| | Case Reports Isolated right atrial appendage (RAA) rupture in blunt trauma – a case report and an anatomic study comparing RAA and right atrium (RA) wall thickness Adoniram M Figueiredo, Renato S Poggetti, Fabio G Quintavalle, Belchor Fontes, Moise Dalva, Riad N Younes, Fabio B Jatene, and Dario Birolini PMCID: PMC1805426 A case of elbow hyperextension leading to complete brachial artery rupture Deva S Jeyaretna, Michael Butler, Huw G David, and Alasdair J Walker PMCID: PMC1821318 Distal thoracic oesophageal perforation secondary to blunt trauma: Case report Dirk C Strauss, Ruchi Tandon, and Robert C Mason PMCID: PMC1852095 Contemporary management of drug-packers J Kelly, M Corrigan, RA Cahill, and HP Redmond PMCID: PMC1868019 Experiences with waterjet hydrosurgery system in wound debridement Raffi Gurunluoglu PMCID: PMC1867809 Laparoscopic resection of a torted ovarian dermoid cyst Katie M Williams, Charles J Bain, and Michael D Kelly PMCID: PMC1876448 Group A streptococcal septicaemia presenting as an acute abdomen in a child Melissa Short and Anne Lawson PMCID: PMC1891275 Emergency endovascular repair of ruptured visceral artery aneurysms Umar Sadat, Nadim Noor, Tjun Tang, and Kevin Varty PMCID: PMC1914049 An apricot story: view through a keyhole Tushar Samdani, Tarun Singhal, Santosh Balakrishnan, Abdulzahra Hussain, Starlene Grandy-Smith, and Shamsi El-Hasani PMCID: PMC1976312 Necrotising colitis related to clozapine? A rare but life threatening side effect Quor M Leong, Kutt S Wong, and Dean C Koh PMCID: PMC1997107 Ischemic colitis or melanosis coli: a case report Baber N Chaudhary, Hemant Sharma, Mohammed Nadeem, and Mohammed H Niayesh PMCID: PMC2077330 Laparoscopic repair of strangulated Morgagni hernia Michael D Kelly PMCID: PMC2098753 Recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy due to impacted dental plate in the thoracic oesophagus: case report Robert P Sutcliffe, Ashish Rohatgi, Matthew J Forshaw, and Robert C Mason PMCID: PMC2194669 Nasoendotracheal tube obstruction by a nasal polyp in emergency oral surgery: a case report Tatjana Goranovic, Morena Milic, and Predrag Knezevic PMCID: PMC2169218 Hematochezia in a patient with liver cirrhosis Ronan A Cahill, Suzanne Norris, and Richard B Stephens PMCID: PMC2213638 Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolus associated with a ruptured popliteal aneurysm – a cautionary note Pandanaboyana Sanjay and Mike H Lewis PMCID: PMC2231347 Editorials World Journal of Emergency Surgery (WJES), World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) and the role of emergency surgery in the world Fausto Catena and Ernest E Moore, Jr PMCID: PMC1802735 WJES and case reports/case series Luca Ansaloni, Fausto Catena, and Ernest E Moore PMCID: PMC1885429 Letter to the Editor Comparison of APACHE II and Imrie Scoring Systems in predicting the severity of Acute Pancreatitis Savio G Barreto and Jude Rodrigues PMCID: PMC2169219 Research Articles Intra-abdominal pressure in severe acute pancreatitis Paivi Keskinen, Ari Leppaniemi, Ville Pettila, Anneli Piilonen, Esko Kemppainen, and Marja Hynninen PMCID: PMC1800837 Are upright lateral cervical radiographs in the obtunded trauma patient useful? A retrospective study Craig H Rabb, Jeffrey L Johnson, David VanSickle, Kathryn Beauchamp, Gene Bolles, and Ernest E Moore PMCID: PMC1802734 The effect of erythropoietin on healing of obstructive vs nonobstructive left colonic anastomosis: an experimental study Munevver Moran, M Mahir Ozmen, A Polat Duzgun, Riza Gok, Nurten Renda, Selda Seckin, and Faruk Coskun PMCID: PMC1887525 Hollow viscus injury in children: Starship Hospital experience Saleh M Abbas and Vipul Upadhyay PMCID: PMC1892548 Utility of esophageal gastroduodenoscopy at the time of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in trauma patients James M Haan, Grant V Bochicchio, and Thomas M Scalea PMCID: PMC1936987 Dying from cardiac tamponade Aravind Swaminathan, Karikalan Kandaswamy, Manish Powari, and Joseph Mathew PMCID: PMC2042492 Ultrasound assessment of haemoperitoneum in ectopic pregnancy: derivation of a prediction model Arnaud Fauconnier, Ali Mabrouk, Laurent J Salomon, Jean-Pierre Bernard, and Yves Ville PMCID: PMC2040136 Regional variability in use of a novel assessment of thoracolumbar spine fractures: United States versus international surgeons John Ratliff, Neel Anand, Alexander R Vaccaro, Moe R Lim, Joon Y Lee, Paul Arnold, James S Harrop, Raja Rampersaud, Christopher M Bono, Ralf H Gahr, and Trauma Study Group Spine PMCID: PMC2045082 What clinical and laboratory parameters determine significant intra abdominal pathology for patients assessed in hospital with acute abdominal pain? Saleh M Abbas, Troy Smithers, and Etienne Truter PMCID: PMC2116997 We still need to operate at night! Omar Faiz, Saswata Banerjee, Paris Tekkis, Savvas Papagrigoriadis, John Rennie, and Andrew Leather PMCID: PMC2174927 Reviews State of the art: noninvasive imaging and management of neurovascular trauma Charles E Ray, Jr, Shaun C Spalding, C Clay Cothren, Wei-Shin Wang, Ernest E Moore, and Stephen P Johnson PMCID: PMC1796545 A critical appraisal of epidemiological studies comes from basic knowledge: a reader's guide to assess potential for biases Stefania Boccia, Giuseppe La Torre, Roberto Persiani, Domenico D'Ugo, Cornelia M van Duijn, and Gualtiero Ricciardi PMCID: PMC1845145 Pre-operative risk scores for the prediction of outcome in elderly people who require emergency surgery Thomas E Rix and Tom Bates PMCID: PMC1894959 Necrotizing fasciitis: strategies for diagnosis and management Korhan Taviloglu and Hakan Yanar PMCID: PMC1988793 Tourniquets for the control of traumatic hemorrhage: a review of the literature Stephen L Richey PMCID: PMC2151059 |
