Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Quality-adjusted Life-Years after Pancreatic Cancer Surgery David B. Adams Editorial Perspective 20 January 2011 Pages: 473 - 474
Reference Accuracy in the General Surgery Literature Julianne AwreyKenji InabaDemetrios Demetriades OriginalPaper 16 December 2010 Pages: 475 - 479
Do Soft Skills Predict Surgical Performance? K. MaschuwK. SchlosserI. Hassan OriginalPaper 29 December 2010 Pages: 480 - 486
Factors Influencing Career Choice After Initial Training in Surgery Seamus McHughMark CorriganArnold Hill OriginalPaper 05 January 2011 Pages: 487 - 492
Is it Possible to Train Surgeons for Rural Africa? A Report of a Successful International Program Jonathan D. PollockTimothy P. LoveCarl Haisch OriginalPaper 30 December 2010 Pages: 493 - 499
Validation of the World Health Organization Tool for Situational Analysis to Assess Emergency and Essential Surgical Care at District Hospitals in Ghana Hayley OsenDavid ChangFizan Abdullah OriginalPaper Open access 29 December 2010 Pages: 500 - 504
Disparities in Injury Mortality Between Uganda and the United States: Comparative Analysis of a Neglected Disease Sudha JayaramanDoruk OzgedizRochelle Dicker OriginalPaper Open access 23 December 2010 Pages: 505 - 511
Simplified Alternative to the TRISS Method for Resource-Constrained Settings Shinji NakaharaMasao IchikawaAkio Kimura OriginalPaper 19 November 2010 Pages: 512 - 519
Angiointervention: High Rates of Failure Following Blunt Renal Injuries Jay MenakerBellal JosephThomas M. Scalea OriginalPaper 29 December 2010 Pages: 520 - 527
Gunshot Injuries in the Elderly: Patterns and Outcomes. A National Trauma Databank Analysis Thomas LustenbergerKenji InabaDemetrios Demetriades OriginalPaper 04 January 2011 Pages: 528 - 534
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Solution for Difficult to Heal Acute Wounds? Systematic Review Anne M. EskesDirk T. UbbinkHester Vermeulen OriginalPaper Open access 24 December 2010 Pages: 535 - 542
Endoscopic Minimally Invasive Thyroidectomy (eMIT): A Prospective Proof-of-Concept Study in Humans Thomas WilhelmAndreas Metzig OriginalPaper 19 November 2010 Pages: 543 - 551
Endoscopic Minimally Invasive Thyroidectomy: A Prospective Proof-of-Concept Study in Humans Christopher R. McHenry Invited Commentary 24 December 2010 Pages: 552 - 552
Clinical Benefits of Scarless Endoscopic Thyroidectomy: An Expert’s Experience Zhi-guo JiangWei ZhangMing Qiu OriginalPaper 16 December 2010 Pages: 553 - 557
Final Pathology Findings After Immediate or Delayed Surgery in Patients with Cytologically Benign or Follicular Thyroid Nodules Minoru KiharaMitsuyoshi HirokawaAkira Miyauchi OriginalPaper 24 December 2010 Pages: 558 - 562
Laparoscopic Organ-Sparing Resection of Von Hippel-Lindau Disease-Associated Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors Laura von DückerMartin K. WalzHartmut P. H. Neumann OriginalPaper 23 December 2010 Pages: 563 - 567
Partial Mastectomy and M. Latissimus Dorsi Reconstruction for Radiation-induced Fibrosis After Breast-conserving Cancer Therapy Albertus N. van GeelTitia E. LansMarian B. E. Menke-Pluijmers OriginalPaper Open access 17 December 2010 Pages: 568 - 572
Cases and Literature Review of Breast Sparganosis MinYoung KooJung-Han KimJung-Hyun Yang OriginalPaper 04 January 2011 Pages: 573 - 579
Malignant Melanoma of the Skin: Long-term Follow-up and Time to First Recurrence Annika M. HohnheiserOlaf GefellerSusanne Merkel OriginalPaper 02 December 2010 Pages: 580 - 589
Unplanned Conversion to Thoracotomy During Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Lobectomy does not Compromise the Surgical Outcome Joon Suk ParkHong Kwan KimKwhanmien Kim OriginalPaper 23 December 2010 Pages: 590 - 595
Reverse Airflow in Certain Chest Drains May be Misinterpreted as Prolonged Air Leakage Anna StoubyKirsten NeckelmannPeter B. Licht OriginalPaper 04 January 2011 Pages: 596 - 599
Current Management of Cervical Esophageal Cancer Daniel King Hung TongSimon LawKam Ho Wong OriginalPaper 16 December 2010 Pages: 600 - 607
Impact of PET-CT on Primary Staging and Response Control on Multimodal Treatment of Esophageal Cancer Kirsten ThurauDaniel PalmesMatthias Bruewer OriginalPaper 08 January 2011 Pages: 608 - 616
Cancer of the Gastric Cardia is Rising in Incidence in an Asian Population and is Associated with Adverse Outcome Chris DeansMatthew S. W. YeoJimmy B. Y. So OriginalPaper 04 January 2011 Pages: 617 - 624
Influence of Bursectomy on Operative Morbidity and Mortality After Radical Gastrectomy for Gastric Cancer: Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial Hiroshi ImamuraYukinori KurokawaYuichiro Doki OriginalPaper 16 December 2010 Pages: 625 - 630
Laparoscopic Mini-gastric Bypass for Type 2 Diabetes: The Preliminary Report Zisun KimKyung Yul Hur OriginalPaper 17 December 2010 Pages: 631 - 636
Robot-assisted versus Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Is There a Difference in Outcomes? Subhashini M. AylooPietro AddeoPier Cristoforo Giulianotti OriginalPaper 29 December 2010 Pages: 637 - 642
Mortality Associated with the Treatment of Gallstone Disease: A 10-Year Contemporary National Experience John M. ScollayRussell MullenAlastair M. Thompson OriginalPaper 23 December 2010 Pages: 643 - 647
Laparoscopic Repeat Resection of Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma Minggen HuGuodong ZhaoRong Liu OriginalPaper 24 December 2010 Pages: 648 - 655
Anatomical Versus Nonanatomical Resection of Colorectal Liver Metastases: Is There a Difference in Surgical and Oncological Outcome? Zarina S. LalmahomedNinos AyezCornelis Verhoef OriginalPaper Open access 16 December 2010 Pages: 656 - 661
Cost-Utility Estimation of Surgical Treatment of Pancreatic Carcinoma Aimed at Cure David LjungmanKent LundholmAnders Hyltander OriginalPaper 04 December 2010 Pages: 662 - 670
Trends in the Surgical Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis over Time: Increased Mortality and Centralization of Care Michelle C. EllisBrian S. DiggsDaniel O. Herzig OriginalPaper 17 December 2010 Pages: 671 - 676
Predictive Risk Factors for Intra- and Postoperative Complications in 526 Laparoscopic Sigmoid Resections due to Recurrent Diverticulitis: A Multivariate Analysis Philipp KirchhoffDaniel MatzPeter Buchmann OriginalPaper 24 December 2010 Pages: 677 - 683
Systematic Review of Prognostic Factors Related to Overall Survival in Patients with Stage IV Colorectal Cancer and Unresectable Metastases Andrew P. StillwellYik-Hong HoCraig Veitch ReviewPaper 23 December 2010 Pages: 684 - 692
Provisional Surgical Training Programs for Increasing Surgical Capacity in Rural Areas in Niger: Reply to Letter Rachid SaniBabadi NameouaAbarchi Habibou Letter Open access 16 July 2010 Pages: 693 - 693
Intraoperative Near-infrared Fluorescent Cholangiography (NIRFC) in Mouse Models of Bile Duct Injury: Reply Jose-Luiz FigueiredoMatthias NahrendorfRalph Weissleder Letter 20 July 2010 Pages: 694 - 695
Choledochoduodenostomy Is a Safe Alternative to Roux-en-Y Choledochojejunostomy for Biliary Reconstruction in Liver Transplantation Volker SchmitzPeter Neuhaus Letter 16 September 2010 Pages: 696 - 697
Two-Stage Breast Cancer Screening in the Developing World Charalabos Batsis Letter 21 September 2010 Pages: 698 - 699
Clinicopathologic Characteristics of Colorectal Cancer Patients with Synchronous and Metachronous Gastric Cancer Ernst HanischCharalambos Batsis Letter 19 November 2010 Pages: 700 - 701