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Development of an ex vivo simulated training model for laparoscopic liver resection. (with A Strickland, K Fairhurst, C Lauder, and P Hewett), Surgical Endoscopy (2011)
Background: The number of patients who have undergone laparoscopic liver surgery has increased in the...
Esophageal dysmotility disorders after laparoscopic gastric banding: an underestimated complication. (with M Naef, W Mouton, U Naef, B Van Der Weg, and H Wagner), Annals of Surgery. (2011)
Objective: To evaluate the effects of laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) on esophageal dysfunction over...
Post-hepatectomy haemorrhage: A definition and grading by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery (ISGLS). (with N Rahbari, O Garden, R Padbury, M Koch, and T Hugh), HPB (2011)
Background: A standardized definition of post hepatectomy haemorrhage (PHH) has not yet been established.
Methods:...
Simulation speak (with K Fairhurst and A Strickland), Journal of Surgical Education (2011)
The concept of using simulation to gain and improve practical skills in a safe and...
Systematic review and meta-analysis of survival and disease recurrence after radiofrequency ablation for hepatocellular carcinoma. (with L Tiong), British Journal of Surgery (2011)
Background: Despite being one of the commonest causes of cancer-related death around the world, only...
The LapSim virtual reality simulator: promising but not yet (with K Fairhurst and A Strickland), Surgical Endoscopy (2011)
Background: The acquisition of technical skills using surgical simulators is an area of active research...
Use of a modified chitosan-dextran gel to prevent peritoneal adhesions in a rat model. (with C Lauder, G Garcea, and A Strickland), Journal of Surgical Research (2011)
Background: Intra-abdominal adhesions are a major cause of morbidity and a significant drain on health-care...
Surgical outcomes following pancreatic resection at a low-volume community hospital. Do all patients need to be sent to a regional center? (with H Kanhere and T Satyadas), The American Journal of Surgery (2010)
Letter to the Editor
in response to Cunningham, Odonnell & Starker. Surgical outcomes following pancreatic...
Preoperative biliary drainage for distal obstruction: the case against revisited (with G Garcea, W Chee, and S L. Ong), Pancreas (2010)
Objectives: No conclusive evidence exists confirming the role of pre-operative biliary drainage (PBD) in reversing...
Abdominal adhesion prevention, time to change our everyday practice? (with C Lauder and A Strickland), ANZ Journal of Surgery. (2010)
Adhesion formation following surgery remains an almost inevitable consequence of most abdominal procedures. Studies have...
Cytokine response of electrolytic ablation in an ex vivo perfused liver model. (with G Gravante, S L. Ong, M Metcalfe, R Sorge, J Overton, D Loyd, and A Dennison), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery (2010)
Background: The inflammatory response following hepatic ablation depends on different factors including the method used,...
Deep brain stimulation for essential tremor: A systematic review. (with E Della Flora, C Perera, and A Cameron), Movement Disorders (2010)
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a neurosurgical treatment, which has proven useful in treating Parkinson’s...
Evolution in technique of laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy: a decade long experience from a tertiary center (with T Satyadas, H Kanhere, and C Lauder), Journal of Hepato-biliary-pancreatic Sciences (2010)
Letter to the Editor: Dear Sir, We read with great interest the article entitled ‘‘Evolution...
Laparoscopic mesh measurement (with C I. Lauder and A Strickland), Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (2010)
The laparoscopic method of ventral incisional hernia repair is becoming increasingly popular. Mesh placed within...
Local recurrence of colorectal liver metastases following RFA – can we do BETA? (with C Dobbins and A Strickland), ANZ Journal of Surgery (2010)
For patients with colorectal liver metastases, the treatment modality of choice is surgical resection if...
Maximizing health outcomes from government investment in surgical interventions. (with P Thavaneswaran), ANZ Journal of Surgery (2010)
In Australia today, the introduction of new interventional procedures into the health system is managed...
Scalpel safety in the operative setting: a systematic review (with A Watt, M Patkin, M J. Sinnott, and R J. Black), Surgery (2010)
Background. The complex environment of the operative setting provides multiple opportunities for health care workers...
Systematic review of the impact of volume of oesophagectomy on patient outcome. (with C Lauder, M Marlow, B Barraclough, N Collier, I Dickinson, J Fawcett, and J Graham), ANZ Journal of Surgery. (2010)
Purpose: This systematic review aims to assess whether overall survival, mortality, morbidity, length of stay...
Bile duct injuries associated with cholecystectomy, Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (2009)
The era of laparoscopic cholecystectomy has been associated with a minor increase in the frequency...
NOTES: Progress or marketing?, ANZ Journal of Surgery (2009)
The significance of the introduction of laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
Pain or gain: new innovations and trends in hernia repair (with Alex Karatassas and chris Hensman), ANZ Journal of Surgery (2009)
In 1804 Sir Astley Cooper stated that no disease of the human body belonging to...
Palliation of malignant obstructive jaundice (with G Garcea, S L. Ong, A R. Dennison, and D P. Berry), Digestive Diseases and Sciences (2009)
Peri-ampullary and hepatic malignancies will frequently present with obstructive jaundice. For unresectable tumors, effective and...
Predicting liver failure following hepatectomy (with G Garcea and S Ong), Digestive and Liver Disease (2009)
Pre-operative determination of the risk of liver dysfunction has come under criticism with regards to...
Prognostic endovascular scoring is useful for the assessment of patients with additional pathology (with A Strickland, H Kanhere, and R Fitridge), ANZ Journal of Surgery (2009)
Recent work undertaken by vascular surgeons in Australia has resulted in a prognostic scoring system...
Rural surgery: the Australian experience (with Martin H. Bruening), Surgical Clinics of North America (2009)
Australia, by virtue of its demographic and geographic characteristics, has a long history of rural...
Russell Strong and the history of reduced-size liver transplantation (with G Garcea and H Nabi), World Journal of Surgery (2009)
On the basis of their innovation and experience with reduced-size grafts in children, 20 years...
Systematic review of endoscopic treatments for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (with D Chen, C Barber, P McLoughlin, P Thavaneswaran, and G Jamieson), British Journal of Surgery (2009)
Background: the aim of this review was to assess the safety and the efficacy of...
A model to predict outcomes for endovascular aneurysm repair using preoperative variables (with M Barnes, M Boult, and R Fitridge), European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery (2008)
Purpose: Models have been developed to predict the likely outcomes of endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR)...
Bimodal electric tissue ablation-long term studies of morbidity and pathological change (with C Dobbins, C Brennan, S Wemyss-Holden, and J Cockburn), Journal of Surgical Research (2008)
Background. Radiofrequency ablation is a popular method of treating unresectable liver tumors but tumors greater...
Bimodal Electric Tissue Ablation-Modified Radiofrequency Ablation with a Le Veen Electrode in a Pig Model (with C Dobbins, S A. Wemyss-Holden, and J Cockburn), Journal of Surgical Research (2008)
Using a pig model, standard RFA control ablations were created in the left lobe of...
Bimodal electric tissue ablation: positive electrode studies (with C Dobbins, C Brennan, S A. Wemyys-Holden, and J Cockburn), ANZ Journal of Surgery (2008)
Background: Bimodal electric tissue ablation is a novel variation to standard radiofrequency ablation that produces...
Inoperable colorectal liver metastases: A declining entity? (with G Garcea and S L. Ong), European Journal of Cancer (2008)
Background: Untreated colorectal liver metastases (CLMs) have a dismal prognosis. Surgery remains the gold standard...
Review of natural orifice translumenal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) for intra-abdominal surgery: experimental models, techniques and applicability to the clinical setting (with E Della Flora, T G. Wilson, I J. Martin, and N A. O'Rourke), Annals of Surgery (2008)
Objective: Evaluation of models, techniques, outcomes, pitfalls and applicability to the clinical setting of natural...
Treatment of unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma with radiolabelled lipiodol, ANZ Journal of Surgery (2008)
Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common solid organ tumours, with approximately...
Upper airway surgery should not be the first line treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea in adults (with A E. Elshaug, J R. Moss, and J E. Hillier), BMJ (2008)
The clinical problem: the prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea in high income countries is estimated...