1. SAGES’ guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and use of laparoscopy for surgical problems during pregnancy

   • Nathaniel J. Soper

   Editorial 22 September 2011 Pages: 3477 - 3478

2. Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment, and use of laparoscopy for surgical problems during pregnancy

   • Jonathan Pearl
   • Raymond Price
   • Robert Fanelli

   Guidelines 23 September 2011 Pages: 3479 - 3492

3. Effects of Roux-en-Y operations on glucose homeostasis in obese GK rats

   • Xueli Zhang
   • Wenhai Huang
   • Ji-Fa Zhang

   OriginalPaper 19 August 2011 Pages: 3493 - 3498

   

4. Residual heat of laparoscopic energy devices: how long must the surgeon wait to touch additional tissue?

   • Henry R. Govekar
   • Thomas N. Robinson
   • Francis T. McGreevy

   OriginalPaper 19 May 2011 Pages: 3499 - 3502

   

5. Pilot study on objective measurement of abdominal wall strength in patients with ventral incisional hernia

   • Michael Parker
   • Ross F. Goldberg
   • Steven P. Bowers

   OriginalPaper 19 May 2011 Pages: 3503 - 3508

   

6. Transmural inflammation is not pathognomonic for Crohn’s disease of the pouch

   • Zhao-xiu Liu
   • Tom Deroche
   • Bo Shen

   OriginalPaper 10 June 2011 Pages: 3509 - 3517

   

7. The effects of high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) on pneumoperitoneum-induced cardiovascular changes during laparoscopic surgery

   • A. Bickel
   • A. Trossman
   • A. Eitan

   OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3518 - 3525

   

8. Prospective comparative study of the efficacy of staple-line reinforcement in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

   • Konstantinos M. Stamou
   • Evangelos Menenakos
   • George Zografos

   OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3526 - 3530

9. Operation time and body mass index are significant risk factors for surgical site infection in laparoscopic sigmoid resection: a multicenter study

   • Anita Kurmann
   • Stephan A. Vorburger
   • Guido Beldi

   OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3531 - 3534

   

10. Image inversion and digital mirror-image technology aid laparoscopic surgery task performance in the paradoxical view: a randomized controlled trial

    • Richdeep S. Gill
    • David P. Al-Adra
    • Cliff Sample

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3535 - 3539

    

11. First-phase insulin secretion, insulin sensitivity, ghrelin, GLP-1, and PYY changes 72 h after sleeve gastrectomy in obese diabetic patients: the gastric hypothesis

    • N. Basso
    • D. Capoccia
    • F. Leonetti

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3540 - 3550

    

12. Laparoscopic salvage surgery for recurrent and metachronous colorectal cancer: 15 years’ experience in a single center

    • Soo Yeun Park
    • Gyu-Seog Choi
    • Hye Jin Kim

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3551 - 3558

    

13. Single-incision laparoscopic colectomy for malignant disease

    • Megan E. McNally
    • B. Todd Moore
    • Kimberly M. Brown

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3559 - 3565

14. First human surgery with a novel single-port robotic system: cholecystectomy using the da Vinci Single-Site platform

    • Matthew Kroh
    • Kevin El-Hayek
    • Sricharan Chalikonda

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3566 - 3573

    

15. Enodoscopic band ligation (EBL) is superior to endoscopic clipping for the treatment of colonic diverticular hemorrhage

    • Takeshi Setoyama
    • Naoki Ishii
    • Yoshiyuki Fujita

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3574 - 3578

    

16. Laparoendoscopic single-site totally extraperitoneal adult inguinal hernia repair: initial 100 patients

    • Shiu-Dong Chung
    • Chao-Yuan Huang
    • Hong-Jeng Yu

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3579 - 3583

    

17. Impact of posterior retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy in a tertiary care center: a paradigm shift

    • Andreas Kiriakopoulos
    • Konstantinos P. Economopoulos
    • Dimitrios Linos

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3584 - 3589

    

18. Experience with the use of fibrin sealant plus polyglycolic acid felt at the cut surface of the liver in laparoscopic hepatectomy

    • Shogo Kobayashi
    • Hiroaki Nagano
    • Masaki Mori

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3590 - 3596

    

19. Cost-efficiency of laparoscopic versus open colon surgery in a tertiary care center

    • Nawar A. Alkhamesi
    • Janet Martin
    • Christopher M. Schlachta

    OriginalPaper 08 June 2011 Pages: 3597 - 3604

    

20. Impact of pressure and gas type on adhesion formation and biomaterial integration in laparoscopy

    • R. Rosch
    • M. Binnebösel
    • U. P. Neumann

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2011 Pages: 3605 - 3612

    

21. A successful strategy for surgical treatment of Boerhaave’s syndrome

    • György Lázár Jr.
    • Attila Paszt
    • Gábor Horváth

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2011 Pages: 3613 - 3619

22. Laparoscopic repair of large hiatal hernia: impact on dyspnoea

    • Jacqui C. Zhu
    • Guillermo Becerril
    • Gregory L. Falk

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3620 - 3626

23. Length of Barrett’s segment predicts success of extensive endomucosal resection for eradication of Barrett’s esophagus with early neoplasia

    • T. Thomas
    • L. Ayaru
    • N. E. Marcon

    OriginalPaper 20 August 2011 Pages: 3627 - 3635

    

24. Intensive laparoscopic training course for surgical residents: program description, initial results, and requirements

    • Hannah Zimmerman
    • Rifat Latifi
    • Rainer Gruessner

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2011 Pages: 3636 - 3641

    

25. Percutaneous drainage for acute calculous cholecystitis

    • K. Kortram
    • T. S. de Vries Reilingh
    • D. Boerma

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3642 - 3646

26. Robotic gastric banding in children and adolescents: a comparative study

    • Aayed Alqahtani

    OriginalPaper 03 June 2011 Pages: 3647 - 3651

    

27. Decreased incidence of isolated tumor cells in lymph nodes after laparoscopic resection for colorectal cancer

    • E. S. van der Zaag
    • C. J. Buskens
    • W. A. Bemelman

    OriginalPaper Open access 24 June 2011 Pages: 3652 - 3657

    

28. Two-phase laparoscopic-assisted oesophago-gastrectomy: a single-unit experience of 111 consecutive cases and outcomes

    • Cara R. Baker
    • Michael E. Bailey
    • Shaun R. Preston

    OriginalPaper 08 June 2011 Pages: 3658 - 3667

    

29. Laparoscopic resection vs. open liver resection for peripheral hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with chronic liver disease: a case-matched study

    • S. Truant
    • A. F. Bouras
    • F. R. Pruvot

    OriginalPaper 18 June 2011 Pages: 3668 - 3677

    

30. Low risk of trocar site hernia repair 12 years after primary laparoscopic surgery

    • Frederik Helgstrand
    • Jacob Rosenberg
    • Thue Bisgaard

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2011 Pages: 3678 - 3682

    

31. Risk factors for recurrence after transanal endoscopic microsurgery for rectal malignant neoplasm

    • Mario Morino
    • Marco Ettore Allaix
    • Alberto Arezzo

    OriginalPaper 07 June 2011 Pages: 3683 - 3690

    

32. Endoscopic fixation of the rectum for rectal prolapse: a feasibility and survival experimental study

    • Jeffrey Milsom
    • Koiana Trencheva
    • Toyooki Sonoda

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2011 Pages: 3691 - 3697

    

33. Efficacy of intraperitoneal local anaesthetic techniques during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

    • K. J. Roberts
    • J. Gilmour
    • S. Khan

    Dynamic Manuscript 03 June 2011 Pages: 3698 - 3705

    

34. Laparoscopic implantation of neural electrodes on pelvic nerves: an experimental study on the obturator nerve in a chronic minipig model

    • Benoit Rabischong
    • Demetrio Larraín
    • Paul Avan

    New Technology 03 June 2011 Pages: 3706 - 3712

    

35. Sentinel node biopsy in laparoscopic surgical oncology

    • Ernst Hanisch
    • Charalambos Batsis

    Letter 19 May 2011 Pages: 3713 - 3714

36. Sentinel lymph node and prognostic factors in gastric cancer

    • E. Orsenigo
    • S. Kusamura
    • C. Staudacher

    Letter-Reply 10 May 2011 Pages: 3715 - 3716