Temporarily impaired surgeons and calling for help
Monica Maillet, Kimberly Ephgrave
pages 3-5
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The cost of trauma center readiness
Paul A Taheri, David A Butz, Larry Lottenberg, Art Clawson, Lewis M Flint
pages 7-13
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Omeprazole is more effective than a histamine H2-receptor blocker for maintaining a persistent elevation of gastric pH after colon resection for cancer
Tzu-Chi Hsu, Chiu-Feng Su, Shu-Ching Leu, Pi-Chen Huang, Tsang-En Wang, Cheng-Hsin Chu
pages 20-23
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The effect of tissue adhesive, octyl-cyanoacrylate, on the healing of experimental high-risk and normal colonic anastomoses
Tarik Zafer Nursal, Rüksan Anarat, Sema Bircan, Sedat Yildirim, Akın Tarım, Mehmet Haberal
pages 28-32
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Management of neuroendocrine liver metastases
Robert Sutcliffe, Donal Maguire, John Ramage, Mohamed Rela, Nigel Heaton
pages 39-46
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Obesity and lymphatic mapping with sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer
Marybeth Hughes, Thomas G Goffman, Roger R Perry, Christine Laronga
pages 52-57
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Impact of neoadjuvant therapy of perioperative morbidity in patients with esophageal cancer
Andreas Imdahl, Ulrich Schöffel, Günther Ruf
pages 64-68
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Impact of a surgical oncologist on general surgery residency training program
T.Clark Gamblin, Martin L Dalton, Joe H Morgan, Dudley B Christie, Robert L Vogel, Paul S Dale
pages 73-75
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Predictors of development of anastomotic femoral pseudoaneurysms after aortobifemoral reconstruction for abdominal aortic aneurysm
Kari Ylönen, Fausto Biancari, Enrico Leo, Pekka Rainio, Esa Salmela, Jarmo Lahtinen, Jari Satta, Risto Pokela, Martti Lepojärvi, Tatu Juvonen
pages 83-87
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Improvement of intestinal motility using S-methylisothiourea in postoperative ileus
Shouiti Uenoyama, Toshihiko Kobayashi, Yutaka Takeuchi, Kimihiro Yamashita, Yukio Koide, Teruhisa Kazui
pages 93-97
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Eloesser procedure for postpneumonectomy bronchopleural fistula
Jon D. Halling, Frank E. Johnson
pages 100-101
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Three-dimensional computer images of Morgagni hernia
Kazuki Yamashita, Tsukasa Tsunoda
pages 109-110
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Cognitive task analysis for teaching technical skills in an inanimate surgical skills laboratory
George C Velmahos, Konstantinos G Toutouzas, Lelan F Sillin, Linda Chan, Richard E Clark, Demetrios Theodorou, Fredric Maupin
pages 114-119
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Improving the adverse changes in cardiac autonomic nervous control during laparoscopic surgery, using an intermittent sequential pneumatic compression device
Amitai Bickel, Malka Yahalom, Nathan Roguin, Shimon Ivry, Jona Breslava, Roman Frankel, Arie Eitan
pages 124-127
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A modification of segment III intrahepatic cholangiojejunostomy
Criostoir B O'Suilleabhain, Krishna K Madhavan
pages 131-133
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Cancer of the breast, fifth edition. William L. Donegan and John S. Spratt publisher: Saunders, Philadelphia, pages: 1,025. price: $179.00
C.Barber Mueller
page 146
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Repair techniques for major incisional hernias
Brent Miedema
page 148
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Laser therapy for small breast cancers
Neal S. Goldstein
page 149
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Operative risk of rectal cancer surgery in the elderly
F. Bozzetti
pages 150-151
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Pancreaticojejunostomy with invagination of spatulated pancreatic stump into a jejunal pouch
Sudhir C. Joseph, Subrat K. Raul
page 151
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