Volume 2008

Yearbook of Surgery

Volume 2008
1

Choosing Where to Have Major Surgery: Who Makes the Decision?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
2

Nonpayment for Performance? Medicare's New Reimbursement Rule

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 61 KB
english, 2008
3

Is it feasible to include a technical skill station on a national licensing examination?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 34 KB
english, 2008
4

Geographic origin of publications in surgical journals

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 38 KB
english, 2008
5

Cross-linked poly (gamma-glutamic acid) attenuates peritoneal adhesion in a rat model

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 37 KB
english, 2008
6

Nutritional Route Affects ERK Phosphorylation and Cytokine Production in Hepatic Mononuclear Cells

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
7

The Effect of Smoking on Flap and Donor-Site Complications in Pedicled TRAM Breast Reconstruction

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
8

Value of Repeated Fine Needle Aspirations of the Thyroid: An Analysis of Over Ten Thousand FNAs

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
10

Extent of Routine Central Lymph Node Dissection With Small Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
14

Lymphedema Therapy Reduces the Volume of Edema and Pain in Patients with Breast Cancer

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
15

Mesorectal Grades Predict Recurrences After Curative Resection for Rectal Cancer

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
22

Effect of Nonviral Factors on Hepatitis C Recurrence After Liver Transplantation

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
25

Donation After Cardiac Death as a Strategy to Increase Deceased Donor Liver Availability

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
26

Outcomes of Acinetobacter baumannii Infection in Critically Ill Surgical Patients

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 58 KB
english, 2008
27

Outcome after Emergency Surgery for Acute Perforated Diverticulitis in 200 Cases

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 48 KB
english, 2008
31

Trauma-related Infections in Battlefield Casualties From Iraq

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
34

A nationwide speed limit ≤65 miles per hour will save thousands of lives

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 77 KB
english, 2008
35

Impact of the 80-Hour Workweek on Patient Care at a Level I Trauma Center

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
36

Preperitonal Pelvic Packing for Hemodynamically Unstable Pelvic Fractures: A Paradigm Shift

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
37

The Scourge of Methamphetamine: Impact on a Level I Trauma Center

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
38

Intraabdominal Hypertension in Patients with Septic Shock

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 44 KB
english, 2008
40

Gene Expression Profiles Differentiate Between Sterile SIRS and Early Sepsis

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 45 KB
english, 2008
44

Risk factors for airway complications within the first year after lung transplantation

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
45

Diagnosis, treatment and long-term outcome of solitary fibrous tumours of the pleura

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
47

Postoperative Pneumonia After Major Pulmonary Resections: An Unsolved Problem in Thoracic Surgery

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 56 KB
english, 2008
50

The safety of open inguinal herniorraphy in patients on chronic warfarin therapy

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 120 KB
english, 2008
52

Autologous Tissue Reconstruction of Ventral Hernias in Morbidly Obese Patients

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
54

Laparoscopic Appendectomy During Pregnancy: Between Personal Experiences and Scientific Evidence

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 149 KB
english, 2008
59

Carotid angioplasty and stenting for postendarterectomy stenosis: Long-term follow-up

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
63

Plasma creatine kinase indicates major amputation or limb preservation in acute lower limb ischemia

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 46 KB
english, 2008
64

Do medical students respond empathetically to a virtual patient?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
65

Letting Go of the Rope — Aggressive Treatment, Hospice Care, and Open Access

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 60 KB
english, 2008
67

Patterns of Communication Breakdowns Resulting in Injury to Surgical Patients

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
70

Enhancing skin wound healing by direct delivery of intracellular adenosine triphosphate

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 35 KB
english, 2008
72

Dramatic Changes in Home-based Enteral Nutrition Practices in Children During an 11-year Period

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
74

RNA Interference Targeting Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1α Reduces Post-Operative Adhesions in Rats

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 57 KB
english, 2008
75

Effect of High-Fat Enteral Nutrition on Hepatocyte Injury in Response to Hemorrhagic Shock in the Rat

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
76

Influence of surgical and postoperative treatment on survival in differentiated thyroid cancer

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
78

Hepatic Insufficiency and Mortality in 1,059 Noncirrhotic Patients Undergoing Major Hepatectomy

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 63 KB
english, 2008
81

Living Kidney Donors Requiring Transplantation: Focus on African Americans

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 48 KB
english, 2008
85

MRSA-Related Perianal Abscesses: An Underrecognized Disease Entity

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 58 KB
english, 2008
86

Typhoid Intestinal Perforations: Twenty-six Year Experience

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 40 KB
english, 2008
89

The Phenomenon of "Fluid Creep" in Acute Burn Resuscitation

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 155 KB
english, 2008
91

The Impact of Nosocomially-Acquired Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection in a Burn Unit

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 54 KB
english, 2008
92

Body Mass Index and Outcomes in Critically Injured Blunt Trauma Patients: Weighing the Impact

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 39 KB
english, 2008
93

Molecular Diagnostics in Sepsis: From Bedside to Bench

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
95

Obesity Does Not Increase Complications After Anatomic Resection for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 63 KB
english, 2008
96

Primary Graft Dysfunction and Long-term Pulmonary Function After Lung Transplantation

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 133 KB
english, 2008
97

Postoperative esophageal leak management with the Polyflex esophageal stent

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 61 KB
english, 2008
98

Randomized clinical trial of Lichtenstein's operation versus mesh plug for inguinal hernia repair

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
100

Liver resection for benign liver tumors: indications and outcome

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
101

Transcolonic endoscopic cholecystectomy: a NOTES survival study in a porcine model (with video)

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
103

Minimal access approach to jejunal atresia

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 250 KB
english, 2008
105

Diagnostic performance of EUS for chronic pancreatitis: a comparison with histopathology

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 59 KB
english, 2008
107

Pain in Chronic Pancreatitis: The Role of Reorganization in the Central Nervous System

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 57 KB
english, 2008
109

Radiation arteritis: A contraindication to carotid stenting?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
110

Retrograde mesenteric stenting during laparotomy for acute occlusive mesenteric ischemia

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 54 KB
english, 2008
116

Rural Versus Urban Inpatient Case-Mix Differences in the US

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 58 KB
english, 2008
120

Nutrition in burns: Need for an aggressive dynamic approach

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
123

Hepatic Artery Chemoembolization in 122 Patients with Metastatic Carcinoid Tumor: Lessons Learned

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 45 KB
english, 2008
126

Large Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Time to Stop Preoperative Biopsy

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 111 KB
english, 2008
129

Long-term outcome in 445 patients after diagnosis of diverticular disease

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
131

Effects of a Restrictive Blood Transfusion Policy on Outcomes in Children With Burn Injury

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 47 KB
english, 2008
132

Nitric Oxide Accelerates the Recovery from Burn Wounds

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
133

Assessment of Adverse Events in the Demise of Pediatric Burn Patients

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 44 KB
english, 2008
134

Morbid Obesity Impacts Mortality in Blunt Trauma

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 100 KB
english, 2008
136

The Impact of Prehospital Ventilation on Outcome After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 54 KB
english, 2008
140

Incidence and Risk Factors for Lung Injury After Lung Cancer Resection

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
141

Propensity-Matched Analysis of Three Techniques for Intrathoracic Esophagogastric Anastomosis

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
142

Long-term Outcomes in Laparoscopic vs Open Ventral Hernia Repair

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 57 KB
english, 2008
144

Simple scoring system for the prediction of the prognosis of severe acute pancreatitis

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 147 KB
english, 2008
149

Non-invasive monitoring of kidney allograft rejection through IDO metabolism evaluation

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 46 KB
english, 2008
151

National Burn Repository 2006: A Ten-Year Review

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
152

Extended, pneumonectomy for non–small cell lung cancer: Morbidity, mortality, and long-term results

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 149 KB
english, 2008
153

Fast-Tracking After Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Lobectomy, Segmentectomy, and Pneumonectomy

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
154

Bowel Obstruction after Open and Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass Surgery for Morbid Obesity

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 185 KB
english, 2008
156

Effect of the 80-hour work week on resident operative experience in general surgery

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 48 KB
english, 2008
157

Randomized clinical trial of the impact of early enteral feeding on postoperative ileus and recovery

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 38 KB
english, 2008
158

Incisional Hernia: Early Complication of Abdominal Surgery

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
159

Effects of Topical Glutathione Treatment in Rat Ischemic Wound Model

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 48 KB
english, 2008
160

Extent of Surgery Affects Survival for Papillary Thyroid Cancer

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
163

A Single Surgical Unit's Experience with Abdominal Tuberculosis in the HIV/AIDS Era

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
167

The Clinical Pulmonary Infection Score Poorly Predicts Pneumonia in Patients With Burns

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 46 KB
english, 2008
168

The Surgical Hospitalist: A New Model for Emergency Surgical Care

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
169

Beta-Blocker Use is Associated With Improved Outcomes in Adult Trauma Patients

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
172

Declining Incidence Rate of Lung Adenocarcinoma in the United States

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
173

Renal Cell Carcinoma Lung Metastases Surgery: Pathologic Findings and Prognostic Factors

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 44 KB
english, 2008
174

Enterocutaneous fistula: Are treatments improving?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
175

Objective evidence that bariatric surgery improves obesity-related obstructive sleep apnea

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 64 KB
english, 2008
179

Perfusion, Viability, and Pedicle Dependence in Acute and Delayed Rat Island Skin Flaps

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
180

Wound Healing Potential of Cassia fistula on Infected Albino Rat Model

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
187

Adjuvant Mitotane Treatment for Adrenocortical Carcinoma

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
191

Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation in the United States, 1996–2005

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
193

Severe Psychiatric Problems in Right Hepatic Lobe Donors for Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 48 KB
english, 2008
195

Management of Postburn Contractures of the Upper Extremity

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 46 KB
english, 2008
198

Outcomes in surgical versus medical patients with the secondary abdominal compartment syndrome

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
200

Quantity and Quality of Sleep in the Surgical Intensive Care Unit: Are Our Patients Sleeping?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 57 KB
english, 2008
201

Routine Evaluation for Aspiration After Thoracotomy for Pulmonary Resection

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 65 KB
english, 2008
202

Gallstone Ileus: Diagnosis and Management

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 48 KB
english, 2008
203

Incidence of clinical pulmonary embolism after laparoscopic surgery

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 59 KB
english, 2008
205

Pneumatic Dilatation and Surgical Myotomy for Achalasia

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 67 KB
english, 2008
206

A comparison of cholecystectomy and observation in children with biliary dyskinesia

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 59 KB
english, 2008
208

Inflammatory markers for acute appendicitis in children: are they helpful?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 61 KB
english, 2008
209

Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding in adolescent: safety and efficacy

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
213

Long-term durability of open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 61 KB
english, 2008
220

Quality Assessment in High-Acuity Surgery: Volume and Mortality Are Not Enough

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
221

Influence of Different Intravenous Lipid Emulsions on Hepatobiliary Dysfunction in a Rabbit Model

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 36 KB
english, 2008
222

Effect of plasma fibronectin on the incisional wound healing in rats

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
223

Survival in Patients With Papillary Thyroid Cancer Is Not Affected by the Use of Radioactive Isotope

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
224

Imaging Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma with Persistent Elevated Calcitonin Levels

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008
228

Impact of surgeon volume and specialization on short-term outcomes in colorectal cancer surgery

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
229

Survival and Recurrence Rates after Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Noncirrhotic Livers

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 136 KB
english, 2008
232

Analysis of 30-Day Mortality for Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease in the ICU Setting

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 65 KB
english, 2008
233

Clostridium difficile Colitis in Solid Organ Transplantation—A Single-Center Experience

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 54 KB
english, 2008
234

Natural History of Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Implications for Early Detection

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 55 KB
english, 2008
236

Feasibility of multimodality therapy including extended resections in stage IVA thymoma

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 137 KB
english, 2008
238

The Impending Disappearance of the General Surgeon

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 113 KB
english, 2008
239

Wound Repair by Bone Marrow Stromal Cells through Growth Factor Production

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 40 KB
english, 2008
242

Parenteral nutrition and protein sparing after surgery: do we need glucose?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
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PDF, 54 KB
english, 2008
246

Revision of the Duodenal Switch: Indications, Technique, and Outcomes

Year:
2008
Language:
english
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PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
247

Understanding Hospice — An Underutilized Option for Life's Final Chapter

Year:
2008
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english
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PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
248

Wound-healing properties of trehalose-stabilized freeze-dried outdated platelets

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
249

Cyclosporin A Suspends Transplantation Reactions in the Marine Sponge Microciona prolifera

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 50 KB
english, 2008
250

Influence of Semi-Recumbent Position on Intra-Abdominal Pressure as Measured by Bladder Pressure

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 109 KB
english, 2008
251

Risk Factors for Occult Mediastinal Metastases in Clinical Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 52 KB
english, 2008
256

Development of Peritoneal Adhesions in Macrophage Depleted Mice

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 54 KB
english, 2008
261

American Burn Association Consensus Conference to Define Sepsis and Infection in Burns

Year:
2008
Language:
english
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PDF, 46 KB
english, 2008
266

Traction-compression-closure for exomphalos major

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 294 KB
english, 2008
267

Abdominal aortic aneurysm in women: Prevalence, risk factors, and implications for screening

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 54 KB
english, 2008
268

Changes in Hospital Mortality Associated with Residency Work-Hour Regulations

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
271

Symptomatic benign multinodular goiter: Unilateral or bilateral thyroidectomy?

Year:
2008
Language:
english
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PDF, 47 KB
english, 2008
273

Alemtuzumab Induction in Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 49 KB
english, 2008
274

Epidemiology of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria in Patients With Long Hospital Stays

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 53 KB
english, 2008
276

Postlung Transplant Survival is Equivalent Regardless of Cytomegalovirus Match Status

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 57 KB
english, 2008
278

Predictive risk score for infection after inguinal hernia repair

Year:
2008
Language:
english
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PDF, 134 KB
english, 2008
280

A Life-saving but Inadequately Discussed Procedure: Tube Duodenostomy. Known and Unknown Aspects

Year:
2008
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english
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PDF, 136 KB
english, 2008
281

Ezetimibe ameliorates cholecystosteatosis

Year:
2008
Language:
english
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PDF, 48 KB
english, 2008
282

Oxidative injury and hepatocyte apoptosis in total parenteral nutrition–associated liver dysfunction

Year:
2008
Language:
english
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PDF, 37 KB
english, 2008
283

The Association Between Fluid Administration and Outcome Following Major Burn: A Multicenter Study

Year:
2008
Language:
english
File:
PDF, 51 KB
english, 2008