Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Bridging the divide between the surgeon and the interventional radiologist: cooperation or/and competition?

Taimur Saleem

Treatment for colorectal liver metastases: a review

Hiroshi Shimada, Kuniya Tanaka, Itaru Endou, Yasushi Ichikawa

The possible use of stem cells in regenerative medicine: dream or reality?

Sabrina Ehnert, Matthias Glanemann, Andreas Schmitt, Stephan Vogt, Naama Shanny, Natascha C. Nussler, Ulrich Stöckle, Andreas Nussler

Appendicitis score for children with suspected appendicitis. A randomized clinical trial

Hannu Lintula, Hannu Kokki, Riikka Kettunen, Matti Eskelinen

Is routine MR cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) justified prior to cholecystectomy?

C. A. Nebiker, S. A. Baierlein, S. Beck, M. von Flüe, C. Ackermann, R. Peterli

Drain use after open cholecystectomy: is there a justification?

Victor Zaydfudim, Robert T. Russell, Irene D. Feurer, J. Kelly Wright, C. Wright Pinson

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, Randolph Schaffer, Andreas Paul, Christoph E. Broelsch, Silvio Nadalin

Management of biliary complications following living donor liver transplantation—a single center experience

Sven Kohler, Andreas Pascher, Jens Mittler, Ulf Neumann, Peter Neuhaus, Johann Pratschke

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, Jiang Xiaoqing, Zhang Baihe, Shen Feng, Wu Mengchao

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, Xiaobin Feng, Jiahong Dong

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, P. Neuhaus, M. Stockmann

Caudate lobe resection: an Egyptian center experience

Mohamed Abdel Wahab, Abdul Razzak Oluwagbemiga Lawal, Ehab EL Hanafy, Tarek Salah, Emad Hamdy, Ahmad M. Sultan

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, Tatsuya Nomura, Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama

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, Benjamin Wilde, Isabel Willenberg, Stefan Vitko, Uwe Heemann

Surgery and adjuvant therapies in the treatment of stage IV melanoma: our experience in 84 patients

Francesca Tauceri, Gianni Mura, Mauro Roseano, Massimo Framarini, Laura Ridolfi, Giorgio M. Verdecchia

Median arcuate ligament syndrome: vascular surgical therapy and follow-up of 18 patients

Dirk Grotemeyer, Mansur Duran, Franziska Iskandar, Dirk Blondin, Kim Nguyen, Wilhelm Sandmann

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, Dirk Blondin, Franziska Iskandar, Kai M. Balzer, Wilhelm Sandmann

Open versus endovascular repair of acute aortic transections—a non-randomized single-center analysis

Philipp Geisbüsch, Marcin Leszczynsky, Drosos Kotelis, Alexander Hyhlik-Dürr, Tim F. Weber, Dittmar Böckler

Cholangitis prevention in endoscopic Klatskin tumor palliation: air cholangiography technique

Franco Pisello, Girolamo Geraci, Giuseppe Modica, Carmelo Sciumè

Reconstruction of the portal and hepatic veins using venous grafts customized from the bilateral gonadal veins

Yusuke Yamamoto, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Satoshi Nara, Daisuke Ban, Minoru Esaki, Kazuaki Shimada, Tomoo Kosuge

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, Andreas Türler, Jörg C. Kalff, Andreas Hirner, Jens Standop

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, Piero Chirletti

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

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, Zhi-Yong Huang, Wan-Guang Zhang

28th Annual Meeting of the German Association of Endocrine Surgeons (CAEK)