1. Surgical Treatment of Barrett’s Esophagus: 1980-2003

   • Attila Csendes

   Editorial Update 17 February 2004 Pages: 225 - 231

2. Dedicated Screening Mammography for Diagnosis of Small Breast Cancer

   • Boris Kirshtein
   • Pavel Crystal
   • Selwyn Strano

   Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 232 - 235

3. Prognostic Significance of Apex Axillary Invasion for Locoregional Recurrence and Effect of Postmastectomy Radiotherapy on Overall Survival in Node-Positive Breast Cancer Patients

   • Bekir Kuru
   • Mithat Camlibel
   • Haluk Alagol

   Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 236 - 241

   

4. Surgical Site Infections in Breast Surgery: Case-control Study

   • Diana Vilar-Compte
   • Benedicte Jacquemin
   • Patricia Volkow

   Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 242 - 246

5. Evaluation of 18F-2-deoxy-2-fluoro-d-glucose Positron Emission Tomography for Gastric Cancer

   • Erito Mochiki
   • Hiroyuki Kuwano
   • Keigo Endo

   Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 247 - 253

   

6. Xanthogranulomatous Cholecystitis: 15 Years’ Experience

   • Gilberto Guzmán-Valdivia

   Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 254 - 257

   

7. Deterioration of Hepatic Functional Reserve in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Resection: Incidence, Risk Factors, and Association with Intrahepatic Tumor Recurrence

   • Teh-Ia Huo
   • Wing-Yu Lui
   • Shou-Dong Lee

   Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 258 - 262

   

8. Metastatic Tumor Doubling Time: Most Important Prehepatectomy Predictor of Survival and Nonrecurrence of Hepatic Colorectal Cancer Metastasis

   • Kuniya Tanaka
   • Hiroshi Shimada
   • Hideyuki Ike

   Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 263 - 270

   

9. Complications of Thyroid Surgery: Analysis of a Multicentric Study on 14,934 Patients Operated on in Italy over 5 Years

   • Lodovico Rosato
   • Nicola Avenia
   • Luciano Pezzullo

   Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 271 - 276

   

10. Changes in Extrathymic T Cells in the Liver and Intestinal Intraepithelium in Mice with Obstructive Jaundice

    • Kimihiko Ueno
    • Tetsuo Ajiki
    • Yoshikazu Kuroda

    Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 277 - 282

    

11. Obstructive Jaundice in Rats: Cause of Spatial Memory Deficits with Recovery after Biliary Decompression

    • Li-Tung Huang
    • Chih-Sung Hsieh
    • Ming-Chi Lai

    Original Scientific Reports 17 February 2004 Pages: 283 - 287

    

12. Problems and Prospects of Managing Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Nigeria

    • Gabriel U. Chianakwana
    • Maxy A.C. Odike
    • Alexander M.E. Nwofor

    Surgical Globetrotting 17 February 2004 Pages: 288 - 290

    

13. Oxygen: At the Foundation of Wound Healing—Introduction

    • Thomas K. Hunt
    • E. Christopher Ellison
    • Chandan K. Sen

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 291 - 293

14. Oxygen in Wound Healing—More than a Nutrient

    • Andrea A. Tandara
    • Thomas A. Mustoe

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 294 - 300

15. Nitric Oxide and Wound Healing

    • Majida Rizk
    • Maria B. Witte
    • Adrian Barbul

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 301 - 306

    

16. Clinical Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Wound Perfusion, and Transcutaneous Oximetry

    • Juha H.A. Niinikoski

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 307 - 311

17. Oxygen in Wound Healing and Infection

    • Finn Gottrup

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 312 - 315

18. Reactive Oxygen Species and EGR-1 Gene Expression in Surgical Postoperative Peritoneal Adhesions

    • Sashwati Roy
    • Clancy J. Clark
    • Chandan K. Sen

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 316 - 320

    

19. Aging and Wound Healing

    • Ankush Gosain
    • Luisa A. DiPietro

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 321 - 326

    

20. Experimental Models of Stress and Wound Healing

    • John F. Sheridan
    • David A. Padgett
    • Phillip T. Marucha

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 327 - 330

    

21. Redox Processes Underlying the Vascular Repair Reaction

    • Paulo F. Leite
    • Marcel Liberman
    • Francisco R.M. Laurindo

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 331 - 336

    

22. Development of a Wound Dressing Targeting Neutrophil Function

    • Håkan Nygren
    • Per Malmberg
    • Herman Sahlin

    World Progress in Surgery 17 February 2004 Pages: 337 - 342