Publications by authors named "Sara Flod"
Achieving a functional and aesthetic reconstruction following complex trauma is a challenge. Skin substitutes, including acellular dermal matrices, and newer, synthetic options such as NovoSorb biodegradable temporizing membrane (BTM) have given the reconstructive surgeon a useful tool where autologous options have been exhausted, are inappropriate, or would present a suboptimal reconstruction. This case series describes 6 patients admitted to an urban level I major trauma center between July and December 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The management of radiologically suspected gallbladder cancers (GBC) that lack definitive radiological features usually involves performing a first-stage routine laparoscopic cholecystectomy, followed by an open second-stage liver resection (segments IVB and V) and hilar lymphadenectomy (extended cholecystectomy) if subsequent formal histology confirms a malignancy. Performing a cholecystectomy with an intraoperative frozen section to guide the need for conversion to an extended cholecystectomy as a single-stage procedure has multiple benefits compared to a two-stage approach. However, the safety and efficacy of this approach have not yet been evaluated in a tertiary setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Clinical equipoise exists regarding optimal sequencing in the definitive management of choledocholithiasis. Our current study compares sequential biliary ductal clearance and cholecystectomy at an interval to simultaneous laparoendoscopic management on index admission in a pragmatic retrospective manner.
Methods: Records were reviewed for all patients admitted between January 2015 and December 2018 to a Swedish and an Irish university hospital.