Issue 8/2011
Content (37 Articles)
Endoscopic Fundoplication: Real or Fantasy?
Alejandro Nieponice, Blair A. Jobe
Endoscopic Mucosal Resection of Barrett’s Esophagus and Early Esophageal Cancer
Jeffrey H. Peters, Thomas A. Watson
Indications and Techniques of Transanal Endoscopic Microsurgery (TEMS)
Yanjie Qi, David Stoddard, John R. T. Monson
Laparoscopic-Facilitated Colonic Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and Endoscopic Submucosal Resection of Adenomas: Techniques to Avoid Segmental Colectomy
Richard L. Whelan
Evaluation and Treatment of Biliary Leaks after Gastrointestinal Surgery
Gary C. Vitale, Brian R. Davis
Prevention, Evaluation, and Treatment of Leaks after Gastrointestinal Surgery
Keith D. Lillemoe
Prevention, Evaluation, and Treatment of Leaks after Pancreatic Surgery
Jeffrey B. Matthews
Trends in Diagnosis and Surgical Management of Patients with Perforated Peptic Ulcer
Kenneth Thorsen, Tom B. Glomsaker, Andreas von Meer, Kjetil Søreide, Jon Arne Søreide
Prognostic Significance of HLA Class I Expressing in Gastric Carcinoma Defined by Monoclonal Anti-Pan HLA Class I Antibody, EMR8-5
Hae-Wan Lee, Soo Kee Min, Young-Su Ju, Joohon Sung, Man Sup Lim, Dae Hyun Yang, Bong Hwa Lee
Improvement in Insulin Sensitivity and Β-Cell Function Following Ileal Interposition with Sleeve Gastrectomy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients: Potential Mechanisms
Aureo Ludovico De Paula, Alessandro R. Stival, Alfredo Halpern, Carolina C. L. DePaula, Andrea Mari, Elza Muscelli, Sergio Vencio, Ele Ferrannini
Factors Associated with Operative Recurrence Early After Resection for Crohn’s Disease
Wisam Khoury, Scott A. Strong, Victor W. Fazio, Ravi P. Kiran
Mosapride Citrate Improves Postoperative Ileus of Patients with Colectomy
Yoshitaka Toyomasu, Erito Mochiki, Hiroki Morita, Atsushi Ogawa, Mitsuhiro Yanai, Tetsuro Ohno, Takaaki Fujii, Soichi Tsutsumi, Takayuki Asao, Hiroyuki Kuwano
Clinically Enlarged Lateral Pelvic Lymph Nodes Do Not Influence Prognosis after Neoadjuvant Therapy and TME in Stage III Rectal Cancer
Sekhar Dharmarajan, Dandan Shuai, Alyssa D. Fajardo, Elisa H. Birnbaum, Steven R. Hunt, Matthew G. Mutch, James W. Fleshman, Anne Y. Lin
A Meta-analysis of the Short- and Long-Term Results of Randomized Controlled Trials That Compared Laparoscopy-Assisted and Conventional Open Surgery for Rectal Cancer
Hiroshi Ohtani, Yutaka Tamamori, Takashi Azuma, Yoshihiro Mori, Yukio Nishiguchi, Kiyoshi Maeda, Kosei Hirakawa
Epidural Analgesia in Open Resection of Colorectal Cancer: Is there a Clinical Benefit? A Retrospective Study on 1,470 Patients
Rene Warschkow, Thomas Steffen, Andreas Lüthi, Miodrag Filipovic, Ulrich Beutner, Bruno M. Schmied, Sascha A. Müller, Ignazio Tarantino
Does Adiponectin Upregulation Attenuate the Severity of Acute Pancreatitis in Obesity?
Hayder H. Al-Azzawi, Kathryn M. Ziegler, Deborah A. Swartz-Basile, Sue Wang, Henry A. Pitt, Nicholas J. Zyromski
Influence of Visceral Obesity for Postoperative Pulmonary Complications After Pancreaticoduodenectomy
Atsushi Shimizu, Masaji Tani, Manabu Kawai, Seiko Hirono, Motoki Miyazawa, Kazuhisa Uchiyama, Hiroki Yamaue
The Influence of Prognostic Factors and Adjuvant Chemoradiation on Survival After Pancreaticoduodenectomy for Ampullary Carcinoma
Timothy N. Showalter, Tingting Zhan, P. Rani Anne, Inna Chervoneva, Edith P. Mitchell, Charles J. Yeo, Ernest L. Rosato, Eugene P. Kennedy, Adam C. Berger
Therapeutic Management of Hemorrhage from Visceral Artery Pseudoaneurysms after Pancreatic Surgery
Xiangjiu Ding, Jiankang Zhu, Min Zhu, Caixia Li, Wencheng Jian, Jianjun Jiang, Zhanmin Wang, Sanyuan Hu, Xusheng Jiang
Intra-abdominal Pressure and Abdominal Perfusion Pressure: Which is a Better Marker of Severity in Patients with Severe Acute Pancreatitis
Lu Ke, Hai-bin Ni, Zhi-hui Tong, Wei-qin Li, Ning Li, Jie-shou Li
Prognostic Impact of Preoperative the Branched-Chain Amino Acid to the Tyrosine Ratio in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients after Initial Hepatectomy
Toru Mizuguchi, Masaki Kawamoto, Makoto Meguro, Yukio Nakamura, Kohei Harada, Kazuharu Kukita, Koichi Hirata
Alkaline Phosphatase: Does it have a Role in Predicting Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence?
Ming-Chin Yu, Kun-Ming Chan, Chen-Fang Lee, Yun-Shien Lee, Firas Zahr Eldeen, Hong-Shiue Chou, Wei-Chen Lee, Miin-Fu Chen
Surgical Outcomes for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
Toshifumi Wakai, Yoshio Shirai, Jun Sakata, Pavel Vladimirovich Korita, Yoichi Ajioka, Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama
Differential Bone Marrow Hematopoietic Stem Cells Mobilization in Hepatectomized Patients
Carmen Herencia, Antonio Rodríguez-Ariza, Antonio Canalejo, Álvaro Naranjo, F. Javier Briceño, Pedro López-Cillero, Manuel De la Mata, Juan R. Muñoz-Castañeda
A Technique of Gastrojejunostomy to Reduce Delayed Gastric Emptying after Pancreatoduodenectomy
Adeel S. Khan, William G. Hawkins, David C. Linehan, Steven M. Strasberg
SSAT Maintenance of Certification: Literature Review on Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease and Hiatal Hernia
Nathaniel J. Soper
Preoperative Diagnosis of Early Cystic Duct Cancer Using Endoscopic Ultrasonography and Endocholangioscopy: Report of a Case
Hiroaki Shiba, Takeyuki Misawa, Ryusuke Ito, Hiroo Imazu, Masafumi Suzuki, Katsuhiko Yanaga
Endoscopical En Bloc Resection of a Large Duodenal Adenoma with Focal High Dysplasia
Cinzia Quondamcarlo, Stefano Pontone, Alessandra Panarese, Daniele Pironi, Paolo Pontone, Angelo Filippini
Acute Appendicitis Secondary to a Granular Cell Tumor of the Appendix in a 19-Year-Old Male
Marco Zoccali, Nicole Cipriani, Alessandro Fichera, Jerrold R. Turner, Mukta Krane
The Rapunzel Syndrome: A Hard-To-Swallow Tale
Thierry Bège, Ariadne Desjeux, Benjamin Coquet-Reinier, Stéphane V. Berdah, Jean-Charles Grimaud, Christian Brunet
Laparo-Endoscopic Single-Site (LESS) with Transanal Natural Orifice Specimen Extraction (NOSE) Sigmoidectomy: A New Step before Pure Colorectal Natural Orifices Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES®)
Joel Leroy, Michele Diana, James Wall, Federico Costantino, Jacopo D’Agostino, Jacques Marescaux
Caval Clamping During Total Hepatectomy with Caval Preservation in Liver Transplantation
Cuneyt Kayaalp, Sezai Yilmaz
Author’s Reply to Letter “An Alternative Surgical Technique for Caval Preservation in Liver Transplantation”
Cataldo Doria, Adam S. Bodzin, Adam M. Frank, Warren R. Maley, Carlo B. Ramirez