There is, I think, something ethereal about i —the square root of minus one. I remember first hearing about it at school. It seemed an odd beast at that time—an intruder hovering on the edge of reality.

Usually familiarity dulls this sense of the bizarre, but in the case of i it was the reverse: over the years the sense of its surreal nature intensified. It seemed that it was impossible to write mathematics that described the real world in …

I and i

Background and Aims:The lack of consensus on how to define and grade adverse postoperative events has greatly hampered the evaluation of surgical procedures. A new classification of complications, initiated in 1992, was updated 5 years ago. It is based on the type of therapy needed to correct the co

The Clavien-Dindo classification of surgical complications: five-year experience.

Prospective Cohort Study

ObjectiveThere is a need for clearly defined and widely applicable clinical criteria for the selection of patients who may benefit from hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer. Such criteria would also be useful for stratification of patients in clinical trials for this disease.MethodsCli

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Clinical Score for Predicting Recurrence After Hepatic Resection for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer: Analysis of 1001 Consecutive Cases

Bevacizumab plus Irinotecan,Fluorouracil,and Leucovorin for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Traitements chirurgicaux des métastases hépatiques

Conséquences de la chimiothérapie sur la résection des métastases hépatiques d’origine colorectale

Ascending aorta cannulation for isolated liver procurement in extended criteria donors: a safe option in case of massive infrarenal aortic atherosclerosis

Philippe Bachellier

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Traitements chirurgicaux des métastases hépatiques

Conséquences de la chimiothérapie sur la résection des métastases hépatiques d’origine colorectale

Ascending aorta cannulation for isolated liver procurement in extended criteria donors: a safe option in case of massive infrarenal aortic atherosclerosis

Augmentation Patch V-venoplasty to Correct Atretic Changes of the Portal Vein During Adult Liver Transplantation

Le pancréas annulaire périportale