval, number of hepatic metastases, size of the largest metastasis, and preoperative carcinoembryonic antigen level, to determine a preoperative CRS for each patient included in the study.

Setting: The hepatobiliary unit of The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia.

Ite Boerema--surgeon and engineer with a double-Dutch legacy to medical technology.

Ite Boerema, 1902-1978: a Dutchman with a brilliant academic surgical career, and war hero, decorated for resistance to the Germans in World War II. As a man who regarded surgery as "engineering in medicine," we still feel his legacy in medical technology today, specifically with regard to his work on esophageal anastomoses and hyperbaric oxygen therapy. This biography places his major contributions to medicine in context of the man himself and of contemporary medicine.