Surgery Publications
Research in Surgery Publications examine the statistical, educational, innovative and patient centered facets of surgery studies and practice. Topics include surgical tools and approaches, bone healing and health, patient preferences and rationale studies, and blood and cellular research.
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Submissions from 2006
Cyclosporin versus Tacrolimus as Primary Immunosuppressant after Liver Transplantation: A Meta-analysis, Vivian C. McAlister, E. Haddad, E. Renouf, R. A. Malthaner, M. S. Kjaer, and L. L. Gluud
In Search of the Anglophone Doctor in Jacques Ferron’s Story “Le petit William”, Vivian C. McAlister and Christiane I. McAlister
Wnt Expression Is Not Correlated with β-catenin Dysregulation in Dupuytren's Disease, David B. O'Gorman, Yan Wu, Shannon Seney, Rebecca D. Zhu, and Bing Siang Gan
Primary PEComa of the Bladder Treated with Primary Excision and Adjuvant Interferon-alpha Immunotherapy: A Case Report, Jeremy R. Parfitt, Anthony J. Bella, Bret M. Wehrli, and Jonathan I. Izawa
Intravenous Immunoglobulin as a Treatment for BK Virus Associated Nephropathy: One-Year Follow-Up of Renal Allograft Recipients, Alp Sener, Andrew A. House, Anthony M. Jevnikar, Neil Boudville, Vivian C. McAlister, Norman Muirhead, Faisal Rehman, and Patrick P. W. Luke
Viable Group A Streptococci in Macrophages during Acute Soft Tissue Infection, Pontus Thulin, Linda Johansson, Donald E. Low, Bing S. Gan, Malak Kotb, Allison McGeer, and Anna Norrby-Teglund
Double-Negative T Cells, Activated by Xenoantigen, Lyse Autologous B and T Cells Using a Perforin/Granzyme-Dependent, Fas-Fas Ligand-Independent Pathway, Zhu-Xu Zhang, Yuexia Ma, Hao Wang, Jacqueline Arp, Jifu Jiang, Xuyan Huang, Kathy M. He, Bertha Garcia, Joaquím Madrenas, and Robert Zhong
Induction of Antitumor Immunity through Xenoplacental Immunization, Zhaohui Zhong, Kornel P. Kusznieruk, Igor A. Popov, Neil H. Riordan, Hamid Izadi, Li Yijian, Salman Sher, Orest M. Szczurko, Michael G. Agadjanyan, Richard H. Tullis, Amir Harandi, Boris N. Reznik, Grigor V. Mamikonyan, and Thomas E. Ichim
Submissions from 2005
A Novel Mass Spectrometry-based Assay for GSK-3β Activity, Erin Bowley, Erin Mulvihill, Jeffrey C. Howard, Brian J. Pak, Bing Siang Gan, and David B. O'Gorman
Correction of Factor XI Deficiency by Liver Transplantation, Nina Ghosh, Paul J. Marotta, and Vivian C. McAlister
Catastrophic Microangiopathy Induced by High-titre Factor VIII Inhibitors after Liver Transplantation for Haemophilia A with Cirrhosis, A. K. Khakhar, N. G. Chan, D. S. Allan, S. Chakrabarti, and Vivian C. McAlister
Efficacy and Safety of Repeated Perioperative Doses of Recombinant Factor VIIa in Liver Transplantation, J. Peter A Lodge, Sven Jonas, Robert M. Jones, Michael Olausson, José Mir-Pallardo, Soeren Soefelt, Juan Carlos Garcia-Valdecasas, Vivian McAlister, and Darius F. Mirza
Sacred Disease of Our Times: Failure of the Infectious Disease Model of Spongiform Encephalopathy, Vivian McAlister
Sinister Surgery, Vivian C. McAlister
Clinical Kidney Transplantation: A 50th Anniversary Review of the First Reported Series, Vivian Charles McAlister
Demarcated Truncal Jaundice: A Sign of Retroperitoneal Bile Leakage, Vivian C. McAlister and Alp Sener
Characterization of Human Peritoneal Dendritic Cell Precursors and Their Involvement in Peritonitis, M. L. McCully, T. A. Chau, P. Luke, P. G. Blake, and J. Madrenas
Sentinel Node Biopsy as an Adjunct to Limb Salvage Surgery for Epithelioid Sarcoma of the Hand, Alex Seal, Raymond Tse, Bret Wehrli, Alex Hammond, and Claire L. F. Temple
Association of Recanalization of the Left Umbilical Vein with Umbilical Hernia in Patients with Liver Disease, Eran Shlomovitz, Douglas Quan, Roya Etemad-Rezai, and Vivian C. McAlister
Common Sense for a Common Problem: The Question of Screening the Average-risk Population for Colorectal Neoplasia, Chris Vinden and Vivian C. McAlister
A Prospective 3-yr Evaluation of Tacrolimus-based Immunosuppressive Therapy in Immunological High Risk Renal Allograft Recipients, Jeffrey S. Zaltzman, Anne Boucher, Stephan Busque, Phillip F. Halloran, David N. Landsberg, Vivian C. McAlister, David Russell, Ahmed Shoker, Jean Shapiro, Jean I. Tchervenkov, and Ralph Ferguson
Submissions from 2004
Utility of MELD and Child-Turcotte-Pugh Scores and the Canadian Waitlisting Algorithm in Predicting Short-term Survival after Liver Transplant, Salem M. Bazarah, Kevork M. Peltekian, Vivian C. McAlister, Heinrich Bitter-Suermann, and Alan S. MacDonald
Multivariate Analysis of Technical Variables in Pancreaticoduodenectomy: The Effect of Pylorus Preservation and Retromesenteric Jejunal Position on Early Outcome, Trevor J. Butler, D. Brock Vair, Shannon Colohan, and Vivian C. McAlister
Immunoglobulin-G Subclass Antidonor Reactivity in Transplant Recipients, Zu-hua Gao, Vivian C. McAlister, James R. Wright, Chloe C. McAlister, Kevork Peltekian, and Allan S. MacDonald
Neoadjuvant or Adjuvant Therapy for Resectable Esophageal Cancer: A Clinical Practice Guideline, Richard A. Malthaner, Rebecca K. S. Wong, R. Bryan Rumble, Lisa Zuraw, and Gastrointestinal Cancer Disease Site Group of Cancer Care Ontario's Program in Evidence-based Care