Issue 8/2005
Content (20 Articles)
2005 SSAT presidential address: Heroes, mentors, and teammates
Keith D. Lillemoe
Robotic-assisted heller myotomy versus laparoscopic heller myotomy for the treatment of esophageal achalasia: multicenter study
Santiago Horgan, Carlos Galvani, Maria V. Gorodner, Pablo Omelanczuck, Fernando Elli, Federico Moser, Luis Durand, Miguel Caracoche, Jorge Nefa, Sergio Bustos, Phillip Donahue, Pedro Ferraina
Esophagogastrectomy: The influence of stapled versus hand-sewn anastomosis on outcome
Abdollah Behzadi, Francis C. Nichols, Stephen D. Cassivi, Claude Deschamps, Mark S. Allen, Peter C. Pairolero
Forty-eight-hour ph monitoring increases sensitivity in detecting abnormal esophageal acid exposure
Daniel Tseng, Adnan Z. Rizvi, M. Brian Fennerty, Blair A. Jobe, Brian S. Diggs, Brett C. Sheppard, Steven C. Gross, Lee L. Swanstrom, Nicole B. White, Ralph W. Aye, John G. Hunter
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: How often is it really idiopathic?
Marco G. Patti, Pietro Tedesco, Jeffrey Golden, Steven Hays, Charles Hoopes, Adam Meneghetti, Tanuja Damani, Lawrence W. Way
Quality-of-life after total pancreatectomy: Is it really that bad on long-term follow-up?
Brian J. Billings, John D. Christein, William S. Harmsen, Jeffrey R. Harrington, Suresh T. Chari, Florencia G. Que, Michael B. Farnell, David M. Nagorney, Michael G. Sarr
5-Fluorouracil and gemcitabine potentiate the efficacy of oncolytic herpes viral gene therapy in the treatment of pancreatic cancer
David P. Eisenberg, Prasad S. Adusumilli, Karen J. Hendershott, Zhenkun Yu, Michael Mullerad, Mei-Ki Chan, Ting-Chao Chou, Yuman Fong
Current practice patterns in pancreatic surgery: Results of a multi-institutional analysis of seven large surgical departments in germany with 1454 pancreatic head resections, 1999 to 2004 (german advanced surgical treatment study group)
Frank Makowiec, Stefan Post, Hans-Detlev Saeger, Norbert Senninger, Heinz Becker, Michael Betzler, Heinz J. Buhr, Ulrich T. Hopt
Pancreas-sparing duodenectomy is effective management for familial adenomatous polyposis
Richard Mackey, R. Matthew Walsh, Raphael Chung, Nancy Brown, Andrew Smith, James Church, Carol Burke
Pancreaticoduodenectomy after placement of endobiliary metal stents
John T. Mullen, Jeffrey H. Lee, Henry F. Gomez, William A. Ross, Norio Fukami, Robert A. Wolff, Eddie K. Abdalla, Jean-Nicolas Vauthey, Jeffrey E. Lee, Peter W. T. Pisters, Douglas B. Evans
Effects of gastric bypass procedures on bone mineral density, calcium, parathyroid hormone, and vitamin d
Jason M. Johnson, James W. Maher, Isaac Samuel, Deborah Heitshusen, Cornelius Doherty, Robert W. Downs
Is roux-en-y gastric bypass surgery the most effective treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus in morbidly obese patients?
Alfonso Torquati, Rami Lutfi, Naji Abumrad, William O. Richards
Changes in C-reactive protein predict insulin sensitivity in severely obese individuals after weight loss surgery
Nana Gletsu, Edward Lin, Leena Khaitan, Scott A. Lynch, Bruce Ramshaw, Randall Raziano, William E. Torres, Thomas R. Ziegler, Dimitris A. Papanicolaou, C. Daniel Smith
Development of a new access device for transgastric surgery
Lee L. Swanstrom, Richard Kozarek, Pankaj J. Pasricha, Steven Gross, Desmond Birkett, Per-Ola Park, Vahid Saadat, Richard Ewers, Paul Swain
Virally directed fluorescent imaging improves diagnostic sensitivity in the detection of minimal residual disease after potentially curative cytoreductive surgery
Prasad S. Adusumilli, David P. Eisenberg, Yun Shin Chun, Keun-Won Ryu, Leah Ben- Porat, Karen J. Hendershott, Mei-Ki Chan, Rumana Huq, Christopher C. Riedl, Yuman Fong
Contrast-enhanced intraoperative ultrasonography during hepatectomies for colorectal cancer liver metastases
Guido Torzilli, Daniele Del Fabbro, Angela Palmisano, Matteo Donadon, Paolo Bianchi, Massimo Roncalli, Luca Balzarini, Marco Montorsi
Molecular absorbent recirculating system for the treatment of acute liver failure in surgical patients
Daniel Inderbitzin, Beat Muggli, Annette Ringger, Guido Beldi, Markus Gass, Beat Gloor, Dominik Uehlinger, Bruno Regli, Jürg Reichen, Daniel Candinas
Incidence and management of biliary leakage after hepaticojejunostomy
Steve M. M. de Castro, Koert F. D. Kuhlmann, Olivier R. C. Busch, Otto M. van Delden, Johan S. Laméris, Thomas M. van Gulik, Hugo Obertop, Dirk J. Gouma
Laparoscopic versus standard appendectomy outcomes and cost comparisons in the private sector
Cláudio Bresciani, Rodrigo Oliva Perez, Angelita Habr-Gama, Carlos Eduardo Jacob, Alberto Ozaki, Carlos Batagello, Igor Proscurshim, Joaquim Gama-Rodrigues
Adenocarcinomas of the jejunum and ileum: A 25-year experience
Mustafa M. Ugurlu, Oktar Asoglu, Dean D. Potter, Sunni A. Barnes, William S. Harmsen, John H. Donohue