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Editorial
Bridging the divide between the surgeon and the interventional radiologist: cooperation or/and competition?
Taimur Saleem
973-983
Current Concepts in Clinical Surgery
Treatment for colorectal liver metastases: a review
Hiroshi Shimada, Kuniya Tanaka, Itaru Endou and Yasushi Ichikawa
985-997
Overview
The possible use of stem cells in regenerative medicine: dream or reality?
Sabrina Ehnert, Matthias Glanemann, Andreas Schmitt, Stephan Vogt and Naama Shanny, et al.
999-1004
Original Article
Appendicitis score for children with suspected appendicitis. A randomized clinical trial
Hannu Lintula, Hannu Kokki, Riikka Kettunen and Matti Eskelinen
1005-1010
Original Article
Is routine MR cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) justified prior to cholecystectomy?
C. A. Nebiker, S. A. Baierlein, S. Beck, M. von Flüe and C. Ackermann, et al.
1011-1017
General Surgery
Drain use after open cholecystectomy: is there a justification?
Victor Zaydfudim, Robert T. Russell, Irene D. Feurer, J. Kelly Wright and C. Wright Pinson
1019-1024
Original Article
Intraoperative application of “white test” to reduce postoperative bile leak after major liver resection: results of a prospective cohort study in 137 patients
Jun Li, Massimo Malagó, Georgios C. Sotiropoulos, Hauke Lang and Randolph Schaffer, et al.
1025-1031
Original article
Management of biliary complications following living donor liver transplantation—a single center experience
Sven Kohler, Andreas Pascher, Jens Mittler, Ulf Neumann and Peter Neuhaus, et al.
1033-1039
Original Article
Surgery of hepatocellular carcinoma complicated with cancer thrombi in bile duct: efficacy for criteria for different therapy modalities
Luo Xiangji, Tan Weifeng, Yi Bin, Liu Chen and Jiang Xiaoqing, et al.
1041-1046
Original Article
Protective effect of Verapamil on hepatic ischemia–reperfusion injury during hepatectomy in the cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
Feng Xia, Shuguang Wang, Min Chen, Xiaojun Wang and Xiaobin Feng, et al.
1047-1056
Original Article
The costs of postoperative liver failure and the economic impact of liver function capacity after extended liver resection—a single-center experience
J. F. Lock, T. Reinhold, M. Malinowski, J. Pratschke and P. Neuhaus, et al.
1057-1063
Original Article
Caudate lobe resection: an Egyptian center experience
Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Abdul Razzak Oluwagbemiga Lawal, Ehab EL Hanafy, Tarek Salah and Emad Hamdy, et al.
1065-1072
Original Article
Preoperative cholangitis independently increases in-hospital mortality after combined major hepatic and bile duct resection for hilar cholangiocarcinoma
Jun Sakata, Yoshio Shirai, Yoshiaki Tsuchiya, Toshifumi Wakai and Tatsuya Nomura, et al.
1073-1078
Original Article
Conversion to sirolimus of patients with chronic allograft nephropathy—a retrospective analysis of outcome and influencing factors
Oliver Witzke, Ondrej Viklicky, Tobias R. Türk, Jens Lutz and Benjamin Wilde, et al.
1079-1084
Original Article
Surgery and adjuvant therapies in the treatment of stage IV melanoma: our experience in 84 patients
Francesca Tauceri, Gianni Mura, Mauro Roseano, Massimo Framarini and Laura Ridolfi, et al.
1085-1092
Original article
Median arcuate ligament syndrome: vascular surgical therapy and follow-up of 18 patients
Dirk Grotemeyer, Mansur Duran, Franziska Iskandar, Dirk Blondin and Kim Nguyen, et al.
1093-1100
Original Article
Visceral artery aneurysms—follow-up of 23 patients with 31 aneurysms after surgical or interventional therapy
Dirk Grotemeyer, Mansur Duran, Eun-Jo Park, Norbert Hoffmann and Dirk Blondin, et al.
1101-1107
Original Article
Open versus endovascular repair of acute aortic transections—a non-randomized single-center analysis
Philipp Geisbüsch, Marcin Leszczynsky, Drosos Kotelis, Alexander Hyhlik-Dürr and Tim F. Weber, et al.
1109-1114
How to do it
Cholangitis prevention in endoscopic Klatskin tumor palliation: air cholangiography technique
Franco Pisello, Girolamo Geraci, Giuseppe Modica and Carmelo Sciumè
1115-1121
How To Do It
Reconstruction of the portal and hepatic veins using venous grafts customized from the bilateral gonadal veins
Yusuke Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Satoshi Nara, Daisuke Ban and Minoru Esaki, et al.
1123-1130
Case Management and Clinical Consequences
Lymph node dissection in primary intrahepatic malignant mesothelioma: case report and implications for diagnosis and therapy
Bettina M. Buchholz, Ines Gütgemann, Hans-Peter Fischer, Marcus Gorschlüter and Andreas Türler, et al.
1131-1132
Letter to the Editor
Expression of receptors tyrosine kinase c-kit and EGF-R in colorectal adenocarcinomas: is there a relationship with epithelial–mesenchymal transition during tumor progression?
Nadia Peparini, Roberto Caronna, Guglielmo Tellan and Piero Chirletti
1133-1134
Letter to the Editor
Reply to Dr. Peparini’s Letter to the Editor regarding the publication titled “Immunohistochemical detection of receptor tyrosine kinases c-kit, EGF-R and PDGF-R in colorectal adenocarcinomas”
Jan Friederichs
1135
Erratum
Erratum to: A new simple and safe technique of end-to-end invaginated pancreaticojejunostomy with transpancreatic U-sutures—early postoperative outcomes in consecutive 88 cases
Xiao-Ping Chen, Fa-Zu Qiu, Zhi-Wei Zhang, Yi-Fa Chen and Zhi-Yong Huang, et al.
1137-1159
Abstracts
28th Annual Meeting of the German Association of Endocrine Surgeons (CAEK)
Joint Meeting with the Polish Club of Endocrine Surgeons Łódź (Poland). 26–28 November 2009