Skip to main content
Top

World Journal of Surgery

Issue 1/2002

Content (25 Articles)

Editorial

Ronald K. Tompkins, M.D., Editor-in-Chief

Effects of Human Recombinant Growth Hormone on Donor-site Healing in Burned Adults

Fernando Losada, M.D., Pedro P. García-Luna, M.D., Ph.D., Tomás Gómez-Cía, M.D., Ph.D., Manuela Garrido, R.N., Jose L. Pereira, M.D., Ph.D., Fernando Marín, M.D., Ph.D., Ricardo Astorga, M.D., Ph.D.

Influence of Some Substances on Bacterial Translocation in the Rat

Ziya Çetinkaya, M.D., Halil Ülger, M.D., Mehmet Ali Akkus, M.D., Osman Doğru, Çağatay Çifter, M.D., Mehmet Ziya Doymaz, M.D., Ibrahim H. Özercan, M.D.

Computed Tomography for Evaluation of Mild to Moderate Pediatric Trauma: Are We Overusing It?

Anurag Jindal, M.D., George C. Velmahos, M.D., Ph.D., Roya Rofougaran, M.D.

Do Future General Surgery Residents Have Adequate Exposure to Endocrine Surgery During Medical School?

Herbert Chen, M.D., Jeffrey M. Hardacre, M.D., Christine Martin, B.S., Robert Udelsman, M.D., Keith D. Lillemoe, M.D.

Pattern of Nodal Metastasis for Primary and Reoperative Thyroid Cancer

Andreas Machens, M.D., Raoul Hinze, M.D., Oliver Thomusch, M.D., Henning Dralle, M.D.

Relation Between Technetium 99m-methoxyisobutylisonitrile Accumulation and Multidrug Resistance Protein in the Parathyroid Glands

Satoshi Yamaguchi, M.D., Ph.D., Sunao Yachiku, M.D., Ph.D, Hiroshi Hashimoto, M.D., Ph.D., Shigeo Kaneko, M.D., Ph.D., Masayuki Nishihara, M.D., Daisuke Niibori, M.D., Noriyuki Shuke, M.D., Ph.D., Tamio Aburano, M.D., Ph.D.

Induction of Orthotopic Rat Adrenomedullary Neoplasia by Intraadrenal Pheochromocytoma Cell Transplantation

Mario Colombo-Benkmann, M.D., Markus Muhm, M.D., Christian Herfarth, M.D., Christine Heym, M.D., Norbert Senninger, M.D.

Nonanatomic Thoracoscopic Wedge Resection for Diffuse Lung Disease and Indeterminate Pulmonary Nodule

Patricio Santillan-Doherty, M.D., Jennifer Cuellar-Rodríguez, M.D., Luis Marcelo Argote-Greene, M.D., Jorge Hernández-Calleros, M.D.

Reduced Neutrophil Sequestration in Lung Tissue after Laparoscopic Lavage in a Rat Peritonitis Model

Matthias Pross, M.D., Rene Mantke, M.D., Dagmar Kunz, M.D., Thomas Reinheckel, M.D., Walter Halangk, Ph.D., H. Lippert, M.D., Hans-Ulrich Schulz, M.D.

New Predictor for the Defecatory Function after Sphincter-Preserving Operation: Lumen Score

Toshihiko Yagyu, M.D., Tetsuhisa Yamamoto, M.D., Hidetaka Mochizuki, M.D.

Surgery of Colorectal Cancer: Surgical Morbidity and Five- and Ten-Year Results in 2400 Patients—Monoinstitutional Experience

Ludger Staib, M.D., Karl Heinz Link, M.D., Annette Blatz, Hans Günther Beger, M.D.

Pectoralis Major Musculocutaneous Flap in Head and Neck Cancer Reconstruction

Rogério A. Dedivitis, M.D., Ph.D., André V. Guimarães, M.D.

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus: Multimodal Therapy in Locally Advanced Disease

Issam El Nakadi, M.D., Jean-Luc Van Laethem, M.D., Jean-Jacques Houben, M.D., France Gay, M.D., Jean Closset, M.D., Paul Van Houtte, M.D., Serge Danhier, M.D., Jean-Michel Limbosch, M.D., Jean-Pierre Lambilliotte, M.D., Michel Gelin, M.D.

Conversion of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy to Open Cholecystectomy in Acute Cholecystitis: Artificial Neural Networks Improve the Prediction of Conversion

Samuel Eldar, M.D., Hava T. Siegelmann, Ph.D., Daniel Buzaglo, M.Sc., Ibrahim Matter, M.D., Ayala Cohen, Ph.D., Edmond Sabo, M.D., Jack Abrahamson, M.B., Ch.B.

Treatment of Gallstone Pancreatitis: Six-year Experience in a Single Center

Francesco Ricci, M.D., Gabriele Castaldini, M.D., Giovanni de Manzoni, M.D., Giuseppe Borzellino, M.D., Luca Rodella, M.D., Renzo Kind, M.D., Claudio Cordiano, M.D.

Clinical and Genetic Analysis of Noncancerous and Cancerous Biliary Epithelium in Patients with Pancreaticobiliary Maljunction

Moritaka Nagai, M.D., Masatoshi Watanabe, M.D., Teruhiko Iwase, M.D., Kenji Yamao, M.D., Shuji Isaji, M.D.

Preoperative Portal Embolization in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Yasuhiko Sugawara, M.D., Junji Yamamoto, M.D., Hisato Higashi, M.D., Susumu Yamasaki, M.D., Kazuaki Shimada, M.D., Tomoo Kosuge, M.D., Tadatoshi Takayama, M.D., Masatoshi Makuuchi, M.D.

Laparoscopic Splenectomy for Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura: Outcome and Long-term Results

Laurent Bresler, M.D., Agnes Guerci, M.D., Laurent Brunaud, M.D., Ahmet Ayav, M.D., Hugues Sebbag, M.D., Jean-Michel Tortuyaux, M.D., Pierre Lederlin, M.D., Patrick Boissel, M.D.

Lower Limb Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury Triggers a Systemic Inflammatory Response and Multiple Organ Dysfunction

Magdi M.I. Yassin, M.D., Denis W. Harkin, M.D., Aires A.B. Barros D’Sa, M.D., M. Isla Halliday, Ph.D., Brian J. Rowlands, M.D.

Surgical Implications in the Current Treatment of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

Nick Bouboulis, M.D., Dimitris Dougenis, M.D., R.W.F. Campbell, M.B.B.S., Ph.D., Colin J. Hilton, M.B.B.S., M.S.

Angelchik Prosthesis Revisited

Subodh Varshney, M.S., John J. Kelly, Graham Branagan, Shaw S. Somers, M.D., J.M. Kelly, M.S.

Book Reviews

Current Therapy in Vascular Surgery, 4th Edition

Michael M. Farooq