Claude Organ Symposium on Surgical Journal Publication - Editor’s Note John G. Hunter INTRODUCTION 24 July 2006 Pages: 1365 - 1365
Understanding the Peer Review Process Robert J.S. Thomas OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1366 - 1367
What the Impact Factor Means for Surgery Journals William F. CurtisJohn G. Hunter OriginalPaper 24 July 2006 Pages: 1368 - 1370
Biomedical Industrial Sponsorship and Its Impact on the Medical Literature Peter J. Morris OriginalPaper 13 June 2006 Pages: 1371 - 1373
Ethical Misconduct in Publishing: the Editors’ Perspective Michael G. SarrAndrew L. Warshaw OriginalPaper 13 June 2006 Pages: 1374 - 1376
The Journal of the Future Is Here Today John G. Hunter EDITORIAL PERSPECTIVES 21 July 2006 Pages: 1377 - 1381
Review of the Pathophysiology and Management of Postoperative Ileus Peter MatteiJohn L. Rombeau EDITORIAL UPDATE 21 July 2006 Pages: 1382 - 1391
“To Afford the Wounded Speedy Assistance”: Dominique Jean Larrey and Napoleon Panagiotis N. SkandalakisPanagiotis LainasPetros Mirilas ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 21 July 2006 Pages: 1392 - 1399
Tolstoy’s Report of Five Cases of Chest Trauma: Its Relevance to Contemporary Military Surgical Experience Tamas F. MolnarLaszlo Lukacs OriginalPaper 24 July 2006 Pages: 1400 - 1402
Granulomatous Lobular Mastitis: A Complex Diagnostic and Therapeutic Problem Alper AkcanHızır AkyıldızYucel Arıtas OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1403 - 1409
Necrotic Complications after Nipple- and Areola-Sparing Mastectomy Andrzej L. KomorowskiVittorio ZaniniAlberto Costa OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1410 - 1413
Phyllodes Tumor of the Breast: The Challenge Persists Shih-Ping ChengYuan-Ching ChangChien-Liang Liu OriginalPaper 24 July 2006 Pages: 1414 - 1421
The Role of Whole-Body Fluorine-18-FDG Positron Emission Tomography in the Detection of Recurrence in Symptomatic Patients with Stages II and III Breast Cancer Ryan M. WolfortBenjamin D.L. LiQuyen D. Chu OriginalPaper 19 May 2006 Pages: 1422 - 1427
Identification of Patients at Low Risk for Thyroidectomy-Related Hypocalcemia by Intraoperative Quick PTH Francesco Di FabioClaudio CasellaBruno Salerni OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1428 - 1433
Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy for Cancer: Prospective Evaluation of Laparoscopic Gastric Mobilization Gaelle Godiris-PetitNicolas Munoz-BongrandEmile Sarfati OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1434 - 1440
Impact of the Number and Extent of Positive Lymph Nodes in 200 Patients with Thoracic Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma after Three-field Lymph Node Dissection Hideaki ShimadaShin-ichi OkazumiTakenori Ochiai OriginalPaper 10 July 2006 Pages: 1441 - 1449
Covering the Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) Tube Prevents Peristomal Infection Yutaka SuzukiMitsuyoshi UrashimaKatsuhiko Yanaga OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1450 - 1458
Duodenal Interdigestive Migrating Motor Complex in Patients 5 Years or More after Pylorus-preserving Gastrectomy for Early Gastric Cancer Ryouichi TomitaTugumichi KoshinagaKatsuhisa Tanjoh OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1459 - 1467
Gastric Cancer Surgery in Elderly Patients Stephen GretschelLope Estevez-SchwarzPeter M. Schlag OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1468 - 1474
New Type of Jejunal Interposition Method after Gastrectomy Georgy ZherlovAndrey KoshelAlexander Karpovitch OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1475 - 1480
Incurable Stenosing Colorectal Carcinoma: Endoscopic Stent Implantation or Palliative Surgery? Henry PtokFrank MaruschIngo Gastinger OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1481 - 1487
Predictors for Complications after Loop Stoma Closure in Patients with Rectal Cancer Herwig PokornyHarald HerknerFriedrich Herbst OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1488 - 1493
Can Biliary Carcinoembryonic Antigen Identify Colorectal Cancer Patients with Occult Hepatic Metastases? Giovanni Li DestriRaffaele LanteriStefano Puleo OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1494 - 1499
Biliary Ascariasis: A Review Omar Javed ShahShowkat Ali ZargarIrfan Robbani OriginalPaper 10 July 2006 Pages: 1500 - 1506
Transabdominal Modified Devascularization Procedure with or without Esophageal Stapler Transection—An Operation Adequate for Effective Control of a Variceal Bleed. Is Esophageal Stapler Transection Necessary? M. JohnsonS. RajendranR. Surendran OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1507 - 1518
Transabdominal Modified Devascularization Procedure With/without Esophageal Stapler Transection—An operation Adequate for Effective Control of Variceal Bleed. Is Esophageal Stapler Transection Necessary? J. Michael Henderson INVITED COMMENTARY 21 July 2006 Pages: 1519 - 1519
Hand-assisted Laparoscopic Splenectomy and Devascularization of the Upper Stomach in the Management of Gastric Varices Joji YamamotoMotoki NagaiKiyotaka Maeda OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1520 - 1525
Pancreaticoduodenectomy with Mesentericoportal Vein Resection for Adenocarcinoma of the Pancreatic Head Nicolas CarrèreAlain SauvanetJacques Belghiti OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1526 - 1535
Surgical Treatment of Metastatic Tumors to the Pancreas: A Single Center Experience and Review of the Literature Stefano CrippaCarlo AngeliniGiorgio Bovo OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1536 - 1542
Specific Targeting of Pancreatic Islet Cells In Vivo by Insulin-Promoter-Driven Adenoviral Conjugated Reporter Genes Xiaoping WangElizabeth Olmsted-DavisF. Charles Brunicardi OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1543 - 1552
Pancreatic Serous Oligocystic Adenomas: Clinicopathologic Features and a Comparison with Serous Microcystic Adenomas and Mucinous Cystic Neoplasms Brian K.P. GohYu-Meng TanLondon L.P.J. Ooi OriginalPaper 13 June 2006 Pages: 1553 - 1559
Biliary Cystadenoma and Other Complicated Cystic Lesions of The Liver: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges Anthony Y.B. TeohSimon S.M. NgPaul B.S. Lai OriginalPaper 24 July 2006 Pages: 1560 - 1566
Improved Long-term Survival after Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Modern Era: Retrospective Study from HCV-endemic Areas Atsushi SasakiYukio IwashitaSeigo Kitano OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1567 - 1578
Identification of Risk Factors for Perioperative Mortality in Acute Mesenteric Ischemia Maria Asuncion Acosta-MeridaJoaquin Marchena-GomezJuan Maria Hernandez-Romero OriginalPaper 24 July 2006 Pages: 1579 - 1585
Experimental Comparison of Monofile Light and Heavy Polypropylene Meshes: Less Weight Does Not Mean Less Biological Response Dirk WeyheInge SchmitzVolker Zumtobel OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1586 - 1591
Postsurgical Infections are Reduced with Specialized Nutrition Support Dan L. WaitzbergHideaki SaitoDavid Bihari OriginalPaper 16 June 2006 Pages: 1592 - 1604
Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheters Are Not Superior to Central Venous Catheters in the Acute Care of Surgical Patients on the Ward Simon TurcotteSerge DubéGilles Beauchamp OriginalPaper 21 July 2006 Pages: 1605 - 1619
In Our World of Ready, Rapid, Expanded Communication—Why Can’t (Don’t) We Communicate? Michael Sarr INVITED COMMENTARY 21 July 2006 Pages: 1622 - 1623
Gray’s Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice Elsevier / Churchill Livingstone, 2005, ISBN 0-443-06676-0 Samir Johna BOOK REVIEW 13 June 2006 Pages: 1624 - 1625
Cartographies of Disease. Maps, Mapping, and Medicine. Tom Koch, ESRI Press, Redlands, CA, 2005, 388 pp, $ 28.32 David M. Dent BOOK REVIEWS 21 July 2006 Pages: 1626 - 1626