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World Journal of Surgery

Issue 5/2005

Content (36 Articles)

History and Development of Evidence-based Medicine

Jeffrey A. Claridge, Timothy C. Fabian

How To Analyze an Article

John D. Urschel

How to Appraise a Diagnostic Test

Mohit Bhandari, Gordon H. Guyatt

How to Appraise a Prognostic Study

Kenneth Mak, Cheng Kiong Kum

How to Appraise the Effectiveness of Treatment

Mohit Bhandari, R. Brian Haynes

Number Needed to Treat (or Harm)

Martin R. Tramèr, Bernhard Walder

How to Teach Evidence-based Surgery

Abe Fingerhut, Frédéric Borie, Chadli Dziri

Sample Size Matters: A Guide for Surgeons

Ulrich Guller, Daniel Oertli

The Ethics of Placebo-controlled Trials: A Comparison of Inert and Active Placebo Controls

Sarah J. L. Edward, Andrew J. Stevens, David A. Braunholtz, Richard J. Lilford, Teresa Swift

Hemodynamic and Respiratory Effects of Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Fundoplication in Children

Dirk Meininger, Christian Byhahn, Stephan Mierdl, Mark Lehnert, Klaus Heller, Bernhard Zwissler, Dorothee H. Bremerich

Invited Commentary

Invited Commentary

Keith. Georgeson

Risk Factors for Sepsis and Endocarditis and Long-Term Survival Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Ioannis K. Toumpoulis, Constantine E. Anagnostopoulos, Stavros K. Toumpoulis, Joseph J. De Rose Jr., Daniel G. Swistel

Invited Commentary

Malek G. Massad

Parathyroid Autotransplantation during Total Thyroidectomy—Does the Number of Glands Transplanted Affect Outcome?

F. Fausto Palazzo, Mark S. Sywak, Stan B. Sidhu, Bruce H. Barraclough, Leigh W. Delbridge

Calciphylaxis: A Rare Complication of Patients Who Required Parathyroidectomy for Advanced Renal Hyperparathyroidism

Susumu Matstusoka, Yoshihiro Tominaga, Nobuaki Uno, Norihiko Goto, Tetsuhiko Sato, Akio Katayama, Toshihito Haba, Kazuharu Uchida, Keiko Kobayashi, Akimasa Nakao

Laparoscopic Cardial Calibration and Gastropexy for Treatment of Patients with Reflux Esophagitis: Pathophysiological basis and Result

Italo Braghetto, Owen Korn, Anibal Debandi, Patricio Burdiles, Hector Valladares, Attila Csendes

Transduodenal Resection of Peri-Ampullary Lesions

Elijah Dixon, Charles M. Vollmer Jr., Ajay Sahajpal, Mark S. Cattral, David R. Grant, Bryce R. Taylor, Bernard Langer, Steven Gallinger, Paul D. Greig

Local Platelet Trapping as the Cause of Thrombocytopenia after Hepatic Cryotherapy

Georg A. Pistorius, Christof Alexander, Carl-Martin Krisch, Gernot Feifel, Martin K. Schilling, Michael D. Menger

Invited Commentary

Brett C. Sheppard, Thomas Deloughery

Book Reviews

Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care

Donald D. Trunkey

The Surgeon’s Word

Canthus

S. William A. Gunn