1. From the Editors’ desk

   • K. Lakshman
   • Anil Sharma
   • M. S. Senthil Kumar

   EditorialNotes 23 December 2008 Pages: 257 - 257

2. Surgical gastroenterology in India — the evolution of a revolution: a personal perspective

   • N. Rangabashyam

   Editorial 23 December 2008 Pages: 258 - 260

3. Current status of laparoscopic surgery in gastrointestinal malignancies

   • Parul J. Shukla
   • Ravi Maharaj
   • Sujit Vijay Sakpal

   Review 23 December 2008 Pages: 261 - 264

4. Nutritional support in gastrointestinal surgery: an overview

   • K. Lakshman

   Review 23 December 2008 Pages: 265 - 269

5. Intestinal duplication

   • H. K. Ramakrishna

   Review 23 December 2008 Pages: 270 - 273

6. Perspectives of tumour markers in gastrointestinal malignancies — an overview

   • Vijayashree Murthy
   • K. S. Gopinath

   Review 23 December 2008 Pages: 274 - 280

7. Mirizzi syndrome

   • Md. Ibrarullah
   • Tapas Mishra
   • A. P. Das

   Review 23 December 2008 Pages: 281 - 287

8. Management of massive haemobilia in an Indian hospital

   • Mudit Kumar
   • Subhash Gupta
   • Samiran Nundy

   Original Article 23 December 2008 Pages: 288 - 295

9. Laparoscopic management of large hiatus hernia with mesh cruroplasty

   • P. K. Chowbey
   • T. Mittal
   • M. Baijal

   Original Article 23 December 2008 Pages: 296 - 302

10. Small bowel enterocutaneous fistulae: the merits of early surgery

    • Manoj Gupta
    • Pankaj Sonar
    • Samirn Nundy

    Original Article 23 December 2008 Pages: 303 - 307

11. Management of post dilatation oesophageal perforation: an experience from a tertiary centre

    • Anbalagan Amudhan
    • Tirupporur Govindaswamy Balachandar
    • Rajagopal Surendran

    Original Article 23 December 2008 Pages: 308 - 312

12. Role of gastric bypass in patients with unresectable advanced carcinoma of stomach

    • Nagarjuna V. Maturu
    • Dinker R. Pai
    • Vishnu N. R. Prasad

    Original Article 23 December 2008 Pages: 313 - 317

13. Varied presentations of gastrointestinal stromal tumour

    • C. V. Kantharia
    • R. Irpatgire
    • A. N. Supe

    Case Report 23 December 2008 Pages: 318 - 321

14. Foreign body granulamatous reaction to endoluminal gas in pneumatosis intestinalis — a case report

    • M. S. Senthil Kumar
    • J. Prabhakar
    • R. Anbazhakan

    Case Report 23 December 2008 Pages: 322 - 324

15. Tuberculous abdomen presenting as gluteal abscess

    • K. Karunakaran

    Case Report 23 December 2008 Pages: 325 - 326

16. Improvised laparoscopic stone picker

    • Akhilesh Kumar Agarwal
    • Nirjhar Bhattacharya
    • Anshu Agarwal

    Point of Technique 23 December 2008 Pages: 327 - 329

17. John Benjamin Murphy — Pioneer of gastrointestinal anastomosis

    • Kaushik Bhattacharya
    • Neela Bhattacharya

    Teachers/Surgeons From The Past 23 December 2008 Pages: 330 - 333

18. Malignant masquerade at the hepatic hilum

    • Disha Sood
    • Rahul Kakodkar
    • Arvinder Singh Soin

    Images in Surgery 23 December 2008 Pages: 334 - 335

19. Too bitter to swallow — peroperative conundrum

    • P. Radhakrishna

    Images in Surgery 23 December 2008 Pages: 336 - 337