1. Neosphincter Surgery for Fecal Incontinence: A Critical and Unbiased Review of the Relevant Literature

   • Orlin Belyaev
   • Christophe Müller
   • Waldemar Uhl

   Review Article Pages: 295 - 303

2. Total Parathyroidectomy and Autotransplantation by the Subcutaneous Injection Technique in Secondary Hyperparathyroidism

   • Jong Ho Yoon
   • Kee-Hyun Nam
   • Cheong Soo Park

   Original Articles Pages: 304 - 307

3. Facial Nerve Function After Parotidectomy for Neoplasms with Deep Localization

   • Maurizio Marchesi
   • Marco Biffoni
   • Francesco Paolo Campana

   OriginalPaper Pages: 308 - 311

4. Surgical Anatomy of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerves and its Clinical Applications in Chinese Adults

   • Yih-Huei Uen
   • Tien-Hua Chen
   • Jiang-Chuan Liu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 312 - 315

5. Design of a New Technique Using a Free Tracheal Autologous Graft for Reconstruction of the Cricoid Cartilage and Trachea

   • Makoto Kobayashi
   • Akinari Fukuda
   • Osamu Harada

   OriginalPaper Pages: 316 - 320

6. Effect of a Polymorphonuclear Elastase Inhibitor (Sivelestat Sodium) on Acute Lung Injury After Cardiopulmonary Bypass: Findings of a Double-Blind Randomized Study

   • Masahiro Ryugo
   • Yoshiki Sawa
   • Hikaru Matsuda

   OriginalPaper Pages: 321 - 326

7. Hyperhomocysteinemia in Patients with Arterial Occlusive Disease

   • Murat Aksoy
   • Yilmaz Basar
   • Mehmet Kurtoglu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 327 - 331

8. Esophageal Perforation: Principles of Diagnosis and Surgical Management

   • Markus Huber-Lang
   • Doris Henne-Bruns
   • Peter Wuerl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 332 - 340

9. Laparoscopic Wedge Resection for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors of the Stomach: Initial Experience

   • Yoshinari Mochizuki
   • Yasuhiro Kodera
   • Tomoyuki Kato

   OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 347

10. Thymidine Phosphorylase and Dihydropyrimidine Dehydrogenase Expression Levels in Tumor and Normal Tissue Specimens of T3 Human Colorectal Carcinoma

    • Atsushi Okita
    • Kazunori Tsukuda
    • Nobuyoshi Shimizu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 348 - 353

11. Management of Major Portosystemic Shunting in Small-for-Size Adult Living-Related Donor Liver Transplantation with a Left-Sided Graft Liver

    • Yoshinobu Sato
    • Satoshi Yamamoto
    • Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama

    OriginalPaper Pages: 354 - 360

12. Intraperitoneal Tenoxicam to Prevent Abdominal Adhesion Formation in a Rat Peritonitis Model

    • Fikret Ezberci
    • Ertan Bulbuloglu
    • I. Taner Kale

    OriginalPaper Pages: 361 - 366

13. Genetic Heterogeneity and Efficiency of Two Different Methods of Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Transfer in a Rat Liver Transplantation Model

    • Kensuke Adachi
    • Masayuki Fujino
    • Xiao-Kang Li

    OriginalPaper Pages: 367 - 375

14. Whey Feeding Suppresses the Measurement of Oxidative Stress in Experimental Burn Injury

    • Osman Z. Öner
    • Ayliz Velioğlu Öğünç
    • A. Özdemir Aktan

    OriginalPaper Pages: 376 - 381

15. Effectiveness of Steroid Treatment for Hoarseness Caused by Idiopathic Fibrosing Mediastinitis: Report of a Case

    • Hideo Ichimura
    • Shigemi Ishikawa
    • Yuzuru Sakakibara

    Case Reports Pages: 382 - 384

16. Metastatic Gastric Cancer from Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma: Report of a Case

    • Yukako Akatsu
    • Yoshiro Saikawa
    • Masaki Kitajima

    OriginalPaper Pages: 385 - 389

17. Hepatocellular Carcinoma Arising from Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: Report of Two Cases

    • Seikan Hai
    • Shoji Kubo
    • Kenichi Wakasa

    OriginalPaper Pages: 390 - 394