59-60
Editorial
Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery
and the German Society of Surgery
H. G. Beger and B. M. Rau
61-67
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Evidence-based medicine—from best research evidence to a better surgical practice and health care
G. Antes, S. Sauerland and C. M. Seiler
68-71
Current Concepts in Endocrine Surgery
Video-assisted thyroidectomy: indications and results
Paolo Miccoli, Piero Berti, Gian Luca Frustaci, Carlo Enrico Ambrosini and Gabriele Materazzi
72-82
Original Article
Isolation and transduction of monocytes: promising vehicles for therapeutic arteriogenesis
Joerg Herold, Harald Tillmanns, Zhou Xing, Ruth H. Strasser and Ruediger C. Braun-Dullaeus
83-87
Original Article
The vagal nerve as a link between the nervous and immune system in the instance of polymicrobial sepsis
Wolfram Kessler, Tobias Traeger, Alexandra Westerholt, Friederike Neher and Marlene Mikulcak, et al.
88-95
Original Article
Systemic capsaicin inhibits neuronal activation in the brainstem during postoperative ileus in the mouse
Mario H. Mueller, Dimitrios Kampitoglou, Joerg Glatzle, Jutta Hahn and Martin E. Kreis
96-101
Original Article
The inhibition of tumor cell adhesion on human mesothelial cells (HOMC) by phospholipids in vitro
M. Jansen, P. Lynen Jansen, J. Otto, T. Kirtil and S. Neuss, et al.
102-107
Original Article
Improved technique of heterotopic auxiliary rat liver transplantation with portal vein arterialization
Karina Schleimer, Dirk L. Stippel, Samir Tawadros, J. Hölzen and A. H. Hölscher, et al.
108-112
Original Article
Octreotide hardens the pancreas
T. Foitzik, M. Gock, C. Schramm, F. Prall and E. Klar
113-117
Original Article
The sentinel node biopsy in early gastric cancer: a preliminary study
Gianni Mura, Alessio Vagliasindi, Massimo Framarini, Paolo Mazza and Gabriele Solfrini, et al.
118-123
Original Article
Radiofrequency-ablation of unresectable primary and secondary liver tumors: results in 88 patients
Philipp Hildebrand, Markus Kleemann, Uwe J. Roblick, Lutz Mirow and Matthias Birth, et al.
124-129
Original Article
Intraarterial chemotherapy as an adjuvant treatment in locally advanced gastric cancer
Antonios-Apostolos K. Tentes, Sotirios K. Markakidis, Charisios Karanikiotis, Aliki Fiska and Ioannis K. Tentes, et al.
130-142
New Surgical Horizons
Treatment for multiple bilobar liver metastases of colorectal cancer
Hiroshi Shimada, Kuniya Tanaka, Kenichi Matsuo and Shinji Togo
143-148
Ethics and Health Care in Surgery
The art of surgery in the 21st century: based on natural sciences and new ethical dimensions
H. G. Beger and R. Arbogast
149-156
Ethics and Health Care in Surgery
Leadership characteristics and business management in modern academic surgery
Peter Büchler, David Martin, Hanns-Peter Knaebel and Markus W. Büchler
157-160
Case Management and Clinical Consequences
Retroperitoneal gas gangrene after colonoscopic polypectomy without bowel perforation in an otherwise healthy individual: report of a case
L. Boenicke, M. Maier, M. Merger, M. Bauer and C. Buchberger, et al.
161-163
Mastery in Surgery
Martin Allgöwer, Professor
Dr med
,
Dres med hc mult
, Emeritus Chair and Professor of Surgery, University of Basle, Switzerland
Dorothea Liebermann-Meffert
164-165
Letter to the Editor
“Fibrinolytic capacity in peritoneal fluid after laparoscopic and conventional colorectal resection: data from a randomized controlled trial” by J. Neudecker et al.
Manfred Nagelschmidt
166-167
Letter to the Editor
Reply to the letter by M. Nagelschmidt regarding our article “Fibrinolytic capacity in peritoneal fluid after laparoscopic and conventional colorectal resection: data from a randomized controlled trial”
J. Neudecker, T. Junghans, R. Raue and W. Schwenk