1. Editorial: an obsession with subtyping gastric cancer

   • Haruhiko Sugimura

   Editorial 13 March 2013 Pages: 451 - 453

2. Should we remove splenic hilus lymph nodes for esophagogastric junction adenocarcinoma?

   • H. H. Hartgrink

   Editorial 16 February 2013 Pages: 454 - 456

3. Reduced port surgery for gastric cancer: another giant leap for mankind?

   • Yasuhiro Kodera

   Editorial 12 December 2012 Pages: 457 - 459

4. Present features and future vision of laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy (LATG)

   • Naoki Hiki

   Editorial 08 August 2013 Pages: 460 - 461

5. The contribution of cell phenotype to the behavior of gastric cancer

   • Enrico Solcia
   • Catherine Klersy
   • Roberto Fiocca

   Original Article 18 January 2013 Pages: 462 - 471

   

6. Erratum to: The contribution of cell phenotype to the behavior of gastric cancer

   • Enrico Solcia
   • Catherine Klersy
   • Roberto Fiocca

   Erratum 15 March 2013 Pages: 472 - 472

   

7. Increased apoptosis and elevated Fas expression in circulating natural killer cells in gastric cancer patients

   • Hiroaki Saito
   • Seigo Takaya
   • Masahide Ikeguchi

   Original Article 22 November 2012 Pages: 473 - 479

   

8. LINE-1 hypomethylation in gastric cancer, detected by bisulfite pyrosequencing, is associated with poor prognosis

   • Hironobu Shigaki
   • Yoshifumi Baba
   • Hideo Baba

   Original Article Open access 21 November 2012 Pages: 480 - 487

   

9. Altered mucosal DNA methylation in parallel with highly active Helicobacter pylori-related gastritis

   • Takeichi Yoshida
   • Jun Kato
   • Masao Ichinose

   Original Article 06 January 2013 Pages: 488 - 497

   

10. Increased levels of SLP-2 correlate with poor prognosis in gastric cancer

    • Dongning Liu
    • Lei Zhang
    • Guoxin Li

    Original Article 31 January 2013 Pages: 498 - 504

    

11. Frequent microsatellite instability in papillary and solid-type, poorly differentiated adenocarcinomas of the stomach

    • Tomio Arai
    • Urara Sakurai
    • Kaiyo Takubo

    Original Article 29 December 2012 Pages: 505 - 512

    

12. High density of peritumoral lymphatic vessels measured by D2-40/podoplanin and LYVE-1 expression in gastric cancer patients: an excellent prognostic indicator or a false friend?

    • Julia Rudno-Rudzinska
    • Wojciech Kielan
    • Agnieszka Halon

    Original Article Open access 14 December 2012 Pages: 513 - 520

    

13. Pathological factors related to lymph node metastasis of submucosally invasive gastric cancer: criteria for additional gastrectomy after endoscopic resection

    • Mototsugu Fujii
    • Yutaro Egashira
    • Yuro Shibayama

    Original Article 23 November 2012 Pages: 521 - 530

    

14. Risk of lymph node metastases from intramucosal gastric cancer in relation to histological types: how to manage the mixed histological type for endoscopic submucosal dissection

    • Kohei Takizawa
    • Hiroyuki Ono
    • Takashi Nakajima

    Original Article 29 November 2012 Pages: 531 - 536

15. Characteristics of intramural metastasis in gastric cancer

    • Tatsuya Hashimoto
    • Kuniyoshi Arai
    • Tsunekazu Hishima

    Original Article 13 January 2013 Pages: 537 - 542

    

16. Diagnostic validity of CT gastrography versus gastroscopy for primary lesions in gastric cancer: evaluating the response to chemotherapy, a retrospective analysis

    • Sho Takahashi
    • Michiaki Hirayama
    • Junji Kato

    Original Article 29 November 2012 Pages: 543 - 548

    

17. Early gastric cancer: diagnosis, staging, and clinical impact. Evaluation of 530 patients. New elements for an updated definition and classification

    • Luca Saragoni
    • Paolo Morgagni
    • Emanuela Scarpi

    Original Article 20 February 2013 Pages: 549 - 554

18. Simultaneous endoscopic submucosal dissection for synchronous double early gastric cancer

    • Akiyoshi Kasuga
    • Yorimasa Yamamoto
    • Masahiro Igarashi

    Original Article 28 November 2012 Pages: 555 - 562

    

19. Endoscopic submucosal dissection in the treatment of gastric submucosal tumors: results from a retrospective cohort study

    • Filippo Catalano
    • Luca Rodella
    • Antonello Trecca

    Original Article 28 December 2012 Pages: 563 - 570

    

20. Lapatinib acts on gastric cancer through both antiproliferative function and augmentation of trastuzumab-mediated antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity

    • Kensuke Shiraishi
    • Kousaku Mimura
    • Koji Kono

    Original Article 28 November 2012 Pages: 571 - 580

    

21. Irinotecan combined with 5-fluorouracil and leucovorin third-line chemotherapy after failure of fluoropyrimidine, platinum, and taxane in gastric cancer: treatment outcomes and a prognostic model to predict survival

    • Eun Joo Kang
    • Seock-Ah Im
    • Keun-Wook Lee

    Original Article 25 December 2012 Pages: 581 - 589

    

22. Value of splenectomy in patients with Siewert type II adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction

    • Hironobu Goto
    • Masanori Tokunaga
    • Masanori Terashima

    Original Article 18 November 2012 Pages: 590 - 595

    

23. Molecular characterization of an Italian series of sporadic GISTs

    • P. Origone
    • S. Gargiulo
    • G. Bianchi Scarrà

    Short Communication 05 January 2013 Pages: 596 - 601

24. The initial experience of dual port laparoscopy-assisted total gastrectomy as a reduced port surgery for total gastrectomy

    • Hideki Kawamura
    • Toshiro Tanioka
    • Masahiro Takahashi

    Technical Note 21 November 2012 Pages: 602 - 608

    

25. Laparoscopic esophagojejunostomy using the EndoStitch and a circular stapler under a direct view created by the ENDOCAMELEON

    • Takaki Yoshikawa
    • Tsutomu Hayashi
    • Akira Tsuburaya

    Technical Note 22 November 2012 Pages: 609 - 614

    

26. Topographic anatomy and laparoscopic technique for dissection of no. 6 infrapyloric lymph nodes in gastric cancer surgery

    • Hisashi Shinohara
    • Yasunori Kurahashi
    • Yoshiharu Sakai

    Technical Notes 13 January 2013 Pages: 615 - 620