1. Filling an umet need

   • Tom R. DeMeester

   Editorial Pages: 493 - 493

2. pH-metric analysis after successful antireflux surgery: Comparison of 24-hour pH profiles in patients undergoing floppy fundoplication or Roux-en-Y duodenal diversion

   • Jukka T. Salminen
   • Jarmo A. Salo
   • Severi P. Mattila

   Original Articles Pages: 494 - 498

3. Static and dynamic function of the lower esophageal sphincter before and after laparoscopic nissen fundoplication

   • Peter F. Crookes
   • Manfred P. Ritter
   • Tom R. DeMeester

   Original Articles Pages: 499 - 504

4. Importance of preoperative and postoperative pH monitoring in patients with esophageal achalasia

   • Marco G. Patti
   • Massimo Arcerito
   • Lawrence W. Way

   Original Articles Pages: 505 - 510

5. Comparison of ischemic and reperfusion injury in canine bowel viability assessment

   • Robert E. Brolin
   • Christopher Bibbo
   • John L. Semmlow

   Original Articles Pages: 511 - 516

6. Conversion of proximal to distal gastric bypass for failed gastric bypass for superobesity

   • Harvey J. Sugerman
   • John M. Kellum
   • Eric J. DeMaria

   Original Articles Pages: 517 - 525

7. Controversy and obesity surgery—What else is new?

   • John G. Kral

   Commentary Pages: 525 - 526

8. Development of systemic immunologic responses against hepatic metastases during gene therapy for peritoneal carcinomatosis with retroviral HS-tk and ganciclovir

   • Takeyuki Misawa
   • Mimi H. Chiang
   • Dilip Parekh

   Original Articles Pages: 527 - 533

9. Duodenal segment complications in vascularized pancreas transplantation

   • Robert J. Stratta
   • Rakesh Sindhi
   • Stanley J. Radio

   Original Articles Pages: 534 - 544

10. Use of an ileal roux limb to prevent the roux stasis syndrome

    • Michinaga Takahashi
    • Bao-Lien Nguyen Tu
    • Keith A. Kelly

    Original Articles Pages: 545 - 553

11. Intestinal flora and nutrient absorption after intestinal resection

    • Jon S. Thompson
    • Eamonn M. Quigley

    Original Articles Pages: 554 - 560

12. Peptide YY selectively stimulates expression of the colonocytic phenotype

    • Susan A. Sgambati
    • Gregory A. Turowski
    • Marc D. Basson

    Original Articles Pages: 561 - 568

13. Effects of hyaluronic acid/Carboxymethylcellulose gel on bowel anastomoses in the New Zealand white rabbit

    • Anoushirvan Hadaegh
    • James Burns
    • James M. Becker

    Original Articles Pages: 569 - 575

14. Management of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer: Systemic chemotherapy

    • Brian Leyland-Jones
    • Susan Burdette-Radoux

    Subject Review Pages: 576 - 582