The first British illustrated surgical catalogue.

Immunohistochemical Expression of Nuclear β-Catenin and STAT-6 in a Solitary Fibrous Tumor of the Soft Palate: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

The solitary fibrous tumors (SFT) are rare tumors in the head and neck region and there have been only 5 cases reported in the literature in the soft palate. The current paper presents a unique case of a 62-year-old male with TFS arising in the soft palate. The tumor was highly cellular, composed of bland looking haphazardly arranged spindle cells. The signal transducer and activator of transcr...

Global Surgery – Informing National Strategies for Scaling Up Surgery in Sub-Saharan Africa

Surgery has the potential to address one of the largest, neglected burdens of disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) has provided a blueprint for a systems approach to making safe emergency and elective surgery accessible and affordable and has started to enable African governments to develop n...

Acupuncture points in the book of Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu, a 15th century Turkish physician.

Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu (1385-1468?), the author of Cerrahiyetü'l-Haniyye (Imperial Surgery), was a distinguished Ottoman Turkish surgeon. The first illustrated Turkish surgical textbook, Cerrahiyetü'l-Haniyye consisted of three chapters (ie, cauterisation treatments, surgical procedures and fractures and dislocations). Although the main source of the book was Al-Tasrif (Textbook of Surgery) by ...

The Gender of the Addressee as a Factor in the Selection of Apology Strategies: The Case of Saudi and British

This paper was set out to investigate the main cultural differences between Saudi and British participants making apologies with a focus on the role of the gender of the addressee in the selection of apology strategies in gender-segregated vs. coed societies. Written questionnaires were used to collect data from 80 participants: 20 Saudi males, 20 Saudi females, 20 British males and 20 British ...

A Catalogue of the Scorpions Occuring in Iran, Up to January 1986