1. Editorial: Surgical Medical Writing for Young Surgeons

   • Abe Fingerhut

   OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 121 - 121

2. Confidentiality Governing Surgical Research Practice

   • Anna Mavroforou
   • Athanasios D. Giannoukas
   • Emmanuel Michalodimitrakis

   OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 122 - 123

3. A Critical Evaluation of Hepatic Resection in Cirrhosis: Optimizing Patient Selection and Outcomes

   • Jean C. Emond
   • Benjamin Samstein
   • John F. Renz

   OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 124 - 130

4. State of the Art in Burn Treatment

   • Bishara S. Atiyeh
   • S. William Gunn
   • Shady N. Hayek

   Review Article 20 January 2005 Pages: 131 - 148

5. Major Bronchial Trauma in the Pediatric Age Group

   • E. Heldenberg
   • T.H. Vishne
   • A. Yellin

   OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 149 - 154

   

6. Invited Commentary

   • Eric W. Fonkalsrud

   Invited Commentary 20 January 2005 Pages: 154 - 154

7. Long-term Follow-up after Adrenalectomy for Primary Aldosteronism

   • Andreas Meyer
   • Georg Brabant
   • Matthias Behrend

   Original article 20 January 2005 Pages: 155 - 159

   

8. A Prospective Randomized Comparison of Bilateral Subtotal Thyroidectomy Versus Unilateral Total and Contralateral Subtotal Thyroidectomy for Graves’ Disease

   • Shun-Yu Chi
   • Kun-Chou Hsei
   • Fong-Fu Chou

   OriginalPaper 18 January 2005 Pages: 160 - 163

9. Surgical Treatment of Hurthle Cell Tumors of the Thyroid

   • Tzu-Chieh Chao
   • Jen-Der Lin
   • Miin-Fu Chen

   OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 164 - 168

10. Sequential Changes in Plasma Intact and Whole Parathyroid Hormone Levels during Parathyroidectomy for Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

    • Hiroyuki Yamashita
    • Tom Cantor
    • Shiro Noguchi

    OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 169 - 173

    

11. Duodenogastric Reflux after Esophagectomy and Gastric Pull-up: The Effect of the Route of Reconstruction

    • Iraklis E. Katsoulis
    • Ioannis Robotis
    • Panagiotis Yannopoulos

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2005 Pages: 174 - 181

    

12. Gallstone Disease after Extended (D2) Lymph Node Dissection for Gastric Cancer

    • Tomotaka Akatsu
    • Masashi Yoshida
    • Koichiro Kumai Masaki Kitajima

    Original Scientific Report 20 January 2005 Pages: 182 - 186

13. Predictive Value of Procalcitonin for the Diagnosis of Bowel Strangulation

    • Refik Ayten
    • Osman Dogru
    • Handan Akbulut

    OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 187 - 189

    

14. Impact of Age on Quality of Life in Patients with Rectal Cancer

    • Christian E. Schmidt
    • Beate Bestmann
    • Bernd Kremer

    OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 190 - 197

    

15. Bacterial Translocation: Not a Clinically Relevant Phenomenon in Colorectal Cancer

    • Yoshio Takesue
    • Masayuki Kakehashi
    • Taijiro Sueda

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2005 Pages: 198 - 202

16. New Pancreas-preserving Total Duodenectomy Technique

    • Masayuki Imamura
    • Izumi Komoto
    • Yasuhiro Kawai

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2005 Pages: 203 - 207

    

17. Intraductal Papillary-mucinous Tumors Arising in Santorini’s Duct: Clinicopathologic Features and the Treatment of Choice

    • Satoshi Hirano
    • Satoshi Kondo
    • Hiroyuki Katoh

    OriginalPaper 17 January 2005 Pages: 208 - 211

    

18. Hemorrhage after Duodenopancreatectomy: Impact of Neoadjuvant Radiochemotherapy and Experience with Sentinel Bleeding

    • Olivier Turrini
    • Vincent Moutardier
    • Jean-Robert Delpero

    OriginalPaper 20 January 2005 Pages: 212 - 216

19. Heterogeneity of Subvesical Ducts or the Ducts of Luschka: A Study Using Drip-infusion Cholangiography-Computed Tomography in Patients and Cadaver Specimens

    • Masahiro Kitami
    • Gen Murakami
    • Shoki Takahashi

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2005 Pages: 217 - 223

    

20. Occult Intrabiliary Rupture of Hydatid Cysts in the Liver

    • Enver Okan Hamamci
    • Hasan Besim
    • Atila Korkmaz

    OriginalPaper 27 January 2005 Pages: 224 - 226

21. Chlorhexidine Gluconate: An Ideal Scolicidal Agent in the Treatment of Intraperitoneal Hydatidosis?

    • Kenan Puryan
    • Kursat Karadayi
    • Metin Sen

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2005 Pages: 227 - 230

    

22. Marlex Mesh Prefix Plug Hernioplasty Retrospective Analysis of 865 Operations

    • Emmanouil Pikoulis
    • Panayiotis Daskalakis
    • Panayiotis Tsatsoulis

    OriginalPaper 06 January 2005 Pages: 231 - 234

23. Addition of Rectus Sheath Relaxation Incisions to Emergency Midline Laparotomy for Peritonitis to prevent Fascial Dehiscence

    • Sanjay Marwah
    • Nisha Marwah
    • Rajender Kumar Karwasra

    OriginalPaper 27 January 2005 Pages: 235 - 239

    

24. Staged Abdominal Repair for Treatment of Moderate to Severe Secondary Peritonitis

    • Fatih Agalar
    • Erol Eroglu
    • Mustafa Sari

    OriginalPaper 17 January 2005 Pages: 240 - 244

    

25. Transmetatarsal Amputation: Three-year Experience At Groote Schuur Hospital

    • B.P. Mwipatayi
    • N.G. Naidoo
    • N. Cloete

    OriginalPaper 17 January 2005 Pages: 245 - 248

    

26. Factors Predicting Long-term Graft Survival after Kidney Transplantation: Multicenter Study in Japan

    • Kiyokazu Akioka
    • Sirou Takahara
    • Shinichi Ohshima

    OriginalPaper 27 January 2005 Pages: 249 - 256