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Volume 9;  2009
Commentary
Intraoperative angiography should be standard in cerebral aneurysm surgery
Jonathan A Friedman and Ravi Kumar
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 7. Published online 2009 April 30. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-7.
PMCID: PMC2683796
Debate
Radical Prostatectomy: Hospital volumes and surgical volumes – does practice make perfect?
Cydney Urbanek, Ryan Turpen, and Charles J Rosser
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 10. Published online 2009 June 6. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-10.
PMCID: PMC2701919
Research Articles
Sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer using methylene blue dye manifests a short learning curve among experienced surgeons: a prospective tabular cumulative sum (CUSUM) analysis
Jeffrey M East, Christopher SP Valentine, Emil Kanchev, and Garfield O Blake
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 2. Published online 2009 January 27. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-2.
PMCID: PMC2640353
Comparison of inpatient vs. outpatient anterior cervical discectomy and fusion: a retrospective case series
Jeffrey T Liu, Rudy P Briner, and Jonathan A Friedman
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 3. Published online 2009 March 5. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-3.
PMCID: PMC2657115
Direct intra-abdominal pressure monitoring via piezoresistive pressure measurement: a technical note
Jens Otto, Daniel Kaemmer, Marcel Binnebösel, Marc Jansen, Rolf Dembinski, Volker Schumpelick, and Alexander Schachtrupp
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 5. Published online 2009 April 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-5.
PMCID: PMC2678082
Long-term recurrence and complication rates after incisional hernia repair with the open onlay technique
Lars Peter Holst Andersen, Mads Klein, Ismail Gögenur, and Jacob Rosenberg
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 6. Published online 2009 April 28. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-6.
PMCID: PMC2684736
Current practice of abdominal wall closure in elective surgery – Is there any consensus?
Nuh N Rahbari, Phillip Knebel, Markus K Diener, Christoph Seidlmayer, Karsten Ridwelski, Hartmut Stöltzing, and Christoph M Seiler
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 8. Published online 2009 May 15. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-8.
PMCID: PMC2687428
Diagnostic problems with parasitic and non-parasitic splenic cysts
Gokhan Adas, Oguzhan Karatepe, Merih Altiok, Muharrem Battal, Omer Bender, Deniz Ozcan, and Servet Karahan
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 9. Published online 2009 May 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-9.
PMCID: PMC2701920
APACHE III outcome prediction in patients admitted to the intensive care unit after liver transplantation: a retrospective cohort study
Mark T Keegan, Bhargavi Gali, James Y Findlay, Julie K Heimbach, David J Plevak, and Bekele Afessa
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 11. Published online 2009 July 29. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-11.
PMCID: PMC2726122
Development of a clinical decision model for thyroid nodules
Alexander Stojadinovic, George E Peoples, Steven K Libutti, Leonard R Henry, John Eberhardt, Robin S Howard, David Gur, Eric A Elster, and Aviram Nissan
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 12. Published online 2009 August 10. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-12.
PMCID: PMC2731077
Prediction of conversion of laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open surgery with artificial neural networks
Changiz Gholipour, Mohammad Bassir Abolghasemi Fakhree, Rosita Alizadeh Shalchi, and Mehrshad Abbasi
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 13. Published online 2009 August 21. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-13.
PMCID: PMC2745364
Laparoscopic versus open left lateral segmentectomy
Kirstin A Carswell, Filippos G Sagias, Beth Murgatroyd, Mohamed Rela, Nigel Heaton, and Ameet G Patel
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 14. Published online 2009 September 7. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-14.
PMCID: PMC2742511
Evolution of breast cancer management in Ireland: a decade of change
Helen M Heneghan, Ruth S Prichard, Amanda Devaney, Karl J Sweeney, C Malone, Ray McLaughlin, and Michael J Kerin
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 15. Published online 2009 September 18. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-15.
PMCID: PMC2753567
Internal sphincterotomy reduces postoperative pain after Milligan Morgan haemorrhoidectomy
Giuseppe Diana, Giovanni Guercio, Bianca Cudia, and Calogero Ricotta
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 16. Published online 2009 October 24. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-16.
PMCID: PMC2774293
Study Protocol
A prospective, non-randomized phase II trial of Trastuzumab and Capecitabine in patients with HER2 expressing metastasized pancreatic cancer
Andre Mihaljevic, Peter Büchler, Jan Harder, Ralf Hofheinz, Michael Gregor, Stephan Kanzler, Wolff Schmiegel, Volker Heinemann, Esther Endlicher, Günter Klöppel, Thomas Seufferlein, and Michael Geissler
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 1. Published online 2009 January 8. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-1.
PMCID: PMC2661037
Transanal endoscopic microsurgery versus endoscopic mucosal resection for large rectal adenomas (TREND-study)
Frank JC van den Broek, Eelco JR de Graaf, Marcel GW Dijkgraaf, Johannes B Reitsma, Jelle Haringsma, Robin Timmer, Bas LAM Weusten, Michael F Gerhards, Esther CJ Consten, Matthijs P Schwartz, Maarten J Boom, Erik J Derksen, A Bart Bijnen, Paul HP Davids, Christiaan Hoff, Hendrik M van Dullemen, G Dimitri N Heine, Klaas van der Linde, Jeroen M Jansen, Rosalie CH Mallant-Hent, Ronald Breumelhof, Han Geldof, James CH Hardwick, Pascal G Doornebosch, Annekatrien CTM Depla, Miranda F Ernst, Ivo P van Munster, Ignace HJT de Hingh, Erik J Schoon, Willem A Bemelman, Paul Fockens, and Evelien Dekker
BMC Surg. 2009; 9: 4. Published online 2009 March 13. doi: 10.1186/1471-2482-9-4.
PMCID: PMC2664790
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