Issue 1/2004
Content (17 Articles)
Minimally invasive surgery for achalasia: A 10-year experience
Constantine T. Frantzides, Ronald E. Moore, Mark A. Carlson, Atul K. Madan, John G. Zografakis, Ali Keshavarzian, Claire Smith
Esophageal achalasia: Is the herpes simplex virus really innocent?
Ignazio Castagliuolo, Paola Brun, Mario Costantini, Christian Rizzetto, Giorgio Palù, Michela Costantino, Nicola Baldan, Giovanni Zaninotto
Disparity between symptomatic and physiologic outcomes following esophageal lengthening procedures for antireflux surgery
Edward Lin, Vickie Swafford, Rajagopal Chadalavada, Bruce J. Ramshaw, C. Daniel Smith
Insulin-like growth factor-2 activation of intestinal glutamine transport is mediated by mitogen-activated protein kinases
QingHe Meng, Mark J. Epler, ChengMao Lin, Anne M. Karinch, Thomas C. Vary, Ming Pan
Serum fat-soluble vitamin deficiency and abnormal calcium metabolism after malabsorptive bariatric surgery
Guy H. Slater, Christine J. Ren, Niccole Siegel, Trudy Williams, Di Barr, Barrie Wolfe, Kevin Dolan, George A. Fielding
Predicting the node-negative mesorectum after preoperative chemoradiation for locally advanced rectal carcinoma
Isabelle Bedrosian, Miguel A. Rodriguez-Bigas, Barry Feig, Kelly K. Hunt, Lee Ellis, Steven A. Curley, Jean Nicolas Vauthey, Marc Delclos, Christopher Crane, Nora Janjan, John M. Skibber
Electromyographic biofeedback can improve subjective and objective measures of fecal incontinence in the short term
Peter Beddy, Paul Neary, Emmanuel I. Eguare, Ruth McCollum, James Crosbie, Kevin C. Conlon, Frank B. V. Keane
Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvic floor in patients with idiopathic combined fecal and urinary incontinence
Emmanuel I. Eguare, Paul Neary, James Crosbie, Sean M. Johnston, Peter Beddy, Bernadette McGovern, William C. Torreggiani, Kevin C. Conlon, Frank B. V. Keane
Fluorodeoxyglucose PET imaging in the evaluation of gallbladder carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma
Christopher D. Anderson, Michael H. Rice, C. Wright Pinson, William C. Chapman, Ravi S. Chari, Dominique Delbeke
Specific gene expression and therapy for pancreatic cancer using the cytosine deaminase gene directed by the rat insulin promoter
Xiao-Ping Wang, Kazuyuki Yazawa, Jie Yang, Deborah Kohn, William E. Fisher, F. Charles Brunicardi
Clinical application of porcine small intestinal submucosa in the management of infected or potentially contaminated abdominal defects
Tomio Ueno, Lisa Clark Pickett, Sebastian G. de la Fuente, D. Curtis Lawson, Theodore N. Pappas
Octreotide improves reperfusion-induced oxidative injury in acute abdominal hypertension in rats
Ayhan Kaçmaz, Ali Polat, Yilmaz User, Metin Tilki, Sirri Özkan, Göksel Şener
Laparoscopic splenectomy reverses thrombocytopenia in patients with hepatitis C cirrhosis and portal hypertension
Kent W. Kercher, Alfredo M. Carbonell, B. Todd Heniford, Brent D. Matthews, Dawn M. Cunningham, Robert W. Reindollar
Bovine pericardium buttress limits recanalization of the uncut roux-en-Y in a porcine model
John M. Morton, Tananchai A Lucktong, Scott Trasti, Timothy M. Farrell
Laparoscopic nissen fundoplication for treating reflux in lung transplant recipients
Elizabeth K. O’Halloran, James D. Reynolds, Christine L. Lau, Roberto J. Manson, R. Duane Davis, Scott M. Palmer, Theodore N. Pappas, Erik M. Clary, W. Steve Eubanks