May 1989

Thoughts while scrubbing

• Richard E. Ahlquist Jr.

Editorial comment

• Richard P. Andersen

Editorial comment

• Lewis M. Flint

Abdominal injuries associated with the use of seatbelts

• James P. Appleby,
• Alex G. Nagy

Effect of octreotide acetate on pancreatic exocrine function

• Shauna T. Williams,
• Eugene A. Woltering,
• Thomas M. O'Dorisio,
• William S. Fletcher

Rural trauma management

• Robert Wayne

Function and quality of life results after ileal pouch surgery for chronic ulcerative colitis and familial polyposis

• Erik D. Skarsgard,
• Kenneth G. Atkinson,
• George A. Bell,
• Michael E. Pezim,
• Andrew M. Seal,
• F.Rosslyn Sharp

Liver resection without blood transfusion

• John A. Ryan Jr.,
• D.Joseph Faulkner II

Management of variceal hemorrhage in the potential liver transplant candidate

• Richard A. Crass,
• Emmet B. Keeffe,
• C.Wright Pinson

Partial portal decompression for variceal hemorrhage

• Kaj Johansen

Staged repair of interrupted aortic arch with ventricular septal defect compared with primary repair in infancy

• Robert S. Sawin,
• Dale G. Hall,
• Peter B. Mansfield,
• Edward A. Rittenhouse

Diagnostic laparoscopy

• Alexander G. Nagy,
• David James

Empyema thoracis in patients undergoing emergent closed tube thoracostomy for thoracic trauma

• A.Craig Eddy,
• Gregory K. Luna,
• Michael Copass

Endarterectomy as the procedure of choice for atherosclerotic occlusive lesions of the common femoral artery

• Dipankar Mukherjee,
• Toshio Inahara

Factors affecting the incidence of lymph node metastases in small cancers of the breast

• Vincent Reger,
• George Beito,
• Philip C. Jolly

Squamous cell carcinoma radioimmunoassay in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

• David W. Cook,
• Thomas Winek,
• Harvey Baker,
• Clifford W. Deveney,
• Truman Sasaki

Preoperative needle localization to detect early breast cancer

• Conrad H. Rusnak,
• Delmer B. Pengelly,
• Robert T. Hosie,
• Conrad N. Rusnak

Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cancer of the large bowel and rectum

• David E. Smith,
• Nicholas S. Muff,
• Houshang Shetabi,
• F.Helmut Stutz,
• Harry Eiesland

The sensitivity of vital signs in identifying major thoracoabdominal hemorrhage

• Gregory K. Luna,
• A.Craig Eddy,
• Michael Copass

Early experience with the automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator in sudden death survivors

• Daniel L. Paull,
• Christopher L. Fellows,
• Steven W. Guyton,
• Richard P. Anderson

Management of cavernous hemangioma of the liver

• Mika N. Sinanan,
• Thomas Marchioro

Presidential address: The role of the specialist in undergraduate surgical education

• Norman Snow

Hypertonic saline-dextran solutions for the prehospital management of traumatic hypotension

• Peter A. Maningas,
• Kenneth L. Mattox,
• Paul E. Pepe,
• Robert L. Jones,
• David V. Feliciano,
• Jon M. Burch

A twelve-year survey of cervicothoraeic vascular injuries

• Mark Bladergroen,
• Roberta Brockman,
• Greg Luna,
• Ted Kohler,
• Kaj Johansen

Letters to the editor

• Joseph M. Miller

Letters to the editor

• Clifford A. Cranford Jr.,
• Edward L. Bradley III

Diseases of the esophagus

Edited by J. R. Siewert and A. H. Holscher. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1988. 1,400 pages, $210

• J.David Richardson

Trauma surgery

By Joseph A. Moylan. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1988. 579 pages

• Frank B. Miller

General surgery: Review and assessment

By Richard M. Stillman. East Norwalk, CT: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1987. 427 pages. $24.95

• Richard M. Bell

Current surgical practice. Vol. 4

By John Hadfield and Michael Hobsley. London: Edward Arnold, 1987. 309 pages. $49.95

• Richard D. Floyd