1. Vulvar lymphatic mapping: Coming of age?

   • Robert L. Coleman

   Editorial Pages: 823 - 825

2. Raising the bar for pancreaticoduodenectomy

   • John D. Birkmeyer

   Editorial Pages: 826 - 827

3. Quality of surgery determinant for the outcome of patient with gastric cancer

   • Angelos M. Kappas
   • Dimitrios H. Roukos

   Editorial Pages: 828 - 830

4. The GIST of targeted cancer therapy: A tumor (Gastrointestinal stromal tumor), a mutated gene (c-kit), and a molecular inhibitor (STI571)

   • Ronald P. DeMatteo

   Educational Review Pages: 831 - 839

5. Sentinel node biopsy in vulvar and vaginal melanoma: Presentation of six cases and a literature review

   • Liana Abramova
   • Jaysheree Parekh
   • Craig L. Slingluff Jr

   Original Articles Pages: 840 - 846

6. National estimates of mortality rates for radical pancreaticoduodenectomy in 25,000 patients

   • Cyrus A. Kotwall
   • J. Gary Maxwell
   • Deborah L. Covington

   Original Articles Pages: 847 - 854

7. Predictive factors associated with long-term survival in patients with neuroendocrine tumors of the pancreas

   • Quyen D. Chu
   • Hank C. Hill
   • John F. Gibbs

   Original Articles Pages: 855 - 862

8. Resection of peritoneal implantation from hepatocellular carcinoma

   • Chun-Nan Yeh
   • Miin-Fu Chen
   • Long-Bin Jen

   Original Articles Pages: 863 - 868

9. Periampullary pancreatic somatostatinoma

   • Michael G. House
   • Charles J. Yeo
   • Richard D. Schulick

   Original Articles Pages: 869 - 874

10. The management of variant arterial anatomy during hepatic arterial infusion pump placement

    • Peter J. Allen
    • Alexander Stojadinovic
    • Yuman Fong

    Original Articles Pages: 875 - 880

11. Comparison of hepatic resection and hepatic transplantation in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma among cirrhotic patients

    • Mohsen Shabahang
    • Dido Franceschi
    • Alan S. Livingstone

    Original Articles Pages: 881 - 886

12. Correlation of MUC5AC immunoreactivity with histopathological subtypes and prognosis of gastric carcinoma

    • Stephan E. Baldus
    • Stefan P. Mönig
    • Hans P. Dienes

    Original Articles Pages: 887 - 893

13. Survival benefit of extended D2 lymphadenectomy in gastric cancer with involvement of second level lymph nodes: A longitudinal multicenter study

    • Franco Roviello
    • Daniele Marrelli
    • Italian Research Group for Gastric Cancer

    Original Articles Pages: 894 - 900

14. GermlineSMAD4 orBMPRIA mutations and phenotype of juvenile polyposis

    • M. G. Sayed
    • A. F. Ahmed
    • J. R. Howe

    Original Articles Pages: 901 - 906

15. Palliative thyroidectomy for malignant lymphoma of the thyroid

    • Rebecca S. Sippel
    • Paul G. Gauger
    • Herbert Chen

    Original Articles Pages: 907 - 911

16. Breast-conservation therapy in early-stage breast cancer patients with a positive family history

    • Georges Vlastos
    • Nadeem Q. Mirza
    • S. Eva Singletary

    Original Articles Pages: 912 - 919

17. Routine operative breast endoscopy for bloody nipple discharge

    • William C. Dooley

    Original Articles Pages: 920 - 923

18. Stage migration after biopsy of internal mammary chain lymph nodes in breast cancer patients

    • Viviana Galimberti
    • Paolo Veronesi
    • Umberto Veronesi

    Original Articles Pages: 924 - 928

19. The definition of the sentinel lymph node in melanoma based on radioactive counts

    • Grant W. Carlson
    • Douglas R. Murray
    • Cynthia Cohen

    Original Articles Pages: 929 - 933

20. Frequency of nonsentinel lymph node metastasis in melanoma

    • Helen M. Shaw
    • John F. Thompson

    Letters to the Editor Pages: 934 - 934

21. Reply to shaw and thompson: “Frequency of nonsentinel lymph node metastasis in melanoma”

    • Kelly M. McMasters

    Letters to the Editor Pages: 934 - 935

22. Abstracts reprinted from journal of clinical oncology

    Abstract Pages: I - II