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World Journal of Surgery

Issue 5/2010

Content (54 Articles)

Surgical Education in Brazil

Eugênio Américo Bueno Ferreira, Samir Rasslan

Surgical Education in Cuba

José Goderich Lalán

Surgical Education in El Salvador

Maria-Virginia Rodríguez Funes

Surgical Education in Uruguay

Gonzalo Estapé Carriquiry

Open Access

Evaluation of Operative Notes Concerning Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Are Standards Being Met?

Linda S. G. L. Wauben, Richard H. M. Goossens, Johan F. Lange

Small Bowel Obstruction—Who Needs an Operation? A Multivariate Prediction Model

Martin D. Zielinski, Patrick W. Eiken, Michael P. Bannon, Stephanie F. Heller, Christine M. Lohse, Marianne Huebner, Michael G. Sarr

Invited Commentary

Small Bowel Obstruction—Who Needs an Operation?

Moshe Schein, Ahmad Assalia

Open Access

Do Basic Psychomotor Skills Transfer Between Different Image-based Procedures?

Sonja N. Buzink, Richard H. M. Goossens, Erik J. Schoon, Huib de Ridder, Jack J. Jakimowicz

Unnecessary Gastric Decompression in Distal Elective Bowel Anastomoses in Children: A Randomized Study

Roberto Davila-Perez, Eduardo Bracho-Blanchet, Jose Manuel Tovilla-Mercado, Jose Alejandro Hernandez-Plata, Alfonso Reyes-Lopez, Jaime Nieto-Zermeño

Epidemiology of Surgical Admissions to a Children’s Disability Hospital in Nepal

David A. Spiegel, Om P. Shrestha, Tarun Rajbhandary, Binod Bijukachhe, Prakash Sitoula, Bibek Banskota, Ashok Banskota

Intestinal Ascariasis in Children

Imtiaz Wani, Muddasir Rather, Ghulam Naikoo, Abid Amin, Syed Mushtaq, Mir Nazir

Testicular and Paratesticular Pathology in Children: a 12-Year Histopathological Review

Mohan Marulaiah, Amardeep Gilhotra, Lynette Moore, Hilary Boucaut, Day Way Goh

Robot-Assisted Pediatric Surgery: How Far Can We Go?

Aayed Alqahtani, Abdullrahman Albassam, Mohammed Zamakhshary, Mohammed Shoukri, Tariq Altokhais, Ayman Aljazairi, Abdullrhman Alzahim, Mohammed Mallik, Abdullah Alshehri

Outcomes of Multimodality Breast Screening for Women at Increased Risk of Familial Breast Cancer

Ian C. Bennett, Jennifer Muller, Linda Cockburn, Helen Joshua, Gillian Thorley, Christine Baker, Nili Wood, Jane Brazier, Mark Jones, Nathan Dunn, Michael Gattas

Course of Ionized Calcium After Thyroidectomy

Alexandre de Andrade Sousa, José Maria Porcaro Salles, João Marcos Arantes Soares, Gustavo Meyer de Moraes, Jomar Rezende Carvalho, Paulo Roberto Savassi Rocha

Open Access

Outcome of Total Parathyroidectomy and Autotransplantation as Treatment of Secondary and Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism in Children and Adults

A. J. Kievit, J. G. M. Tinnemans, M. M. Idu, J. W. Groothoff, S. Surachno, D. C. Aronson

C-reactive Protein −717C>T Genetic Polymorphism Associates with Esophagectomy-induced Stress Hyperglycemia

Satoru Motoyama, Masatomo Miura, Yudai Hinai, Kiyotomi Maruyama, Katsuyuki Murata, Jun-ichi Ogawa

Simultaneous/Incidental Cholecystectomy During Gastric/Esophageal Resection: Systematic Analysis of Risks and Benefits

Sonja Gillen, Christoph W. Michalski, Tibor Schuster, Marcus Feith, Helmut Friess, Jörg Kleeff

Palliative Resection in Noncurative Gastric Cancer Patients

Kuo-Hung Huang, Chew-Wun Wu, Wen-Liang Fang, Jen-Hao Chen, Su-Shun Lo, Ruei-Fang Wang, Anna Fen-Yau Li

Roux-en-Y Reconstruction is Superior to Billroth I Reconstruction in Reducing Reflux Esophagitis After Distal Gastrectomy: Special Relationship with the Angle of His

Tsutomu Namikawa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa, Takehiro Okabayashi, Takeki Sugimoto, Michiya Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Hanazaki

Predictor for Histological Microvascular Invasion of Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Lesson from 229 Consecutive Cases of Curative Liver Resection

Susumu Eguchi, Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, Masaaki Hidaka, Akihiko Soyama, Tetsuo Tomonaga, Izumi Muraoka, Takashi Kanematsu

Hemodynamic Effects of Combined Therapy Using Partial Splenic Embolization and Transjugular Retrograde Obliteration for Gastric Varices with Gastrorenal Shunt

Fumio Chikamori, Atsushi Inoue, Hiroshi Okamoto, Nobutoshi Kuniyoshi, Takahiko Kawashima, Yasuhiro Takase

Platelet Transfusion can be Related to Liver Regeneration After Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Joohyun Kim, Nam-Joon Yi, Woo Young Shin, Taehoon Kim, Kuhn Uk Lee, Kyung-Suk Suh

Clinical Significance of B7-H1 and B7-1 Expressions in Pancreatic Carcinoma

Liancai Wang, Qingyong Ma, Xiangli Chen, Kun Guo, Junhui Li, Min Zhang

LigaSure for Pancreatic Sealing During Distal Pancreatectomy

Werner Hartwig, Martin Duckheim, Oliver Strobel, Dmitry Dovzhanskiy, Frank Bergmann, Thilo Hackert, Markus W. Büchler, Jens Werner

Open Access

Was There Shortening of the Interval Between Diagnosis and Treatment of Colorectal Cancer in Southern Netherlands Between 2005 and 2008?

L. N. van Steenbergen, V. E. P. P. Lemmens, H. J. T. Rutten, H. Martijn, J. W. W. Coebergh

Risk Factors for Early Postoperative Small Bowel Obstruction After Colectomy for Colorectal Cancer

Jun Nakajima, Akira Sasaki, Koki Otsuka, Toru Obuchi, Satoshi Nishizuka, Go Wakabayashi

The Effect of Obstruction and Perforation on Colorectal Cancer Disease-Free Survival

Yik-Hong Ho, Simon K. K. Siu, Petra Buttner, Andrew Stevenson, John Lumley, Russel Stitz

Stage IV Rectal Cancer with Liver Metastases: Is There a Benefit to Resection of the Primary Tumor?

Christina Cellini, Steven R. Hunt, James W. Fleshman, Elisa H. Birnbaum, Andrew J. Bierhals, Matthew G. Mutch

Sacral Neuromodulation: Does It Affect the Rectoanal Angle in Patients with Fecal Incontinence?

Ö. Uludağ, S. M. P. Koch, R. F. Vliegen, C. H. C. Dejong, W. G. van Gemert, C. G. M. I. Baeten

Erratum

Erratum to: Sacral Neuromodulation: Does It Affect the Rectoanal Angle in Patients with Fecal Incontinence?

Ö. Uludağ, S. M. P. Koch, R. F. Vliegen, C. H. C. Dejong, W. G. van Gemert, C. G. M. I. Baeten

Comparison of Perineal Operations with Abdominal Operations for Full-Thickness Rectal Prolapse

Woramin Riansuwan, Tracy L. Hull, Jane Bast, Jeff P. Hammel, Jame M. Church

Limited Lymph Node Dissection and Metastatic Lymph Node Ratio: A Wave of Trust

Alberto Biondi, Roberto Persiani, Ferdinando Cananzi, Marco Zoccali, Andrea Tufo, Domenico D’Ugo

Minimum Number of Removed and Examined Lymph Nodes is Essential in Gastric Cancer Patients: Reply to Letter

Corrado Pedrazzani, Daniele Marrelli, Armands Sivins, Franco Roviello