1. Endocrine surgery

   • Bertil Hamberger

   Editorial 11 July 2008 Pages: 619 - 620

2. Minimally invasive thyroid and parathyroid surgery is not a question of length of the incision

   • Jean–François Henry

   Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery 21 August 2008 Pages: 621 - 626

3. The use of “harmonic scalpel” versus “knot tying” for conventional “open” thyroidectomy: results of a prospective randomized study

   • Celestino Pio Lombardi
   • Marco Raffaelli
   • Rocco Bellantone

   Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery 15 July 2008 Pages: 627 - 631

4. The usefulness of preoperative ultrasonographic identification of nonrecurrent inferior laryngeal nerve in neck surgery

   • Maurizio Iacobone
   • Giovanni Viel
   • Gennaro Favia

   Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery 05 July 2008 Pages: 633 - 638

   

5. Intraoperative PTH monitoring during parathyroidectomy: the need for stricter criteria to detect multiglandular disease

   • Celestino Pio Lombardi
   • Marco Raffaelli
   • Rocco Bellantone

   Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery 24 July 2008 Pages: 639 - 645

6. Minimally invasive video-assisted thyreoidectomy (MIVAT) with and without use of harmonic scalpel—a randomized study

   • Marcin Barczyński
   • Aleksander Konturek
   • Stanisław Cichoń

   Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials 04 July 2008 Pages: 647 - 654

   

7. Ligasure versus Ultracision® in thyroid surgery: a prospective randomized study

   • Paola Vincenza Sartori
   • Sergio De Fina
   • Franco Uggeri

   Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials 22 July 2008 Pages: 655 - 658

8. Focused versus conventional parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism: a prospective, randomized, blinded trial

   • Algirdas Slepavicius
   • Virgilijus Beisa
   • Kestutis Strupas

   Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials 15 August 2008 Pages: 659 - 666

   

9. Complications to thyroid surgery: results as reported in a database from a multicenter audit comprising 3,660 patients

   • A. Bergenfelz
   • S. Jansson
   • I. Lausen

   Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials 17 July 2008 Pages: 667 - 673

10. Use of the harmonic scalpel versus conventional haemostatic techniques in patients with Grave disease undergoing total thyroidectomy: a prospective randomised controlled trial

    • P. Hallgrimsson
    • L. Lovén
    • Anders Bergenfelz

    Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials 02 August 2008 Pages: 675 - 680

    

11. The recurrent laryngeal nerve and the inferior thyroid artery—anatomical variations during surgery

    • Ozer Makay
    • Gokhan Icoz
    • Enis Yetkin

    Original Article 11 March 2008 Pages: 681 - 685

    

12. Virtual neck exploration in patients with hyperparathyroidism and former cervical operations

    • Gerd Wimmer
    • Reto Bale
    • Rupert Prommegger

    Original Article 25 June 2008 Pages: 687 - 692

    

13. Is central neck dissection a safe procedure in the treatment of papillary thyroid cancer? Our experience

    • N. Palestini
    • A. Borasi
    • A. Robecchi

    Original Article 01 July 2008 Pages: 693 - 698

14. Can the early reduction of tumour markers predict outcome in surgically treated sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma?

    • Per Bümming
    • Håkan Ahlman
    • Svante Jansson

    Original Article 15 July 2008 Pages: 699 - 703

15. 99Tc Nanocolloid sentinel node procedure in thyroid carcinoma

    • Isabella Merante Boschin
    • Antonio Toniato
    • MariaRosa Pelizzo

    Original Article 15 July 2008 Pages: 705 - 708

16. Serum 1-84 and 7-84 parathyroid hormone concentrations and bone in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism

    • A. Blachowicz
    • W. Chudzinski
    • E. Franek

    Original Article 11 July 2008 Pages: 709 - 713

17. Partial thyroidectomy under local anaesthesia—the analysis of 49 subsequent cases

    • Tomasz Banasiewicz
    • Wiktor Meissner
    • Michał Drews

    Endocrine Surgery 28 May 2008 Pages: 715 - 719

    

18. The estimation of the thyroid volume before surgery—an important prerequisite for minimally invasive thyroidectomy

    • M. Ruggieri
    • A. Fumarola
    • M. D’Armiento

    Original Article 09 August 2008 Pages: 721 - 724

    

19. Routine preoperative ¹²³I-MIBG scintigraphy for patients with phaeochromocytoma is not necessary

    • Radu Mihai
    • Fergus Gleeson
    • Greg Sadler

    Original Article 29 July 2008 Pages: 725 - 727

    

20. Characteristics of well-differentiated thyroid cancer associated with multinodular goiter

    • Shih-Ping Cheng
    • Chien-Liang Liu
    • Jie-Jen Lee

    Original Article 11 April 2008 Pages: 729 - 732

    

21. Does the risk of compressive hematoma after thyroidectomy authorize 1-day surgery?

    • Pierre Leyre
    • Thibault Desurmont
    • Jean-Louis Kraimps

    Original Article 03 July 2008 Pages: 733 - 737

    

22. Cost-effectiveness of scan-directed parathyroidectomy

    • Radu Mihai
    • Mary Weisters
    • Greg Sadler

    Original Article 01 August 2008 Pages: 739 - 743

    

23. Intrathyroidal hematopoiesis: a rare histological finding in an otherwise healthy patient and review of the literature

    • Christina C. Westhoff
    • Elias Karakas
    • Peter J. Barth

    Case Management and Clinical Consequences 26 February 2008 Pages: 745 - 749

    

24. Surgical management of mediastinal goiter: risk factors for sternotomy

    • Stanisław Cichoń
    • Ryszard Anielski
    • Paweł Orlicki

    Letter to the Editor 17 May 2008 Pages: 751 - 757

25. 12th Annual Meeting on Surgical Research/12. Chirurgische Forschungstage: Chirurgische Forschung — Brückenschlag zwischen Klinik, Forschung und Industrie, 25.–27. September 2008, Freiburg i. Breisgau, Germany

    Abstracts 19 August 2008 Pages: 759 - 815