1. World Progress in Surgery

   • Graham L. Hill

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 623 - 623

2. Initiators and Propagators of the Metabolic Response to Injury

   • Andrew G. Hill

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 624 - 629

3. Sequential Metabolic Changes following Induction of Systemic Inflammatory Response in Patients with Severe Sepsis or Major Blunt Trauma

   • Lindsay D. Plank
   • Graham L. Hill

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 630 - 638

4. Changes in Intermediary Metabolism in Severe Surgical Illness

   • Robert R. Wolfe
   • Wenjun Z. Martini

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 639 - 647

5. Wound Healing Associated with Severe Surgical Illness

   • Matthew A. Clark
   • Lindsay D. Plank
   • Graham L. Hill

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 648 - 654

6. Overview of Modern Management of Patients with Critical Injury and Severe Sepsis

   • Stephen J. Streat
   • Lindsay D. Plank
   • Graham L. Hill

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 655 - 663

7. Metabolic Management of Severe Acute Pancreatitis

   • John A. Windsor
   • Hisham Hammodat

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 664 - 672

8. Metabolic Management of Patients with Severe Burns

   • Robert H. Demling
   • Patrick Seigne

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 673 - 680

9. Disordered Metabolic Response with Cancer and Its Management

   • Matthew D. Barber
   • James A. Ross
   • Kenneth C.H. Fearon

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 681 - 689

10. Manipulation of the Metabolic Response in Clinical Practice

    • Henrik Kehlet

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 690 - 695

11. Manipulations of the Metabolic Response for Management of Patients with Severe Surgical Illness: Review

    • A.B. Connolly
    • D.R. Vernon

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 696 - 704

12. Metabolic Response to Severe Surgical Illness: Overview

    • Douglas W. Wilmore

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 705 - 711

13. Treatment of Complicated Hepatolithiasis with Intrahepatic Biliary Stricture by Ductal Dilatation and Stenting: Long-term Results

    • Yu Fan Cheng
    • Tze Yu Lee
    • Tai Yi Chen

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 712 - 716

14. Radical Surgical Therapy of Abdominal Cystic Hydatid Disease: Factors of Recurrence

    • Bernd Gollackner
    • Friedrich Längle
    • Rudolf Steininger

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 717 - 721

15. Hypomagnesemia and Hypocalcemia after Thyroidectomy: Prospective Study

    • Robert B. Wilson
    • Catherine Erskine
    • Philip J. Crowe

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 722 - 726

16. Limits of Infrapopliteal Bypass Surgery for Critical Leg Ischemia: When Not to Reconstruct

    • Fausto Biancari
    • Ilkka Kantonen
    • Mauri Lepäntalo

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 727 - 733

17. Effect of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy on Platelet Aggregation

    • Serdar Yol
    • Adil Kartal
    • Mikdat Bozer

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 734 - 738

18. Laparoscopic Hernioplasty versus Conventional Hernioplasty (Shouldice): Results of a Prospective Randomized Trial

    • Dietmar Lorenz
    • Eberhard Stark
    • Axel Richter

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 739 - 746

19. Incisional Hernia after Laparotomy: Prospective Randomized Comparison between Early-absorbable and Late-absorbable Suture Materials

    • Wei-Chiang Hsiao
    • Kung-Chia Young
    • Pin-Wen Lin

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 747 - 752

20. Letters to the Editor

    • Michael H. Cotton
    • Jacques Périssat
    • Grzegorz S. Litynski

    OriginalPaper 13 February 2014 Pages: 753 - 754