1. Immunobiology of hepatocellular carcinoma

   • Tobias Flecken
   • Hans Christian Spangenberg
   • Robert Thimme

   Review Article 09 April 2011 Pages: 673 - 680

   

2. HCC: current surgical treatment concepts

   • F. Cauchy
   • D. Fuks
   • J. Belghiti

   Review Article 31 January 2012 Pages: 681 - 695

   

3. The role of HBIg as hepatitis B reinfection prophylaxis following liver transplantation

   • Arianeb Mehrabi
   • Majid Esmaeilzadeh
   • Tom M. Ganten

   Review Article 02 May 2011 Pages: 697 - 710

   

4. Can we direct organ allocation based on predicted outcome? Hepatocellular carcinoma outside of UCSF criteria or retransplant?

   • Caroline Rochon
   • Patricia Sheiner
   • Marcelo Facciuto

   Original Article 28 January 2012 Pages: 711 - 715

   

5. Value of the SOFA score as a predictive model for short-term survival in high-risk liver transplant recipients with a pre-transplant labMELD score ≥30

   • Harald Schrem
   • Melanie Reichert
   • Jürgen Klempnauer

   Original Article 06 December 2011 Pages: 717 - 726

   

6. Diagnostic study and meta-analysis of C-reactive protein as a predictor of postoperative inflammatory complications after gastroesophageal cancer surgery

   • Rene Warschkow
   • Ignazio Tarantino
   • Thomas Steffen

   Original Article 08 March 2012 Pages: 727 - 736

   

7. Safe management of anastomotic leakage after gastric cancer surgery with enteral nutrition via a nasointestinal tube

   • Yoshimasa Akashi
   • Naoki Hiki
   • Toshiharu Yamaguchi

   Original Article 01 March 2012 Pages: 737 - 744

   

8. Non-curative gastric resection for patients with stage 4 gastric cancer—a single center experience and current review of literature

   • Yves Dittmar
   • Falk Rauchfuss
   • Utz Settmacher

   Original Article 04 February 2012 Pages: 745 - 753

   

9. New methods for clinical pathways—Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) and Tangible Business Process Modeling (t.BPM)

   • Hubert Scheuerlein
   • Falk Rauchfuss
   • Utz Settmacher

   Original Article 24 February 2012 Pages: 755 - 761

   

10. Estimate or calculate? How surgeons rate volumes and surfaces

    • Jochen Schuld
    • Otto Kollmar
    • Sven Richter

    Original Article 17 March 2012 Pages: 763 - 769

    

11. Results in the long-term course after stapled transanal rectal resection (STARR)

    • Katrin Köhler
    • Sigmar Stelzner
    • Helmut Witzigmann

    Original Article 21 February 2012 Pages: 771 - 778

12. Analysis of sentinel lymph node biopsy results in colon cancer in regard of the anthropometric features of the population and body composition assessment formulas

    • Piotr Nowaczyk
    • Dawid Murawa
    • Paweł Murawa

    Original Article Open access 14 March 2012 Pages: 779 - 786

13. Continuous intraoperative monitoring of autonomic nerves during low anterior rectal resection: an innovative approach for observation of functional nerve integrity in pelvic surgery

    • D. W. Kauff
    • O. Kempski
    • W. Kneist

    Original Article 15 February 2012 Pages: 787 - 792

    

14. Reduction of heart rate variability after colorectal resections

    • O. Haase
    • C. Langelotz
    • N. Tsilimparis

    Original Article 17 January 2012 Pages: 793 - 799

    

15. Randomized clinical trial on preoperative radiotherapy 25 Gy in rectal cancer—treatment results at 5-year follow-up

    • Radoslaw Pach
    • Jan Kulig
    • Teresa Kowalska

    Rapid Communication Open access 15 December 2011 Pages: 801 - 807

    

16. Prognostic factors in differentiated thyroid cancer—a 20-year surgical outcome study

    • Aleksander Konturek
    • Marcin Barczyński
    • Piotr Richter

    Rapid Communication Open access 15 February 2012 Pages: 809 - 815

    

17. The safety of energy-based devices in open thyroidectomy: a prospective, randomised study comparing the LigaSure™ (LF1212) and the Harmonic® FOCUS

    • Gianlorenzo Dionigi
    • Luigi Boni
    • Marco Franchin

    Rapid Communication 10 January 2012 Pages: 817 - 823

18. Evaluation of selected cognitive functions before and after surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism

    • Dominika Babińska
    • Marcin Barczyński
    • Zbigniew Śledziński

    Rapid Communication 08 December 2011 Pages: 825 - 831

19. Outcome of overlap anastomosis using a linear stapler after laparoscopic total and proximal gastrectomy

    • Hironori Tsujimoto
    • Ichiro Uyama
    • Kazuo Hase

    How-I-Do-It Article 08 March 2012 Pages: 833 - 840

    

20. The suggested algorithm for the management of “body packers”

    • Hossein Sanaei-Zadeh

    Letter to the Editor 18 January 2012 Pages: 841 - 842

    

21. 5th biennual congress of the European Society of Endocrine Surgeons (ESES) Gothenburg Sweden, May 24–26, 2012

    Abstracts 11 May 2012 Pages: 843 - 858