Advances in Surgery®

Each year, Advances in Surgery brings you the best current thinking from the preeminent practitioners in your field. A distinguished editorial board identifies current areas of major progress and controversy and invites specialists to contribute original articles on these topics. These insightful overviews bring concepts to a clinical level and explore their everyday impact on patient care.

Volume 44 Highlights (coming Fall 2010)

• Does NSQIP Improve Surgical Quality?
• Endovascular Repair of Traumatic Aortic Injuries
• What Should be the Extent of Neck Dissection for Thyroid Cancer?
• Burnout Amongst U.S. Surgeons
• Which is Best? Laparoscopic Gastric
• Reoperative Surgery for the Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome
• Does the Type of Pancreaticojejunostomy After Whipple Alter the Leak Rate?
• Outcomes in Over 2000 Limb Revascularizations
• Ductal Anatomy Predicts Major Complications from Pancreatitis
• The Diagnosis of a Ruptured Appendix Preoperatively in the Pediatric Patient
• Adjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: Who Benefits?
• Screening Criteria for Breast Cancer
• Detecting Leaks Following Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass
• Impact of a Computerized Physician Order Entry System
• Real Time Glucose Monitoring? Future or Now?
• Update on Familial Pancreatic Cancer
• What's New in the ICU?
• Minimally Invasive Thyroid and Parathyroid Operations
• Impact of Future Liver Remnant Volume on Outcome Following Extended Right Hepatectomy
• The Impact of "Frailty" on the Outcome of Surgery In the Aged
• Cancer Survivorship - What Are the Long-Term Consequences?
• Role of Chemotherapy in Downstaging Metastases
• What's New in Neoadjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer?
• Laparoscopic Esophagectomy

Editor-in-Chief:
John L. Cameron

Associate Editors:
B. Mark Evers, Yuman Fong, David Herndon, Keith Lillemoe, John A. Mannick, John Wong, and Charles J. Yeo