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Oncology / Liver Resections

Cholecystectomy, lesser omentectomy, and stripping of the omental bursa: A peritonectomy procedure (2003)

Surgical technology and pharmacology of hyperthermic perioperative chemotherapy (2016)

Xiphoidectomy Vinicius de Lima Vazquez and Paul H. Sugarbaker (2003)

Major liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma in the morbidly obese: A proposed strategy to improve outcome (2008)

Closed Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy With Open Abdomen: A Novel Technique to Reduce Exposure of the Surgical Team to Chemotherapy Drugs (2007)

A Radiofrequency-Assisted Minimal Blood Loss Liver Parenchyma Dissection Technique (2007)

Right lobe living-donor hepatectomy – the Toronto approach, tips and tricks

Safety and feasibility of pressurized intraperitoneal aerosol chemotherapy (PIPAC) associate with systemic chemotherapy: an innovative approach to treat peritoneal carcinomatosis

Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for the Treatment of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis: Our Initial Experience

Modified Makuuchi Incision for Foregut Procedures

Comparison of Video-Assisted Minilaparotomy, Open, and Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Masses

Complication Rates of the 720 video-assisted Minilaparotomy Living Donor Nephrectomies: Supplementing Clavien Classification

Cytoreductive surgery with or without perioperative intraperitoneal chemotherapy for the management of peritoneal carcinomatosis: Our initial experience

CT characterization of retractor related liver injuries after pancreaticoduodenectomy: Retrospective analysis of a single institution experience

Outcomes of the facelift incisional approach to neck dissection without endoscopic or robotic assistance

 

Organ Transplant

Kidney Transplantation in Libya: A North African and Middle Eastern Perspective (2006)

Preoperative Arrangements for Organ Donation (2008)

Hepatic resection is associated with reduced postoperative opioid requirement

Preoperative left hepatic lobe devascularization to minimize perioperative bleeding in a Jehovah’s Witness undergoing left hepatectomy

 

General / Vascular

Left Retroperitoneal Approach Using a Retractor to Repair Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A Comparison with the Transperitoneal Approach (2002)

The hidden costs of open hepatectomy: A 10-year, single institution series of right-sided hepatectomies

Variation in Clinical Application of Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy: A Review

Open adrenalectomy

Cytoreductive Surgery for Advanced Colon Cancer

 

Obesity / Bariatric

The Elite II Bariatric Surgery Retractor : A Recent Addition to the Bariatric Surgeon’s Tool Chest (2001)

Totally Robotic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (2005)

Robotic-assisted approached to GERD following sleeve gastrectomy

 

Cardiovascular / Cardiothoracic

Cardiac Retractor for Coronary Bypass Operations (1991)

Beating heart surgery via right thoracotomy for reoperative mitral valve surgery: A safe and effective operative alternative

Modification of the Abramson procedure for minimally invasive repair of pectus carinatum: introduction of a pectus carinatum compression system (2023) | PDF

 

Spine

Anterior thoracic corpectomy without sternotomy: A strategy for malignant disease of the upper thoracic spine (1997)

Mini-open approach to the spine for anterior lumbar interbody fusion (2002)

Analysis and Temporal Evolution of Extubation Parameters for Patients Undergoing Single Stage Circumferential Cervical Spine Surgery

Grade III Spondylolisthesis L5S1 Treated by Minimally Invasive Spine Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MIS-TLIF) in a Patient of Rheumatoid Arthritis

ProDisc-L learning curve: 24 month clinical and radio-graphic outcomes in 44 consecutive cases

Robotic Fundoplication for Large Paraesophageal Hiatal Hernias

Retroauricular Endoscope-Assisted Approach to the Neck: Early Experience in Latin America

 

OneFrame

The Thompson Retractor OneFrame System: A ‘Complete Partner’ For Aortic Aneurysm Procedures, Xavier Berard, MD, PhD, FEBVS (2024)