1. The impact of carbon dioxide pneumoperitoneum on liver regeneration after liver resection in a rat model

   • S. C. Schmidt
   • G. Schumacher
   • U. Neumann

   OriginalPaper 17 June 2009 Pages: 1 - 8

   

2. Initial trial of a stereoscopic, insertable, remotely controlled camera for minimal access surgery

   • Dennis L. Fowler
   • Tie Hu
   • Nancy J. Hogle

   New Technology 11 June 2009 Pages: 9 - 15

   

3. The impact of proton-pump inhibitors on intraperitoneal sepsis: a word of caution for transgastric NOTES procedures

   • Sonia L. Ramamoorthy
   • Jeffrey K. Lee
   • Mark A. Talamini

   OriginalPaper Open access 24 June 2009 Pages: 16 - 20

   

4. Open versus minilaparoscopic herniorrhaphy for children: a prospective comparative trial with midterm follow-up evaluation

   • Yao Chou Tsai
   • Chao-Chuan Wu
   • Stephen Shei-Dei Yang

   OriginalPaper 19 August 2009 Pages: 21 - 24

5. Prospective randomized comparison of clinical results between hand-assisted laparoscopic and open splenectomies

   • Umut Barbaros
   • Ahmet Dinççağ
   • Cavit Avci

   OriginalPaper 24 June 2009 Pages: 25 - 32

   

6. Laparoscopic treatment of Mirizzi syndrome: a systematic review

   • Stavros A. Antoniou
   • George A. Antoniou
   • Charalambos Makridis

   Review 23 May 2009 Pages: 33 - 39

   

7. Laparoscopic oesophageal cardiomyotomy without fundoplication in children with achalasia: a 10-year experience

   • Larisa Corda
   • Maurizio Pacilli
   • Munther Haddad

   OriginalPaper 04 June 2009 Pages: 40 - 44

8. Measuring mental workload during the performance of advanced laparoscopic tasks

   • Bin Zheng
   • Maria A. Cassera
   • Lee L. Swanström

   OriginalPaper 23 May 2009 Pages: 45 - 50

   

9. Cholecystocholedocholithiasis: a case–control study comparing the short- and long-term outcomes for a “laparoscopy-first” attitude with the outcome for sequential treatment (systematic endoscopic sphincterotomy followed by laparoscopic cholecystectomy)

   • Renato Costi
   • Antonio Mazzeo
   • Alain Valverde

   OriginalPaper 23 May 2009 Pages: 51 - 62

   

10. Laparoscopic colorectal resection for deep infiltrating endometriosis: analysis of 436 cases

    • Giacomo Ruffo
    • Filippo Scopelliti
    • Luca Minelli

    OriginalPaper 23 May 2009 Pages: 63 - 67

11. Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy: is it more than a challenge?

    • Sinan Ersin
    • Ozgur Firat
    • Murat Sozbilen

    OriginalPaper 17 June 2009 Pages: 68 - 71

    

12. Laparoscopic resection of gastric GIST and benign gastric tumours: evolution of a new technique

    • A. A. Warsi
    • P. M. Peyser

    OriginalPaper 17 June 2009 Pages: 72 - 78

    

13. Establishing construct validity of a virtual-reality training simulator for hysteroscopy via a multimetric scoring system

    • Michael Bajka
    • Stefan Tuchschmid
    • Matthias Harders

    OriginalPaper 24 June 2009 Pages: 79 - 88

    

14. Quality assurance in flexible sigmoidoscopy: medical and nonmedical endoscopists

    • Sushil Maslekar
    • Philip Waudby
    • Graeme Scott Duthie

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2009 Pages: 89 - 93

15. Is BMI greater than 60 kg/m² a predictor of higher morbidity after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass?

    • L. Kushnir
    • W. J. Dunnican
    • T. P. Singh

    OriginalPaper 18 June 2009 Pages: 94 - 97

16. Endoscopic management of eroded prosthesis in vertical banded gastroplasty patients

    • Shahzeer Karmali
    • Brad Snyder
    • Vadim Sherman

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2009 Pages: 98 - 102

    

17. Laparoscopically harvested omental flap: results for 96 patients

    • Hisamitsu Zaha
    • Susumu Inamine

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2009 Pages: 103 - 107

    

18. Is there a benefit to delaying cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallbladder disease during pregnancy?

    • Rajeev Dhupar
    • Gina Mantia Smaldone
    • Giselle G. Hamad

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2009 Pages: 108 - 112

19. Does a laparoscopic approach affect the number of lymph nodes harvested during curative surgery for colorectal cancer?

    • Galal El-Gazzaz
    • Tracy Hull
    • Daniel Geisler

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2009 Pages: 113 - 118

20. Endoscopic snare papillectomy with biliary and pancreatic stent placement for tumors of the major duodenal papilla

    • Takuji Yamao
    • Hajime Isomoto
    • Junji Irie

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2009 Pages: 119 - 124

    

21. Laparoscopic appendectomy by residents: evaluating outcomes and learning curve

    • Yap Yan Lin
    • Asim Shabbir
    • Jimmy B. Y. So

    OriginalPaper 16 September 2009 Pages: 125 - 130

    

22. Management of distal malignant biliary obstruction with the ComVi stent, a new covered metallic stent

    • Hiroyuki Isayama
    • Takao Kawabe
    • Masao Omata

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2009 Pages: 131 - 137

    

23. Validation that a 1-year fellowship in minimally invasive and bariatric surgery can eliminate the learning curve for laparoscopic gastric bypass

    • Mohamed R. Ali
    • David S. Tichansky
    • Eric J. DeMaria

    OriginalPaper Open access 11 June 2009 Pages: 138 - 144

24. Laparoscopic rectal surgery for middle and lower rectal cancer

    • Yosuke Fukunaga
    • Masayuki Higashino
    • Yushi Fujiwara

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2009 Pages: 145 - 151

    

25. Validity of using Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) program to assess laparoscopic competence for gynecologists

    • Bin Zheng
    • Hye-Chun Hur
    • Lee L. Swanström

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2009 Pages: 152 - 160

    

26. Video-assisted thoracic surgery involving major pulmonary resection for central tumors

    • Ryoichi Nakanishi
    • Yoshihisa Fujino
    • Seiichi Odate

    OriginalPaper 11 June 2009 Pages: 161 - 169

    

27. Support vector machines improve the accuracy of evaluation for the performance of laparoscopic training tasks

    • Brian Allen
    • Vasile Nistor
    • Petros Faloutsos

    OriginalPaper Open access 16 June 2009 Pages: 170 - 178

    

28. Development and validation of mental practice as a training strategy for laparoscopic surgery

    • Sonal Arora
    • Rajesh Aggarwal
    • Ara Darzi

    OriginalPaper 25 July 2009 Pages: 179 - 187

    

29. Endoscopic hemithyroidectomy with prophylactic ipsilateral central neck dissection via an unilateral axillo-breast approach without gas insufflation for unilateral micropapillary thyroid carcinoma: preliminary report

    • Yoon Woo Koh
    • Jae Hong Park
    • Eun Chang Choi

    OriginalPaper 18 August 2009 Pages: 188 - 197

    

30. Usefulness in NOTES of an intra-abdominal antifogging wireless charge-coupled device (CCD) camera with pantograph-type needle unit for placement to the intra-abdominal wall

    • Takeshi Ohdaira
    • Kazuhiro Endo
    • Yoshikazu Yasuda

    OriginalPaper 18 June 2009 Pages: 198 - 209

    

31. Endotherapy for severe and complete pharyngo-esophageal post-radiation stenosis using wires, balloons and pharyngo-esophageal puncture (PEP) (with videos)

    • Shou-jiang Tang
    • Shailender Singh
    • John M. Truelson

    Dynamic Manuscript 11 June 2009 Pages: 210 - 214

    

32. Enucleation of a leiomyoma of the mid-esophagus through a right thoracoscopy with the patient in prone position

    • Giovanni Dapri
    • Jacques Himpens
    • Guy Bernard Cadière

    Dynamic Manuscript 11 June 2009 Pages: 215 - 218

    

33. Endoscopically guided thoracoscopic esophagectomy for stricture in a child

    • Marcus M. Malek
    • Sohail R. Shah
    • Timothy D. Kane

    Multimedia Manuscript 11 June 2009 Pages: 219 - 219

34. Natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES): creation of a gastric valve for safe and effective transgastric surgery in humans

    • Michael B. Ujiki
    • Danny V. Martinec
    • Lee L. Swanström

    Video 17 June 2009 Pages: 220 - 220

35. A simplified technique for placement of biologic mesh in paraesophageal hernia repair (PEH)

    • Tayyab S. Diwan
    • Danny V. Martinec
    • Lee L. Swanström

    Video 11 June 2009 Pages: 221 - 222

36. Natural orifice surgery: initial US experience utilizing the StomaphyX^TM device to reduce gastric pouches after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

    • Dean Mikami
    • Bradley Needleman
    • W. Scott Melvin

    Endoluminal Surgery 25 July 2009 Pages: 223 - 228

    

37. Letter in response to: Mazeh H, Greenstein AJ, Swedish K, Nguyen SQ, Lipskar A, Weber KJ, Chin EH, Divino CM (2009) Laparoscopic and open reversal of Hartmann’s procedure—a comparative retrospective analysis (Surg Endosc 23:496–502)

    • Hubert Scheidbach
    • Hans Lippert

    Letter 11 June 2009 Pages: 229 - 229

38. Use of porcine small intestine submucosa as a prosthetic material for laparoscopic hernia repair in infected and potentially contaminated fields: long-term follow up assessment; Surg Endosc (2008) 22: 1941–1946

    • Alexander H. Petter-Puchner
    • René H. Fortelny

    Letter 25 July 2009 Pages: 230 - 231

39. Geek-speak on “peek port”: hybridizing a hybrid technique not Geeks peak

    • Brij B. Agarwal
    • Shruti Sharma

    Letter 11 June 2009 Pages: 232 - 233

40. From single-port access to laparoendoscopic single-site cholecystectomy

    • Pascal Bucher
    • François Pugin
    • Philippe Morel

    Letter 18 August 2009 Pages: 234 - 235

41. Umbilicus, navel, belly button—Vitruvian guide for esthetic cosmetics: a Da Vinci code for beautiful informed consent

    • Brij B. Agarwal

    Letter 11 June 2009 Pages: 236 - 238

    

42. Robotic versus laparoscopic gastrectomy

    • Ernst Hanisch
    • Dimosthenis Ziogas

    Letter 23 July 2009 Pages: 239 - 241

43. Reply to: 464-625: Re Role of robotic gastrectomy using da Vinci system compared with laparoscopic gastrectomy: initial experience of 20 consecutive cases

    • Jyewon Song
    • Woo Jin Hyung

    Letter-Reply 25 July 2009 Pages: 242 - 243

44. A rare endoscopic finding: acquired double pylorus

    • Mehmet Arhan
    • Erkin Oztas
    • Yasemin Ozin

    Letter Open access 11 June 2009 Pages: 244 - 245

    

45. Safe and feasible inflow occlusion in laparoscopic liver resection

    • Akihiro Cho
    • Hiroshi Yamamoto
    • Atsushi Ikeda

    Letter-Reply 18 August 2009 Pages: 246 - 246

46. Reply to 090220: Re: ‘Predictive factors for surgical complications of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer’ (Epub 31 Dec 08)

    • Chikara Kunisaki

    Letter--Reply 04 June 2009 Pages: 247 - 247

47. News and Notices

    News and notices 10 December 2009 Pages: 248 - 249