1. Pediatric surgery in India – a specialty come of age?

   • D. Gupta
   • A. Charles
   • M. Srinivas

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 649 - 652

2. Malignant solid tumours in neonates: an African perspective

   • G. Hadley
   • D. Govender
   • G. Landers

   Original Article Pages: 653 - 657

3. Lost bits: particle shedding with polyvinyl chloride intravenous administration sets

   • Peter Subramanian
   • Paul Ainsworth
   • David Phelan

   Original article Pages: 658 - 661

4. Prognostic factors in prenatally-detected posterior urethral valves: a multivariate analysis

   • Eduardo A. Oliveira
   • Eli A. Rabelo
   • Tiago A. Fagundes

   Original Article Pages: 662 - 667

5. Concealed penis

   • Jayant Radhakrishnan
   • Asim Razzaq
   • Kannan Manickam

   Original article Pages: 668 - 672

6. Histologic study of peritoneal adhesions in children and in a rat model

   • M. Torre
   • A. Favre
   • G. Martucciello

   Original Article Pages: 673 - 676

7. Effects of melatonin and lactulose on the liver and kidneys in rats with obstructive jaundice

   • Nurullah Bülbüller
   • Ali M. Akkuş
   • Osman Doğru

   Original Article Pages: 677 - 680

8. Can histologic changes of the upper pole justify a conservative approach in neonatal duplex ectopic ureterocele?

   • F. Arena
   • P. Nicotina
   • G. Romeo

   Original Article Pages: 681 - 684

9. Endotoxemia associated with intussusception and its diagnostic and surgical interventions

   • K. Chan
   • J. Chan
   • P. Tam

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 685 - 688

10. Perianal abscess in childhood

    • G. Murthi
    • B. Okoye
    • H. Noblett

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 689 - 691

11. Conservative management of pneumatosis intestinalis and pneumoperitoneum following bone-marrow transplantation

    • N. Ade-Ajayi
    • P. Veys
    • A. Pierro

    Original article Pages: 692 - 695

12. Factors effecting morbidity in typhoid intestinal perforation in children

    • Abdurrahman Önen
    • Ali Dokucu
    • Selçuk Yücesan

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 696 - 700

13. Exclusion of androgen insensitivity syndrome in girls with inguinal hernias: current surgical practice

    • D. M. Burge
    • I. S. Sugarman

    Original Article 12 December 2002 Pages: 701 - 703

14. A comparison of the clinical presentation and outcome of focal intestinal perforation and necrotizing enterocolitis in very-low-birth-weight neonates

    • Hiroomi Okuyama
    • Akio Kubota
    • Masafumi Kamiyama

    Original Article 17 December 2002 Pages: 704 - 706

15. Atypical mycobacterial disease in children: a personal series

    • I. Mushtaq
    • H. Martin

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 707 - 711

16. Intraluminal casein model of necrotizing enterocolitis for assessment of mucosal destruction, bacterial translocation, and the effects of allopurinol and N-acetylcysteine

    • A. Koivusalo
    • H. Kauppinen
    • R. Rintala

    Original Article Pages: 712 - 717

17. Endorectal pull-through for Hirschsprung's disease: 17-year review of results in Ukraine

    • D. Krivchenya
    • M. Silchenko
    • V. Khursin

    Original Article Pages: 718 - 722

18. Relationship of the fistulas to the rectum and genitourinary tract in mouse fetuses with high anorectal malformations induced by all-trans retinoic acid

    • Ryozo Hashimoto
    • M. Nagaya
    • Y. Murata

    Original Article Pages: 723 - 727

19. Primary peritonitis in a child caused by Haemophilus parainfluenzae

    • Michael Mayer
    • Paul Schweizer

    Case report Pages: 728 - 729

20. Ruptured adrenocortical carcinoma as a cause of paediatric acute abdomen

    • L. Leung
    • W. Leung
    • C. Chan

    Case report Pages: 730 - 732

21. Congenital bowel perforation in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome

    • I. Philip
    • W. Ford
    • R. Haslam

    CASE REPORT Pages: 733 - 734

22. Multicystic dysplasia in one-half of a horseshoe kidney with megaureter and lower ureteric atresia

    • V. Sripathi

    Case Report Pages: 735 - 736

23. Laparoscopic Kasai portoenterostomy for biliary atresia

    • Edward Esteves
    • Eriberto Clemente Neto
    • Ruy Esteves Pereira

    Case report Pages: 737 - 740

24. Enterolithiasis with imperforate anus: report of a case

    • Yogesh Sarin
    • Arvind Sinha

    Case Report Pages: 741 - 742

25. An unusual neurogenic cystic tumor

    • Chee-Chee Koh
    • Nien-Lu Wang

    Case report Pages: 743 - 745

26. Thoracoscopic sympathectomy using ultrasonic coagulating shears: a technical improvement in the treatment of palmar hyperhidrosis

    • Ph. Bugmann
    • J. Robert
    • C. Le Coultre

    Case Report Pages: 746 - 748

27. A technique to facilitate nursing care in patients with long-gap esophageal atresia

    • Juan Bass

    Technical Innovation Pages: 749 - 750

28. 180° Rotated intestinal anastomosis for jejunoileal atresia in neonates – a preliminary study

    • S. Namasivayam
    • R. Shanmugasundaram
    • E. Padmapriya

    Technical innovation Pages: 751 - 752

29. Rectal biopsy: what is the optimal procedure?

    • Hiroyuki Kobayashi
    • Zhixin Li
    • Takeshi Miyano

    Technical Innovation Pages: 753 - 756