Archives of Surgery current issue

• CORRESPONDENCE: Lack of Evidence for Adrenal Insufficiency After Single-Dose Etomidate
• COMMENTARY: Perspective of West Africa: Why Bother to "Mission"?
• SPECIAL FEATURE: Image of the Month–Diagnosis
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Trauma Death: Views of the Public and Trauma Professionals on Death and Dying From Injuries
• RESIDENT’S CORNER: Spontaneous Duodenal Hematoma: A Rare Cause of Upper Gastrointestinal Tract Obstruction
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Carotid Endarterectomy as the Criterion Standard in High-Risk Elderly Patients
• CORRESPONDENCE: Do Not Forget Organ and Tissue Donation

Archives of Surgery recent issues

• INVITED CRITIQUE: Four Hundred Consecutive Total Gastrectomies for Gastric Cancer–Invited Critique
• SPECIAL FEATURE: Image of the Month–Quiz Case
• COMMENTARY: Perspective of West Africa: Why Bother to "Mission"?
• REVIEW ARTICLE: Meta-analysis of Randomized Studies Evaluating Chewing Gum to Enhance Postoperative Recovery Following Colectomy
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Trauma Death: Views of the Public and Trauma Professionals on Death and Dying From Injuries
• INVITED CRITIQUE: Evaluating the Degree of Difficulty of Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery–Invited Critique
• ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Carotid Endarterectomy as the Criterion Standard in High-Risk Elderly Patients

BMC Surgery - Latest articles

• The One-stop trial: Does electronic referral and booking by the general practitioner (GPs) to outpatient day case surgery reduce waiting time and costs? A randomized controlled trial protocol.
• Interest of retro-anal levator plate myorrhaphy in selected cases of descending perineum syndrome with positive anti-sagging test
• A historically controlled, single-arm, multi-centre, prospective trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of MonoMax® suture material for abdominal wall closure after primary midline laparotomy. ISSAAC-Trial [NCT005725079]
• The Anal Fistula Plug versus the mucosal advancement flap for the treatment of Anorectal Fistula (PLUG trial)
• Intravenous postoperative fluid prescriptions for children: A survey of practice
• The efficacy of ‘Radio guided Occult Lesion Localization’ (ROLL) versus ‘Wire-guided Localization’ (WGL) in breast conserving surgery for non-palpable breast cancer: A randomized clinical trial – ROLL study
• Non-invasive monitoring of tissue oxygenation during laparoscopic donor nephrectomy

Adjuvant Interferon-based Chemoradiation Followed By Gemcitabine for Resected Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma: A Single-Institution Phase II Study.

Cisplatin, Fluorouracil, Interferon-[alpha], and Radiation as Adjuvant Therapy for Resected Pancreatic Cancer: Is There a Future for This Regimen and/or Should We Change our Approach to Research and Treatment of Patients With Pancreatic Cancer?

Are Many Community Hospitals Undertreating Breast Cancer?: Lessons From 24,834 Patients.

Are We Better Than "Certain Others"?

A Systematic Review of Skills Transfer After Surgical Simulation Training.

Bias in Surgical Research.

Evidence-Based Surgical Care and the Evolution of Fast-Track Surgery.

Surgery PRNN

• Medical Tourism Corporation Releases Guide on Choosing the Right International Hospital
• More Women Choosing Mommy Makeover Plastic Surgery in the Inland Empire
• New Valve Replacement Package at Bangkok Hospital Medical Center Saving Lives and Money
• With PostBariatric Plastic Surgery New Jersey Surgeon Dr Paul M Parker Gets Rid of Extra Skin
• LapBand TellAll Warns of Patients Becoming LapBand Orphans
• The New BCIR A Major Progress Toward Shorter Hospital Stays
• Beverly Hills Liposculpture Performs 6000th Procedure

The Current Status of Endoscopic Thyroidectomy in Korea.

Learning Curve for Laparoscopy-assisted Distal Gastrectomy With Regional Lymph Node Dissection for Early Gastric Cancer.

A National Survey of Current Surgical Treatment of Acute Gallstone Disease.

Predictive Model of Failure of Outpatient Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy: A Retrospective Review of 14 Cases.

Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic and Thoracoscopic Surgery With the da Vinci System: A 4-year Experience in a Single Institution.

Laparoscopic Incisional Hernia Repair as a Day Surgery Procedure: Audit of 127 Consecutive Cases in a University Hospital.

Why I Became a Hand Surgeon.

Groin Flap Immobilization by Axillary Brachial Plexus Block Anesthesia.

A Technique for Using the Ilizarov Fixator for Primary Centralization in Radial Clubhand.

Reconstruction of the Type IIIA Hypoplastic Thumb.

Costal Osteochondral Grafts for Osteochondritis Dissecans of the Capitulum Humeri.

The Wire Mesh: Various Uses in Hand Surgery.

Spider Plate Fixation: No Significant Improvement in Limited Wrist Arthrodesis.

Contemporary Surgery

• No retirees in casinos and other health-care ‘reforms’
• The surgeon as defendant: One doctor’s tale of woe
• How do surgeons keep up to date?
• What is your opinion?
• Tourist and mother-in-law two tales of same problem
• Tips and tricks: Preserving superior rectal vessels using a new device: Lateral mobilization of the colon and anvil insertion
• Send that medical tourist to a teaching center

Botulinum Toxin for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Women.

Da Vinci Assisted Laparoscopic Sacrocolpopexy: Surgical Technique on a Cohort of 77 Patients.

A Comparative Study of Transvaginal Tape, Transobturator Tape Outside-in, and Transvaginal Tape-obturator Inside-out Surgical Procedures in the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence.

Patient Tolerability of Botulinum Toxin Type A Injections Under Local Anesthesia Using a Rigid Cystoscope: A Questionnaire-based Study.

Tissue Expanders Optimize Harvesting of Full-thickness Skin Grafts in Select Patients Undergoing McIndoe Neovagina.

Urethral Prolapse After Pessary Insertion for Stage IV Pelvic Organ Prolapse.

Vaginal Stenosis in Lichen Planus: Surgical Treatment Tips for Patients in Whom Conservative Therapies Have Failed.

World Journal of Emergency Surgery - Latest articles

• Emergency surgery for Meckel’s diverticulum.
• Ileocolic Intussusception-a rare cause of acute intestinal obstruction in adults; case report and literature review
• Delayed presentation of Subclavian venous thrombosis following undisplaced clavicle fracture
• Severe bleeding from esophageal varices resistant to endoscopic treatment in a non cirrhotic patient with portal hypertension
• Videothoracoscopic surgical approach for spontaneous pneumothorax: review of the pertinent literature
• Emergency endovascular management of peripheral artery aneurysms and pseudoaneurysms – a review
• Portal vein gas in emergency surgery

MedPage Today Surgery

• Smoking May Increase Bleeding Risk After Type of Tonsillectomy
• Chewing Gum Relieves Ileus After Colorectal Surgery
• Baby Heart Transplants Fan Ethical Debate Over Dead-Donor Rule
• Mortality Advantage for Epidural Anesthesia Called Marginal
• Good Results Seen with Intrabone Cord Blood Transplant for Leukemia
• Minimally Invasive Approach Comparable to Open Surgery for Aneurysm Repair
• Frankincense Extract Said to Reduce Osteoarthritis Pain

Missed Diagnosis in Craniofacial Surgery: A Reflection of Educational Arrogance or Just Knowledge Depletion.

Introduction to the Special Edition of the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery for the American Association of Pediatric Plastic Surgery: Burns in Children: A Special Compendium.

Introduction to the Special Edition of the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery for the American Association of Pediatric Plastic Surgery: The Treatment of the Child With Burns, a Challenge and a Work in Progress.

Nonoperative Management of Pediatric Burn Injuries.

Psychological Rehabilitation of Pediatric Burn Patients.

Economics of Pediatric Burns.

Nutritional and Metabolic Consequences in the Pediatric Burn Patient.

Table of Contents : Journal of Minimal Access Surgery : 2008 - 4(2)

• Three-dimensional visualisation and articulating instrumentation: Impact on simulated laparoscopic tasks
• Anastomotic leak rate and outcome for laparoscopic intra-corporeal stapled anastomosis
• Ipsilateral occult hernias during endoscopic groin hernia repair
• Percutaneous angio-embolization of a post laparoscopy complex utero-adenexal vascular malformation
• Enterocutaneous fistula as a complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• A handy balloon for total extraperitoneal repair of inguinal hernia
• Clinical G. I. Surgery

Annals of Surgical Innovation and Research - Latest articles

• Laparoscopic partial gastric transection and devascularization in order to enhance its flow
• Safety of carboxymethylcellulose/polyethylene oxide for the prevention of adhesions in lumbar disc herniation – consecutive case series review
• Surgical impact on brain tumor invasion: A physical perspective
• Design and development of adapters for electromagnetic trackers to perform navigated laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation
• Rapid intraoperative insulin assay: a novel method to differentiate insulinoma from nesidioblastosis in the pediatric patient
• Duke Surgery Patient Safety: an open-source application for anonymous reporting of adverse and near-miss surgical events
• Non-invasive MR imaging of inflammation in a patient with both asymptomatic carotid atheroma and an abdominal aortic aneurysm: a case report

Measurement of QRS Duration for Biventricular Pacing Optimization.

The Influence of Mock Circulation Input Impedance on Valve Acceleration During In Vitro Cardiac Device Testing.

Retrospective Analysis of Adverse Events in Preclinical Ventricular Assist Device Experiments.

Mechanical Circulatory Device Thrombosis: A New Paradigm Linking Hypercoagulation and Hypofibrinolysis.

Reliable Suction Detection for Patients With Rotary Blood Pumps.

Axial Flow Pump Treatment During Myocardial Depression in Calves: An Invasive Hemodynamic and Echocardiographic Tissue Doppler Study.

Microchannel Technologies for Artificial Lungs: (1) Theory.

Medscape General Surgery Headlines

• Bariatric Surgery May Improve Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Radical Prostatectomy Reduces Prostate Cancer Mortality and Distant Metastases
• Online Community Displays the "Intimacy" of Diabetes
• New Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Problems After Joint Surgery Identified
• Video Games Enhance Skills of Laparoscopic Surgeons
• Chewing Gum May Enhance Recovery After Colon Surgery
• P-4-P? How about P-B4-P?