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World Journal of Surgery

Issue 5/2008

Content (41 Articles)

Surgery for Cushing’s Syndrome: An Historical Review and Recent Ten-year Experience

John R. Porterfield, Geoffrey B. Thompson, William F. Young Jr., John T. Chow, Raymond S. Fryrear, Jon A. van Heerden, David R. Farley, John L. D. Atkinson, Fredric B. Meyer, Charles F. Abboud, Todd B. Nippoldt, Neena Natt, Dana Erickson, Adrian Vella, Paul C. Carpenter, Melanie Richards, J. Aidan Carney, Dirk Larson, Cathy Schleck, Marilyn Churchward, Clive S. Grant

Sporadic Paraganglioma

James A. Lee, Quan-Yang Duh

Editorial Perspective

Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis

Hiroshi E. Takami, Rika Miyabe, Kaori Kameyama

Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy Significantly Reduces the Risk of Early Postthyroidectomy Voice and Swallowing Symptoms

Celestino P. Lombardi, Marco Raffaelli, Lucia D’alatri, Carmela De Crea, Maria Raffaella Marchese, Daria Maccora, Gaetano Paludetti, Rocco Bellantone

Tumor Size Predicts Malignant Potential in Hürthle Cell Neoplasms of the Thyroid

Rebecca S. Sippel, Dina M. Elaraj, Elham Khanafshar, Rasa Zarnegar, Electron Kebebew, Quan-Yang Duh, Orlo H. Clark

The Value of Positron Emission Tomography in the Surgical Management of Recurrent Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Clive S. Grant, Geoffrey B. Thompson, David R. Farley, Melanie L. Richards, Brian P. Mullan, Ian D. Hay

Is Level IIb Lymph Node Dissection Always Necessary in N1b Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Patients?

Jandee Lee, Tae-Yon Sung, Kee-Hyun Nam, Woung Youn Chung, Euy-Young Soh, Cheong Soo Park

Follicular Histotypes of Oncocytic Thyroid Carcinomas Do Not Carry Mutations of the BRAF Hot-spot

Petra B. Musholt, Thomas J. Musholt, Saskia C. Morgenstern, Karl Worm, Sien-Yi Sheu, Kurt W. Schmid

Open Access

Papillary Microcarcinoma

Shiro Noguchi, Hiroto Yamashita, Shinya Uchino, Shin Watanabe

Long-term Outcome of Reoperations for Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

Elizabeth Fialkowski, Mary DeBenedetti, Jeffrey Moley

Surgeon Performed Ultrasound Facilitates Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy by the Focused Lateral Mini-incision Approach

Patsy S. H. Soon, Leigh W. Delbridge, Mark S. Sywak, Beverley M. Barraclough, Pam Edhouse, Stan B. Sidhu

Invited Commentary

SPUS Facilitates MIP

Barbra Miller

High Success Rate of Parathyroid Reoperation may be Achieved with Improved Localization Diagnosis

Ola Hessman, Peter Stålberg, Anders Sundin, Ulrike Garske, Claes Rudberg, Lars-Gunnar Eriksson, Per Hellman, Göran Åkerström

Can a Lightbulb Sestamibi SPECT Accurately Predict Single-Gland Disease in Sporadic Primary Hyperparathyroidism?

Linwah Yip, Daniel A. Pryma, John H. Yim, Mohamed A. Virji, Sally E. Carty, Jennifer B. Ogilvie

Age- and Sex-Related Incidence of Surgically Treated Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Barbra S. Miller, Justin Dimick, Reid Wainess, Richard E. Burney

Parathyroidectomy for Renal Hyperparathyroidism in Children and Adolescents

Katja Schlosser, Claus P. Schmitt, Johanna E. Bartholomaeus, Katrin L. Suchan, Markus W. Buchler, Matthias Rothmund, Theresia Weber

Expression of Parafibromin in Distant Metastatic Parathyroid Tumors in Patients with Advanced Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Due to Chronic Kidney Disease

Yoshihiro Tominaga, Toyonori Tsuzuki, Susumu Matsuoka, Nobuaki Uno, Tetsuhiko Sato, Syuichi Shimabukuro, Norihiko Goto, Takaharu Nagasaka, Kazuharu Uchida

Long-term Outcome after Parathyroidectomy in Patients with Advanced Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Associated Vitamin D Deficiency

P. V. Pradeep, Anjali Mishra, Gaurav Agarwal, Amit Agarwal, A. K. Verma, S. K. Mishra

Viability of Cryopreserved Parathyroid Tissue: When Is Continued Storage versus Disposal Indicated?

Marlon A. Guerrero, Douglas B. Evans, Jeffrey E. Lee, Ruijun Bao, Abby Bereket, Swaroop Gantela, Gary D. Griffin, Nancy D. Perrier

Safety of Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy in Patients with Large Pheochromocytomas: A Single Institution Review

Giuseppe Ippolito, Fausto F. Palazzo, Frederic Sebag, Abhijit Thakur, Mariya Cherenko, Jean-François Henry

Retroperitoneoscopic Adrenalectomy in Conn’s Syndrome Caused by Adrenal Adenomas or Nodular Hyperplasia

Martin K. Walz, Roland Gwosdz, Stephanie L. Levin, Piero F. Alesina, Anna-Carinna Suttorp, Klaus A. Metz, Frank A. Wenger, Stephan Petersenn, Klaus Mann, Kurt W. Schmid

Invited Commentary

Walz Aldosteronoma

Elizabeth G. Grubbs, Jeffrey E. Lee

The Clinical Conundrum of Corticotropin-independent Autonomous Cortisol Secretion in Patients with Bilateral Adrenal Masses

William F. Young Jr., Hendrick du Plessis, Geoffrey B. Thompson, Clive S. Grant, David R. Farley, Melanie L. Richards, Dana Erickson, Adrian Vella, Anthony W. Stanson, J. Aidan Carney, Charles F. Abboud, Paul C. Carpenter

Limitations of Intraoperative Adrenal Remnant Volume Measurement in Patients Undergoing Subtotal Adrenalectomy

Michael Brauckhoff, Karsten Stock, Susanne Stock, Kerstin Lorenz, Carsten Sekulla, Katrin Brauckhoff, Phuong Nguyen Thanh, Oliver Gimm, Rolf Peter Spielmann, Henning Dralle

Candidate Diagnostic Markers and Tumor Suppressor Genes for Adrenocortical Carcinoma by Expression Profile of Genes on Chromosome 11q13

Gustavo G. Fernandez-Ranvier, Julie Weng, Ru-Fang Yeh, Daniel Shibru, Elham Khafnashar, Ki-Wook Chung, Jimmy Hwang, Quan Yang Duh, Orlo H. Clark, Electron Kebebew

The Role of Unilateral Adrenalectomy in ACTH-Independent Macronodular Adrenal Hyperplasia (AIMAH)

Maurizio Iacobone, Nora Albiger, Carla Scaroni, Franco Mantero, Ambrogio Fassina, Giovanni Viel, Mauro Frego, Gennaro Favia

Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy After Prior Abdominal Surgery

Lilah Morris, Philip Ituarte, Rasa Zarnegar, Quan-Yang Duh, Leaque Ahmed, James Lee, William Inabnet III, Goswin Meyer-Rochow, Stan Sidhu, Mark Sywak, Michael Yeh

Is Laparoscopic Resection Adequate in Patients with Neuroendocrine Pancreatic Tumors?

Laureano Fernández-Cruz, Laia Blanco, Rebeca Cosa, Héctor Rendón

Differentiation of Insulin Secretion Patterns in Insulinoma

Christiane Saddig, Peter E. Goretzki, Achim A. R. Starke

Surgery and Radiofrequency Ablation for Treatment of Liver Metastases from Midgut and Foregut Carcinoids and Endocrine Pancreatic Tumors

John Eriksson, Peter Stålberg, Anders Nilsson, Johan Krause, Christina Lundberg, Britt Skogseid, Dan Granberg, Barbro Eriksson, Göran Åkerström, Per Hellman