With surgical conditions being significant contributors to the global burden of disease, efforts
aimed at increasing future practitioners’ understanding, interest and participation in global …

The burden of surgical disease in low-income countries remains significant, in part owing to
continued surgical workforce shortages. We describe a successful paradigm to expand …

Purpose Despite evidence of oncologic benefits from extended (D2) lymphadenectomy in
gastric cancer from many East Asian studies, there is persistent debate over its use in the West…

Background: The presence of lymph node metastasis (LNM) is the most important prognostic
factor for patients with early gastric cancer (EGC). Although the D2 gastrectomy has been …

Background Laparoscopic subtotal gastrectomy (LSG) for cancer is associated with good
perioperative outcomes and superior quality of life compared with the open approach, albeit at …

… Nos remerciements s’adressent en premier lieu aux cinq enquêteurs Alexandre Gosselin-Tardif,
Léa Hubert-Smith, Dihya Kessal, Vincent Mai et Thomas St-AmourJolicoeur qui ont …

… In the Bethune Round Table 2011 abstracts published in the December 2011 issue of CJS,
the name of Alexandre Gosselin Tardif was spelled incorrectly. We apologize for this error. …

Introduction: Les voies de rétablissement améliorées (ERP) comprennent de multiples
interventions fondées sur des preuves dans les périodes préopératoires, peropératoires et …

Introduction: Enhanced Recovery Pathways (ERP) include multiple evidence-based
interventions in the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative periods that together reduce …