Hellenic Journal of Surgery

Size matters: Better staging of lung cancer, better outcomes!

• Editorial

Athanasios Krasas, K. Iliadis

The TNM staging system: A stable value in the battle against cancer. A brief historical overview

• Editorial

Iakovos N. Nomikos

Compression of the neurovascular bundle above and below the clavicle

• Editorial

Nikolaos Baltayiannis

Endocrine surgery: Diagnostic tools with doubtful findings, and rare tumors of the adrenal gland

• Editorial

Ioannis Koutelidakis

Safety and quality: Two basic components of contemporary surgical care

• Cover Story

Iakovos N. Nomikos

Comments on the eighth edition of the TNM classification for lung cancer. Radical changes and limitations: Does size matter?

• Thoracic Oncology

S. Nikolouzos, G. Zacharia, N. Baltayiannis, D. Anagnostopoulos, N. Bolanos, M. Kanakis, A. Charpidou, A. P. Chatzimichalis, A. Lioulias, K. N. Syrigos, M. Mitsis, E. Apostolakis

Pectoralis minor syndrome: Report of two cases and review

• Chest

Paraskevi Rizniotopoulou, C. E. Apostolou, T. N. Fountoukis, A. A. Samaras, I. K. Skandalos

Comparision of preoperative and postoperative histopathology findings in patients undergoing thyroidectomy

• Endocrine Surgery

Mehmet Emin Gunes

Bilateral adrenal myelolipoma: A case report

• Endocrine Surgery

Arnab Mondal, Dipak Kumar Chakrabarti, Arghya Basu, Harish Kela

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in patients with ventriculoperitoneal shunts: A case series

• Hepato-Biliary Surgery

P. M. Lykoudis, C. Nastos, Dionysios Dellaportas, A. Vezakis, G. D. Ayiomamitis, I. Papaconstantinou, T. Theodosopoulos, A. Polydorou, G. Polymeneas

Port site Richter’s hernia. Case report and review

• Abdominal Wall

Naveen Kumar

Ruptured liver abscess presenting as pneumoperitoneum

• Surgical Infections

Naveen Kumar

Splenic abscess in an immunocompetent adult

• Surgical Infections

Swapnil Sen

Subcutaneous dirofilariasis of the groin in a male due to Dirofilaria repens

• Surgical Infections

P. Xaplanteri, P. Patrikakos, F. Kolonitsiou, N. Zacharis, C. Potsios, M. Marangos, G. Zacharis

Early postoperative anastomotic leakage due to necrotizing candidiasis after abdomino-thoracic resection for T1 esophageal cancer

• Surgical Infections

T. Kolokotronis, R. Eisele, J. Roller, G. Gäbelein, M. Wagner, R. M. Bohle, M. Glanemann

In memoriam

Georgios K. Zografos