Publications by authors named "P Salminen-Peltola"
Background And Objectives: This study aims to clarify quality of breast cancer surgery in population-based setting. We aim to elucidate factors influencing waiting periods, and to evaluate the effect of hospital volume on surgical treatment policies. Special interest was given to diagnostic and surgical processes and their impact on waiting times.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Debate around reduction mammaplasty has continued due to lack of prospective randomised clinical trials (RCTs). Therefore, a prospective randomised clinical trial was designed to assess the effectiveness of reduction mammaplasty performed for symptomatic breast hypertrophy.
Patients And Methods: 82 patients were randomised, 40 patients to the operative group, and 42 patients to the nonoperative group.
Lower limb amputations in Southern Finland in 2000 and trends up to 2001.
Eur J Vasc Endovasc Surg
February 2004
Article Synopsis
- The study assessed major lower limb amputation rates in Southern Finland over 17 years, revealing an incidence of 154 amputations per million people in 2000.
- The majority of amputations were due to chronic critical lower limb ischemia (71.8%), with a significant decrease in amputation rates (41% overall) from 1984 to 2000.
- The findings suggest that improvements in vascular surgery are linked to reduced amputation rates, particularly below-knee amputations, leading to a relative increase in above-knee amputations.