1. Complete surgical resection plus chemotherapy prolongs survival in children with stage 4 neuroblastoma

   • Chee-Chee Koh
   • Jin-Cherng Sheu
   • Hsi-che Liu

   Original Article 13 January 2005 Pages: 69 - 72

   

2. Serum interleukin-8 in children with biliary atresia: relationship with disease stage and biochemical parameters

   • Sittisak Honsawek
   • Voranush Chongsrisawat
   • Yong Poovorawan

   Original Article 24 December 2004 Pages: 73 - 77

   

3. Early bougienage for relief of stricture formation following caustic esophageal burns

   • Tuğrul Tiryaki
   • Ziya Livanelioğlu
   • Halil Atayurt

   Original Article 24 December 2004 Pages: 78 - 80

4. Comparison of two methods for the management of appendicular mass in children

   • Derya Erdoğan
   • İbrahim Karaman
   • Özden Çakmak

   Original Article 22 December 2004 Pages: 81 - 83

5. Long-term outcome after internal sphincter myectomy for internal sphincter achalasia

   • M. Heikkinen
   • H. Lindahl
   • R. J. Rintala

   Original Article 23 December 2004 Pages: 84 - 87

6. One-stage correction of intermediate imperforate anus in males

   • J. O. Adeniran
   • L. Abdur-Rahman

   Original Article 04 January 2005 Pages: 88 - 90

7. The rabbit model serves as a valuable operative experience and helps to establish new techniques for abdominal and thoracic endosurgery

   • Hans-Joachim Kirlum
   • Martina Heinrich
   • Holger Till

   Original Article 11 January 2005 Pages: 91 - 93

   

8. Parental stress in paediatric day-case surgery

   • Martina Hug
   • Martin Tönz
   • Georges Kaiser

   Original Article 05 January 2005 Pages: 94 - 99

9. Role of anal dilatation in treatment of idiopathic constipation in children: long-term follow-up of a double-blind randomized controlled study

   • Alireza S. Keshtgar
   • Harry C. Ward
   • Ahmad Sanei

   Original Article 21 January 2005 Pages: 100 - 105

   

10. Closure of the ventral hernia in the management of giant exomphalos: a word of caution

    • M. Kothari
    • Percy W. B. Pease

    Case Report 13 January 2005 Pages: 106 - 109

    

11. Perforated tubular duplication of the transverse colon: a rare cause of meconium peritonitis with prenatal diagnosis

    • Christian Piolat
    • Jean N’Die
    • Jean-François Dyon

    Case Report 11 January 2005 Pages: 110 - 112

    

12. Malakoplakia of bladder in childhood

    • Amar Shah
    • Harish Chandran

    Case Report 06 January 2005 Pages: 113 - 115

    

13. Disappearing cyst of the hepatic hilum in uncorrectable biliary atresia

    • Jun Fujishiro
    • Tadashi Iwanaka
    • Orie Inasaka

    Case Report 06 January 2005 Pages: 116 - 118

    

14. A case of recurrent and synchronous fibrous hamartoma of infancy

    • Reisuke Imaji
    • Takahumi Goto
    • Ichiro Yamadori

    Case Report 11 January 2005 Pages: 119 - 120

    

15. Right pulmonary agenesis associated with remaining bronchus stenosis, an equivalent of postpneumonectomy syndrome. Treatment by insertion of tissue expander in the thoracic cavity

    • E. Dobremez
    • M. Fayon
    • P. Vergnes

    Case Report 11 January 2005 Pages: 121 - 122

    

16. Beware of “degenerating” congenital pulmonary cysts

    • Louis P. Dehner

    Letter to the Editor 24 December 2004 Pages: 123 - 124

17. Congenital pouch colon associated with anorectal agenesis (pouch colon syndrome)

    • K. L. N. Rao
    • Prema Menon

    Letter to the Editor 22 December 2004 Pages: 125 - 126

18. Inappropriate sinus node tachycardia following gastric transposition surgery in children

    • S. Roy Choudhury
    • A. Sharma
    • V. Kohli

    Letter to the Editor 15 January 2005 Pages: 127 - 128

19. Announcement

    Announcements 27 January 2005 Pages: 129 - 129