1. Toward a more perfect society

   • David Fromm

   SSAT Presidential Address Pages: 565 - 572

2. Remarks on accepting the SSAT founders medal

   • Wallace P. Ritchie Jr.

   Announcement Pages: 573 - 574

3. Short-term outcomes in open vs. laparoscopic herniorrhaphy: Confounding impact of worker’s compensation on convalescence

   • Jeffrey S. Barkun
   • Eric J. Keyser
   • Jonathan L. Meakins

   Original Articles Pages: 575 - 582

4. Laparoscopic toupet fundoplication is an inadequate procedure for patients with severe reflux disease

   • Karen D. Horvath
   • Blair A. Jobe
   • Lee L. Swanstrom

   OriginalPaper Pages: 583 - 591

5. Expression and function of inducible nitric oxide synthase during rat colon anastomotic healing

   • David T. Efron
   • Frank J. Thornton
   • Adrian Barbul

   OriginalPaper Pages: 592 - 601

6. Effect of photodynamic therapy on normal fibroblasts and colon anastomotic healing in mice

   • Riad Haddad
   • Ofer Kaplan
   • Hanoch Kashtan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 602 - 606

7. Malabsorptive procedures for severe obesity: Comparison of pancreaticobiliary bypass and very very long limb Roux-en-Y gastric bypass

   • Michel M. Murr
   • Bruno M. Balsiger
   • Michael G. Sarr

   OriginalPaper Pages: 607 - 612

8. Surgical treatment of Roux stasis syndrome

   • Bao Lien Nguyen Tu
   • Keith A. Kelly

   OriginalPaper Pages: 613 - 617

9. Targeting molecular pathways with camptothecin as novel therapy for gastric cancer

   • David A. Litvak
   • Harry T. Papaconstantinou
   • Courtney M. Townsend Jr.

   OriginalPaper Pages: 618 - 624

10. The continent ileostomy: Long-term durability and patient satisfaction

    • Virginia R. Litle
    • Susan Barbour
    • Mark L. Welton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 625 - 632

11. Ileal pouch salvage following failed ileal pouch-anal anastomosis

    • Stephanie S. Saltzberg
    • Christine DiEdwardo
    • James M. Becker

    OriginalPaper Pages: 633 - 641

12. T3N0 rectal cancer: Results following sharp mesorectal excision and no adjuvant therapy

    • Nipun B. Merchant
    • Jose G. Guillem
    • Alfred M. Cohen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 642 - 647

13. Duration of antibiotic prophylaxis in high-risk patients with penetrating abdominal trauma: A prospective randomized trial

    • Edward E. Cornwell III
    • William R. Dougherty
    • Demetrios Demetriades

    OriginalPaper Pages: 648 - 653

14. Kupffer cell-mediated inhibition of liver regeneration after combined hepatectomy and pancreatectomy

    • Toshiki Rikiyama
    • Masanori Suzuki
    • Seiki Matsuno

    OriginalPaper Pages: 654 - 661

15. Difluoromethylornithine inhibits crypt fission

    • Jon S. Thompson
    • Shailendra K. Saxena
    • John G. Sharp

    OriginalPaper Pages: 662 - 667

16. Paraplegia following intraoperative celiac plexus injection

    • Eddie K. Abdalla
    • Scott R. Schell

    OriginalPaper Pages: 668 - 671

17. Effects of intestinal resection on enterocyte apoptosis

    • Jon S. Thompson
    • Betsy Barent

    OriginalPaper Pages: 672 - 677