1. Editorial

   • Ronald K. Tompkins

   Editorial Pages: 501 - 501

2. Current Management of Pectus Excavatum

   • Eric W. Fonkalsrud

   Editorial Update Pages: 502 - 508

3. An Outstanding ISS/SIC Surgeon: William Macewen

   • Harvey White

   Highlights of ISS/SIC History Pages: 509 - 510

4. An Outstanding ISS/SIC Surgeon: George Grey Turner

   • Harvey White

   Highlights of ISS/SIC History Pages: 511 - 513

5. About Mr. Harvey White, Author of the Articles, “An Outstanding ISS/SIC Surgeon: William Macewen” and “An Outstanding ISS/SIC Surgeon: George Grey Turner”

   • Liebermann-Meffert

   Highlights of ISS/SIC History Pages: 514 - 514

6. Chronic Granulomatous Mastitis: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Considerations

   • Aziz Firzah Azlina
   • Zakaria Ariza
   • Abdullah Noor Hisham

   Surgical Globetrotting Pages: 515 - 518

7. Role of Preoperative Plasma CA 15-3 and Carcinoembryonic Antigen Levels in Determining Histopathologic Conventional Prognostic Factors for Breast Cancer

   • Duray Seker
   • Oskay Kaya
   • Ismet Baran

   Original Scientific Reports Pages: 519 - 521

8. Surgical Influence on Th1/Th2 Balance and Monocyte Surface Antigen Expression and Its Relation to Infectious Complications

   • Hiroomi Tatsumi
   • Hideki Ura
   • Koichi Hirata

   Original Scientific Reports Pages: 522 - 528

9. Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections: Decade of Experience at a Colombian Tertiary Care Center

   • Cesar A. Arias
   • Gustavo Quintero
   • Jose Felix Patiño

   Original Scientific Reports Pages: 529 - 533

10. Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting via Sternotomy in Conscious Patients

    • Dirk Meininger
    • Gerd Neidhart
    • Paul Kessler

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 534 - 538

11. Long-term Outcome after Inflammatory Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair: Case-matched Study

    • Luigi Bonati
    • Patrizia Rubini
    • Paolo Biglioli

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 539 - 544

12. Vascular Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

    • Lazar B. Davidovic
    • Dusan M. Kostic
    • Tijana M. Simic

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 545 - 550

13. Stripping Operation with Sclerotherapy for Primary Varicose Veins Due to Greater Saphenous Vein Reflux: Three-year Results

    • Keiko Miyazaki
    • Toshiya Nishibe
    • Keishu Yasuda

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 551 - 553

14. Suspected Acute Deep Vein Thrombosis of the Lower Limb in Outpatients: Considerations for Optimal Diagnostic Approach

    • Athanasios D. Giannoukas
    • Dimitrios Tsetis
    • Asterios N. Katsamouris

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 554 - 557

15. Lymph Node Micrometastases in Early Gastric Cancer and Their Impact on Prognosis

    • Paolo Morgagni
    • Luca Saragoni
    • Francesca Bazzocchi

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 558 - 561

16. New Type of Reconstruction Method after Subtotal Gastrectomy (Noh’s Operation)

    • Seung-Moo Noh
    • Hyun-Yong Jeong
    • Tae-Yong Lee

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 562 - 566

17. Quantitative Determinations of Duodenogastric Reflux, Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori Infection, and Concentrations of Interleukin-8

    • Kenichiro Fukuhara
    • Harushi Osugi
    • Hiroaki Kinoshita

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 567 - 570

18. Optimal Lymphadenectomy for Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Thoracic Esophagus: Comparing the Short- and Long-term Outcome among the Four Types of Lymphadenectomy

    • Hiromasa Fujita
    • Susumu Sueyoshi
    • Kazuo Shirouzu

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 571 - 579

19. High Incidence of Reflux Esophagitis Observed by Routine Endoscopic Examination after Gastric Pull-up Esophagectomy

    • Shunsuke Shibuya
    • Shin Fukudo
    • Susumu Satomi

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 580 - 583

20. Expression of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor as a Prognostic Factor in Node-positive Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Thoracic Esophagus: Long-term Follow-up Study

    • Yutaka Ogata
    • Hiromasa Fujita
    • Kazuo Shirouzu

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 584 - 589

21. Bronchoscopic Ultrasonography for Staging Supracarinal Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Impact on Outcome

    • Harushi Osugi
    • Yoshihiko Nishimura
    • Hiroaki Kinoshita

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 590 - 594

22. Central Pancreatectomy for the Resection of Benign or Low Malignant Potential Neoplasms

    • John D. Christein
    • Anthony W. Kim
    • Richard A. Prinz

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 595 - 598

23. Resection versus Palliation: Treatment of Stage III and IVA Carcinomas of the Pancreas Employing Intraoperative Radiation

    • Atsutake Okamoto
    • Koji Tsuruta
    • Naoto Egawa

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 599 - 605

24. Does Drainage Fluid Amylase Reflect Pancreatic Leakage after Pancreaticoduodenectomy?

    • Yi-Ming Shyr
    • Cheng-Hsi Su
    • Wing-Yiu Lui

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 606 - 610

25. Is Colonoscopy Alone Sufficient to Screen for Ulcerative Colitis-associated Colorectal Carcinoma?

    • Matthias Bruewer
    • Christian F. Krieglstein
    • Norbert Senninger

    Original Scientific Reports Pages: 611 - 615

26. Review of the “Chirurgia” of Giovanni de Vigo: Estimate of His Position in the History of Surgery

    • Raffi Gurunluoglu
    • Aslin Gurunluoglu
    • Hildegunde Piza-Katzer

    Surgical History Pages: 616 - 623

27. The Academic Surgeon: An Autobiography. James Daniel Hardy. Magnolia Mansions Press, Mobile, Alabama, 2002, 475 pp., $29.95

    • Ronald K. Tompkins

    Book Reviews Pages: 624 - 624

28. World J. Surg., Vol. 27, No. 1, January 2003, pp. 18–25 (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-002-6464-8)

    Erratum Pages: 626 - 626