<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>2444-054X</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Cirugía y cirujanos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Cir. cir.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2444-054X</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Academia Mexicana de Cirugía A.C.]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id>S2444-054X2022000500706</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.24875/ciru.21000704</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La importancia del reporte de caso en la cirugía general]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The importance of case reports in general surgery]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Izaguirre-Pérez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Marian E.]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Mandujano-Sánchez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Juan I.]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Hurtado-Delgado]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carlos F.]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto de Seguridad y Servicios Sociales de los Trabajadores del Estado Hospital Regional Valentín Gómez Farías Servicio de Cirugía General]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Zapopan Jalisco]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social Hospital Lomas Verdes Servicio de Ortopedia y Traumatología]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Naucalpan de Juárez Estado de México]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,Hospital Santa María Chapalita Departamento de Enseñanza ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Guadalajara Jalisco]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>10</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>90</volume>
<numero>5</numero>
<fpage>706</fpage>
<lpage>712</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2444-054X2022000500706&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2444-054X2022000500706&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2444-054X2022000500706&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen La investigación científica es una herramienta clave para todo el profesional de la salud. Su objetivo principal es la creación y la reproducción de nuevo conocimiento. Funciona como una oportunidad para desarrollar habilidades de comunicación, manejo del tiempo, organización y trabajo en equipo. Los reportes de caso clínico son los estudios con el nivel más bajo de evidencia, pero aportan información relevante sobre patologías en específico, como son sus manifestaciones clínicas, métodos diagnósticos y alternativas terapéuticas novedosas, para los que no es posible implementar otro tipo de diseño metodológico. Este tipo de estudio es uno de los más utilizados en la docencia quirúrgica debido a las múltiples particularidades de cada paciente, que permiten valorar distintas opciones terapéuticas no evaluadas anteriormente para la resolución del problema que aqueja el paciente. En este trabajo se describen los componentes principales del reporte de caso clínico y su aplicación en la cirugía general, con el objetivo de proveer una guía a los nuevos cirujanos que estén interesados en mejorar la calidad de sus reportes de caso.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Scientific research is a key tool for every health professional. Their main goal is the creation and distribution of new knowledge. It works as an opportunity to develop new skills such as time management, organization, communication, and teamwork. Case reports are at the bottom of the level of the evidence pyramid but they give such important information about specific pathologies like clinical manifestations, diagnostic tools, and new therapeutic alternatives. Case reports give health professionals an opportunity to publish something that cannot be enrolled in another type of article, like clinical research or a cohort study. Case reports are one of the most common type of study in the surgical field and this is because every patient has something different, and this type of article give us a variety of options to explore treatment, diagnosis, and outcomes. This paper describes the main components of a case report and its application to general surgery, its purpose is to provide a guide to new surgeons, residents or medical students interested in improving the quality of their papers.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Investigación]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Guía SCARE]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[SCARE guide]]></kwd>
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