January 2008
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Cover Story
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Clinical Observations |
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Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors and neurofibromatosis 1 |
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Vinod P. Balachandran, Resident in General Surgery, Department of Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY; Martin S. Karpeh, Chairman, Department of Surgery, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY |
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Editor's Page |
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Afraid of knives |
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Bernard M. Jaffe, Editor-in-Chief |
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Clinical Observations |
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Round ligament varicosities mimicking inguinal hernias in a gravid patient |
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Charles E. Copeland, Attending Surgeon, Department of Surgery; Christopher J. Myers, General Surgery Resident, Department of Surgery, The Mercy Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Clinical Observations |
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Invasive ductal breast cancer metastatic to the rectum |
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Devin P. Puapong, Surgical Resident, Department of Surgery; Raquel Goldhardt, Surgical Resident, Department of Surgery; Scott E. Lentz, Staff Surgeon, Department of Gynecologic Oncology; Najeeb S. Alshak, Chief, Department of Pathology and Laboratory; Maher A. Abbas, Chief, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
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Clinical Observations |
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Synchronous neoplasms: Duodenal villous adenoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, and colon carcinoma |
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Steven E. Brooks, Surgical Resident; Reza F. Saidi, Chief Surgical Resident; Alasdair McKendrick, Consultant Colorectal Surgeon; Michael J. Jacobs, Consultant Surgeon, Department of Surgery, Providence Hospital and Medical Centers, Southfield, MI; Clinical Associate Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI |
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Radiology Rounds |
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Thyroid incidentalomas on positron emission tomography: Is further workup necessary? |
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Robert J. Paresi, Jr., Chief General Surgery Resident; Gina Cunto-Amesty, Pathology Resident; Darsit Shah, Associate Professor, Departments of Surgery and Pathology, Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ |
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Transplantation |
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Femoral arteriovenous grafts can complicate kidney transplantation |
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Adena J. Osband, Transplant Surgery Fellow; Nicholas I. Jones, Surgical Resident; Mary Bonomo, Transplant Physician's Assistant; Radi F. Zaki, Attending and Chief of Transplant Surgery, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA |
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Technique |
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Aseptic technique for performing central venous catheter exchange using a guidewire |
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James M. Cunningham, Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery, Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, GA |
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