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World Journal of Surgery

Issue 11/2002

Content (26 Articles)

Original Scientific Reports

Results of pancreaticoduodenectomy for pancreatic cancer: Extended versus standard procedure

Calogero Iacono, Simone Accordini, Luca Bortolasi, Enrico Facci, Giuseppe Zamboni, Ettore Montresor, Peter Domenico Marinello, Giovanni Serio

Original Scientific Reports

Does radical resection improve the survival in patients with carcinoma of the gallbladder who are 75 years old and older?

Hirohiko Onoyama, Tetsuo Ajiki, Moriatsu Takada, Tomoaki Urakawa, Yoichi Saitoh

Original Scientific Reports

Predictive value of blood flow in the gastric tube in anastomotic insufficiency after thoracic esophagectomy

Tatsuya Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Kuwano, Hiroyuki Kato, Minako Yoshikawa, Hitoshi Ojima, Katsuhiko Tsukada

Original Scientific Reports

Evacuation of hydatid liver cysts using laparoscopic trocar

Cuneyt Kayaalp

Original Scientific Reports

Effect of internal biliary drainage on plasma levels of endotoxin, cytokines, and C-reactive protein in patients with obstructive jaundice

Francisco J. Padillo, Jordi Muntane, Jose L. Montero, Javier Briceño, Gonzalo Miño, Guillermo Solorzano, Antonio Sitges-Serra, Carlos Pera-Madrazo

Original Scientific Reports

Large volume hepatic freezing: association with significant release of the cytokines interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor a in a rat model

Joachim K. Seifert, Malcolm P. France, Jing Zhao, Elaine J. Bolton, Ian Finlay, Theodor Junginger, David L. Morris

Original Scientific Reports

Predictors of successful hepatic resection: Prognostic usefulness of hepatic asialoglycoprotein receptor analysis

Norihiro Kokudo, David R. Vera, Keiichiro Tada, Mitsuru Koizumi, Makoto Seki, Toshiki Matsubara, Hirotoshi Ohta, Toshiharu Yamaguchi, Takashi Takahashi, Toshifusa Nakajima, Tetsuichiro Muto

Original Scientific Reports

Hepatic resection for colorectal metastases: Can preoperative scoring predict patient outcome?

Tom Mala, Geir Bøhler, Øystein Mathisen, Anstein Bergan, Odd Søreide

Original Scientific Reports

Patient generated index: New instrument for measuring quality of life in patients with rectal cancer

John Camilleri-Brennan, Danny A. Ruta, Robert J. C. Steele

Original Scientific Reports

Influence of diabetes on persistent nonhealing ischemic foot ulcer in end-stage renal disease

Hiroshi Yasuhara, Shuji Naka, Hironobu Yanagie, Hirokazu Nagawa

Surgical Globetrotting

Sentinel node biopsy in early breast cancer in Taiwan

Jvh-Cherng Yu, Giu -Cheng Hsu, Yao -Chi Liu, Lai -Fa Sheu, Su -Hui Li, Tsu -Yi Chao

Surgical History

Harbinger or hermit? Pancreatic anatomy and surgery through the Ages—Part 2

David A. McClusky, Lee J. Skandalakis, Gene L. Colborn, John E. Skandalakis

Surgical History

Surgery of chronic pancreatitis: Chronicle of confusion and despair

Irvin M. Modlin, Mark Kidd, Christopher Hults, Toshi Hinoue

Letters To The Editor

To the editor

A. H. Mat Sain, M. K. Yatiban, M. Tun, A. F. Musa

Letters To The Editor

Reply

Jorge Cervantes

Letters To The Editor

To the editor

José Antonio Palacios-Ruiz, Mauro Eduardo Ramírez-Solís, Alexander Cárdenas-Mejía, Pablo Maravilla, Ana Flisser

Letters To The Editor

Reply

Cuneyt Kayaalp, Musa Akoglu, Mujdat Balkan, Taner Ozgurtas, Koksal Oner, Mesut Pekcan, Mehmet Tanyuksel, Cenk Aydin, Vedat Kirimlioglu

Letters To The Editor

To the editor

Jacek Jawien

Letters To The Editor

Reply

Marta Navarro-Zorraquino, R. Lozano

Letters To The Editor

To the editor

Ranil Fernando

Letters To The Editor

Reply

Lukas Krähenbühl

Book Reviews

Cholelithiasis: Causes and treatment

Oscar Joe Hines

Book Reviews

Handbook of colon & rectal surgery

Clifford Ko