1. Potential therapeutic role for cytokine or adhesion molecule manipulation in Crohn's disease: in the shadow of infliximab?

   • Alan Shand
   • Alastair Forbes

   Review Pages: 1 - 11

2. Advances in interventional gastrointestinal endoscopy in colon and rectum

   • Uwe Seitz
   • Stefan Seewald
   • Nib Soehendra

   Review Pages: 12 - 18

3. Evaluation of endoscopic ultrasonography in colorectal villous lesions

   • Kazuo Konishi
   • Yasushi Akita
   • Keiji Mitamura

   Original Article Pages: 19 - 24

4. Responsiveness of intestinal epithelial cell lines to lipopolysaccharide is correlated with Toll-like receptor 4 but not Toll-like receptor 2 or CD14 expression

   • Ulrich Böcker
   • Oleksandr Yezerskyy
   • Manfred V. Singer

   Original Article Pages: 25 - 32

5. Course and follow-up of solitary Peutz-Jeghers polyps: a case series

   • Mustafa Oncel
   • Feza H. Remzi
   • Victor W. Fazio

   Original Article Pages: 33 - 35

6. The effect of obesity on the results of Karydakis technique for the management of chronic pilonidal sinus

   • Mahmoud Sakr
   • Habashi El-Hammadi
   • Mohamed Rasheed

   Original Article Pages: 36 - 39

7. Transureteroureterostomy: an adjunct to the management of advanced primary and recurrent pelvic malignancy

   • Paul H. Sugarbaker
   • Mordechai Gutman
   • Mohan Verghese

   Original Article Pages: 40 - 44

8. Helicoidal suture: alternative treatment for complete rectal prolapse in high-risk patients

   • Eduardo Villanueva Sáenz
   • Paulino Martínez Hernández-Magro
   • José Álvarez-Tostado Fernández

   Original Article Pages: 45 - 49

9. Postoperative peridural analgesia increases the strength of colonic contractions without impairing anastomotic healing in rats

   • Marc Jansen
   • Petra Lynen Jansen
   • Volker Schumpelick

   Original Article Pages: 50 - 54

10. Rifaximin improves symptoms of acquired uncomplicated diverticular disease of the colon

    • Giovanni Latella
    • Maria Pimpo
    • Giuseppe Frieri

    Original Article Pages: 55 - 62

11. Phase inversion harmonic imaging versus contrast-enhanced power Doppler sonography for the characterization of focal liver lesions

    • Deike Strobel
    • Sabine Raeker
    • Dirk Becker

    Original Article Pages: 63 - 72

12. Laparoscopic antireflux surgery for gastroesophageal reflux disease: experience with 668 laparoscopic antireflux procedures

    • Frank Granderath
    • Thomas Kamolz
    • Rudolph Pointner

    Original Article Pages: 73 - 77

13. The effect of transient intestinal ischemia on inflammatory parameters

    • K. Lammers
    • G. Innocenti
    • M. Campieri

    Original Article Pages: 78 - 85

14. Expression of functional prolactin and its receptor in human colorectal cancer

    • Jan-Michel Otte
    • Claudia Otte
    • Heiner Mönig

    Original Article Pages: 86 - 94

15. The pathogenetic mechanisms causing anal fissure

    • Henning Rohde

    Letter to the Editor Pages: 95 - 95

16. January 2003

    Announcements 14 November 2002 Pages: 96 - 96