World Journal of Surgery

Editorial

Source Control for Surgical Infections

Moshe Schein, John Marshall

Functional Maps of Metastases from Breast Cancers: Proof of the Principle that Multidimensional Scaling Can Summarize Disease Progression

Lincoln C. Gray, Jayant S. Vaidya, Michael Baum, Rajendra A. Badwe, Indraneel Mittra, Tariq Siddiqui, Dorothea Wiarda

Regression of Type II Gastric Carcinoids in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 Patients with Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome after Surgical Excision of All Gastrinomas

Melanie L. Richards, Paul Gauger, Norman W. Thompson, Thomas J. Giordano

Identification of the Nonrecurrent Laryngeal Nerve during Thyroid Surgery: 20-Year Experience

Antonio Toniato, Renzo Mazzarotto, Andrea Piotto, Paolo Bernante, Costantino Pagetta, Maria Rosa Pelizzo

Comparative Effectiveness of Several Agents for Preventing Postoperative Adhesions

Jehat Kutlay, Yusuf Ozer, Burak Isık, Hulagu Kargici

Surgical Workload and Cost of Postoperative Adhesion-related Intestinal Obstruction: Importance of Previous Surgery

Jyrki A.O. Kössi, Paulina T.P. Salminen, Matti K. Laato

Changes in Liver Enzymes after Surgery in Anti-Hepatitis C Virus-positive Patients

Saburo Murakami, Katsuhiko Okubo, Yoshitaka Tsuji, Hideto Sakata, Takehiro Takahashi, Masataka Kikuchi, Renzo Hirayama

Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression and Neovascularization in Barrett’s Carcinoma

Christian Möbius, Hubert J. Stein, Ingrid Becker, Marcus Feith, Jörg Theisen, Peter Gais, Uta Jütting, J. Rüdiger Siewert

Clinical Significance of Serum Carcinoembryonic Antigen, Carbohydrate Antigen 19-9, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma Antigen Levels in Esophageal Cancer Patients

Shin-ichi Kosugi, Tadashi Nishimaki, Tatsuo Kanda, Satoru Nakagawa, Manabu Ohashi, Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama

Prognostic Factors for Early Gastric Cancer in France: Cox Regression Analysis of 332 Cases

Frédéric Borie, Valerie Rigau, Abe Fingerhut, Bertrand Millat

Microscopic Liver Metastasis: Prognostic Factor for Patients with pT2 Gallbladder Carcinoma

Itaru Endo, Hiroshi Shimada, Atsushi Takimoto, Yoshiro Fujii, Yasuhiko Miura, Mitsutaka Sugita, Daisuke Morioka, Hideki Masunari, Kuniya Tanaka, Hitoshi Sekido, Shinji Togo

Limited Hepatic Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Caudate Lobe

Toru Ikegami, Takahiro Ezaki, Teruyoshi Ishida, Shiomi Aimitsu, Megumu Fujihara, Masaki Mori

Positive Status of α-Fetoprotein and des-γ-Carboxy Prothrombin: Important Prognostic Factor for Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Masaki Kaibori, Yoichi Matsui, Hidesuke Yanagida, Norio Yokoigawa, A-Hon Kwon, Yasuo Kamiyama

Surgical Treatment of Portal Vein Cavernous Transformation

Hongkun Zhang, Nan Zhang, Ming Li, Wei Jin, Songlin Pan

Endoscopic Management of Early Postoperative Biliary Ascariasis in Patients with Biliary Tract Surgery

Showkat Ali Zargar, Bashir Ahmad Khan, Gul Javid, Ghulam Nabi Yattoo, Altaf Hussain Shah, Ghulam Mohammad Gulzar, Jaswinder Singh, Mushtaq Ahmad Khan, Nisar Ahmad Shah

Can Early Diagnosis of Symptomatic Colorectal Cancer Improve the Prognosis?

Fernando Gonzalez-Hermoso, Julian Perez-Palma, Joaquin Marchena-Gomez, Nieves Lorenzo-Rocha, Vincente Medina-Arana

Molecular Detection of APC, K-ras, and p53 Mutations in the Serum of Colorectal Cancer Patients as Circulating Biomarkers

Jaw-Yuan Wang, Jan-Sing Hsieh, Mei-Yin Chang, Tsung-Jen Huang, Fang-Ming Chen, Tian-Lu Cheng, Ketil Alexandersen, Yu-Sheng Huang, Wen-Shyong Tzou, Shiu-Ru Lin

To the Editor

Andrzej Skorek, Waldemar Narozny, Jerzy Kuczkowski, Boguslaw Mikaszewski

The Memoirs of Allen Oldfather Whipple: The Man Behind the Whipple. Samir Johna, Mosche Schein, editors. TFM Publishing, Castle Hill Barns, UK, 2003, 222 pp., $39.95

Ronald K. Tompkins

World J. Surg., Vol. 27, No. 12, December 2003, pp. 1337-1338 (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-1028-0)