1. Editorial

   • Ronald K. Tompkins

   OriginalPaper 19 April 2004 Pages: 519 - 519

2. Improved Prognosis of Resected Esophageal Cancer

   • Hubert J. Stein
   • Jörg-Rüdiger Siewert

   Editorial Update 06 May 2004 Pages: 520 - 525

   

3. Highlights of Twentieth Century Surgery in Hungary

   • József Sándor
   • István Besznyák
   • Attila Oláh

   Highlights of ISS/SIC History 06 May 2004 Pages: 526 - 531

   

4. Invited Commentary (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-1040-z)

   • Dorothea Liebermann-Meffert

   OriginalPaper 19 May 2004 Pages: 532 - 532

   

5. Highlights in Surgery: Italian Influence of Surgical Science on ISS/SIC Members

   • Alberto Montori

   Highlights of ISS/SIC History 19 May 2004 Pages: 533 - 534

6. Invited Commentary (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7201-2)

   • Dorothea Liebermann-Meffert

   OriginalPaper 19 May 2004 Pages: 533 - 534

   

7. Retrospective Study of Women Presenting with Axillary Metastases from Occult Breast Carcinoma

   • D. Kay Blanchard
   • David R. Farley

   Original Scientific Reports 19 May 2004 Pages: 535 - 539

   

8. Thromboembolic Prophylaxis as a Risk Factor for Postoperative Complications after Breast Cancer Surgery

   • Esbern Friis
   • John Hørby
   • Torben Jørgensen

   Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 540 - 543

9. Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: Its Effect on the Prognosis of Patients with Gallbladder Cancer

   • Xabier A. de Aretxabala
   • Ivan S. Roa
   • Harold J. Wanebo

   Original Scientific Reports 19 May 2004 Pages: 544 - 547

   

10. Clinical Diagnosis of Metastatic Gastric Tumors: Clinicopathologic Findings and Prognosis of Nine Patients in a Single Cancer Center

    • Osamu Kobayashi
    • Hitoshi Murakami
    • Yoichi Kameda

    Original Scientific Reports 19 May 2004 Pages: 548 - 551

11. Impact of Circulating Free Tumor Cells in the Peripheral Blood of Colorectal Cancer Patients during Laparoscopic Surgery

    • Wei-Shone Chen
    • Ming-yi Chung
    • Jen-Kou Lin

    Original Scientific Reports 20 May 2004 Pages: 552 - 557

    

12. Do Young Colon Cancer Patients Have Worse Outcomes?

    • Jessica B. O’Connell
    • Melinda A. Maggard
    • Clifford Y. Ko

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 558 - 562

13. Cost-effectiveness of Two Follow-up Strategies for Curative Resection of Colorectal Cancer: Comparative Study Using a Markov Model

    • Frédéric Borie
    • Christophe Combescure
    • Bertrand Millat

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 563 - 569

    

14. Long-term Follow-up of Patients with Elevated PTH Levels following Successful Exploration for Primary Hyperparathyroidism

    • E. Nordenström
    • Johan Westerdahl
    • A. Bergenfelz

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 570 - 575

    

15. Usefulness of Radio-guided Surgery Using Technetium-99m Methoxyisobutylisonitrile for Primary and Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

    • Hiroshi Takeyama
    • Hisashi Shioya
    • Yoji Yamazaki

    Original Scientific Reports 19 May 2004 Pages: 576 - 582

    

16. Assessing the Site of Recurrence in Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism by a Simplified Casanova Autograftectomy Test

    • Katja Schlosser
    • Helmut Sitter
    • Andreas Zielke

    Original Scientific Reports 19 May 2004 Pages: 583 - 588

    

17. Evaluation of Intraoperative Recurrent Nerve Monitoring in Thyroid Surgery

    • Guido Beldi
    • Thomas Kinsbergen
    • Rolf Schlumpf

    Original Scientific Reports 19 May 2004 Pages: 589 - 591

18. Pheochromocytoma Surgery: Epidemiologic Peculiarities in Children

    • Dmitry G. Beltsevich
    • Nikolay S. Kuznetsov
    • Maryana A. Lysenko

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 592 - 596

19. Conservative Surgery for Treatment of Hydatid Cysts in Children

    • Zafer Türkyılmaz
    • Kaan Sönmez
    • Nuri Kale

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 597 - 601

    

20. Pancreaticoduodenectomy with En Bloc Portal Vein Resection for Pancreatic Carcinoma with Suspected Portal Vein Involvement

    • Ronnie T. Poon
    • Sheung Tat Fan
    • John Wong

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 602 - 608

    

21. Microsurgical Techniques for Lymphedema Treatment: Derivative Lymphatic-Venous Microsurgery

    • Corradino Campisi
    • Francesco Boccardo

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 609 - 613

    

22. Liver Transplantation Techniques with Preservation of the Natural Venovenous Bypass: Effect on Surgical Resection of Renal Cell Carcinoma Invading the Inferior Vena Cava

    • Spiros Delis
    • Christos Dervenis
    • Gaetano Ciancio

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 614 - 619

    

23. Effect of Pharmacologic Preconditioning with Tetrandrine on Subsequent Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Rat Liver

    • Zhongmin Liu
    • Zhenping Xu
    • Xin Ye

    Original Scientific Reports 06 May 2004 Pages: 620 - 624

    

24. Combined Assessment of β-d-Glucan and Degree of Candida Colonization before Starting Empiric Therapy for Candidiasis in Surgical Patients

    • Yoshio Takesue
    • Masayuki Kakehashi
    • Taijiro Sueda

    Original Scientific Reports 19 May 2004 Pages: 625 - 630

    

25. Galen on Obesity: Etiology, Effects, and Treatment

    • Niki S. Papavramidou
    • Spiros T. Papavramidis
    • Helen Christopoulou-Aletra

    Surgical History 06 May 2004 Pages: 631 - 635

26. To the Editor (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-004-7410-8)

    • Waldemar Narożny
    • Jerzy Kuczkowski
    • Bogusław Mikaszewski

    Letters to the Editor 19 May 2004 Pages: 636 - 636