1. Editorial

   • Springer

   Editorial Pages: 637 - 637

2. Source Control for Surgical Infections

   • Moshe Schein
   • John Marshall

   Editorial Update 08 June 2004 Pages: 638 - 645

3. Functional Maps of Metastases from Breast Cancers: Proof of the Principle that Multidimensional Scaling Can Summarize Disease Progression

   • Lincoln C. Gray
   • Jayant S. Vaidya
   • Dorothea Wiarda

   Original Scientific Reports 08 June 2004 Pages: 646 - 651

   

4. Regression of Type II Gastric Carcinoids in Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Type 1 Patients with Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome after Surgical Excision of All Gastrinomas

   • Melanie L. Richards
   • Paul Gauger
   • Thomas J. Giordano

   Original Scientific Reports 16 June 2004 Pages: 652 - 658

   

5. Identification of the Nonrecurrent Laryngeal Nerve during Thyroid Surgery: 20-Year Experience

   • Antonio Toniato
   • Renzo Mazzarotto
   • Maria Rosa Pelizzo

   Original Scientific Reports 04 June 2004 Pages: 659 - 661

   

6. Comparative Effectiveness of Several Agents for Preventing Postoperative Adhesions

   • Jehat Kutlay
   • Yusuf Ozer
   • Hulagu Kargici

   Original Scientific Reports 08 June 2004 Pages: 662 - 665

   

7. Surgical Workload and Cost of Postoperative Adhesion-related Intestinal Obstruction: Importance of Previous Surgery

   • Jyrki A.O. Kössi
   • Paulina T.P. Salminen
   • Matti K. Laato

   Original Scientific Reports 08 June 2004 Pages: 666 - 670

8. Changes in Liver Enzymes after Surgery in Anti-Hepatitis C Virus-positive Patients

   • Saburo Murakami
   • Katsuhiko Okubo
   • Renzo Hirayama

   Original Scientific Reports 04 June 2004 Pages: 671 - 674

9. Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Expression and Neovascularization in Barrett’s Carcinoma

   • Christian Möbius
   • Hubert J. Stein
   • J. Rüdiger Siewert

   Original Scientific Reports 04 June 2004 Pages: 675 - 679

   

10. Clinical Significance of Serum Carcinoembryonic Antigen, Carbohydrate Antigen 19-9, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma Antigen Levels in Esophageal Cancer Patients

    • Shin-ichi Kosugi
    • Tadashi Nishimaki
    • Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama

    Original Scientific Reports 04 June 2004 Pages: 680 - 685

    

11. Prognostic Factors for Early Gastric Cancer in France: Cox Regression Analysis of 332 Cases

    • Frédéric Borie
    • Valerie Rigau
    • French Association for Surgical Research

    Original Scientific Reports 16 June 2004 Pages: 686 - 691

    

12. Microscopic Liver Metastasis: Prognostic Factor for Patients with pT2 Gallbladder Carcinoma

    • Itaru Endo
    • Hiroshi Shimada
    • Shinji Togo

    Original Scientific Reports 04 June 2004 Pages: 692 - 696

    

13. Limited Hepatic Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Caudate Lobe

    • Toru Ikegami
    • Takahiro Ezaki
    • Masaki Mori

    Original Scientific Reports 16 June 2004 Pages: 697 - 701

    

14. Positive Status of α-Fetoprotein and des-γ-Carboxy Prothrombin: Important Prognostic Factor for Recurrent Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    • Masaki Kaibori
    • Yoichi Matsui
    • Yasuo Kamiyama

    Original Scientific Reports 08 June 2004 Pages: 702 - 707

    

15. Surgical Treatment of Portal Vein Cavernous Transformation

    • Hongkun Zhang
    • Nan Zhang
    • Songlin Pan

    Original Scientific Reports 04 June 2004 Pages: 708 - 711

    

16. Endoscopic Management of Early Postoperative Biliary Ascariasis in Patients with Biliary Tract Surgery

    • Showkat Ali Zargar
    • Bashir Ahmad Khan
    • Nisar Ahmad Shah

    Original Scientific Reports 04 June 2004 Pages: 712 - 715

    

17. Can Early Diagnosis of Symptomatic Colorectal Cancer Improve the Prognosis?

    • Fernando Gonzalez-Hermoso
    • Julian Perez-Palma
    • Vincente Medina-Arana

    Original Scientific Reports 16 June 2004 Pages: 716 - 720

    

18. Molecular Detection of APC, K-ras, and p53 Mutations in the Serum of Colorectal Cancer Patients as Circulating Biomarkers

    • Jaw-Yuan Wang
    • Jan-Sing Hsieh
    • Shiu-Ru Lin

    Original Scientific Reports 08 June 2004 Pages: 721 - 726

19. To the Editor

    • Andrzej Skorek
    • Waldemar Narozny
    • Boguslaw Mikaszewski

    Letters to the Editor 08 June 2004 Pages: 727 - 727

    

20. The Memoirs of Allen Oldfather Whipple: The Man Behind the Whipple. Samir Johna, Mosche Schein, editors. TFM Publishing, Castle Hill Barns, UK, 2003, 222 pp., $39.95

    • Ronald K. Tompkins

    Book Reviews 04 June 2004 Pages: 728 - 728

21. World J. Surg., Vol. 27, No. 12, December 2003, pp. 1337-1338 (DOI: 10.1007/s00268-003-1028-0)

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    Erratum 06 May 2004 Pages: 729 - 729