Influence of Japan's New Diagnosis Procedure Combination-Based Payment System on the Surgical Sector: Does it Really Shorten the Hospital Stay? Hideo YasunagaHiroo IdeKazukiko Ohe Original Articles Pages: 577 - 585
Expanding Hematoma After Extraperiosteal Paraffin Plombage Hisaichi TanakaAkihide MatsumuraKeiji Iuchi OriginalPaper Pages: 586 - 589
Clinical and Pathologic Features of Fibroadenoma of the Mastopathic Type Hajime KurodaIkuya TakeuchiShinji Itoyama OriginalPaper Pages: 590 - 595
Large Vessel — Sternum Adhesion After Cardiac Surgery; A Risk-Factor Analysis Takashi YamauchiYuji MiyamotoYoshiki Sawa OriginalPaper Pages: 596 - 601
Surgical Experience of Cardiac Tumors: Early and Late Results Noriyoshi KajiharaYoshihisa TanoueShigeki Morita OriginalPaper Pages: 602 - 607
cDNA Array Analysis for Prediction of Hepatic Metastasis of Colorectal Carcinoma Osamu TakataYutaka J. KawamuraToshihiko Tsukamoto OriginalPaper Pages: 608 - 614
Left Ventricular Assist System Through the Left Ventricle for Acute Myocardial Infarction: Report of a Case Hiroki HataGoro MatsumiyaHikaru Matsuda Case Reports Pages: 615 - 618
Myositis Ossificans of the Abdominal Rectus Muscle: Report of a Case Eun-Jung JungYoung-Joon LeeGyung-Hyuck Ko OriginalPaper Pages: 619 - 622
Endovascular Repair of an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in a Patient with Horseshoe Kidney: Report of a Case Piero VolpeGiovanni NanoGiovanni Paroni OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 628
Primary Leiomyoma of the Liver: Report of a Case Yasuyuki UrizonoSaiho KoYoshiyuki Nakajima OriginalPaper Pages: 629 - 632
An Icteric Type Hepatocellular Carcinoma with No Detectable Tumor in the Liver: Report of a Case Tomoki MakinoShoji NakamoriToshimasa Tsujinaka OriginalPaper Pages: 633 - 637
Intrahepatic Segmental Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis: Report of a Case Taku MatsumotoTetsuo AjikiYoshikazu Kuroda OriginalPaper Pages: 638 - 641
Simultaneous Bilateral Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy for Adrenocorticotropic Hormone-Independent Macronodular Adrenal Hyerplasia: Report of a Case Naoshi KuboNaoyoshi OnodaKosei Hirakawa OriginalPaper Pages: 642 - 646
Hyaline Vascular-Type Castleman's Disease in the Hepatoduodenal Ligament: Report of a Case Nagato SatoSatoshi KondoToshiaki Morikawa OriginalPaper Pages: 647 - 650
Left-Sided Paraduodenal Hernia: Report of a Case Asım CingiPakize DemirkalemCumhur Yegen OriginalPaper Pages: 651 - 654
Iliac Lymph Node Metastasis of an Unknown Primary Tumor: Report of a Case Satoru MatsuyamaYuji NakafusaKohji Miyazaki OriginalPaper Pages: 655 - 658
Small Bowel Angiodysplasia Associated with von Willebrand's Disease: Report of a Case Rosalia PattiPiero L. AlmasioGaetano Di Vita OriginalPaper Pages: 659 - 662
Synchronous Adenocarcinomas of the Ileum and Transverse Colon Detected by Capsule Endoscopy: Report of a Case Shunsuke HosonoMasaichi OhiraKosei Hirakawa OriginalPaper Pages: 663 - 665
Anal Canal Carcinoma with Pagetoid Spread: Report of a Case Mitsukuni SuenagaMasatoshi OyaTetsuichiro Muto OriginalPaper Pages: 666 - 669