1. Professor Harold H. Hopkins

   • G. Berci

   In Memoriam Pages: 667 - 668

2. SAGES and surgery

   • K. A. Forde

   The Gerald Marks Lecture Pages: 669 - 673

3. Minimally invasive approach to perforated ulcer — is it?

   • I. B. Simon

   Editorial Pages: 674 - 676

4. Combined laparoscopic and endoscopic treatment of perforated gastroduodenal ulcer using the ligamentum teres hepatis (LTH)

   • G. Costalat
   • Y. Alquier

   Original Articles Pages: 677 - 680

5. Laparoscopic reoperations after failed and complicated antireflux operations

   • A. L. DePaula
   • K. Hashiba
   • C. A. Machado

   Original Articles Pages: 681 - 686

6. Gasless video-assisted reversal of Hartmann's procedure

   • G. Navarra
   • S. Occhionorelli
   • M. Rubbini

   Original Articles Pages: 687 - 689

7. Observations of aggressive, small, flat, and depressed colon cancer

   • A. Kasumi
   • G. L. Kratzer
   • M. Takeda

   Original Articles Pages: 690 - 694

8. Inflammatory markers following laparoscopic and open hernia repair

   • A. D. K. Hill
   • P. E. Banwell
   • P. J. Guillou

   Original Articles Pages: 695 - 698

9. From laparoscopic training on an animal model to retroperitoneoscopic or coelioscopic adrenal and renal surgery in human

   • L. de Cannière
   • F. Lorge
   • L. A. Michel

   Original Articles Pages: 699 - 701

10. A financial analysis of laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy

    • J. Wenner
    • H. Graffner
    • G. Lindell

    Original Articles Pages: 702 - 705

11. Herniation of the lung following video-assisted minithoracotomy

    • W. A. van den Brink
    • J. C. E. Meek
    • R. U. Boelhouwer

    Case Reports Pages: 706 - 708

12. Retained surgical sponge

    • I. M. Ibrahim

    Case Reports Pages: 709 - 710

13. Management of intraabdominal testicle during laparoscopic hernia repair

    • R. A. de la Torre
    • J. S. Scott
    • R. P. Gandhi

    Case Reports Pages: 711 - 713

14. Possible neoplastic transformation within gastric hyperplastic polyp

    • K. Hizawa
    • T. Fuchigami
    • M. Fujishima

    Case Reports Pages: 714 - 718

15. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy following autogenous breast reconstruction with a TRAM flap

    • J. K. Williams
    • J. Bostwick III
    • A. Fink

    Case Reports Pages: 719 - 723

16. Laparoscopic treatment of Meckel's diverticulum

    • L. E. Sanders

    Case Reports Pages: 724 - 727

17. Treatment of cholecystocolic fistula by laparoscopy

    • I. M. Ibrahim
    • F. Wolodiger
    • B. Dennery

    Case Reports Pages: 728 - 729

18. Acute acalculous cholecystitis due to Vibrio cholerae

    • N. A. Gomez
    • C. J. Leon
    • J. Gutierrez

    Case Reports Pages: 730 - 732

19. Laparoscopic resection of a large hepatic tumor

    • G. Ferzli
    • A. David
    • T. Kiel

    Case Reports Pages: 733 - 735

20. Book reviews

    • Q.-Y. Duh
    • R. B. Cameron

    BookReview Pages: 736 - 737

21. Prevention of laparoscopic surgeon's thumb

    • N. Kano
    • T. Yamakawa
    • H. Kasugai

    Letters to the Editor Pages: 738 - 739

22. Digital nerve compression due to laparoscopic surgery

    • D. C. van der Zee
    • N. M. A. Bax

    Letters to the Editor Pages: 740 - 740

23. Monopolar electrosurgery and contact lasers

    • K. Hausner

    Letters to the Editor Pages: 741 - 741

24. The author replies

    • J. W. Milsom

    Letters to the Editor Pages: 742 - 742

25. News and notices

    News Pages: 743 - 746