1. Summary Statement

   • Daniel Deziel
   • L. William Traverso

   Report Pages: 919 - 919

2. Laparoscopic staging for hepatobiliary carcinoma

   • Rebekah R. White
   • Theodore N. Pappas

   OriginalPaper Pages: 920 - 922

3. Laparoscopic staging should be used routinely for locally extensive cancer of the pancreatic head

   • Rockson C. Liu
   • L. William Traverso

   OriginalPaper Pages: 923 - 924

4. Laparoscopic resections of liver and pancreas

   • Paul D. Hansen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 925 - 926

5. Minimally invasive resection and mechanical cervical esophagogastric anastomotic techniques in the management of esophageal cancer

   • James D. Luketich
   • Rodney J. Landreneau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 927 - 929

6. Gastroesophageal reflux disease and the truth about endoluminal therapy

   • William O. Richards

   OriginalPaper Pages: 930 - 931

7. Endoscopic resection of ampullary neoplasms

   • Richard A. Kozarek

   OriginalPaper Pages: 932 - 934

8. Pancreaticoduodenectomy with vascular resection: margin status and survival duration

   • Jennifer F. Tseng
   • Chandrajit P. Raut
   • Douglas B. Evans

   OriginalPaper Pages: 935 - 950

9. Risk factors and outcomes in postpancreaticoduodenectomy pancreaticocutaneous fistula

   • John W. Lin
   • John L. Cameron
   • Keith D. Lillemoe

   OriginalPaper Pages: 951 - 959

10. Mechanisms of resistance to erbitux (anti-epidermal growth factor receptor) combination therapy in pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells

    • J. Pablo Arnoletti
    • Donald J. Buchsbaum
    • Selwyn M. Vickers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 960 - 970

11. Gene variants and binge eating as predictors of comorbidity and outcome of treatment in severe obesity

    • Natascha Potoczna
    • Ruth Branson
    • Fritz F. Horber

    OriginalPaper Pages: 971 - 982

12. Laparoscopic gastric bypass results in decreased prescription medication costs within 6 months

    • Jon Charles Gould
    • Michael Joseph Garren
    • James Ralph Starling

    OriginalPaper Pages: 983 - 987

13. Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus and the Esophagogastric Junction: Positron Emission Tomography Improves Staging and Prediction of Survival in Distant but Not in Locoregional Disease

    • Eero I. T. Sihvo
    • Jari V. Räsänen
    • Jarmo A. Salo

    OriginalPaper Pages: 988 - 996

14. The role of botulinum toxin injection and upper esophageal sphincter myotomy in treating oropharyngeal dysphagia

    • Giovanni Zaninotto
    • Rosario Marchese Ragona
    • Anna R. Parenti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 997 - 1006

15. Quantitative, tissue-specific analysis of cyclooxygenase gene expression in the pathogenesis of Barrett’s adenocarcinoma

    • Hidekazu Kuramochi
    • Daniel Vallböhmer
    • Jeffrey H. Peters

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1007 - 1017

16. Proteomic analysis of SEG-1 Human Barrett’s-associated esophageal adenocarcinoma cells treated with keyhole limpet hemocyanin

    • Linda Vona-Davis
    • Timothy Vincent
    • David W. McFadden

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1018 - 1023

17. Molecular Biology of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Anus: A Comparison of HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Patients

    • Pascal Gervaz
    • Dieter Hahnloser
    • Stephen N. Thibodeau

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1024 - 1031

18. Lymph node metastasis in T1 adenocarcinoma of the colon and rectum

    • Satoshi Okabe
    • Jinru Shia
    • Philip B. Paty

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1032 - 1040

19. Preoperative serum albumin level is a prognostic indicator for adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia

    • Yung-Chang Lien
    • Chih-Cheng Hsieh
    • Biing-Shiun Huang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1041 - 1048

20. Integrins can directly mediate metastatic tumor cell adhesion within the liver sinusoids

    • Andreas Enns
    • Peter Gassmann
    • Jörg Haier

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1049 - 1060

21. Evaluation of Charlson-Age comorbidity index as predictor of morbidity and mortality in patients with colorectal carcinoma

    • James R. Ouellette
    • David G. Small
    • Paula M. Termuhlen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1061 - 1067

22. Is there a role for staging laparoscopy in patients with locally advanced, unresectable pancreatic adenocarcinoma?

    • Margo Shoup
    • Corinne Winston
    • Kevin C. Conlon

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1068 - 1071

23. Caspase-3 drives apoptosis in pancreatic cancer cells after treatment with gemcitabine

    • Nicole M. Chandler
    • Jonathan J. Canete
    • Mark P. Callery

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1072 - 1078

24. Half of the current practice of gastrointestinal surgery is against the evidence: a survey of the French society of digestive surgery

    • Karem Slim
    • Yves Panis
    • Jacques Chipponi

    Original Article Pages: 1079 - 1082

25. Effect of Ileo-Jejunal transposition on ileal longitudinal smooth muscle contractility in vitro in rats

    • Chikashi Shibata
    • Yuji Funayama
    • Iwao Sasaki

    Original Article Pages: 1083 - 1089

26. The beger procedure—duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection

    • Hans G. Beger
    • Rainer Kunz
    • Bertram Poch

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1090 - 1097

27. Current management of biliary strictures

    • Jennifer G. Hall
    • Theodore N. Pappas

    Review Article Pages: 1098 - 1110

28. Incarcerated epigastric hernia, a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction

    • Hester Yui Shan Cheung
    • Wing Tai Siu
    • Michael Ka Wah Li

    Gastrointestinal Images Pages: 1111 - 1113