World Journal of Surgery

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in the Septic Surgical Patient

Jose L. Balibrea, Javier Arias-Díaz

Identification of Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Colon Cancer Depends on the Amount of Dye Injected Relative to Tumor Size

Carsten T. Viehl, Christian T. Hamel, Walter R. Marti, Ulrich Guller, Lukas Eisner, Uz Stammberger, Luigi Terracciano, Hans P. Spichtin, Felix Harder, Markus Zuber

Subareolar Subcutaneous Injection of Blue Dye versus Peritumoral Injection of Technetium-labeled Human Albumin to Identify Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer Patients

Roland Reitsamer, Florentia Peintinger, Lukas Rettenbacher, Eva Prokop, Felix Sedlmayer

Role of Preoperative Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization for Resectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Relation between Postoperative Course and the Pattern of Tumor Recurrence

Hiroyuki Sugo, Shunji Futagawa, Tomoe Beppu, Masaki Fukasawa, Kuniaki Kojima

High Dose Intravenous Immunoglobulin G Pretreatment: Effect on Lipid Peroxidation and Reperfusion Injury to the Liver

Dimitrios Giakoustidis, George Papageorgiou, Evanthia Kostopoulou, Stavros Iliadis, Alexandros Giakoustidis, Nikolas Kontos, Dimitrios Tsantilas, Nikolaos Botsoglou

Preoperative Steroid Administration: Effect on Morbidity among Patients Undergoing Intestinal Bowel Resection for Crohn’s Disease

Matthias Bruewer, Markus Utech, Emile J.M. Rijcken, Christoph Anthoni, Mike G. Laukoetter, Sabine Kersting, Norbert Senninger, Christian F. Krieglstein

Superior Performance of a Paraaortic Counterpulsation Device Compared to the Intraaortic Balloon Pump

John V. Terrovitis, Christos E. Charitos, Elias J. Tsolakis, Paraskevi Dolou, Charalampos N. Pierrakos, Kostas X. Siafakas, John N. Nanas

Higher Age Predicts Adverse Outcome and Readmission after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Otso Järvinen, Heini Huhtala, Jari Laurikka, Matti R. Tarkka

Early Escharotomy as a Measure to Reduce Intraabdominal Hypertension in Full-Thickness Burns of the Thoracic and Abdominal Area

Demosthenis Tsoutsos, Stavroula Rodopoulou, Evangelos Keramidas, Miltiadis Lagios, Konstantinos Stamatopoulos, John Ioannovich

Modification of Mesosigmoidoplasty for Nongangrenous Sigmoid Volvulus

Olaf Bach, Udo Rudloff, Stefan Post

Synopsis of the published biography of Evarts A. Graham: The Life, Lives, and Times of the Surgical Spirit of St. Louis

Malek G. Massad, Alexander S. Geha

To the Editor (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7224-0)

John Lascaratos, Dionysios Voros, Constantine Tsiamis

To the Editor (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-1024-4)

Martin L. Blakely

Reply (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-1025-3)

Riad N. Younes

To the Editor (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-1028-0)

Daniel Bacal

Reply (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-1029-z)

Jin-Tung Liang

To the Editor (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-1026-2)

Julian E. Losanoff, Bruce W. Richman, James W. Jones

Reply (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-1027-1)

Cuneyt Kayaalp

To the Editor (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7225-z)

D. Paul Hurlstone

Acknowledgments

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Author and Subject Indexes—Volume 27, 2003