1. The beginnings of a “human science”

   • Kiyoshi Inokuchi

   Editorial Pages: 1 - 2

2. Reconstructive surgery for mitral and tricuspid valves —Principles and personal experience

   • Jean-Pierre Bex

   Review Article Pages: 3 - 17

3. The fundamental factor determining the clinical prognosis of prolonged jaundice—Relation to the arterial ketone body ratio

   • Masayuki Yamamoto
   • Hideki Fujii
   • Takayoshi Tobe

   Original Articles Pages: 18 - 22

4. Serum CEA levels facilitate detection of recurrences of cancer in patients after gastrectomy

   • Ruuichiro Tamada
   • Yoichiro Hiramoto
   • Kiyoshi Inokuchi

   Original Articles Pages: 23 - 29

5. Pathological studies on esophageal varices treated with injection sclerotherapy

   • Yasuhiro Takase
   • Masanori Kikuchi
   • Yoji Iwasaki

   Original Articles Pages: 30 - 35

6. Rastelli operation as one stage anatomical correction for infants with complete transposition of the grat arteries and ventricular septal defect

   • Yasuaki Naito
   • Tsuyoshi Fujita
   • Tetsuro Kamiya

   Original Articles Pages: 36 - 42

7. Protection against suture insufficiency in ante-thoracic esophagogastrostomy

   • Kaichi Isono
   • Shoichi Onoda
   • Hiroshi Sato

   Original Articles Pages: 43 - 48

8. Pelvic perfusion hyperthermia for advanced pelvic malignancies

   • Itsuo Yokoyama
   • Naoki Yamanaka
   • Tatsuhei Kondo

   Original Articles Pages: 49 - 54

9. Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the esophagus —A case report

   • Hidemasa Matsufuji
   • Hiroyuki Kuwano
   • Kiyoshi Inokuchi

   Original Articles Pages: 55 - 59

10. Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid gland —A case report

    • V. K. Kapoor
    • D. Sharma
    • T. K. Chattopadhyay

    Original Articles Pages: 60 - 62

11. Streptozotocin effective for treating multiple-hormone-producing malignant islet cell tumor

    • Etsuo Murata
    • Seiki Tashiro
    • Takehisa Hiraoka

    Original Articles Pages: 63 - 67

12. Idiopathic arterial calcification in 9-year-old boy: a successful reconstruction for ilio-femoral occlusion

    • Akira Kusaba
    • Kageharu Koja
    • Masato Furuyama

    Original Articles Pages: 68 - 74

13. Hemostatic defects in experimental obstructive jaundice

    • Jun-ichi Kambayashi
    • Takeshi Ohshiro
    • Goro Kosaki

    Original Articles Pages: 75 - 80

14. Esophageal varices produced in dogs

    • Hisanobu Sakata
    • Kiyoshi Inokuchi
    • Nobuhiro Koyanagi

    Original Articles Pages: 81 - 88

15. Antitumor effect of lipiodolized doxorubicin on VX2 carcinoma in rabbits

    • Toshiya Furuta
    • Takashi Kanematsu
    • Kiyoshi Inokuchi

    Short Communication Pages: 89 - 91