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• Original Scientific Articles

  • ·Outcomes in Octogenarians Undergoing High-Risk Cancer Operation: A National Study

    Pagina :729-734

    Emily Finlayson, Zhaohui Fan, John D. Birkmeyer

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  • ·Comparing Outcomes after Transthoracic and Transhiatal Esophagectomy: A 5-Year Prospective Cohort of 17,395 Patients

    Pagina :735-740

    Rafe C. Connors, Brian C. Reuben, Leigh A. Neumayer, David A. Bull

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  • ·Gastrointestinal Complications after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A National Study of Morbidity and Mortality Predictors

    Pagina :741-747

    Filiberto Rodriguez, Tom C. Nguyen, Joseph A. Galanko, John Morton

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  • ·Early Prediction of Hypocalcemia after Thyroidectomy using Parathyroid Hormone: An Analysis of Pooled Individual Patient Data from Nine Observational Studies

    Pagina :748-754

    J. Pieter Noordzij, Stephanie L. Lee, Victor J. Bernet, Richard J. Payne, Seth M. Cohen, Ian K. McLeod, Michael P. Hier, Martin J. Black, Paul D. Kerr, Melanie L. Richards, Chung Yau Lo, Marco Raffaelli, Rocco Bellantone, Celestino P. Lombardi, James I. Cohen, Mary S. Dietrich

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  • ·Impact of Parenteral Nutrition-Associated Liver Disease on Intestinal Transplant Waitlist Dynamics

    Pagina :755-761

    Neil Chungfat, Irma Dixler, Valeria Cohran, Alan Buchman, Michael Abecassis, Jonathan Fryer

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  • ·Early Cholecystectomy for Mild to Moderate Gallstone Pancreatitis Shortens Hospital Stay

    Pagina :762-766

    David K. Rosing, Christian de Virgilio, Arezou Yaghoubian, Brant A. Putnam, Monica El Masry, Amy Kaji, Bruce E. Stabile

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  • ·Comparison of Mortality Risk Adjustment Using a Clinical Data Algorithm (American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program) and an Administrative Data Algorithm (Solucient) at the Case Level Within a Single Institution

    Pagina :767-777

    Bruce Lee Hall, Mitzi Hirbe, Brian Waterman, Sarah Boslaugh, Wm Claiborne Dunagan

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  • ·Risk-Adjusted Morbidity in Teaching Hospitals Correlates with Reported Levels of Communication and Collaboration on Surgical Teams but Not with Scale Measures of Teamwork Climate, Safety Climate, or Working Conditions

    Pagina :778-784

    Daniel L. Davenport, William G. Henderson, Cecilia L. Mosca, Shukri F. Khuri, Robert M. Mentzer, Participants in the Working Conditions of Surgery Residents and Quality of Care Study

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  • ·Anastomotic Leakage after Elective Right Versus Left Colectomy for Cancer: Prevalence and Independent Risk Factors

    Pagina :785-793

    Nicolas Veyrie, Toufik Ata, Fabrice Muscari, Anne-Cécile Couchard, Simon Msika, Jean-Marie Hay, Abe Fingerhut, Chadli Dziri, French Associations for Surgical Research

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  • ·Pedestrians Injured by Automobiles: Risk Factors for Cervical Spine Injuries

    Pagina :794-799

    Hakan Yanar, Demetrios Demetriades, Pantelis Hatzizacharia, Shirley Nomoto, Ali Salim, Kenji Inaba, Peter Rhee, Linda S. Chan

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• Collective Review

  • ·Omental Transposition in Treatment of Alzheimer Disease

    Pagina :800-804

    Harry S. Goldsmith

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• Surgical Perspectives

  • ·Light and Dark: Surgeons, Radiologists, and Why They Need Mutual Understanding to Succeed

    Pagina :805-806

    Douglas P. Monroe, Beth S. Edeiken-Monroe, Nancy D. Perrier

    

• Ethics

  • ·Communication Pitfalls with Cancer Patients: “Hit-and-Run” Deliveries of Bad News

    Pagina :807-811

    Paul R. Helft, Sandra Petronio

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• Images for Surgeons

  • ·Acute Airway Compression with Achalasia

    Pagina :813

    Muhammad I. Aslam, Christopher D. Sutton, David C. Hunter

     
  • ·Cholelithiasis and Cholecystitis in a Retained Gallbladder Remnant after Cholecystectomy

    Pagina :814-815

    Bryan A. Whitson, Seth I. Wolpert

     

• Surgeon at Work

  • ·Clinical Usefulness of Biliary Scope for Pringle’s Maneuver in Laparoscopic Hepatectomy

    Pagina :816-818

    Shin-ichiro Maehara, Eisuke Adachi, Mitsuo Shimada, Akinobu Taketomi, Ken Shirabe, Shinji Tanaka, Takashi Maeda, Keisuke Ikeda, Hidefumi Higashi, Yoshihiko Maehara

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  • ·The Two-Pound Rule: A Personal Experience with 1,226 Cases of Esophageal Dilation

    Pagina :819-821

    Charles J. Filipi, Amr El Sherif

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• Continuing Medical Education Program

  • ·JACS CME-1 Featured Articles, Volume 205, December 2007

    Pagina :822-824

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• Letters

  • ·Incidental Appendectomy

    Pagina :e1

    Tetsuji Fujita

    
  • ·Reply

    Pagina :e1

    Jeffrey B. Albright, G. Peter Fakhre, William W. Nields, Philip P. Metzger

    
  • ·The Broad Street Pump: A Paradigm for Policy and Advocacy—A Resident’s Lessons from the 2007 ACS Leadership Conference

    Pagina :e2

    Awori Jeremy Hayanga

    

• Book Reviews

  • ·Piece of Mind: A Novel of Medicine and Philosophy

    Pagina :e3

    Geoffrey P. Dunn

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  • ·Maingot’s Abdominal Operations, 11^th Edition

    Pagina :e3

    Kimberly Sue Ephgrave

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  • ·Psychological Aspects of Reconstructive and Cosmetic Plastic Surgery: Clinical, Empirical, and Ethical Perspectives, 1^st Edition

    Pagina :e4

    Jeffrey S. Rosenthal

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