Burden of Surgical Disease: Does the Literature Reflect the Scope of the International Crisis? Breena R. TairaK. A. Kelly McQueenFrederick M. Burkle Jr. OriginalPaper 17 March 2009 Pages: 893 - 898
Human Immunodeficiency Disease: How Should It Affect Surgical Decision Making? T. E. MadibaD. J. J. MuckartS. R. Thomson ReviewPaper 12 March 2009 Pages: 899 - 909
Smoking Knowledge, Attitudes, Behavior, and Associated Factors Among Chinese Male Surgeons Tingting YaoMichael OngZhengzhong Mao OriginalPaper Open access 14 February 2009 Pages: 910 - 917
Value of Laparoscopic Appendectomy in the Elderly Patient Boris KirshteinZvi Howard PerryLeonid Lantsberg OriginalPaper 27 January 2009 Pages: 918 - 922
Value of Laparoscopic Appendectomy in the Elderly Danny Rosin Invited Commentary 12 March 2009 Pages: 923 - 924
Clinical Benefits After the Implementation of a Protocol of Restricted Perioperative Intravenous Crystalloid Fluids in Major Abdominal Operations José E. de Aguilar-NascimentoBreno N. DinizRaquel M. Silva OriginalPaper 21 February 2009 Pages: 925 - 930
Vacuum-Assisted Closure of Postoperative Abdominal Wounds: A Prospective Study Sriram SubramoniaSarah PankhurstDileep N. Lobo OriginalPaper 23 February 2009 Pages: 931 - 937
Bullae Ablation in Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax Yun-Hen LiuYin-Kai ChaoHui-Ping Liu OriginalPaper 21 February 2009 Pages: 938 - 942
Selective Sentinel Node Plus Additional Non-Sentinel Node Biopsy Based on an FDG-PET/CT Scan in Early Breast Cancer Patients: Single Institutional Experience Jeryong KimJinsun LeeChuljoo Lee OriginalPaper 04 March 2009 Pages: 943 - 949
The Combined Role of Ultrasound and Frozen Section in Surgical Management of Thyroid Nodules Read as Suspicious for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma on Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy: A Retrospective Study Hee Jung MoonJin Young KwakEun Ju Son OriginalPaper 16 March 2009 Pages: 950 - 957
Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Prognosis of Diffuse Sclerosing Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Japan: An 18-Year Experience at a Single Institution Mitsuhiro FukushimaYasuhiro ItoAkira Miyauchi OriginalPaper 07 February 2009 Pages: 958 - 962
Excellent Prognosis of Patients with Nonhereditary Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma with Ultrasonographic Findings of Follicular Tumor or Benign Nodule Mitsuhiro FukushimaYasuhiro ItoAkira Miyauchi OriginalPaper 06 February 2009 Pages: 963 - 968
Use of Intraoperative Insulin Assay for the Localisation of Insulinoma David Scott-CoombesFiona EatockStephen D. Luzio OriginalPaper 19 February 2009 Pages: 969 - 971
Clinical Improvement After Duodenojejunal Bypass for Nonobese Type 2 Diabetes Despite Minimal Improvement in Glycemic Homeostasis G. S. FerzliE. DominiqueA. Fingerhut OriginalPaper 16 March 2009 Pages: 972 - 979
Predictive Factors for Morbidity and Mortality in Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Paraesophageal Hernia Repair: Age, ASA Score and Operation Type Influence Morbidity Hannes J. LarussonUrs ZinggDaniel Oertli OriginalPaper 10 March 2009 Pages: 980 - 985
Role of Fibrin Glue in the Prevention of Cervical Leakage and Strictures After Esophageal Reconstruction of Caustic Injury Julián Alberto Saldaña-CortésFrancisco Larios-ArceoAlejandro González-Ojeda OriginalPaper 21 February 2009 Pages: 986 - 993
Characteristics of Esophagorespiratory Fistulas Resulting from Esophageal Cancers: A Single-Center Study on 243 Cases in a 20-Year Period Akos BalazsZoltan GalambosPeter K. Kupcsulik OriginalPaper 14 March 2009 Pages: 994 - 1001
Clinical and Pathologic Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Neoadjuvant Chemoradiation Therapy in Advanced Esophageal Cancer Patients Yasunori AkutsuHisahiro MatsubaraTakashi Uno OriginalPaper 27 February 2009 Pages: 1002 - 1009
Technique of Antroduodenectomy Without Ulcer Excision as a Safe Alternative Treatment for Bleeding Chronic Duodenal Ulcers David GuinierNicolas DestrumelleGeorges Andre Mantion OriginalPaper 04 March 2009 Pages: 1010 - 1014
Single Port Access Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (with video) Pascal BucherFrançois PuginPhilippe Morel OriginalPaper 30 December 2008 Pages: 1015 - 1019
Single-Port-Access Cholecystectomy: History Should Not Be Allowed to Repeat Saxon Connor Invited Commentary 06 March 2009 Pages: 1020 - 1021
Choledochoduodenostomy is a Safe Alternative to Roux-en-Y Choledochojejunostomy for Biliary Reconstruction in Liver Transplantation William BennetMichael A. ZimmermanIgal Kam OriginalPaper 16 January 2009 Pages: 1022 - 1025
Choledochoduodenostomy as an Alternative to Choledochojejunostomy in Liver Transplantation Stephen J. Wigmore Invited Commentary 21 February 2009 Pages: 1026 - 1027
Is There a Survival Benefit to Neoadjuvant Versus Adjuvant Chemotherapy, Combined with Surgery for Resectable Colorectal Liver Metastases? Nir LubezkyRavit GevaMenahem Ben-Haim OriginalPaper 23 February 2009 Pages: 1028 - 1034
Lymphatic Invasion: An Important Prognostic Factor for Stages T1b–T3 Gallbladder Cancer and an Indication for Additional Radical Resection of Incidental Gallbladder Cancer Kohei ShibataHiroki UchidaSeigo Kitano OriginalPaper 20 February 2009 Pages: 1035 - 1041
Surgical Site Infection Following Surgery for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Patients with Clean-Contaminated Wounds Motoi UchinoHiroki IkeuchiYoshio Takesue OriginalPaper 07 February 2009 Pages: 1042 - 1048
Effect of Perioperative Immunosuppressive Medication on Early Outcome in Crohn’s Disease Patients Adrian A. IndarTonia M. Young-FadokJonathan E. Efron OriginalPaper 10 March 2009 Pages: 1049 - 1052
Aberrant Methylation of the Netrin-1 Receptor Genes UNC5C and DCC Detected in Advanced Colorectal Cancer Kenji HibiHiroki MizukamiYutaka Sanada OriginalPaper 26 February 2009 Pages: 1053 - 1057
Simple Cutaneous Advancement Flap Anoplasty for Resistant Chronic Anal Fissure: A Prospective Study Pasquale GiordanoGianpiero GravantePeter James Lunniss OriginalPaper 19 February 2009 Pages: 1058 - 1063
Outcome of the Rhomboid Flap for Recurrent Pilonidal Disease Osama el-KhadrawyMohamed HashishHelmy Shalaby OriginalPaper 06 February 2009 Pages: 1064 - 1068
Outcome of the Rhomboid Flap for Recurrent Pilonidal Disease Luis A. Carriquiry Invited Commentary 12 March 2009 Pages: 1069 - 1069
Effects of Land Mines and Unexploded Ordnance on the Pediatric Population and Comparison with Adults in Rural Cambodia Cino Bendinelli OriginalPaper 16 March 2009 Pages: 1070 - 1074
Establishing the Evidence Base for Trauma Quality Improvement: A Collaborative WHO-IATSIC Review Catherine J. JuillardCharles MockIan Civil OriginalPaper 17 March 2009 Pages: 1075 - 1086
Cirrhosis and Trauma Are a Lethal Combination Chrysanthos GeorgiouKenji InabaDemetrios Demetriades OriginalPaper 01 February 2009 Pages: 1087 - 1092
Lateral Subfascial Endoscopic Perforating Vein Surgery as Treatment for Lateral Perforating Vein Incompetence and Venous Ulceration Mao-hua WangXing JinHai Yuan OriginalPaper 03 February 2009 Pages: 1093 - 1098
What Is a Surgical Complication? Steven C. CunninghamStephen M. Kavic Letter 07 January 2009 Pages: 1099 - 1100
Do We Need a Concept of Intraoperative Complication? James WilsonDaniel K. Sokol Letter 06 February 2009 Pages: 1102 - 1102
Effectiveness of Radiofrequency Ablation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Maurizio PompiliLaura RiccardiGian Ludovico Rapaccini Letter 03 January 2009 Pages: 1103 - 1104
Reply: Assessment of Hepatocarcinoma Response to Radiofrequency Juan C. Rodríguez-SanjuánFrancisco GonzálezManuel Gómez-Fleitas Letter 07 February 2009 Pages: 1105 - 1106
T Tubes in Intestinal Perforations in Children H. RameshM. Sharma Letter 20 February 2009 Pages: 1107 - 1107
