1 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital, School of Medicine, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China 2 Intra-Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Westchester Medical Center of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA 3Department of Transplantation and Hepatic Surgery, Renji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University, S...

1Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy; 2Division of Surgery, John Wayne Cancer Institute, Santa Monica, California; 3Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Department, Regional Hospital of Padua, Padua, Italy; 4Institute of Endocrine Surgery, University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy; and 5Institute of General Surgery, University of Padua Medical S...

martin kirschner (1879-1942), versatile german surgeon who had his scientific research and academic interests addressed topics which are covered by several specialities such as general surgery, orthopaedic surgery, neurosurgery, anesthesiology and plastic surgery. he also was the editor of five medical journals and autjor of 249 articles and eight textbooks. his greatest and lasting contributio...

Max E. Davis, Jonathan P. Gumucio, Kristoffer B. Sugg, Asheesh Bedi, and Christopher L. Mendias Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and Department of Surgery, Section of Plastic Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School, ...

1Digvijay Singh, 2Ajit Daharwal, 2Hansa Banjara, 3Sutanu Sarkar 1Senior Resident, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India 2Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Pt Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Medical College Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India 3Resident, Department of Otolaryngo...

Jayant S Vaidya professor of surgery and oncology and consultant breast cancer surgeon 1 , Samuele Massarut director of oncological breast surgery , Hrisheekesh J Vaidya medical student , Emma C Alexander medical student , Thomas Richards consultant in clinical oncology , Jochem A Caris senior breast surgery registrar 7 , Bhawna Sirohi consultant medical oncologist , Jeffrey S Tobias professor ...

1Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The Affiliated Drum Tower Hospital of Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210008, China 2Intra-Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Westchester Medical Center of New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY 10595, USA 3Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, ...

Cardiothoracic Surgery Research, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina; Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Research Service; Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC; Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Gorman Cardiovascular Res...

BACKGROUND Principles of effective assessment have become increasingly popular topics in graduate medical education. Changes in the structure of plastic surgery training demand a thorough understanding of the state-of-the-art in assessing surgical trainees. Moreover, the authors' understanding of different domains and methods of assessment and the available tools continues to grow. METHODS Th...

From Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo, Japan Address reprint requests to Hirokuni Arai, MD, PhD: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, 1–5–45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113–8519, Japan. ©2009 The Editorial Committee o...