1. Adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction: incidence, characteristics, and treatment strategies

   • Shinichi Hasegawa
   • Takaki Yoshikawa

   Review Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 63 - 73

2. Trends in characteristics of surgically treated early gastric cancer patients after the introduction of gastric cancer treatment guidelines in Japan

   • Norimitsu Tanaka
   • Hitoshi Katai
   • Takuji Gotoda

   Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 74 - 77

3. Mass screening for gastric cancer: how to select patients for endoscopic examination

   • Hirotaka Nakashima
   • Ryuji Nagahama
   • Yasuo Ohkura

   Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 78 - 83

4. Salivary amylase activity is useful for assessing perioperative stress in response to pain in patients undergoing endoscopic submucosal dissection of gastric tumors under deep sedation

   • Masaya Uesato
   • Yoshihiro Nabeya
   • Hisahiro Matsubara

   Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 84 - 89

5. PRKCH gene polymorphism is associated with the risk of severe gastric atrophy

   • Yasuyuki Goto
   • Asahi Hishida
   • Nobuyuki Hamajima

   Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 90 - 94

6. Phase II study of oxaliplatin, UFT, and leucovorin in patients with metastatic gastric cancer

   • Ester J. M. Siemerink
   • Annemieke F. J. Drenth
   • Geke A. P. Hospers

   Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 95 - 100

7. Pilot study of a combination of S-1 and paclitaxel for patients with peritoneal metastasis from gastric cancer

   • Shigeyuki Tamura
   • Hirofumi Miki
   • Yuichi Takatsuka

   Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 101 - 108

8. Correlation between the length of the pyloric cuff and postoperative evaluation after pylorus-preserving gastrectomy

   • Shinji Morita
   • Mitsuru Sasako
   • Hitoshi Katai

   Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 109 - 116

9. Incidence of pulmonary thromboembolism in gastric cancer surgery using routine thromboprophylaxis

   • Makoto Saka
   • Shinji Morita
   • Hitoshi Katai

   Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 117 - 122

10. Risk factors in malignant transformation of gastric epithelial neoplasia categorized by the revised Vienna classification: endoscopic, pathological, and immunophenotypic features

    • Sung Hoon Jung
    • Woo Chul Chung
    • In-Sik Chung

    Original Article 03 July 2010 Pages: 123 - 130

11. A rare case of poorly differentiated endocrine cell carcinoma of the stomach with signet ring cell differentiation

    • Souya Nunobe
    • Hirokazu Taniguchi
    • Tadakazu Shimoda

    Case Report 03 July 2010 Pages: 131 - 134

12. Intraabdominal Roux-en-Y reconstruction

    • Viroj Wiwanitkit

    Letter to the Editor 03 July 2010 Pages: 135 - 135