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• • ·Factors contributing to failure of laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication and the predictive value of preoperative assessment

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    Colm Power, Donal Maguire, Oliver McAnena

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• • ·Laparoscopic adhesiolysis for small bowel obstruction

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    Alexander Nagle, Michael Ujiki, Woody Denham, Kenric Murayama

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• • ·Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for thoracic empyema: primarily, or after fibrinolytic therapy failure?

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    Ioannis E Petrakis, Nektarios E Kogerakis, Ioannis E Drositis, Kostas G Lasithiotakis, Demosthenes Bouros, Georgios E Chalkiadakis

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• • ·Is laparoscopic intraoperative cholangiogram a matter of routine?

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    Matthew S Metcalfe, Thao Ong, Martin H Bruening, Harish Iswariah, Simon A Wemyss-Holden, Guy J Maddern

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• • ·Determinants of in-hospital mortality and length of stay for acute intestinal gangrene

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    Karthikeshwar Kasirajan, Edward J Mascha, Daithi Heffernan, Jody Sifuentes

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• • ·One surgeon's philosophy of surgical education

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    John C Hall

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• • ·Radio-guided occult lesion localization in patients undergoing breast-conserving surgery and sentinel node biopsy

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    Riitta Rönkä, Leena Krogerus, Esa Leppänen, Karl von Smitten, Marjut Leidenius

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• • ·Long-term prognosis of patients with obstructing carcinoma of the right colon

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    Huann-Sheng Wang, Jen-Kou Lin, Chih-Yuan Mou, Tzu-Chen Lin, Wei-Shone Chen, Jeng-Kae Jiang, Shung-Haur Yang

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• • ·Surgery in heart and lung transplant patients

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    Vic Velanovich, Waleed Ezzat, Christopher Horn, Alvise Bernabei

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• • ·Recurrent neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome

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    Esteban Ambrad-Chalela, George I Thomas, Kaj H Johansen

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• • ·Early experiences with computed axial tomography colonography

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    Ferdinand Serracino-Inglott, Henry D.E Atkinson, Paul Jha, Ian Parker, David N Anderson

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• • ·Video-assisted thyroidectomy under local anesthesia

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    Celestino Pio Lombardi, Marco Raffaelli, Cristina Modesti, Mauro Boscherini, Rocco Bellantone

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• • ·Cystic artery pseudoaneurism from an evolved acute calculous cholecystitis

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    Gonzalo Gutiérrez, José Manuel Ramia, Jesus Villar, Daniel Garrote, Antonio Ferron, Eduardo Ruiz

     
• • ·Combination tramadol plus acetaminophen for postsurgical pain

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    Adam B Smith, Thanjavur S Ravikumar, Marc Kamin, Donna Jordan, Jim Xiang, Norman Rosenthal, CAPSS-115 Study Group †

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• • ·Pure mucinous carcinoma of the breast

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    Ian K Komenaka, Mahmoud B El-Tamer, Andrea Troxel, Diane Hamele-Bena, Kathie-Ann Joseph, Elizabeth Horowitz, Beth-Ann Ditkoff, Freya R Schnabel

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• • ·Is fear of anaphylactic shock discouraging surgeons from more widely adopting percutaneous and laparoscopic techniques in the treatment of liver hydatid cyst?

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    Rami Yaghan, Hussein Heis, Kamal Bani-Hani, Ismail Matalka, Nawaf Shatanawi, Kamal Gharaibeh, Amjad Bani-Hani

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• • ·Prognostic factors in node-negative intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with special reference to angiogenesis

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    Ken Shirabe, Mitsuo Shimada, Eiji Tsujita, Shin-ichi Aishima, Shin-ichiroh Maehara, Sinji Tanaka, Kenji Takenaka, Yoshihiko Maehara

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• • ·Surgery for stage IV gastric cancer

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    Heriberto Medina-Franco, Alan Contreras-Sald??var, Antonio Ramos-De La Medina, Pedro Palacios-Sanchez, Rubén Cortés-González, Javier Alvarez-Tostado Ugarte

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• • ·Bouveret's syndrome

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    Jeff Marschall, Susan Hayton

     
• • ·Forty-three cases of obturator hernia

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    Makoto Kammori, Ken-ichi Mafune, Tokuji Hirashima, Masaki Kawahara, Masanori Hashimoto, Toshihisa Ogawa, Hideaki Ohta, Hajime Hashimoto, Michio Kaminishi

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• • ·Vascular tumors of the abdominal wall

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    Stephanie R Goldberg, Robert A Halvorsen, James P Neifeld

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• • ·Meckel's diverticulum-induced ileocolonic intussusception

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    Anastasios K Konstantakos

     
• • ·Influence of age on surgical treatment of peripheral cholangiocarcinoma

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    Chun-Nan Yeh, Yi-Yin Jan, Miin-Fu Chen

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• • ·Prophylactic pylorus-preserving gastric transposition in unresectable carcinoma of the pancreatic head

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    Massimo Falconi, Moh'd Abu Hilal, Roberto Salvia, Nora Sartori, Claudio Bassi, Paolo Pederzoli

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• • ·Partial portal decompression using inferior mesenteric vein in portal hypertension

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    Satoshi Yamamoto, Yoshinobu Sato, Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama

     
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    Narayan Deshmukh

    
• • ·Core biopsy is accurate in determining the hormone receptor status of early breast cancer

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    K Harris, I Morafa, V Thomas, K Mokbel

    
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    Ossama Tawfik, Carol S Connor

    
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• • ·Emeritus editorial board

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