conclusions sils appendectomy can be successfully performed by trainees on all-comers with comparable resource utilisation and clinical outcomes to those achieved by junior trainees performing a conventional three-port laparoscopic approach. results seventeen patients had sils operations: 15 appendectomies, one resection of inflamed meckel’s diverticulum and one appendectomy with oophorectomy. ...

This paper seeks to excavate the cultural significance of honor killings in Turkey. By drawing upon relevant scholarship as well as firsthand ethnographic experiences, this paper examines the ways in which Turks understand honor killings in both the global context as well as within Turkey’s unique sociopolitical history. As the relatively young nation-state grapples with issues of identity in t...

Dr Faith Spicer, who recently died at the age of 95, was a truly resolute pioneer in the fields of family planning, sexual counselling and the psychiatry of adolescence. She was acutely aware of the shame and moral outrage that in her time was associated with premarital sexual intercourse and its often appalling consequences, not least dangerous, back-street abortions. At that time, women stude...

Theoretical and empirical research on the evolution of clutch size has proved to be an extremely productive area of evolutionary biology. A general prediction is that individuals should produce a smaller number of offspring when resources are more limited, such as when multiple individuals compete for the same resources for their development. However, we expect that the opposite prediction aris...

phyllodes tumors are biphasic fibroepithelial neoplasms of the breast. while the surgical management of these relatively uncommon tumors has been addressed in the literature, few reports have commented on the surgical approach to tumors greater than ten centimetres in diameter – the giant phyllodes tumor. we report a case of giant breast tumors and discuss the techniques utilized for pre-operat...