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Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Renal transplantation today
Michael Neipp, Steffan Jackobs and Jürgen Klempnauer
17-30
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Food fight! Parenteral nutrition, enteral stimulation and gut-derived mucosal immunity
Joshua L. Hermsen, Yoshifumi Sano and Kenneth A. Kudsk
31-39
Original Article
Impact of clinical pathways in surgery
Markus K. Müller, Konstantin J. Dedes, Daniel Dindo, Stefan Steiner and Dieter Hahnloser, et al.
41-47
Original Article
Open AccessEffect of surgical work volume on postoperative complication: superiority of specialized center in gastric cancer treatment
Birendra Kumar Sah, Zheng Gang Zhu, Ming Min Chen, Ming Xiang and Jun Chen, et al.
49-53
Original Article
Results of surgery for colorectal carcinoma with obstruction
Antonios-Apostolos K. Tentes, Charalambos G. Mirelis, Stilianos Kakoliris, Odisseas S. Korakianitis and Ioannis G. Bougioukas, et al.
55-63
Original Article
Analysis of POSSUM score and postoperative morbidity in patients with rectal cancer undergoing surgery
V. Valenti, J. L. Hernandez-Lizoain, J. Baixauli, C. Pastor and F. Martinez-Regueira, et al.
65-70
Original Article
Long-term comorbidity of diabetes mellitus is a risk factor for perineal wound complications after an abdominoperineal resection
Kenji Matsuda, Tsukasa Hotta, Katsunari Takifuji, Shozo Yokoyama and Takashi Higashiguchi, et al.
71-77
Original Article
Prognostic factors affecting oncologic outcomes in patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer: impact of patterns of pelvic recurrence on curative resection
Jea-Kun Park, Young-Wan Kim, Hyuk Hur, Nam-Kyu Kim and Byung-Soh Min, et al.
79-91
Original Article
The colon J-pouch as a cause of evacuation disorders after rectal resection: myth or fact?
Andreas D. Rink, George Sgourakis, Georgios C. Sotiropoulos, Hauke Lang and Karl-Heinz Vestweber
93-97
Original Article
Gastric remnant cancer: an old problem with novel concerns
Ozgur Firat, Adem Guler, Murat Sozbilen, Sinan Ersin and Hasan Kaplan
99-103
Original Article
Clinicopathologic characteristics of gastric cancer patients who underwent noncurative gastrectomy with long-term survival
Hiroaki Saito, Yoshinori Yamada, Shunichi Tsujitani and Masahide Ikeguchi
105-113
Original Article
Occult disseminated tumor cells in lymph nodes of patients with gastric carcinoma. A critical appraisal of assessment and relevance
Peter Scheunemann, Nikolas H. Stoecklein, Kai Hermann, Alexander Rehders and Claus F. Eisenberger, et al.
115-121
Original Article
Interleukin-2 immunotherapy action on innate immunity cells in peripheral blood and tumoral tissue of pancreatic adenocarcinoma patients
Luca Degrate, Cinzia Nobili, Claudio Franciosi, Roberto Caprotti and Fernando Brivio, et al.
123-131
Original Article
Tyrosine phosphorylation of insulin receptor substrates during ischemia/reperfusion-induced apoptosis in rat liver
Raffaele Cursio, Claudia Miele, Nathalie Filippa, Pascal Colosetti and Patrick Auberger, et al.
133-141
Original Article
Treatment with keratinocyte growth factor does not improve lung allograft survival in the rat
Markus Hirschburger, Martin Obert, Horst Traupe, Tim Kuchenbuch and Winfried Padberg, et al.
143-150
Original Article
Open AccessHypothermic in situ perfusion of the porcine liver using Celsior or Ringer-lactate solution
S. Dinant, H. J. Roseboom, M. Levi, A. K. van Vliet and T. M. van Gulik
151-157
Original Article
Transdermal resorption of an ethanol- and 2-propanol-containing skin disinfectant
Martin Hartwig Kirschner, Reinhold Andreas Lang, Burkhard Breuer, Marion Breuer and Corinna Schulze Gronover, et al.
159-169
New Surgical Horizons
Pancreaticobiliary maljunction and carcinogenesis to biliary and pancreatic malignancy
Takahiko Funabiki, Toshiki Matsubara, Shuichi Miyakawa and Shin Ishihara
171-177
New Surgical Horizons
Probiotics in patients with severe acute pancreatitis: a meta-analysis
Shaoliang Sun, Kehu Yang, Xiaodong He, Jinhui Tian and Bin Ma, et al.
179-183
Ethics and Health Care in Surgery
Working conditions and trainee shortage in operative disciplines—is our profession ready for the next decade?
Herwig Cerwenka, Heinz Bacher, Georg Werkgartner and Hans-Jörg Mischinger
185-189
Case Management and Clinical Consequences
Tension pneumothorax, pneumoretroperitoneum, and subcutaneous emphysema after colonoscopic polypectomy: a case report and review of the literature
Mile Ignjatović and Jasna Jović
191-192
Letter to the Editor
New randomized trial of probiotics in pancreatitis needed? Caution advised
Marc G. H. Besselink, Hjalmar C. van Santvoort, Geert J. M. G. van der Heijden, Erik Buskens and H. G. Gooszen, et al.
193-194
Letter to the Editor
Probiotics and acute pancreatitis need a long way to go
Kehu Yang, Shaoliang Sun and Jinhui Tian
195-196
Letter to the Editor
The unbearable lightness of understanding clinical influence of lymph node micrometastasis
Özgür Akgül, Mesut Tez and Mahmut Koç
197
Letter to the Editor
Reply to the letter by M. Tez regarding our article “Occult disseminated tumor cells in lymph nodes of patients with gastric carcinoma. A critical appraisal of assessment and relevance”
P. Scheunemann, W. T. Knoefel and N. H. Stoecklein
199-204
Evidence-based Surgery
Palliative operation for the treatment of alveolar echinococcosis
Klaus Buttenschoen, Beate Gruener, Daniela Carli Buttenschoen, Stefan Reuter and Doris Henne-Bruns, et al.
205-207
Erratum
The colon J-pouch as a cause of evacuation disorders after rectal resection: myth or fact?
Andreas D. Rink, George Sgourakis, Georgios C. Sotiropoulos, Hauke Lang and Karl-Heinz Vestweber