Issue 2/2008
Content (38 Articles)
Simulation for Team Training and Assessment: Case Studies of Online Training with Virtual Worlds
William LeRoy Heinrichs, Patricia Youngblood, Phillip M. Harter, Parvati Dev
Design and Development of a Surgical Skills Simulation Curriculum
David A. McClusky III, C. Daniel Smith
Support for Simulation-based Surgical Education through American College of Surgeons – Accredited Education Institutes
Ajit K. Sachdeva, Carlos A. Pellegrini, Kathleen A. Johnson
New Technologies for the Surgical Curriculum
Rajesh Aggarwal, Julian Leong, Daniel Leff, Oliver Warren, Guang-Zhong Yang, Ara Darzi
CRC Surgery Trends in Kenya, 1993–2005
Hassan Saidi, Elly O. Nyaim, Joseph W. Githaiga, David Karuri
Thoracoscopic Removal of Mediastinal Hyperfunctioning Parathyroid Glands: Personal Experience and Review of the Literature
P. F. Alesina, D. Moka, J. Mahlstedt, M. K. Walz
An Update: The Operative Experience in Adrenal, Pancreatic, and Other Less Common Endocrine Diseases of U.S. General Surgery Residents
David Le, Shahzeer Karmali, Jay K. Harness, Brett C. Sheppard
Proton Pump Inhibitors Relieve and Prevent Symptoms Related to Gastric Acidity after Esophagectomy
Manabu Okuyama, Satoru Motoyama, Kiyotomi Maruyama, Kenji Sasaki, Yusuke Sato, Jun-ichi Ogawa
Long-term Results after Dissection of Positive Thoracic Lymph Nodes in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Hideaki Shimada, Shin-ichi Okazumi, Hisahiro Matsubara, Tooru Shiratori, Yasunori Akutsu, Yoshihiro Nabeya, Tooru Tanizawa, Kazuyuki Matsushita, Hideaki Hayashi, Kaichi Isono, Takenori Ochiai
Large Metastatic Lymph Node Size, Especially More Than 2 cm: Independent Predictor of Poor Prognosis in Node-Positive Gastric Carcinoma
O. Cheong, S. T. Oh, B. S. Kim, J. H. Yook, J. H. Kim, J. T. Im, G. C. Park
Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy in Cirrhotic Patients with Symptomatic Cholelithiasis: A Case-control Study
Jorge Marcelo Padilla Mancero, Luiz Augusto Carneiro D’Albuquerque, Adriano Miziara Gonzalez, Frans Ivan Serpa Larrea, Adavio de Oliveira e Silva
Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms of the Pancreas: Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Long-Term Follow-Up After Resection
Kazuyuki Nagai, Ryuichiro Doi, Atsushi Kida, Kazuhiro Kami, Yoshiya Kawaguchi, Tatsuo Ito, Takaki Sakurai, Shinji Uemoto
Surgery for Body Packing in the Caribbean: A Retrospective Study of 70 Patients
S. A. de Beer, G. Spiessens, W. Mol, P. R. Fa-Si-Oen
The Potential Role for Xanthine Oxidase Inhibition in Major Intra-abdominal Surgery
Anubhav Mittal, Anthony R. J. Phillips, Benjamin Loveday, John A. Windsor
Macrophage and T-lymphocyte Infiltrates in Human Peritoneal Adhesions Indicate a Chronic Inflammatory Disease
Marcel Binnebösel, Rafael Rosch, Karsten Junge, Petra Lynen-Jansen, Volker Schumpelick, Uwe Klinge
Artificial Neural Networks: Useful Aid in Diagnosing Acute Appendicitis
S. G. Prabhudesai, S. Gould, S. Rekhraj, P. P. Tekkis, G. Glazer, P. Ziprin
Artificial Neural Networks: Useful Aid in Diagnosing Acute Appendicitis
Roland E. Andersson
To Drain or not to Drain? The Role of Drainage in the Contaminated and Infected Abdomen: An International and Personal Perspective
Moshe Schein
Opening the “Black Box” of Surgeons’ Risk Estimation: from Intuition to Quantitative Modeling
Nick Sevdalis, Rosamond Jacklin
Antireflux Surgery with Routine Mesh Hiatoplasty
Eduardo Neubarth Trindade, Manoel Roberto Maciel Trindade
Thoracoscopic Servicothoracic Sympathectomy for Treatment of Upper Extremity Ischemia
Majid Moini, Mohammad R. Rasouli
Ectopic Pheochromocytoma: Does the Rule of Tens Apply?
R. Madani, M. Al-Hashmi, R. Bliss, T. W. J. Lennard