Issue 5/2016
Content (17 Articles)
Reconstruction after proximal gastrectomy for gastric cancer in the upper third of the stomach: a review of the literature published from 2000 to 2014
Masaki Nakamura, Hiroki Yamaue
Current status of robotic gastrectomy for gastric cancer
Kazutaka Obama, Yoshiharu Sakai
Comparisons of financial and short-term outcomes between laparoscopic and open hepatectomy: benefits for patients and hospitals
Yoshikuni Kawaguchi, Yuichiro Otsuka, Hironori Kaneko, Motoki Nagai, Yukihiro Nomura, Mariko Yamamoto, Masahide Otani, Yuichi Ohashi, Kotaro Sugawara, Daisuke Koike, Takashi Ishida, Norihiro Kokudo, Nobutaka Tanaka
Functional outcome assessment of swallowing (FOAMS) scoring and videofluoroscopic evaluation of perioperative swallowing rehabilitation in radical esophagectomy
Tomoyuki Okumura, Yutaka Shimada, Toru Watanabe, Naomi Nakamichi, Takuya Nagata, Kazuhiro Tsukada
Risk factors for postoperative pneumonia after gastrectomy for gastric cancer
Yuichiro Miki, Rie Makuuchi, Masanori Tokunaga, Yutaka Tanizawa, Etsuro Bando, Taiichi Kawamura, Masanori Terashima
Could the Tokyo guidelines on the management of acute cholecystitis be adopted in developing countries? Experience of one center
Mahdi Bouassida, Hédi Charrada, Bilel Feidi, Mohamed Fadhel Chtourou, Sélim Sassi, Mohamed Mongi Mighri, Fethi Chebbi, Hassen Touinsi
A randomized phase II study of the clinical effects of ultrasonically activated coagulating shears (Harmonic scalpel) in open gastrectomy for gastric cancer
Ryohei Kawabata, Shuji Takiguchi, Yutaka Kimura, Hiroshi Imamura, Junya Fujita, Shigeyuki Tamura, Kazumasa Fujitani, Kentaro Kishi, Kazuyoshi Yamamoto, Shinichi Fujiwara, Yukinori Kurokawa, Masaki Mori, Yuichiro Doki
Effects of insistent screening for contralateral patent processus vaginalis in laparoscopic percutaneous extraperitoneal closure to prevent metachronous contralateral onset of pediatric inguinal hernia
Wataru Sumida, Yoshio Watanabe, Hidemi Takasu, Kazuo Oshima, Naoko Komatsuzaki
Endoscopic thyroidectomy using the EZ-VANS method
Takuya Nagata, Yutaka Shimada, Takeshi Miwa, Isaya Hashimoto, Hirofumi Kojima, Tomoyuki Okumura, Kazuhiro Tsukada
Preoperative independent prognostic factors in patients with borderline resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma following curative resection: the neutrophil-lymphocyte and platelet-lymphocyte ratios
Sadaki Asari, Ippei Matsumoto, Hirochika Toyama, Makoto Shinzeki, Tadahiro Goto, Jun Ishida, Tetsuo Ajiki, Takumi Fukumoto, Yonson Ku
Correlation between histological invasiveness and the computed tomography value in pure ground-glass nodules
Akihiko Kitami, Fumitoshi Sano, Shoko Hayashi, Kosuke Suzuki, Shugo Uematsu, Yoshito Kamio, Takashi Suzuki, Mitsutaka Kadokura, Mutsuko Omatsu, Toshiaki Kunimura
Novel approach to pleurodesis with 50 % glucose for air leakage after lung resection or pneumothorax
Kosuke Fujino, Yamato Motooka, Takamasa Koga, Hironobu Osumi, Eri Matsubara, Hidekatsu Shibata, Koei Ikeda, Kenji Shiraishi, Takeshi Mori, Koji Hayashi, Kentaro Yoshimoto, Jyoeji Wakimoto, Ichiro Kubota, Makoto Suzuki
Procalcitonin ratio and on-demand relaparotomy for septic peritonitis: validation of the focus index (FI)
Volker Assfalg, Petra Wolf, Daniel Reim, Norbert Hüser, Georg Hellbrügge, Edouard Matevossian, Helmut Friess, Bernhard Holzmann, Klaus L. Emmanuel, Alexander R. Novotny
Transanal drainage tube placement to prevent anastomotic leakage following colorectal cancer surgery with double stapling reconstruction
Mutsuhito Matsuda, Masashi Tsuruta, Hirotoshi Hasegawa, Koji Okabayashi, Takayuki Kondo, Takehiro Shimada, Masashi Yahagi, Yusuke Yoshikawa, Yuko Kitagawa
Beneficial effects of a cardiac support device on left ventricular remodeling after posterior myocardial infarction: an evaluation by echocardiography, pressure–volume curves and ventricular histology
Miyako Okada, Toshiaki Akita, Fumito Mizuno, Asami Nakayama, Kouichi Morioka
Retraction Note: Notice of formal retraction of articles by Dr. Akihiro Cho
Yuichiro Doki