817-824
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Clinical sepsis and septic shock—definition, diagnosis and management principles
Jean-Louis Vincent
825-831
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Polytrauma—pathophysiology and management principles
F. Gebhard and M. Huber-Lang
833-847
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Current insights in intra-abdominal hypertension and abdominal compartment syndrome: open the abdomen and keep it open!
Inneke E. De laet, Mariska Ravyts, Wesley Vidts, Jody Valk and Jan J. De Waele, et al.
849-855
Controlled Prospective Clinicals Trials
The role of parenteral glutamine supplement for surgical patient perioperatively: result of a single center, prospective and controlled study
Chun-Nan Yeh, Hsiang-Lin Lee, Yu-Yin Liu, Kun-Chun Chiang and Tsann-Long Hwang, et al.
857-863
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
Permanent stenting in “unextractable” common bile duct stones in high risk patients. A prospective randomized study comparing two different stents
Franco Pisello, Girolamo Geraci, Francesco Li Volsi, Giuseppe Modica and Carmelo Sciumè
865-870
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
Endovascular versus open revascularization for chronic mesenteric ischemia: a comparative study
P. Zerbib, G. Lebuffe, G. Sergent-Baudson, A. Chamatan and D. Massouille, et al.
871-876
Original Article
Influence of surgical trauma on the mRNA expression of sex hormone receptors in PBMCs in male and female patients
S. A. Brechenmacher, C. J. Bruns, N. K. Van den Engel, P. Angele and F. Loehe, et al.
877-882
Original Article
p53 expression and apoptosis in liver and spleen during CO2 pneumoperitoneum
Yüksel Arikan, Murat Tosun, Volkan Şaykol, Serpil Kalkan and Serpil Erdem
883-890
Original Article
Molecular markers of pancreatic cancer: development and clinical relevance
Lucia C. Fry, Klaus Mönkemüller and Peter Malfertheiner
891-900
Original Article
Pancreatic stellate cells—role in pancreas cancer
Max G. Bachem, Shaoxia Zhou, Karin Buck, Wilhelm Schneiderhan and Marco Siech
901-910
Original Article
Targeting angiogenesis in pancreatic cancer: rationale and pitfalls
Chery Whipple and Murray Korc
911-917
Original Article
Pancreatic cancer: a generalized disease—prognostic impact of cancer cell dissemination
D. Bogoevski, T. Strate, E. F. Yekebas and J. R. Izbicki
919-922
Original Article
Pain and pain generation in pancreatic cancer
Fabio F. di Mola and Pierluigi di Sebastiano
923-927
Original Article
Pancreatic cancer—EUS and early diagnosis
Lars Helmstaedter and Juergen Ferdinand Riemann
929-934
Original Article
R2 resection in pancreatic cancer—does it make sense?
Jörg Köninger, Moritz N. Wente, Beat P. Müller-Stich, Francesco F. di Mola and Carsten N. Gutt, et al.
935-941
Original Article
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis
Angel Iliev Popkharitov
943-948
Original Article
Analysis of a structured training programme in laparoscopic cholecystectomy
Salleh Ibrahim, Khoon Hean Tay, Swee Ho Lim, T. Ravintharan and Ngian Chye Tan
949-955
Original Article
Long-term follow-up in 54 surgically treated patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumours
Konrad Klaus Richter, Constanze Schmid, Mark Thompson-Fawcett, Utz Settmacher and Annelore Altendorf-Hofmann
957-962
Original Article
Prognosis of upper-third gastric carcinoma patients with invasion of the lower esophagus
Seong Yeob Ryu, Jae Kyoon Joo, Jae Hyuk Lee and Dong Yi Kim
963-971
Original Article
The benefits of standardizing the operative procedure for the assistant in laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomy for gastric cancer
Naoki Hiki, Testsu Fukunaga, Toshiharu Yamaguchi, Souya Nunobe and Masanori Tokunaga, et al.
973-977
Original Article
Risk factors affecting morbidity in typhoid enteric perforation
E. Gedik, S. Girgin, I. H. Taçyıldız and Y. Akgün
979-984
Original article
Symptom-focused results after laparoscopic fundoplication for refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease—a prospective study
Stavros A. Antoniou, Panagiotis Delivorias, George A. Antoniou, Ioannis Natsiopoulos and Athanasios Kalambakas, et al.
985-994
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Health services research in surgery—definitions, approaches and methods
O. Ommen, C. Janssen, H. Pfaff, R. Lefering and E. Neugebauer
995-1003
Overview
Is IDO a key enzyme bridging the gap between tumor escape and tolerance induction?
Stefan Löb and Alfred Königsrainer
1005-1008
How to do it
Pancreatic transection using a sharp hook-shaped ultrasonically activated scalpel
Takehrio Okabayashi, Kazuhiro Hanazaki, Isao Nishimori, Takeki Sugimoto and Ryuji Yoshioka, et al.
1009-1011
How to do it
Lost needle: a simple search device for the operating room’s floor
Matthias Möhrenschlager, Johannnes Ring, Verena Henkel and Berthold Jessberger
1013-1016
Case Management and Clinical Consequences
Hepato-pericardial fistula following radiofrequency ablation (RFA) for liver metastasis: a case report and review of the literature
Max Thiemann, Tahar Benhidjeb, Stefan Anders, Bernhard Gebauer and Martin W. Strik
1017
Letter to the Editor
Intrahepatic Glissonian approach for anatomical resection of left liver segments
Marcel Autran Machado, Paulo Herman, Fabio F. Makdissi, Rodrigo C. Surjan and Marcel C. C. Machado
1019-1020
Letter to the Editor
Reply to Professor M.A. Machado’s letter to editor
Xiao-Ping Chen
1021-1035
Abstracts
27th Annual Meeting of the Surgical Working Group of Endocrine Surgery (CAEK) of the German Society of General and Visceral Surgery, 13–15 November 2008, Rostock, Germany