1. Renal transplantation today

   • Michael Neipp
   • Steffan Jackobs
   • Jürgen Klempnauer

   Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery 14 May 2008 Pages: 1 - 16

   

2. Food fight! Parenteral nutrition, enteral stimulation and gut-derived mucosal immunity

   • Joshua L. Hermsen
   • Yoshifumi Sano
   • Kenneth A. Kudsk

   Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery 03 June 2008 Pages: 17 - 30

   

3. Impact of clinical pathways in surgery

   • Markus K. Müller
   • Konstantin J. Dedes
   • Pierre-Alain Clavien

   Original Article 03 June 2008 Pages: 31 - 39

   

4. Effect of surgical work volume on postoperative complication: superiority of specialized center in gastric cancer treatment

   • Birendra Kumar Sah
   • Zheng Gang Zhu
   • Yan Zhen Lin

   Original Article Open access 27 June 2008 Pages: 41 - 47

   

5. Results of surgery for colorectal carcinoma with obstruction

   • Antonios-Apostolos K. Tentes
   • Charalambos G. Mirelis
   • Abraham I. Dimoulas

   Original Article 26 February 2008 Pages: 49 - 53

   

6. Analysis of POSSUM score and postoperative morbidity in patients with rectal cancer undergoing surgery

   • V. Valenti
   • J. L. Hernandez-Lizoain
   • J. Alvarez Cienfuegos

   Original Article 05 March 2008 Pages: 55 - 63

7. Long-term comorbidity of diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for perineal wound complications after an abdominoperineal resection

   • Kenji Matsuda
   • Tsukasa Hotta
   • Hiroki Yamaue

   Original Article 08 July 2008 Pages: 65 - 70

   

8. Prognostic factors affecting oncologic outcomes in patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer: impact of patterns of pelvic recurrence on curative resection

   • Jea-Kun Park
   • Young-Wan Kim
   • Jin-Sil Seong

   Original Article 29 July 2008 Pages: 71 - 77

   

9. The colon J-pouch as a cause of evacuation disorders after rectal resection: myth or fact?

   • Andreas D. Rink
   • George Sgourakis
   • Karl-Heinz Vestweber

   Original Article 24 July 2008 Pages: 79 - 91

   

10. Gastric remnant cancer: an old problem with novel concerns

    • Ozgur Firat
    • Adem Guler
    • Hasan Kaplan

    Original Article 08 July 2008 Pages: 93 - 97

    

11. Clinicopathologic characteristics of gastric cancer patients who underwent noncurative gastrectomy with long-term survival

    • Hiroaki Saito
    • Yoshinori Yamada
    • Masahide Ikeguchi

    Original Article 02 August 2008 Pages: 99 - 103

    

12. Occult disseminated tumor cells in lymph nodes of patients with gastric carcinoma. A critical appraisal of assessment and relevance

    • Peter Scheunemann
    • Nikolas H. Stoecklein
    • Stefan B. Hosch

    Original Article 15 July 2008 Pages: 105 - 113

    

13. Interleukin-2 immunotherapy action on innate immunity cells in peripheral blood and tumoral tissue of pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients

    • Luca Degrate
    • Cinzia Nobili
    • Franco Uggeri

    Original Article 01 August 2008 Pages: 115 - 121

    

14. Tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrates during ischemia/reperfusion-induced apoptosis in rat liver

    • Raffaele Cursio
    • Claudia Miele
    • Jean Gugenheim

    Original Article 05 August 2008 Pages: 123 - 131

    

15. Treatment with keratinocyte growth factor does not improve lung allograft survival in the rat

    • Markus Hirschburger
    • Martin Obert
    • Veronika Grau

    Original Article 19 February 2008 Pages: 133 - 141

    

16. Hypothermic in situ perfusion of the porcine liver using Celsior or Ringer-lactate solution

    • S. Dinant
    • H. J. Roseboom
    • T. M. van Gulik

    Original Article Open access 20 March 2008 Pages: 143 - 150

    

17. Transdermal resorption of an ethanol- and 2-propanol-containing skin disinfectant

    • Martin Hartwig Kirschner
    • Reinhold Andreas Lang
    • Jan-Dirk Fauteck

    Original Article 08 November 2007 Pages: 151 - 157

    

18. Pancreaticobiliary maljunction and carcinogenesis to biliary and pancreatic malignancy

    • Takahiko Funabiki
    • Toshiki Matsubara
    • Shin Ishihara

    New Surgical Horizons 24 May 2008 Pages: 159 - 169

    

19. Probiotics in patients with severe acute pancreatitis: a meta-analysis

    • Shaoliang Sun
    • Kehu Yang
    • Lei Jiang

    New Surgical Horizons 17 July 2008 Pages: 171 - 177

    

20. Working conditions and trainee shortage in operative disciplines—is our profession ready for the next decade?

    • Herwig Cerwenka
    • Heinz Bacher
    • Hans-Jörg Mischinger

    Ethics and Health Care in Surgery 25 June 2008 Pages: 179 - 183

    

21. Tension pneumothorax, pneumoretroperitoneum, and subcutaneous emphysema after colonoscopic polypectomy: a case report and review of the literature

    • Mile Ignjatović
    • Jasna Jović

    Case Management and Clinical Consequences 19 February 2008 Pages: 185 - 189

    

22. New randomized trial of probiotics in pancreatitis needed? Caution advised

    • Marc G. H. Besselink
    • Hjalmar C. van Santvoort
    • For the Dutch Acute Pancreatitis Study Group

    Letter to the Editor 08 October 2008 Pages: 191 - 192

23. Probiotics and acute pancreatitis need a long way to go

    • Kehu Yang
    • Shaoliang Sun
    • Jinhui Tian

    Letter to the Editor 08 October 2008 Pages: 193 - 194

24. The unbearable lightness of understanding clinical influence of lymph node micrometastasis

    • Özgür Akgül
    • Mesut Tez
    • Mahmut Koç

    Letter to the Editor 15 October 2008 Pages: 195 - 196

25. Reply to the letter by M. Tez regarding our article “Occult disseminated tumor cells in lymph nodes of patients with gastric carcinoma. A critical appraisal of assessment and relevance”

    • P. Scheunemann
    • W. T. Knoefel
    • N. H. Stoecklein

    Letter to the Editor 15 October 2008 Pages: 197 - 197

26. Palliative operation for the treatment of alveolar echinococcosis

    • Klaus Buttenschoen
    • Beate Gruener
    • Peter Kern

    Evidence-based Surgery 25 June 2008 Pages: 199 - 204

27. The colon J-pouch as a cause of evacuation disorders after rectal resection: myth or fact?

    • Andreas D. Rink
    • George Sgourakis
    • Karl-Heinz Vestweber

    Erratum 10 September 2008 Pages: 205 - 207