1. Mediators in polytrauma – pathophysiological significance and clinical relevance

   • Stefan Rose
   • I. Marzi

   REVIEW TOPIC: POLYTRAUMA Pages: 199 - 208

2. Scores in polytrauma – do they help?

   • C. Waydhas
   • Dieter Nast-Kolb

   REVIEW TOPIC: POLYTRAUMA Pages: 209 - 213

3. Clinical and pathophysiological significance of severe neurotrauma in polytraumatized patients

   • J. Meixensberger
   • K. Roosen

   REVIEW TOPIC: POLYTRAUMA Pages: 214 - 219

4. Management priorities in patients with polytrauma

   • C. Krettek
   • Robin G. Simon
   • Harald Tscherne

   REVIEW TOPIC: POLYTRAUMA Pages: 220 - 227

5. Outcome after polytrauma

   • B. Bouillon
   • E. Neugebauer

   REVIEW TOPIC: POLYTRAUMA Pages: 228 - 234

6. Differentiated thyroid cancer in children and adolescents

   • J. Farahati
   • Thomas Parlowsky
   • Peter Bucsky

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 235 - 239

7. Surgical training and vocal-cord paralysis in benign thyroid disease

   • N. Runkel
   • E. Riede
   • H. J. Buhr

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 240 - 242

8. Preoperative diagnostics in pancreatic carcinoma: would less be better?

   • T. Böttger
   • R. Engelmann
   • T. Junginger

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 243 - 248

9. Laceration of a benign adrenal adenoma mimicking a splenic rupture

   • H. Cerwenka
   • R. Karaic
   • G. Wolf

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 249 - 251

10. Severe head injury combined with orthopedic and vascular trauma of the limbs

    • R. Vara-Thorbeck
    • M. Ruiz-Morales

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 252 - 258

11. Results of bypasses to the anterior tibial artery through the interosseous membrane

    • G. Illuminati
    • F. G. Calio'
    • V. Martinelli

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 259 - 264

12. Haematogenous tuberculous infection following revision of a loosened total hip replacement

    • J. Bruns
    • S. Luessenhop
    • P. Behrens

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 265 - 268

13. Growth inhibition of pancreatic tumor cells by modified antisense oligodeoxynucleotides

    • Alexander Fiedler
    • Christoph Knorre
    • H. Kalthoff

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 269 - 275

14. Photochemotherapy of experimental colonic tumours with intra-tumorally applied methylene blue

    • K. Orth
    • D. Russ
    • H. G. Beger

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 276 - 281

15. The use of intravital microscopy in surgical research

    • B. Vollmar
    • M. D. Menger

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 282 - 285

16. Technique and results of the retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy via a lumbar approach

    • A. Heintz
    • T. Junginger

    HOW TO DO IT Pages: 286 - 288

17. Laparoscopic vs conventional appendectomy – a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

    • Stefan Sauerland
    • Rolf Lefering
    • E. A. M. Neugebauer

    EVIDENCE-BASED SURGERY Pages: 289 - 295