209-213
Current Concept in Clinical Surgery
Open AccessCongenital dilatation of the common bile duct and pancreaticobiliary maljunction—clinical implications
Wataru Kimura
215-220
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Staged lavage versus single high-volume lavage in the treatment of feculent/purulent peritonitis: a matched pair analysis
Mohammed R. Moussavian, Sven Richter, Otto Kollmar, Jochen Schuld and Martin K. Schilling
221-226
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
Procalcitonin (PCT)-guided algorithm reduces length of antibiotic treatment in surgical intensive care patients with severe sepsis: results of a prospective randomized study
S. Schroeder, M. Hochreiter, T. Koehler, A.-M. Schweiger and B. Bein, et al.
227-233
Controlled Prospective Clinical Trials
Extended preoperative patient education using a multimedia DVD—impact on patients receiving a laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a randomised controlled trial
D. Wilhelm, S. Gillen, H. Wirnhier, M. Kranzfelder and A. Schneider, et al.
235-241
Original Article
Adult living donor liver transplantation: body mass index and MELD score of recipients are independent risk factors for hospital mortality
Tung-Yu Tsui, Marcus N. Scherer, Andreas A. Schnitzbauer, Hans J. Schlitt and Aiman Obed
243-247
Original Article
Half clamping of the infrahepatic inferior vena cava reduces bleeding during a hepatectomy by decreasing the central venous pressure
Kazuhisa Uchiyama, Masaki Ueno, Satoru Ozawa, Shinya Hayami and Manabu Kawai, et al.
249-253
Original Article
Liver metastasis as an initial recurrence has no impact on the survival of patients with resectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma
Masaji Tani, Manabu Kawai, Motoki Miyazawa, Seiko Hirono and Shinomi Ina, et al.
255-264
Original Article
Laparoscopic liver resections for hepatocellular carcinoma. Is it a feasible option for patients with liver cirrhosis?
R. Santambrogio, L. Aldrighetti, M. Barabino, C. Pulitanò and M. Costa, et al.
265-271
Original Article
Age, microbiology and prognostic scores help to differentiate between secondary and tertiary peritonitis
Peter Panhofer, Barbara Izay, Markus Riedl, Veronika Ferenc and Martin Ploder, et al.
273-277
Original Article
“Minimally invasive video-assisted thyroidectomy. Initial experience in a general surgery department”
Chiara Dobrinja, Giuliano Trevisan and Gennaro Liguori
279-283
Original Article
Standard-radical vs. function-preserving surgery of benign nodular goiter—a sonographic and biochemical 10-year follow-up study
N. Lehwald, K. Cupisti, H. S. Willenberg, M. Schott and M. Krausch, et al.
285-292
Original Article
Open AccessPrehospital identification of major trauma patients
Gürbey Ocak, Leontien M. Sturms, Josephine M. Hoogeveen, Saskia Le Cessie and Gerrolt N. Jukema
293-302
Original Article
Effect of major abdominal surgery on endotoxin release and expression of Toll-like receptors 2/4
Klaus Buttenschoen, Marion E. Schneider, Katja Utz, Marko Kornmann and Hans G. Beger, et al.
303-311
Original Article
Direct hemoperfusion with polymyxin-B-immobilized fiber columns improves septic hypotension and reduces inflammatory mediators in septic patients with colorectal perforation
Tomoharu Shimizu, Kazuyoshi Hanasawa, Koichi Sato, Masahiko Umeki and Nobuhiko Koga, et al.
313-320
Original Article
MFH revisited: outcome after surgical treatment of undifferentiated pleomorphic or not otherwise specified (NOS) sarcomas of the extremities—an analysis of 140 patients
Marcus Lehnhardt, Adrien Daigeler, Heinz H. Homann, Vanessa Schwaiberger and Ole Goertz, et al.
321-329
Original Article
Lymph node metastases in soft tissue sarcomas—a single center analysis of 1,597 patients
A. Daigeler, C. Kuhnen, R. Moritz, I. Stricker and O. Goertz, et al.
331-337
Original Article
Long-term outcome after multivisceral and tumor/vascular resection in patients with soft tissue sarcoma
P. Vogel, U. Bolder, M. N. Scherer, H.-J. Schlitt and K.-W. Jauch
339-344
Original Article
Late outcome after surgical management of carotid body tumors from a 20-year single-center experience
Drosos Kotelis, Timolaos Rizos, Philipp Geisbüsch, Nicolas Attigah and Peter Ringleb, et al.
345-348
Original Article
Late acute aortic dissection after coronary artery bypass
Amihay Shinfeld and Ehud Raanani
349-356
Original Article
Ex vivo method to visualize and quantify vascular networks in native and tissue engineered skin
José Tomás Egaña, Alexandru Condurache, Jörn Andreas Lohmeyer, Mathias Kremer and Beate M. Stöckelhuber, et al.
357-362
Original Article
Open AccessExtravascular perivenous fibrin support leads to aneurysmal degeneration and intimal hyperplasia in arterialized vein grafts in the rat
Tomislav Stojanovic, Ali El-Sayed Ahmad, Vasilios Didilis, Osama Ali and Aron F. Popov, et al.
363-369
Original Article
Caerulein or taurocholate induced enzymatic and histologic alterations in the isolated perfused rat pancreas
R. Mantke, D. Schubert, C. Röcken, I. Paege and W. Halangk, et al.
371-374
Original Article
Palliative stoma creation: comparison of laparoscopic vs conventional procedures
H. Scheidbach, H. Ptok, D. Schubert, D. Kose and O. Hügel, et al.
375-381
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Lymph node metastasis in gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GIST) occurs preferentially in young patients ≤40 years: an overview based on our case material and the literature
Abbas Agaimy and Peter H. Wünsch
383-385
Case Management and Clinical Consequences
Open AccessSatisfactory long-term results after simultaneous resection of the esophagus, stomach and pancreas
Orlin Belyaev, Christophe A. Muller and Waldemar Uhl
387-391
Case Management and Clinical Consequences
Non-functioning, malignant pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour (PNET): a rare entity during pregnancy
Carsten H. Kamphues, Christoph Röcken, Peter Neuhaus and Ulf P. Neumann
393-398
Case Management and Clinical Consequences
Custom made Ilizarov ring fixator for fracture care in morbidly obese patients
Dominik Seybold, Jan Geßmann, Levent Özokyay, Thomas Frangen and Gert Muhr, et al.
399-400
Letter to the Editor
Glomus tumor of the breast: first report
Samet Yalcin, Emre Ergul, Ali Erkan Ucar, Burak Veli Ulger and Birol Korukluoglu
401-402
Letter to the Editor
Clinical utility of serum Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist levels as a diagnostic and prognostic assay in surgical patients
Shailendra Kapoor
403
Letter to the Editor
Reply to the letter by S. Niedzwecki regarding our article “Serum levels of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1ra) in thyroid cancer patients”
Sebastian Niedźwiecki
405
Erratum
Lactate modulates gene expression in human mesenchymal stem cells
Derek Zieker, Richard Schäfer, Jörg Glatzle, Kay Nieselt and Stephan Coerper, et al.
407-416
Abstracts
Workshop 2009—modern techniques in pHPT surgery: an evidence based perspective, European Society of Endocrine Surgeons—19–21 March 2009, Lund, Sweden