World Journal of Surgery

Management of Pancreatic Endocrine Tumors in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1

Maria A. Kouvaraki, Suzanne E. Shapiro, Gilbert J. Cote, Jeffrey E. Lee, James C. Yao, Steven G. Waguespack, Robert F. Gagel, Douglas B. Evans, Nancy D. Perrier

Is Surgery Beneficial for MEN1 Patients with Small (≤2 cm), Nonfunctioning Pancreaticoduodenal Endocrine Tumor? An Analysis of 65 Patients from the GTE

Frederic Triponez, Pierre Goudet, David Dosseh, Patrick Cougard, Catherine Bauters, Arnaud Murat, Guillaume Cadiot, Patricia Niccoli-Sire, Alain Calender, Charles A. G. Proye

Pancreatic Tumors in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1

Gerard M. Doherty

Abdominal Visceral Lesions in von Hippel-Lindau Disease: Incidence and Clinical Behavior of Pancreatic and Adrenal Lesions at a Single Center

Keith A. Delman, Suzanne E. Shapiro, Eric W. Jonasch, Jeffrey E. Lee, Steven A. Curley, Douglas B. Evans, Nancy D. Perrier

Islet Hyperplasia in Adults: Challenge to Preoperatively Diagnose Non-Insulinoma Pancreatogenic Hypoglycemia Syndrome

Achim Starke, Christiane Saddig, Barbara Kirch, Cyrus Tschahargane, Peter Goretzki

Neuropsychiatric and Cognitive Changes after Surgery for Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Cornelia M.E. Dotzenrath, Ana Karena Kaetsch, Henrich Pfingsten, Kenko Cupisti, Norbert Weyerbrock, Alexander Vossough, Pablo E. Verde, Christian Ohmann

Preliminary Report: Functional MRI of the Brain May Be the Ideal Tool for Evaluating Neuropsychologic and Sleep Complaints of Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism

Nancy D. Perrier, Laura H. Coker, Kashemi D. Rorie, Nicole S. Burbank, Kimberly A. Kirkland, Leah V. Passmore, Terry Tembreull, David A. Stump, Paul J. Laurienti

Negative Imaging Studies for Primary Hyperparathyroidism Are Unavoidable: Correlation of Sestamibi and High-Resolution Ultrasound Scanning with Histological Analysis in 150 Patients

Radu Mihai, Fergus Gleeson, Ian D. Buley, Derek E. Roskell, Gregory P. Sadler

Differential RNA Expression Profile by cDNA Microarray in Sporadic Primary Hyperparathyroidism (pHPT): Primary Parathyroid Hyperplasia versus Adenoma

David Velázquez-Fernández, Cecilia Laurell, Milena Saqui-Salces, Juan Pablo Pantoja, Fernando Candanedo-Gonzalez, Alfredo Reza-Albarrán, Armando Gamboa-Dominguez, Miguel F. Herrera

The Effects of Retinoic Acid on the Insulin-like Growth Factor Axis in Primary Tissue Culture from Hyperparathyroidism

Chris K.M. Wong, Teresa Lai, Jeffrey M.P. Holly, Malcolm H. Wheeler, Claire E.H. Stewart, John R. Farndon

Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Parathyroidectomy Versus Open Minimally Invasive Parathyroidectomy for a Solitary Parathyroid Adenoma: A Prospective, Randomized, Blinded Trial

Marcin Barczyński, Stanisław Cichoń, Aleksander Konturek, Wojciech Cichoń

Indian Primary Hyperparathyroidism Patients with Parathyroid Carcinoma do not Differ in Clinicoinvestigative Characteristics from Those with Benign Parathyroid Pathology

Gaurav Agarwal, Kaushal K. Prasad, Dilip K Kar, Narendra Krishnani, Rakesh Pandey, Saroj K. Mishra

Total Parathyroidectomy Without Autotransplantation for Renal Hyperparathyroidism: Experience with a qPTH-controlled Protocol

Kerstin Lorenz, Jörg Ukkat, Carsten Sekulla, Oliver Gimm, Michael Brauckhoff, Henning Dralle

Classical and Follicular Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Comparative Study on Clinicopathologic Features and Long-term Outcome

Brian Hung-Hin Lang, Chung-Yau Lo, Wai-Fan Chan, Alfred King-Yin Lam, Koon-Yat Wan

Papillary Microcarcinoma: Is There Any Difference between Clinically Overt and Occult Tumors?

Chung-Yau Lo, Wai-Fan Chan, Brian Hung-Hin Lang, King-Yin Lam, Koon-Yat Wan

Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Cell-cycle Regulatory Genes in Malignant Thyroid Neoplasms

Electron Kebebew, Miao Peng, Emily Reiff, Quan-Yang Duh, Orlo H. Clark, Alex McMillan

Mutational Analysis of the APC Gene in Cribriform-Morula Variant of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Shinya Uchino, Shiro Noguchi, Hiroto Yamashita, Hiroyuki Yamashita, Shin Watanabe, Takahiro Ogawa, Akiko Tsuno, Akiko Murakami, Akira Miyauchi

Prognostic Significance of Extrathyroid Extension of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Massive but Not Minimal Extension Affects the Relapse-free Survival

Yasuhiro Ito, Chisato Tomoda, Takashi Uruno, Yuuki Takamura, Akihiro Miya, Kaoru Kobayashi, Fumio Matsuzuka, Kanji Kuma, Akira Miyauchi

Does Familial Non-Medullary Thyroid Cancer Adversely Affect Survival?

Frederic Triponez, Mariwil Wong, Cord Sturgeon, Nadine Caron, David G. Ginzinger, Mark R. Segal, Electron Kebebew, Quan-Yang Duh, Orlo H. Clark

Video-assisted Thyroidectomy: Report on the Experience of a Single Center in More than Four Hundred Cases

Celestino Pio Lombardi, Marco Raffaelli, Pietro Princi, Carmela De Crea, Rocco Bellantone

Re: “Video-assisted Thyroidectomy: Report on the Experience of a Single Center in More than Four Hundred Cases

Leigh Delbridge

Endoscopic Lateral Approach Thyroid Lobectomy: Safe Evolution from Endoscopic Parathyroidectomy

F. Sebag, F.F. Palazzo, J. Harding, M. Sierra, G. Ippolito, J.F. Henry

Pitfalls of Intraoperative Neuromonitoring for Predicting Postoperative Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve Function during Thyroidectomy

Wai-Fan Chan, Chung-Yau Lo

Thyroidectomy Using Monitored Local or Conventional General Anesthesia: An Analysis of Outpatient Surgery, Outcome and Cost in 1,194 Consecutive Cases

Kathryn Spanknebel, John A. Chabot, Mary DiGiorgi, Kenneth Cheung, James Curty, John Allendorf, Paul LoGerfo

Hypocalcaemia and Parathyroid Hormone Assay Following Total Thyroidectomy: Predicting the Future

C. Wong, S. Price, D. Scott-Coombes

Selective Modified Radical Neck Dissection for Papillary Thyroid Cancer—Is Level I, II and V Dissection Always Necessary?

N. R. Caron, Y. Y. Tan, J. B. Ogilvie, F. Triponez, E. S. Reiff, E. Kebebew, Q. Y. Duh, O. H. Clark

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy May Be Used to Support the Decision to Perform Modified Radical Neck Dissection in Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma

Radan Dzodic

Prognostic Significance of Disseminated Tumor Cells in the Connective Tissue of Patients with Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

Oliver Gimm, Viola Heyn, Ulf Krause, Carsten Sekulla, Jörg Ukkat, Henning Dralle

Desmoplastic Stromal Reaction in Medullary Thyroid Cancer—An Intraoperative “Marker” for Lymph Node Metastases

Christian Scheuba, Klaus Kaserer, Klaus Kaczirek, Reza Asari, Bruno Niederle

Isthmus-Preserving Total Bilobectomy: An Adequate Operation for C-Cell Hyperplasia

Robert Arnulf Wahl, Christian Vorländer, Susanne Kriener, Johanna Pedall, Martin Spitza, Martin-Leo Hansmann

Extent of Disease at Presentation and Outcome for Adrenocortical Carcinoma: Have We Made Progress?

Electron Kebebew, Emily Reiff, Quan-Yang Duh, Orlo H. Clark, Alex McMillan

Selective Use of Adrenal Venous Sampling in the Lateralization of Aldosterone-producing Adenomas

Yah Yuen Tan, Jennifer B. Ogilvie, Frederick Triponez, Nadine R. Caron, Electron K. Kebebew, Orlo H. Clark, Quan-Yang Duh

Re: “Selective Use of Adrenal Venous Sampling in the Lateralization of Aldosterone-Producing Adenomas

Geoffrey B. Thompson, William F. Young Jr

Isolated Adrenal Metastasis: The Role of Laparoscopic Surgery

F. Sebag, F. Calzolari, J. Harding, M. Sierra, F. F. Palazzo, J. F. Henry

Long-term Outcome following Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Large Solid Adrenal Cortex Tumors

F. Fausto Palazzo, Frederic Sebag, Mauricio Sierra, Giuseppe Ippolito, Philippe Souteyrand, Jean-François Henry

Laparoscopic and Retroperitoneoscopic Treatment of Pheochromocytomas and Retroperitoneal Paragangliomas: Results of 161 Tumors in 126 Patients

Martin K. Walz, Piero F. Alesina, Frank A. Wenger, J. Albrecht Koch, Hartmut P. H. Neumann, Stephan Petersenn, Kurt W. Schmid, Klaus Mann

Bilateral Adrenalectomy for Ectopic Cushing’s Syndrome—Discussions on Technique and Indication

Per Hellman, Fredrik Linder, Joakim Hennings, Ola Hessman, Barbro Eriksson, Håkan Örlefors, Göran Åkerström

Re: “Insulin-Like Growth Factors (IGF) I and II Utilize Different Calcium Signaling Pathways in a Primary Human Parathyroid Cell Culture Model”. C. Wong et al (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-005-0339-8)

Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy May Be Used to Support the Decision to Perform Modified Radical Neck Dissection in Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma