Editorial
1Natural orifices translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES)— Who should perform it?
Emmanouil Zacharakis, MD, PhD, Sanjay Purkayastha, BSc, MBBS, MRCS, Julian Teare, MD, FRCP, Guang-Zhong Yang, PhD, and Ara Darzi, KBE, HonFREng, FMedSci, London, UK
Original Communications
3A 10-year analysis of venous thromboembolism on the surgical service: The effect of practice guidelines for prophylaxis
Steven R. Shackford, MD, FACS, Frederick B. Rogers, MD, FACS, Christopher M. Terrien, MD, Patricia Bouchard, BSN, John Ratliff, JD, and Rebecca Zubis, Burlington, Vermont
12Clinimetric properties of 3 instruments measuring postoperative recovery in a gynecologic surgical population
Kirsten B. Kluivers, MD, Jan C. M. Hendriks, PhD, Ben W. J. Mol, MD, PhD, Marlies Y. Bongers, MD, PhD, Mark E. Vierhout, MD, PhD, Hans A. M. Brölmann, MD, PhD, and Henrica C. W. de Vet, PhD, Veldhoven, Nijmegen, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands
22Biliary drainage attenuates postischemic reperfusion injury in the cholestatic rat liver
J. J. Kloek, MD, H. A. Marsman, MD, A. K. van Vliet, PhD, D. J. Gouma, MD, and T. M. van Gulik, MD, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
32Feasibility of laparoscopic liver resection for tumors located in the posterosuperior segments of the liver, with a special reference to overcoming current limitations on tumor location
Jai Young Cho, MD, PhD, Ho-Seong Han, MD, PhD, Yoo-Seok Yoon, MD, PhD, and Sang-Hyun Shin, MD, Seoul, Korea
39Real-time intraoperative assessment of the extrahepatic bile ducts in rats and pigs using invisible near-infrared fluorescent light
Eiichi Tanaka, MD, PhD, Hak Soo Choi, PhD, Valerie Humblet, PhD, Shunsuke Ohnishi, MD, PhD, Rita G. Laurence, BS, and John V. Frangioni, MD, PhD, Boston, Massachusetts, and Sapporo and Osaka, Japan
49A polyamine analog bismethylspermine ameliorates severe pancreatitis induced by intraductal infusion of taurodeoxycholate
Hai-Tao Jin, MD, Teemu Lämsä, BM, Mervi T. Hyvönen, MSc, Juhani Sand, MD, PhD, Sari Räty, MD, PhD, Nikolay Grigorenko, PhD, Alex R. Khomutov, PhD, Karl-Heinz Herzig, MD, PhD, Leena Alhonen, MD, PhD, and Isto Nordback, MD, PhD, Tampere and Kuopio, Finland and Moscow, Russia
57Mononuclear cell-derived interleukin-1 beta confers chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer cells by upregulation of cyclooxygenase-2
Eliane Angst, MD, Howard A. Reber, MD, Oscar J. Hines, MD, and Guido Eibl, MD, Los Angeles, Calif, and Berne, Switzerland
66Both tissue-type plasminogen activator and urokinase prevent intraabdominal abscess formation after surgical treatment of peritonitis in the rat
O. R. Buyne, MD, H. van Goor, MD, PhD, R. P. Bleichrodt, MD, PhD, P. E. Verweij, MD, PhD, and T. Hendriks, PhD, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
74Factors Contributing to Negative Parathyroid Localization: An Analysis of 1000 patients
Eren Berber, MD, Rikesh T. Parikh, MD, Naveen Ballem, MD, Carolyn N. Garner, MD, Mira Milas, MD, and Allan E. Siperstein, MD, Cleveland, Ohio
80A pathologic re-review of follicular thyroid neoplasms: The impact of changing the threshold for the diagnosis of the follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma
Sandy Widder, MD, FRCSC, Kelly Guggisberg, MD, Moosa Khalil, MBBCh, FRCPC, and Janice L. Pasieka, MD, FRCSC, FACS, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
86The role of G proteins in thromospondin-1–induced vascular smooth muscle cell migration
Shoichi Fuse, MD, Nowokere Esemuede, MD, Miho Yamaguchi, MS, Kristopher G. Maier, PhD, Susan M. Nesselroth, MD, Bauer E. Sumpio, MD, PhD, and Vivian Gahtan, MD, New Haven, CT, West Haven, CT, and Syracuse, NY
Brief Clinical Report
93Use of banked cryopreserved veins from explanted recipient livers in living donor liver transplantation
Rahul Kakodkar, MS, DNB, Samiran Nundy, MS, FRCS, and Arvinder Singh Soin, MA, FRCS, New Delhi, India
Invited Commentaries
96Approaching process improvement from a human factors perspective: seeking leverage from a systems approach
Thoralf M. Sundt, MD, Sarah E. Henrickson, MA, and Robert R. Cima, MD, Rochester, Minnesota
99Changing the diagnosis with retrospective review: A consideration of ethical issues
Peter Angelos, MD, PhD, and Ira Kodner, MD, Chicago, Ill, St Louis, Mo
Images in Surgery
101A rapidly increasing abdominal girth in a young patient: MDCT findings of Budd-Chiari syndrome
Sabri Yilmaz, MD, Ensar Yekeler, MD, Ayaz Agayev, MD, Binnur Pinarbasi, MD, Huseyin Bakkaloglu, MD, and Bulent Acunas, MD, Istanbul, Turkey
103Iatrogenic sigmoid perforation by aortobifemoral left graft limb
Massimiliano M. Marrocco-Trischitta, MD, Enrico M. Marone, MD, Andrea Kahlberg, MD, Yamume Tshomba, MD, Francesco Setacci, MD, and Roberto Chiesa, MD, Milan, Italy
Letter to the Editor
105Portal vein reconstruction using explanted recipient's native right hepatic vein
Hirotaka Tashiro, MD, Toshiyuki Itamoto, MD, Hironobu Amano, MD, Akihiko Oshita, MD, Hideki Ohdan, MD, and Toshimasa Asahara, MD, Hiroshima, Japan
Miscellaneous
56The I.V. League (cartoon)
Walter J. Pories, MD, Greenville, NC
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31Change of address
106Acknowledgments of peer reviewers
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