December 2007

Features

Cover Story

	When colonoscopy goes wrong: Surgical management of splenic rupture
	Sergey Khaitov, Resident, Department of Surgery; Russell Langan; Tomas M. Heimann, Professor, Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

	Editor's Page
	We've got it pretty good
	Bernard M. Jaffe, Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA


	Colonoscopy-induced splenic trauma: Strive for conservative management
	Nagesh B. Ravipati, Instructor/Chief Resident in General Surgery, Division of General Surgery; Mark C. Mason, Resident in General Surgery, Division of General Surgery; Lisa E. McMahan, Chief Resident in General Surgery, Division of General Surgery; Barbara A. Pockaj, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General Surgery; Lucinda A. Harris, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ


	Casualty Surgery
	Hypopharyngeal rupture associated with Hangman's fracture after blunt trauma
	Joshua Wolf, Medical Student IV; George Miller, Chief Surgical Resident; Raymond Sultan, General Surgery Resident; Maurizio Miglietta, Assistant Professor of Surgery; Spiros Frangos, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY


	Perforated diverticulitis of the hepatic flexure
	Tina Jenq, Chief Resident, Department of Surgery; Alessandro Fichera, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL


	Idiopathic spontaneous perforation of the sigmoid colon or a complication of sexual activity?
	John Spiliotis, Chairman, Department of Surgery; Anastasios C. Datsis, Staff Surgeon, Department of Surgery; Archodia Vaxevanidou, Staff Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology; Athanasios Georgiou, General Surgery Resident, Department of Surgery; Spiros Kekelos, Vice Chairman, Surgical Clinic; Athanasios Rogdakis, Staff Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Messologi General Hospital, Messologi, Greece


	Minimally Invasive Surgery
	Toothpick perforation of the small intestine diagnosed by exploratory laparoscopy
	Raul Mederos, Chief Surgical Resident; Payman Danielpour, Chief Surgical Resident; Yordanka Reyna, Medical Student III; Donald Minervini, Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL


	Managing a spontaneously ruptured giant hepatic hemangioma nonoperatively
	Toni Green, General Surgery Resident, Department of Surgery; John D'Emilia, Surgical Oncology Attending, Department of Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Stratford, NJ