Confronting the Global Burden of Surgical Disease Charles Mock EditorialNotes 15 May 2013 Pages: 1457 - 1459
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP): Building Sustainable Surgical Systems Stephen W. BicklerKelly McQueen EditorialNotes 17 April 2013 Pages: 1460 - 1461
World Health Organization Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care: 2011 and Beyond David A. SpiegelFizan AbdullahStephen W. Bickler OriginalPaper 13 November 2012 Pages: 1462 - 1469
Disparities in Access to Surgical Care within a Lower Income Country: An Alarming Inequity Syed Nabeel ZafarZafar FatmiAdil H. Haider OriginalPaper 01 August 2012 Pages: 1470 - 1477
Economic Modeling of Surgical Disease: A Measure of Public Health Interventions D. Scott Corlew OriginalPaper 05 October 2012 Pages: 1478 - 1485
Designing a Contextually Appropriate Surgical Training Program in Low-resource Settings: The Botswana Experience Dorotea MutabdzicAlemayehu G. BedadaGeorges Azzie OriginalPaper 01 August 2012 Pages: 1486 - 1491
Improving Surgical Care in Mongolia: A Model for Sustainable Development Raymond PriceOrgoi SergelenChadraabal Unursaikhan OriginalPaper 01 September 2012 Pages: 1492 - 1499
Collaboration in Surgical Capacity Development: A Report of the Inaugural Meeting of the Strengthening Rwanda Surgery Initiative Robin T. PetrozeGita N. ModyEmmanuel Kayibanda OriginalPaper 07 September 2012 Pages: 1500 - 1505
The Implementation of a Pilot Femur Fracture Registry at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital: An Analysis of Data Quality and Barriers to Collaborative Capacity-Building Daniel B. SonshineJesse ShantzRichard A. Gosselin OriginalPaper 01 August 2012 Pages: 1506 - 1512
The Prehospital Burden of Disease due to Trauma in KwaZulu-Natal: The Need for Afrocentric Trauma Systems Timothy Craig HardcastleMelissa FinlaysonDavid J. J. Muckart OriginalPaper 30 November 2012 Pages: 1513 - 1525
Ratio of Cesarean Deliveries to Total Operations and Surgeon Nationality Are Potential Proxies for Surgical Capacity in Central Haiti Christopher D. HughesCraig D. McClainJohn G. Meara BriefCommunication 18 September 2012 Pages: 1526 - 1529
Baseline Assessment of Inpatient Burn Care at Tenwek Hospital, Bomet, Kenya Craig R. OtteniSeno Ivan SaruniRussell E. White OriginalPaper 13 April 2013 Pages: 1530 - 1535
Burden of Surgically Correctable Disabilities Among Children in the Dadaab Refugee Camp Victor K. WuDan Poenaru OriginalPaper 03 January 2013 Pages: 1536 - 1543
Utilisation of a Level 1 Trauma Centre in KwaZulu-Natal: Appropriateness of Referral Determines Trauma Patient Access Timothy Craig HardcastleMatthew Giles ReedsDavid James Jackson Muckart OriginalPaper 20 December 2012 Pages: 1544 - 1549
An Assessment of the Hospital Disease Burden and the Facilities for the In-hospital Care of Trauma in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Timothy C. HardcastleCandice SamuelsDavid J. Muckart OriginalPaper 19 December 2012 Pages: 1550 - 1561
Getting the Job Done: Analysis of the Impact and Effectiveness of the SmileTrain Program in Alleviating the Global Burden of Cleft Disease D. Poenaru OriginalPaper 12 December 2012 Pages: 1562 - 1570
Thyroid Surgery in a District Hospital in Southern Ethiopia: Experience from a Rural Center J. M. RamosN. AbateM. Gorgolas BriefCommunication 06 April 2013 Pages: 1571 - 1573
Thyroid Surgery in a District Hospital: A Vertical Program Embedded in a Rural Hospital Thomas G. Weiser Invited Commentary 07 May 2013 Pages: 1574 - 1575
Bilateral Axillo-Breast Approach Robotic Thyroidectomy for Graves’ Disease: An Initial Experience in a Single Institute Hyungju KwonDo Hoon KooYeo-Kyu Youn OriginalPaper 05 April 2013 Pages: 1576 - 1581
Robotic and Remote Access Thyroidectomy: A Time to Pause David J. TerrisWilliam S. Duke Invited Commentary 03 May 2013 Pages: 1582 - 1583
Prophylactic Lymph Node Dissection in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Is There a Place for Lateral Neck Dissection? Romain DucoudrayChristophe TrésalletFabrice Menegaux OriginalPaper 06 April 2013 Pages: 1584 - 1591
Does Preoperative 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Status Significantly Affect the Calcium Kinetics after Total Thyroidectomy? Brian Hung-Hin LangKai Pun WongGrace Kin-Yee Hung OriginalPaper 27 March 2013 Pages: 1592 - 1598
Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Presenting with Distant Metastases: A Population Analysis Over Two Decades Paolo GoffredoJulie A. SosaSanziana A. Roman OriginalPaper 23 March 2013 Pages: 1599 - 1605
Clinical Implication of Cancer Adhesion in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Prognosis Analyzed with Degree of Extrathyroidal Extension Seung Pil JungMinkuk KimJung-Han Kim OriginalPaper 13 April 2013 Pages: 1606 - 1613
Bilateral Neck Exploration Decreases Operative Time Compared to Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy in Patients with Discordant Imaging Matthew A. NehsDaniel T. RuanNancy L. Cho OriginalPaper 22 March 2013 Pages: 1614 - 1617
Three-Dimensional Metabolic and Radiologic Gathered Evaluation Using VR-RENDER Fusion: A Novel Tool to Enhance Accuracy in the Localization of Parathyroid Adenomas Jacopo D’AgostinoMichele DianaJacques Marescaux OriginalPaper 05 April 2013 Pages: 1618 - 1625
The Role of Unilateral Adrenalectomy in Corticotropin-Independent Bilateral Adrenocortical Hyperplasias Yunze XuWenbin RuiYu Zhu OriginalPaper 17 April 2013 Pages: 1626 - 1632
Evolution of Percutaneous Dilatational Tracheostomy—A Review of Current Techniques and Their Pitfalls Jonathan Cools-LartigueAli AboalsaudLorenzo Ferri ReviewPaper 10 April 2013 Pages: 1633 - 1646
Impact of Preoperative Organ Failures on Survival in Intensive Care Unit Patients with Colectomy Seija SipolaHannu SyrjäläTero I. Ala-Kokko OriginalPaper 10 April 2013 Pages: 1647 - 1651
Introducing Video-Assisted Thoracoscopy for Trauma into a South African Township Hospital George V. OosthuizenDamian L. ClarkeDavid J. J. Muckart OriginalPaper 19 April 2013 Pages: 1652 - 1655
Implantation of Prophylactic Nonabsorbable Intraperitoneal Mesh in Patients With Peritonitis Is Safe and Feasible Anita KurmannCorina BarnettaGuido Beldi OriginalPaper 09 April 2013 Pages: 1656 - 1660
Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Sleeve Lobectomy with Bronchoplasty Yun LiJun Wang OriginalPaper 10 April 2013 Pages: 1661 - 1665
Appraisal of Staging Endoscopic Ultrasonography in a Modern High-Volume Esophageal Program Naoimh J. O’FarrellVinod MalikDermot O’Toole OriginalPaper 09 April 2013 Pages: 1666 - 1672
Retrospective Study Using the Propensity Score to Clarify the Oncologic Feasibility of Thoracoscopic Esophagectomy in Patients with Esophageal Cancer Shinsuke TakenoYoshiaki TakahashiMegu Ohtaki OriginalPaper 29 March 2013 Pages: 1673 - 1680
SPan-1 Is a Useful Prognostic Marker for Patients with Stage IV Gastric Cancer Who Underwent Palliative Gastrectomy: A Retrospective Multivariate Study Naoshi KuboMasaichi OhiraKosei Hirakawa OriginalPaper 09 April 2013 Pages: 1681 - 1687
Notch1 Contributes to Chemoresistance to Gemcitabine and Serves as an Unfavorable Prognostic Indicator in Pancreatic Cancer Xiao DuYu-Pei ZhaoHong Shu OriginalPaper 09 April 2013 Pages: 1688 - 1694
Resection of At-Risk Mesenteric Lymph Nodes Is Associated with Improved Survival in Patients with Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Tumors Christine S. LandryHeather Y. LinJason B. Fleming OriginalPaper 09 May 2013 Pages: 1695 - 1700
Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors to the Breast Are More Common than Previously Thought. A Diagnostic Pitfall? Joakim CronaDan GranbergPeyman Björklund OriginalPaper 17 April 2013 Pages: 1701 - 1706
Single-Incision Versus Conventional Laparoscopic Cyst Excision and Roux-Y Hepaticojejunostomy for Children With Choledochal Cysts: a Case-Control Study Mei DiaoLong LiWei Cheng OriginalPaper 29 March 2013 Pages: 1707 - 1713
Early Structured Surgical Management Plan for Neonates with Short Bowel Syndrome May Improve Outcomes S. J. WoodB. KhalilA. Morabito BriefCommunication 29 March 2013 Pages: 1714 - 1717
Enhanced Significance of Donor–Recipient Age Gradient as a Prognostic Factor of Graft Outcome in Living Donor Kidney Transplantation Milljae ShinJae Berm ParkSung-Joo Kim OriginalPaper 10 April 2013 Pages: 1718 - 1726
Renal Allograft Implantation on Prosthetic Vascular Grafts: Short- and Long-term Results Damiano PatronoRobert VerhelstMichel Mourad OriginalPaper 19 April 2013 Pages: 1727 - 1734
Percentage of Cesarean Sections to Total Surgical Procedures: An Index Already Described Paul Fenton Letter 07 February 2013 Pages: 1735 - 1735
Does Obesity Affect Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Esophagectomy for Cancer? Comments on a Meta-analysis Francesco CavallinMarco ScarpaCarlo Castoro Letter 27 September 2012 Pages: 1738 - 1738
Context Is Paramount in the Assessment of Meta-analytical Evidence: Reply Emmanouil ZacharakisBabar KayaniHutan Ashrafian Letter 01 December 2012 Pages: 1739 - 1739
Preoperative Ultrasonography Assessment of Vocal Cord Movement During Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery Mayilvaganan SabaretnamPooja RamakantM. J. Paul Letter 25 January 2013 Pages: 1740 - 1740
Preoperative Ultrasonography Assessment of Vocal Cord Movement during Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery: Reply Shih-Ping ChengChien-Liang Liu Letter 13 March 2013 Pages: 1741 - 1742
Catheter Tract Recurrence After Percutaneous Biliary Drainage for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma Hiroshi Kawakami Letter 21 February 2013 Pages: 1743 - 1744
Optimal Procedure for Preoperative Biliary Drainage in Patients with Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma Mee Joo KangSun-Whe Kim Letter 20 April 2013 Pages: 1745 - 1746