OBJECTIVE To analyze the age at surgery for children with biliary atresia and their survival periods without need for liver transplantation. The study was performed at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, in Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. METHODS The medical records of patients operated between 1982 and 2007 who were residents of the state of Rio Grande do Sul were reviewe...

Editorial Why do we operate proximal humeral fractures? Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. In this issue of Acta Orthopaedica, we have a systematic review of randomized trials on proximal humeral fractu...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of this analysis were to define the incidence, natural history, and predictors of neoplasia in pancreatic cysts to determine which patients can safely be observed and which should undergo an operation. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA With advancements in imaging technology, cystic lesions of the pancreas are being detected with increased frequency. Many of these lesions are s...