1. Progress in gastrointestinal endoscopy—Introduction

   • B. C. Manegold

   EditorialNotes Pages: 141 - 141

2. Dilation therapy of benign esophageal stenoses

   • Guido N. J. Tytgat

   OriginalPaper Pages: 142 - 148

3. Prophylactic sclerotherapy in nonalcoholic liver cirrhosis: Preliminary results of a prospective controlled randomized trial

   • Antonio Russo
   • Giorgio Giannone
   • Carmen Longo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 149 - 153

4. Endoscopic treatment of bleeding peptic ulcers

   • Kunitoshi Nakagawa
   • Shigeru Asaki
   • Toshio Sato

   OriginalPaper Pages: 154 - 157

5. Endoscopic laser therapy in the curative and palliative treatment of upper gastrointestinal cancer

   • Hiroaki Suzuki
   • Otomi Miho
   • Fusahiro Nagao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 158 - 164

6. Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy: Indications, limitations, techniques, and results

   • Jeffrey L. Ponsky
   • Michael W. L. Gauderer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 165 - 170

7. Malignant jaundice: Results of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy

   • N. Soehendra
   • H. Grimm
   • V. C. Nam

   OriginalPaper Pages: 171 - 177

8. Biliary concrements: The endoscopic approach

   • Arne R. Rosseland
   • Magne Osnes

   OriginalPaper Pages: 178 - 185

9. Intraoperative endoscopy of the gastrointestinal tract: Clinical necessity or lack of preoperative preparation?

   • Talmadge A. Bowden Jr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 186 - 189

10. Emergency colonoscopy

    • Francesco Paolo Rossini
    • Arnaldo Ferrari
    • Marco Pinna Pintor

    OriginalPaper Pages: 190 - 192

11. Complications and hazards of gastrointestinal endoscopy

    • Angelita Habr-Gama
    • Jerome D. Waye

    OriginalPaper Pages: 193 - 201

12. Teaching surgical endoscopy of the gastrointestinal tract

    • Thomas L. Dent
    • John S. Kukora
    • Thomas J. Leibrandt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 202 - 205

13. Renal autotransplantation

    • Audun Flatmark
    • Dagfinn Albrechtsen
    • Inge B. Brekke

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 206 - 209

14. Invited commentary

    • Folkert O. Belzer

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 210 - 210

15. Results of treatment of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma with severe cirrhosis of the liver

    • Nagahisa Fujio
    • Katsuji Sakai
    • Kwang Choon Lee

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 211 - 217

16. Invited commentary

    • Junji Tanaka
    • Takayoshi Tobe

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 217 - 218

17. Differential diagnosis between secondary hyperparathyroidism and aluminum intoxication in uremic patients: Usefulness of^99mTc-pyrophosphate bone scintigraphy

    • Paul Kinnaert
    • Ingrid Van Hooff
    • Jean-Louis Vanherweghem

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 219 - 223

18. Invited commentary

    • Matthias Rothmund

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 223 - 224

19. A clinicopathological study of gastric cancer with special reference to age of the patients: An analysis of 1,630 cases

    • Tetsuya Mitsudomi
    • Toshimitsu Matsusaka
    • Akinori Iwashita

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 225 - 230

20. Invited commentary

    • Wallace P. Ritchie Jr.

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 230 - 231

21. Choledochal cyst resection and reconstruction by biliary-jejuno-duodenal diversion

    • E. Moreno González
    • I. García García
    • A. Calle Santiuste

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 232 - 237

22. Invited commentary

    • Morio Kasai

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 237 - 237