Four undergraduate students from UK received short term training in the department. Three consultants from Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana received training in Laparoscopic Surgery.

The faculty of the department participated in and delivered 21 lectures in continuing medical education programmes, symposia and annual conferences and presented 29 papers in international and national conferences.

1. Cost effective analysis of laparoscopic versus minilap cholecystectomy : a randomised trial.
2. Study of vascular anatomy of segment IV and V of liver.
3. Study of the correlation between clinical profile, hormonal profile and testicular biopsy in patients with azoospermia.
4. Effectiveness of silastic sheet in the treatment of keloid; a comparative study with conventional triamcinolone.
5. A comparative trial of thoracoscopic pleurodesis versus pleuroperitoneal shunts for malignant pleural effusion.
6. Day case surgical treatment of fistula-in-ano.

1. Cost effectiveness study of whisper pad dressing versus paraffin gauze dressing in the management of chronic wounds- a randomised trial.
2. Role of Maharishi Amrit Kalash (MAK 4,5) in minimising the toxicity of cytotoxic chemotherapy in patients with breast and GI cancers.
3. Role of Omental transplantation in end stage ischemia of limbs.
4. Day care treatment of malignant pleural effusion.
5. Long term follow up of respiratory status in patients operated for fibrothorax.

1. Reversibility of liver functions following relief of obstructive jaundice.
2. Diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography (USG), computed tomography (C.T) and endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreaticography (ERCP) or percutaneous transhepatic cholangiopancreaticography (PTC) in the evaluation of obstructive jaundice : A comparative study.
3. Role of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in the diagnosis of intrathoracic pathology: A critical appraisal.
4. Attitude of patients and doctors towards the post mastectomy breast reconstruction.
5. Role of MRI angiography in the assessment of renal vessels of patients undergoing donor nephrectomy for the related renal transplantation.
6. Attitude of patiens, public, doctors and nurses towards organ donation.

1. Role of sclerotherapy in vascular malformations and evaluation using duplex ultrasound scanning.
2. Evaluation of the role of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy in the management of carcinoma of the oesophagus.
3. Clinico-pathological and mucin histochemical study of adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus.
4. Usefulness of the polymerase chain reaction the diagnosis of lymph node tuberculosis.
5. The measurement of duodeno-gastric reflux after dholecystectomy.
6. The role of anterior chemotherapy in Stage III lung cancer.
7. Role of resection of pulmonary secondaries form malignancies.
8. Phenotypic characterisation of tumour infiltrating lymphocytes and peripheral blood lymphocytes in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of oral cavity.
9. Results of surgery in secondary deformities of cleft up.
10. Evaluation of renal allograft function using Tc99 diaminocyclohexane.
11. Use of doppler ultrasonography and injection sclerotherapy in the management of patients with hemangiomas and vascular malformation.
12. A comparative trial of low-fat diet, danazol, bromocryptine and tamoxifen in the treatment of benign breast disease.

Surgical procedures
We have developed a new technique for closure of abdominal wound  following midline laparotomy. The following films show the details of the techniques :- 
                      1. Principles of X-technique on a foam model.
                      2. Demonstration of X-suture on a patient.
                      3. Demonstration of X-suture on cadavaric abdominal wall.

Mediastinoscopic services were introduced and work on thoracoscopy was continuing with more diagnostic and therapeutic procedures being performed successfully by two units. An active thoracic services has been established. A doppler laboratory for investigation of peripheral vascular disease and a new microsurgery laboratory have been commissioned.

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