1. Quality of Life after Minimally Invasive Versus Open Esophagectomy

   • Lars Lundell

   Invited Commentary 21 June 2014 Pages: 2109 - 2110

2. A Banner Year for Global Surgery: Now How to Make it Make a Difference on the Ground

   • Charles Mock

   Editorial Perspective 16 July 2015 Pages: 2111 - 2114

3. World Health Assembly Resolution WHA68.15: “Strengthening Emergency and Essential Surgical Care and Anesthesia as a Component of Universal Health Coverage”—Addressing the Public Health Gaps Arising from Lack of Safe, Affordable and Accessible Surgical and Anesthetic Services

   • Raymond Price
   • Emmanuel Makasa
   • Michael Hollands

   Invited Commentary 04 August 2015 Pages: 2115 - 2125

4. Proposed Minimum Rates of Surgery to Support Desirable Health Outcomes: An Observational Study Based on Three Strategies

   • Micaela M. Esquivel
   • George Molina
   • Thomas G. Weiser

   Original Scientific Report 13 May 2015 Pages: 2126 - 2131

   

5. Surgical Care and Health Systems

   • David A. Spiegel
   • Mohit Misra
   • Health Systems Strengthening Working Group of the Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care

   Surgical Symposium Contribution 06 January 2015 Pages: 2132 - 2139

   

6. Surgical Care in Liberia and Implications for Capacity Building

   • Tiffany E. Chao
   • Pratik B. Patel
   • John G. Meara

   Original Scientific Report 02 December 2014 Pages: 2140 - 2146

7. A Safe-Anesthesia Innovation for Emergency and Life-Improving Surgeries When no Anesthetist is Available: A Descriptive Review of 193 Consecutive Surgeries

   • Thomas Burke
   • Yogeeta Manglani
   • Roy Ahn

   Original Scientific Report 12 June 2015 Pages: 2147 - 2152

8. The Bare Minimum: The Reality of Global Anaesthesia and Patient Safety

   • Kelly McQueen
   • Tom Coonan
   • Haydn Perndt

   Original Scientific Report 12 June 2015 Pages: 2153 - 2160

   

9. Prehospital and Emergency Care: Updates from the Disease Control Priorities, Version 3

   • Renee Y. Hsia
   • Amardeep Thind
   • Charles Mock

   Original Scientific Report 07 April 2015 Pages: 2161 - 2167

   

10. Projections for Achieving the Lancet Commission Recommended Surgical Rate of 5000 Operations per 100,000 Population by Region-Specific Surgical Rate Estimates

    • Tarsicio Uribe-Leitz
    • Micaela M. Esquivel
    • Thomas G. Weiser

    Original Scientific Report 12 June 2015 Pages: 2168 - 2172

    

11. Systematic Review of Surgical Literature from Resource-Limited Countries: Developing Strategies for Success

    • Thierry Pauyo
    • Haile T. Debas
    • Dan L. Deckelbaum

    Scientific Review 03 June 2015 Pages: 2173 - 2181

    

12. Estimation of Surgery Capacity in Haiti: Nationwide Survey of Hospitals

    • Tu M. Tran
    • Mackenson Saint-Fort
    • Richard A. Gosselin

    Original Scientific Report 28 May 2015 Pages: 2182 - 2190

    

13. The Struggle for Equity: An Examination of Surgical Services at Two NGO Hospitals in Rural Haiti

    • Alexi C. Matousek
    • Sarah B. Matousek
    • Robert Riviello

    Original Scientific Report 02 June 2015 Pages: 2191 - 2197

    

14. Quantifying the Disability from Congenital Anomalies Averted Through Pediatric Surgery: A Cross-Sectional Comparison of a Pediatric Surgical Unit in Kenya and Canada

    • D. Poenaru
    • J. Pemberton
    • B. H. Cameron

    Original Scientific Report 03 June 2015 Pages: 2198 - 2206

    

15. Raising the Alarm: A Cross-Sectional Study Exploring the Factors Affecting Patients’ Willingness to Escalate Care on Surgical Wards

    • Maximilian J. Johnston
    • Rachel E. Davis
    • Ara Darzi

    Original Scientific Report 27 May 2015 Pages: 2207 - 2213

16. Involving Medical Students in Informed Consent: A Pilot Study

    • Costanza Chiapponi
    • Frank Meyer
    • Christiane J. Bruns

    Original Scientific Report 09 May 2015 Pages: 2214 - 2219

    

17. Efficacy of Intravenous Lidocaine for Postoperative Analgesia Following Laparoscopic Surgery: A Meta-Analysis

    • Nicholas T. Ventham
    • Ewan D. Kennedy
    • Kenneth C. H. Fearon

    Original Scientific Report 05 June 2015 Pages: 2220 - 2234

    

18. Impact of Preoperative ERCP on Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Case-Controlled Study with Propensity Score Matching

    • Keun Soo Ahn
    • Yong Hoon Kim
    • Eun Soo Kim

    Original Scientific Report 17 April 2015 Pages: 2235 - 2242

    

19. Naso-enteric Tube Placement: A Review of Methods to Confirm Tip Location, Global Applicability and Requirements

    • S. A. Milsom
    • J. A. Sweeting
    • J. A. Windsor

    Scientific Review 22 April 2015 Pages: 2243 - 2252

    

20. Outpatient Thyroid Surgery in a Low-Surgical Volume Hospital

    • Marco Antonio Ayala
    • Myron William Yencha

    Original Scientific Report 29 May 2015 Pages: 2253 - 2258

    

21. Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Children and Adolescents: Long-Term Follow-Up and Clinical Characteristics

    • Kiminori Sugino
    • Mitsuji Nagahama
    • Koichi Ito

    Original Scientific Report 24 March 2015 Pages: 2259 - 2265

    

22. Risk-Directed Algorithms for Pediatric PTC Patients: Is It Time?

    • Linwah Yip

    Invited Commentary 18 April 2015 Pages: 2266 - 2268

23. Single-Port Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy with Monitored Anesthesia Care: A More Promising Procedure for Palmar Hyperhidrosis

    • Ye Ning
    • Yanan Wang
    • Xuewei Zhao

    Original Scientific Report with Video 19 June 2015 Pages: 2269 - 2273

    

24. Incidence and Risk Factors of Abdominal Complications After Lung Transplantation

    • Fabian Grass
    • Markus Schäfer
    • Thorsten Krueger

    Original Scientific Report 27 May 2015 Pages: 2274 - 2281

25. Comorbidities and Risk of Complications After Surgery for Esophageal Cancer: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Sweden

    • Lovisa Backemar
    • Pernilla Lagergren
    • Jesper Lagergren

    Original Scientific Report 08 May 2015 Pages: 2282 - 2288

26. The Correlation Between RhoA Expression and Clinicopathological Characteristics in Gastric Cancer Patients After Curative Surgery

    • Kuo-Hung Huang
    • Yuan-Tzu Lan
    • Wen-Liang Fang

    Original Scientific Report 27 May 2015 Pages: 2289 - 2299

    

27. Quality of Life After Living Donor Hepatectomy for Liver Transplantation

    • Abu Bakar Hafeez Bhatti
    • Haseeb Zia
    • Najmul Hassan Shah

    Original Scientific Report 28 April 2015 Pages: 2300 - 2305

    

28. National Comprehensive Cancer Network Resectability Status for Pancreatic Carcinoma Predicts Overall Survival

    • Yoshiaki Murakami
    • Sohei Satoi
    • Michiaki Unno

    Original Scientific Report 27 May 2015 Pages: 2306 - 2314

    

29. Stent Placement for Portal Vein Stenosis After Pancreaticoduodenectomy

    • Masahide Hiyoshi
    • Yoshiro Fujii
    • Jiro Ohuchida

    Original Scientific Report 12 May 2015 Pages: 2315 - 2322

    

30. Preoperative Platelet–Lymphocyte Ratio Augments CA 19-9 as a Predictor of Malignancy in Chronic Calcific Pancreatitis

    • Ashwin Rammohan
    • Sathya D. Cherukuri
    • Manoharan Govindan

    Original Scientific Report 28 April 2015 Pages: 2323 - 2328

    

31. Preoperative Prediction of Lymph Node Status by Circulating Mir-18b and Mir-20a During Chemoradiotherapy in Patients with Rectal Cancer

    • Azadeh Azizian
    • Frank Kramer
    • Jochen Gaedcke

    Original Scientific Report 20 May 2015 Pages: 2329 - 2335

    

32. One-Stage Colectomy with Intraoperative Colonic Irrigation for Acute Left-Sided Malignant Colonic Obstruction

    • Shimpei Otsuka
    • Yuji Kaneoka
    • Masatoshi Isogai

    Original Scientific Report 16 April 2015 Pages: 2336 - 2342

    

33. Effect of Visceral Obesity on Surgical Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery

    • Byung Kwan Park
    • Ji Won Park
    • Jae-Gahb Park

    Original Scientific Report 28 April 2015 Pages: 2343 - 2353

    

34. Screening Men with Coronary Heart Disease for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Prospective Cohort Study

    • Ville Vänni
    • Jussi Hernesniemi
    • Tapio Hakala

    Original Scientific Report 15 May 2015 Pages: 2354 - 2358

    

35. A Novel Technique of Anti-reflux Esophagogastrostomy Following Left Thoracoabdominal Esophagectomy for Carcinoma of the Esophagogastric Junction

    • Shinji Mine
    • Souya Nunobe
    • Masayuki Watanabe

    Innovative Surgical Techniques Around the World 23 April 2015 Pages: 2359 - 2361

    

36. A Simple Method of Liver Retraction for Various Types of Laparoscopic Upper Gastrointestinal Surgeries: The Prolene Hanging-Up Method

    • Jeong-Sun Lee
    • Jin-Jo Kim
    • Seung-Man Park

    Innovative Surgical Techniques Around the World 21 April 2015 Pages: 2362 - 2366

    

37. Serum Leptin Levels and Well-Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A True Association: Reply

    • Tarek Ezzat Abdel-Aziz
    • Rania Abdel Rehem
    • Waleed Abo Elwafa

    Reply, Letter to the Editor 24 June 2015 Pages: 2367 - 2367

38. Preoperative Sarcopenia Negatively Impacts Postoperative Outcomes Following Major Hepatectomy with Extrahepatic Bile Duct Resection

    • Robert J. S. Coelen
    • Thomas M. van Gulik

    Letter to the Editor 26 March 2015 Pages: 2368 - 2369

39. Commentary on “Preoperative Sarcopenia Negatively Impacts Postoperative Outcomes Following Major Hepatectomy with Extrahepatic Bile Duct Resection”

    • Vildan Binay Safer
    • Umut Safer
    • Cihan Top

    Letter to the Editor 23 April 2015 Pages: 2370 - 2371

40. Reply to the Comments

    • Yukihiro Yokoyama
    • Hidehiko Otsuji
    • Masato Nagino

    Reply, Letter to the Editor 16 July 2015 Pages: 2372 - 2373