1. Early Diagnosis of Postoperative Infection: Assessment of Whole Blood Chemiluminescence

   • Minoru Fujisawa
   • Kuniaki Kojima
   • Keiichi Hiramatsu

   Original Articles Pages: 309 - 318

2. Intrahepatic Lithiasis: A Western Experience

   • Isidoro di Carlo
   • Alain Sauvanet
   • Jacques Belghiti

   Pages: 319 - 322

3. Expression of CD44, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor, and Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen in Severe Venous Invasional Colorectal Cancer and Its Relationship to Liver Metastasis

   • Yoshiaki Sumiyoshi
   • Yuichi Yamashita
   • Masahiro Kikuchi

   Pages: 323 - 327

4. Predictors of Improvement in FEV₁ (Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 s) After Lung Volume Reduction Surgery

   • Hiroshi Date
   • Keiji Goto
   • Nobuyoshi Shimizu

   Pages: 328 - 332

5. Recovery of Parathyroid Function After Total Thyroidectomy

   • Minoru Kihara
   • Hiroyasu Yokomise
   • Kenichi Matsusaka

   Pages: 333 - 338

6. Current Techniques of Hyperthermic Isolated Limb Perfusion for Malignant Melanoma

   • Ryuji Tominaga
   • Hiroyuki Kohno
   • Hisataka Yasui

   Pages: 339 - 342

7. Changes in Hepatic Venous Oxygen Saturation in Hepatic Warm Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Pigs

   • Tadashi Katsuramaki
   • Hitoshi Kimura
   • Koichi Hirata

   Pages: 343 - 351

8. Limitations of Exogenous L-Arginine in Exerting a Cytoprotective Effect on Hepatic Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury

   • Takao Higa
   • Masayuki Shiraishi
   • Yoshihiro Muto

   Pages: 352 - 359

9. An Experimental Study of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide Levels and the Effect of Inhaled Nitric Oxide After Pneumonectomy

   • Shinzo Takamori
   • Hiroharu Mifune
   • Kazuo Shirouzu

   Pages: 360 - 363

10. Composite Tumor with Papillary Adenocarcinoma and Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Esophagus: Report of a Case

    • Satoru Nakagawa
    • Tadashi Nishimaki
    • Katsuyoshi Hatakeyama

    Case Reports Pages: 364 - 367

11. Metachronous Triple Cancers of the Sigmoid Colon, Stomach, and Esophagus: Report of a Case

    • Yoshihiko Iioka
    • Akihiko Tsuchida
    • Yasuhisa Koyanagi

    Pages: 368 - 371

12. Rapid Growth of a Retroperitoneal Rhabdomyosarcoma Following Right Hemicolectomy for Ascending Colon Cancer: Report of a Case

    • Katsuyuki Kunieda
    • Shigetoyo Saji
    • Kuniyasu Shimokawa

    Pages: 372 - 375

13. Primary Lymphoma of the Liver: Report of a Case

    • İlgin Özden
    • Ekrem Yavuz
    • Aydın Alper

    Pages: 376 - 379

14. Pancreatic Lesions in von Hippel-Lindau Syndrome: The Coexistence of Metastatic Tumors from Renal Cell Carcinoma and Multiple Cysts

    • Masafumi Kogire
    • Ryo Hosotani
    • Masayuki Imamura

    Pages: 380 - 382

15. Splenic Vein Occlusion Secondary to Tuberculous Lymphadenitis at the Splenic Hilum: Report of a Case

    • Heigo Takeuchi
    • Masanori Suzuki
    • Hiroshi Nakura

    Pages: 383 - 385

16. Congenital Hemangiopericytoma: Report of a Case

    • Yoshinori Hamada
    • Kohei Takada
    • Koshiro Hioki

    Pages: 386 - 389

17. Total Arch Replacement with an Aortic Arch Aneurysm Due to Chronic Interstitial Pneumonia: Report of a Case

    • Toshiaki Tanaka
    • Tokuo Koshino
    • Katsuya Ikeda

    Pages: 390 - 393

18. Involvement of the Right Atrium by Malignant Lymphoma as a Cause of Right Cardiac Failure: Report of a Case

    • Hironori Inoue
    • Shinji Shimokawa
    • Akira Taira

    Pages: 394 - 396

19. Regeneration of Lymphatic Vessels and Lipometabolism in an Experimental Rat Model of Extensive Dissection of the Abdominal Periaortic Lymphatic Vessels and Lymph Nodes

    • Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
    • Kinji Nagashima

    Short Communication Pages: 397 - 399

20. Importance of Preoperative Marking for Minithoracotomy and for Internal Thoracic Artery Harvesting in Minimally Invasive Direct Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

    • Nobuaki Hirata
    • Shigeaki Ohtake
    • Hikaru Matsuda

    How to Do It Pages: 400 - 402