A Rare Tumor in the Cervical Sympathetic Trunk: Ganglioneuroblastoma by Ozan Erol, Alper Koycu, Erdinc Aydin

“…There is no consensus regarding the need for chemo- or radiotherapy after surgery. In this case report, clinical behavior and diagnosis and treatment of the rare tumor cervical ganglioneuroblastoma were discussed.…”
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Current Management of Traumatic Macular Holes by Wu Liu, Andrzej Grzybowski

“…Its prognosis is of complexity and uncertainty, with a relatively high rate of spontaneous closure in some cases. Modern vitrectomy surgery plays an important role in the treatment of TMH, although the functional outcomes may be compromised by the concomitant retinal pathologies. …”
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Health Care Costs Associated with Acute Asthma: A Prospetive Economic Analysis by Naser Awadh Behbehani, Anton Grunfeld, J Mark FitzGerald

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Pancreatic pseudo-cyst. by José Raúl Sánchez Aguilar, Neyda Delgado Marín, Jalima Jiménez Morejón

“…We presented the Good Clinical Practices Guideline for Pancreatic pseudocysts, approved by consent in the 3th National Good Clinical Practices Workshop in Pediatric Surgery (Camagüey, Cuba; February 23 – 26, 2004).<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><strong></strong></span>…”
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Editorial: Integrating machine learning with physics-based modeling of physiological systems by Jae H. Lee, Hao Gao, Michael Döllinger

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Prolonged Intestinal Mucosal Barium Coating due to Ischemic Necrosis by Vincent H. S. Low

“…A case of a 63-year-old man with small bowel ischemia six weeks after transplantation surgery is presented. Plain abdominal radiograph obtained several days after ingestion of barium shows the sign of prolonged barium coating indicating severe mucosal damage. …”
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Biliary atresia by Miurkis Endis Miranda, Ramón Villamil Martínez, Pastor Thomas Olivares

“…We presented the Good Clinical Practices Guideline for Biliary atresia, approved by consensus in the 4th National Good Clinical Practices Workshop in Pediatric Surgery (Las Tunas, Cuba, March, 2005).<strong><br /></strong>…”
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Aortoenteric Fistula Assocaited with Acute Myocardial Infarcation by Robert J Fingerote, Alan BR Thomson

“…Patients with prior abdominal aortic graft surgery presenting with gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal pain or occult sepsis need to be aggressively investigated to determine whether an aortoenteric fistula is present. …”
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Organ donation in the paediatric intensive care unit: Time for change? by Kristy Xinghan Fu, Sze Lyn Jasmin Jeanette Tan, Ne-Hooi Will Loh

“…To our knowledge, the first solid organ transplantation performed in Singapore in July 1970 involved a kidney from a deceased donor.1 Since then, rapid advancements in both transplant surgery and immunosuppressive medical therapy have enabled solid organ transplantation to better meet the increasing demands of a growing Singapore population with end-organ diseases. …”
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Controversies in the Management of Endometrial Carcinoma: An Update by Mohamed K. Mehasseb, John A. Latimer

“…Current controversies focus on screening and early detection, the extent of nodal surgery, and the changing roles of radiation therapy and chemotherapy and will be discussed in this paper.…”
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Multimodal Imaging in Ophthalmology by Lisa Toto, Roberto dell’Omo, Gian Marco Tosi, Giuseppe Querques, Sandrine A. Zweifel, Antoine Labbé

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WOUND AND ITS HEALING: A CONCISE PHYSIOLOGICAL REVIEW by Syeda Yamna Zia et al

“…A number of factors such as age, weight, nutritional status, immune response, dehydration, inadequate blood supply to the wound, chronic disease, radiations, surgery etc. greatly influence the process of wound healing …”
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Cooccurrence of Talon’s Cusp with Dens Invaginatus in the Maxillary Lateral Incisor: A Case Report with Review of Literature by Snehashish Ghosh, Safal Dhungel, Bhawana Subedi, Subi Pradhan

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Telemedicine expands cardiovascular care in China – lessons for health equity in the United States by Elizabeth J. Enichen, Kimia Heydari, Ben Li, Joseph C. Kvedar

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Nonobstructive gastroduodenal intussusception characterized by severe anemia: a case report by Benlei Zhu, Congming Wang, Jingwei Fu

“…The preoperative diagnosis was established through esophagogastroduodenoscopy and computed tomography of the abdomen, and it was confirmed during surgery. Postoperative pathology and immunohistochemistry identified the tumor as a gastric leiomyoma.…”
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Laser Vision Correction on Patients with Sick Optic Nerve: A Case Report by Ming Chen

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Pediatric Robotic-Assisted Laparoscopy: A Description of the Principle Procedures by Carlo Passerotti, Craig A. Peters

“…The advent of clinically useful robotic devices to facilitate reconstructive laparoscopic surgery in pediatric urology opens new doors to minimally invasive procedures. …”
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Evolving Concepts of Reflux: The Ups and Downs of the LES by Tom R DeMeester

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Editorial: Challenges in pediatric endocrinology regarding alterations in glucose metabolism, growth disorders, disorders of sex development, and puberty in adolescents by Giulio Maltoni, Egidio Candela, Egidio Candela, Gianluca Tornese, Gianluca Tornese

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An Unusual Prepatellar Bursa Swelling: Patellar Button Dissociation and Migration by Thomas Hester, Farid Moftah

“…Implant loosening is not a new phenomenon, nor is implant migration; however they are rarely seen after knee arthroplasty surgery. Complications with patellar buttons have been reported before with peg failure, loosening, and patella fracture; however extra-articular migration is extremely rare. …”
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