1. Surgical management of intra-abdominal infection: is there any evidence?

   • Moshe Schein

   Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery Pages: 1 - 7

2. Trevira mesh: a promising new implant for the treatment of abdominal hernias

   • Jürgen Zieren
   • Folkert Maecker
   • Jochen M. Müller

   Original Article Pages: 8 - 13

3. Revision of the multiple organ failure score

   • Rolf Lefering
   • Jan R. Goris
   • Edmund Neugebauer

   Original Article Pages: 14 - 20

4. Prophylactic nasal continuous positive airway pressure after major vascular surgery: results of a prospective randomized trial

   • Hinrich Böhner
   • Detlef Kindgen-Milles
   • Wilhelm Sandmann

   Original Article Pages: 21 - 26

5. Pyogenic liver abscess – 20 years' experience

   • A. Petri
   • J. Höhn
   • Á. Balogh

   Original Article Pages: 27 - 31

6. Thoracoscopy versus thoracotomy: a prospective comparison of trauma and quality of life

   • Rolf Förster
   • Martin Storck
   • Florian Liewald

   Original Article Pages: 32 - 36

7. Biliary reconstruction following right adult living donor liver transplantation end-to-end or end-to-side duct-to-duct anastomosis

   • Massimo Malagó
   • Giuliano Testa
   • Christoph E. Broelsch

   How To Do It Pages: 37 - 44

8. Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration

   • Rosario Vecchio
   • Bruce V. MacFadyen

   How to Do It Pages: 45 - 54

9. Severity scores in surgery: what for and who needs them?

   • E. Neugebauer
   • R. Lefering

   Evidence based surgery Pages: 55 - 58

10. Severity scores in surgery: what for and who needs them?

    • R. Galland

    Evidence-based surgery Pages: 59 - 62