1. Editorial

   • Ronald K. Tompkins

   Editorial 04 December 2003 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Living Donor Liver Transplantation with Special Reference to ABO-incompatible Grafts and Small-for-size Grafts

   • Motohide Shimazu
   • Masaki Kitajima

   Editorial Update 26 November 2003 Pages: 2 - 7

   

3. Relation between Hepatic and Portal Veins in the Right Paramedian Sector: Proposal for Anatomical Reclassification of the Liver

   • Akihiro Cho
   • Shinichi Okazumi
   • Takenori Ochiai

   Original Scientific Reports 04 December 2003 Pages: 8 - 12

   

4. Cantlie’s Plane in Major Variations of the Primary Portal Vein Ramification at the Porta Hepatis: Cutting Experiment using Cadaveric Livers

   • Saiho Ko
   • Gen Murakami
   • Yoshiyuki Nakajima

   Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 13 - 18

   

5. Management of Retrohepatic Inferior Vena Cava Injury during Hepatectomy for Neoplasms

   • Li Ai-jun
   • Wu Meng-chao
   • Shen Fen

   Original Scientific Reports 04 December 2003 Pages: 19 - 22

6. Effect of Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunts on Hemorrhage from Esophagogastric Varices

   • Jan-Sing Hsieh
   • Jaw-Yuan Wang
   • Tsung-Jen Huang

   Original Scientific Reports 05 December 2003 Pages: 23 - 28

   

7. Needle Tract Implantation of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Pancreatic Carcinoma after Ultrasound-guided Percutaneous Puncture: Clinical and Pathologic Characteristics and the Treatment of Needle Tract Implantation

   • Chihiro Kosugi
   • Junji Furuse
   • Tatsuya Oda

   Original Scientific Reports 05 December 2003 Pages: 29 - 32

8. Effect of Interstitial Laser Hyperthermia in a Murine Model of Colorectal Liver Metastases: Scanning Electron Microscopic Study

   • Vijayaragavan Muralidharan
   • Mehrdad Nikfarjam
   • Christopher Christophi

   Original Scientific Reports 05 December 2003 Pages: 33 - 37

   

9. Ocular Manifestations and Complications of Pyogenic Liver Abscess

   • Yu-Meng Tan
   • Soon-Phaik Chee
   • Pierce Chow

   Original Scientific Reports 14 November 2003 Pages: 38 - 42

   

10. Surgical Intervention for Obstructive Jaundice Due to Biliary Tumor Thrombus in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    • Shu You Peng
    • Jian Wei Wang
    • Hai Jun Li

    Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 43 - 46

11. Gallbladder Cancer in the Twentieth Century: Single Institution’s Experience

    • Stephen R. Grobmyer
    • Michael D. Lieberman
    • John M. Daly

    Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 47 - 49

    

12. Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding after Acid-corrosive Injury

    • Yau-Lin Tseng
    • Ming-Ho Wu
    • Wu-Wei Lai

    Original Scientific Reports 05 December 2003 Pages: 50 - 54

    

13. Enduring Effects of Thoracoscopic Heller Myotomy for Treating Achalasia

    • Jang-Ming Lee
    • Chih-Hsien Wang
    • Yung-Chie Lee

    Original Scientific Reports 04 December 2003 Pages: 55 - 58

    

14. Role of Computer Analysis in Gastric Cancer Surgery: Evaluation of the WinEstimate v. 2.5 Computer Program

    • Mirko Omejc
    • Jernej Mekicar

    Original Scientific Reports 05 December 2003 Pages: 59 - 62

    

15. Usefulness of Known Computed Tomography and Clinical Criteria for Diagnosing Strangulation in Small-Bowel Obstruction: Analysis of True and False Interpretation Groups in Computed Tomography

    • Jung Hoon Kim
    • Hyun Kwon Ha
    • Yong Ho Auh

    Original Scientific Reports 04 December 2003 Pages: 63 - 68

    

16. Anastomotic Healing in a Small Bowel Transplantation Model in the Rat

    • Nir Wasserberg
    • Andreas G. Tzakis
    • Shashikumar K. Salgar

    Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 69 - 73

    

17. Antiarrhythmic Effect of Ischemic Preconditioning in Recent Unstable Angina Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

    • Zhong-Kai Wu
    • Tiina Iivainen
    • Matti R. Tarkka

    Original Scientific Reports 14 November 2003 Pages: 74 - 79

    

18. Practice Patterns in Breast Cancer Surgery: Canadian Perspective

    • Geoffrey A. Porter
    • Heather McMulkin-Tait

    Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 80 - 86

    

19. Predictors of Surgical Outcome for Complicated Pneumonia in Children: Impact of Bacterial Virulence

    • Julie A. Margenthaler
    • Thomas R. Weber
    • Martin S. Keller

    Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 87 - 91

    

20. Risk Factors for Mortality and Morbidity after Elective Sigmoid Resection for Diverticulitis: Prospective Multicenter Multivariate Analysis of 582 Patients

    • Patrick Pessaux
    • Fabrice Muscari
    • French Association for Surgical Research

    Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 92 - 96

21. Hydatid Cysts of the Adrenal Gland: Review of Nine Patients

    • Müfide Nuran Akçay
    • Güngör Akçay
    • Abdullah Böyük

    Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 97 - 99

    

22. Clinical Value of Parathyroid Scintigraphy with Technetium-99m Methoxyisobutylisonitrile: Discrepancies in Clinical Data and a Systematic Metaanalysis of the Literature

    • Martin Gotthardt
    • Bodo Lohmann
    • Christoph Nies

    Original Scientific Reports 26 November 2003 Pages: 100 - 107

23. Increased Mortality in Patients Hospitalized with Primary Hyperparathyroidism during the Period 1977–1993 in Denmark

    • Christina G. Øgard
    • Gerda Engholm
    • Henrik Vestergaard

    Surgical Globetrotting 04 December 2003 Pages: 108 - 111

    

24. To the Editor (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-7303-2)

    • Néstor A. Gómez
    • Jorge A. Zapatier
    • Paola E. Vargas

    Letters to the Editor 26 November 2003 Pages: 112 - 112