Issue 9/2010
Content (53 Articles)
The Political Economy of Emergency and Essential Surgery in Global Health
Jeremy P. Hedges, Charles N. Mock, Meena N. Cherian
Percentage of Cesarean Sections Among Total Surgical Procedures in Sub-Saharan Africa: Possible Indicator of the Overall Adequacy of Surgical Care
Adam L. Kushner, Reinou S. Groen, T. Peter Kingham
Single-Centre Experience of Radiation Exposure in Acute Surgical Patients: Assessment of Therapeutic Impact and Future Recommendations
Gerard J. Fitzmaurice, Robin Brown, Brian Cranley, Enda F. Conlon, R. Alan J. Todd, Mark E. O’Donnell
A New Surgical Trainer (BOPT) Improves Skill Transfer for Anastomotic Techniques in Gastrointestinal Surgery into the Operating Room: A Prospective Randomized Trial
Johannes C. Lauscher, Jörg-Peter Ritz, Andrea Stroux, Heinz J. Buhr, Jörn Gröne
Laparoscopic Versus Open Appendectomy in Adults with Complicated Appendicitis: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Georgios Markides, Daren Subar, Kallingal Riyad
Early Cholecystectomy after Acute Admission with Cholecystitis: How Much Work?
Michael R. Stephens, Ceri Beaton, Adrian C. Steger
Changes of Inflammatory Mediators in Obese Patients After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy
Gaetano Di Vita, Rosalia Patti, Fausto Famà, Carmela Rita Balistreri, Giuseppina Candore, Calogero Caruso
Serum Total Cholesterol in Nosocomial Infections After Gastrointestinal Surgery
Mitsuaki Morimoto, Yosikazu Nakamura, Sadakane Atsuko, Takashi Nagaie, Ken Shirabe
Splanchnic Vasoregulation After Major Abdominal Surgery in Pigs
Lukas E. Brügger, Guido Beldi, Mario Beck, Francesca Porta, Hendrik Bracht, Daniel Candinas, Jukka Takala, Stephan M. Jakob
Packing for Damage Control of Nontraumatic Intra-Abdominal Massive Hemorrhages
Filippo Filicori, Salomone Di Saverio, Marco Casali, Andrea Biscardi, Franco Baldoni, Gregorio Tugnoli
Evaluation of the Long-term Trend in Mortality from Injury in a Mature Inclusive Trauma System
Lynne Moore, James A. Hanley, Alexis F. Turgeon, André Lavoie
POSSUM and Its Related Models as Predictors of Postoperative Mortality and Morbidity in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Gastro-oesophageal Cancer: A Systematic Review
Sumanta Dutta, Paul G. Horgan, Donald C. McMillan
Phase II Clinical Trial of Postoperative S-1 Monotherapy for Gastric Cancer Patients with Free Intraperitoneal Cancer Cells Detected by Real-Time RT-PCR
Seiji Ito, Yasuhiro Kodera, Yoshinari Mochizuki, Taiki Kojima, Hayao Nakanishi, Yoshitaka Yamamura
Downsizing Treatment with Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors in Patients with Advanced Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Improved Resectability
Katarina Sjölund, Anna Andersson, Erik Nilsson, Ola Nilsson, Håkan Ahlman, Bengt Nilsson
Evolution of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Non Morbid Obese Gastrectomized Patients with Roux en-Y Reconstruction: Retrospective Study
Enrique Lanzarini, Attila Csendes, Hans Lembach, Juan Molina, Luis Gutiérrez, Johanna Silva
Peritoneal Lavage for Severe Acute Pancreatitis: A Systematic Review of Randomised Trials
Zhiyong Dong, Maxim S. Petrov, Jing Xu, Satyanarayan Shanbhag, John A. Windsor, Shijiang Pang
Outcomes of Robot-Assisted Pancreaticoduodenectomy in Patients Older Than 70 Years: A Comparative Study
Nicolas C. Buchs, Pietro Addeo, Francesco M. Bianco, Antonio Gangemi, Subhashini M. Ayloo, Pier C. Giulianotti
Predictive Value of Tumor Proliferative Indices in Periampullary Cancers: Ki-67, Mitotic Activity Index (MI) and Volume Corrected Mitotic Index (M/V) Using Tissue Microarrays
Mark M. Aloysius, Shivanthi J. De Silva Hewavisenthi, Timothy E. Bates, Brian J. Rowlands, Dileep N. Lobo, Abed M. Zaitoun
Effect of Pancreaticoduodenectomy on the Course of Hepatic Steatosis
Hsin-Hsien Yu, Yan-Shen Shan, Pin-Wen Lin
Pancreaticoduodenectomy After Liver Transplantation in Patients with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis Complicated by Distal Pancreatobiliary Malignancy
Robert P. Sutcliffe, Wayne Lam, Adrian O’Sullivan, Andreas Prachalias, Mohamed Rela, Nigel Heaton
Short-Term and Long-Term Outcomes After Simultaneous Resection of Colorectal Malignancies and Synchronous Liver Metastases
Eduardo de Santibañes, Diego Fernandez, Carlos Vaccaro, Guillermo Ojea Quintana, Fernando Bonadeo, Juan Pekolj, Carlos Bonofiglio, Ernesto Molmenti
Clinical Risk Score Can be Used to Select Patients for Staging Laparoscopy and Laparoscopic Ultrasound for Colorectal Liver Metastases
A. J. Shah, J. Phull, M. D. Finch-Jones
Optimization of Liver Transplantation as a Treatment of Intrahepatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Partial Liver Resection: Experience of a Single European Series
Gonzalo Sapisochin, Itxarone Bilbao, Joaquin Balsells, Cristina Dopazo, Mireia Caralt, Jose Luis Lázaro, Luis Castells, Helena Allende, Ramón Charco
Comparing Hepatic Resection and Transarterial Chemoembolization for Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) Stage B Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Change for Treatment of Choice?
Chin-Ta Lin, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Teng-Wei Chen, Jyh-Cherng Yu, De-Chuan Chan, Chih-Yung Yu, Tsai-Yuan Hsieh, Hsiu-Lung Fan, Shih-Ming Kuo, Kuo-Piao Chung, Chung-Bao Hsieh
Surgical Treatment of Giant Liver Hemangiomas: Enucleation with Continuous Occlusion of Hepatic Artery Proper and Intermittent Pringle Maneuver
Feng Xia, Wan-Yee Lau, Cheng Qian, Shuguang Wang, Kuansheng Ma, Ping Bie
Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Colorectal Cancer Patients with Synchronous and Metachronous Gastric Cancer
Sang Nam Yoon, Sung Tae Oh, Seok-Byung Lim, Tae Won Kim, Jong Hoon Kim, Chang Sik Yu, Jin Cheon Kim
Pelvic Exenteration for Advanced and Recurrent Malignancy
Evita Zoucas, Sven Frederiksen, Marie-Louise Lydrup, Wiking Månsson, Pelle Gustafson, Per Alberius
Alvimopan for the Management of Postoperative Ileus After Bowel Resection: Characterization of Clinical Benefit by Pooled Responder Analysis
Kirk Ludwig, Eugene R. Viscusi, Bruce G. Wolff, Conor P. Delaney, Anthony Senagore, Lee Techner
Disappointing Long-Term Outcomes After Stapled Transanal Rectal Resection for Obstructed Defecation
Khaled M. Madbouly, Khaled S. Abbas, Ahmed M. Hussein
Clinical Outcomes of Video-Assisted Skin-Sparing Partial Mastectomy for Breast Cancer and Immediate Reconstruction with Latissimus Dorsi Muscle Flap as Breast-Conserving Therapy
Hiroo Nakajima, Ikuya Fujiwara, Naruhiko Mizuta, Koichi Sakaguchi, Mahiro Ohashi, Asako Nishiyama, Yoshimi Umeda, Miho Ichida, Junji Magae
Cost-Effectiveness of Clinical Breast Assessment-Based Screening in Rural Egypt
Adel Denewer, Osama Hussein, Omar Farouk, Waleed Elnahas, Ashraf Khater, Aiman El-Saed
Multicenter Study of 19 Aortopulmonary Window Parathyroid Tumors: The Challenge of Embryologic Origin
Vincent Arnault, Anthony Beaulieu, Jean-Christophe Lifante, Antonio Sitges Serra, Frederic Sebag, Muriel Mathonnet, Antoine Hamy, Michel Meurisse, Bruno Carnaille, Jean-Louis Kraimps
Fluorescence-Guided Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy: Clinical Experience with a Novel Intraoperative Detection Technique for Parathyroid Glands
Ruediger L. Prosst, Johannes Weiss, Linus Hupp, Frank Willeke, Stefan Post
Long-Term Symptom Relief from Primary Hyperparathyroidism Following Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy
Sebastian R. Aspinall, Sam Boase, Peter Malycha
Endoscopic Thyroidectomy via Breast Approach for Patients with Graves’ Disease
Zhi Yu Li, Ping Wang, Yong Wang, Shao Ming Xu, Li Ping Cao, Ri Shen Que
Atrial Resection for Lung Cancer: Morbidity, Mortality, and Long-Term Follow-up
Andreas Kuehnl, Michael Lindner, Hans-Martin Hornung, Hauke Winter, Karl-Walter Jauch, Rudolf A. Hatz, Christian Graeb
The Impact of Western Physicians on the Modernization of Turkish Surgery and Medicine, 1827–1936
Yilmaz Bilsel, Hasan Bektas, Metin Tilki
Surgical Flow Disruptions: Measurement and Impact of Stressful Events in the Operating Room
Sonal Arora, Nick Sevdalis
Surgical Flow Disruptions: Measurement and Impact of Stressful Events in the Operating Room: Reply
S. Henrickson Parker, D. Wiegmann, T. Sundt
Experience of the Reliability of Intraoperative Sampling of Tissue PTH in Parathyroid Surgery: Letter to the Editor
James Kirkby-Bott, Bruno Carnaille
Experience of the Reliability of Intraoperative Sampling of Tissue PTH in Parathyroid Surgery: Reply
János Horányi, László Duffek, Rezső Szlávik, István Takács, Miklós Tóth, László Romics Jr.
Nonsurgical Management Should be First-Line Therapy for Breast Abscess
Elisabeth Edstrom Elder, Meagan Brennan
Non-surgical Management Should be First-line Therapy for Breast Abscess: Reply
Julie A. Margenthaler
Cosmetic Outcome and Percentage of Breast Volume Excision in Oncoplastic Breast-Conserving Surgery: A Proposal
Hakan Bulam, Serhan Tuncer, Sühan Ayhan
Cosmetic Outcome and Patient Satisfaction in Oncoplastic Breast Conserving Surgery: Reply to Letter to the Editor
Sharon W. W. Chan, Polly S. Y. Cheung, S. H. Lam
Precise Preoperative Imaging and Adequate Oncologic Resection is Most Important in Achieving Long-Term Prognosis in Gallbladder Cancer
Ulrich K. Fetzner, Klaus L. Prenzel, Hakan Alakus, Arnulf H. Hölscher, Dirk L. Stippel
Predictive Factors for Improving Survival after Gastrectomy in Gastric Cancer Patients with Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
Georgios Baltogiannis, Christos Katsios