Air-Mattress Motion Therapy for Respiratory Failure After Cardiothoracic Surgery Grigoris BitzikasVassilios DidilisGeorgios Bougioukas Original Articles Pages: 645 - 647
Use of Bioresorbable Membrane to Prevent Postoperative Small Bowel Obstruction in Transabdominal Aortic Aneurysm Surgery Fabio A. KudoToshiya NishibeKeishu Yasuda OriginalPaper Pages: 648 - 651
Initial Management of Acute Type-A Aortic Dissection with a Thrombosed False Lumen: A Retrospective Cohort Study Yoshihiko KurimotoKiyofumi MorishitaTomio Abe OriginalPaper Pages: 652 - 657
Long-Term Results of Aorta-Superior Mesenteric Artery Bypass Using a New Route Yoshinori InoueNorihide SuganoTakehisa Iwai OriginalPaper Pages: 658 - 661
Perioperative Prostaglandin E1 Treatment for the Prevention of Postoperative Complications After Esophagectomy: A Randomized Clinical Trial Kazushige OdaSeiji AkiyamaJunichi Sakamoto OriginalPaper Pages: 662 - 667
Changes in Total Serum Glycosaminoglycan Levels in Patients Undergoing Renal Transplantation: Preliminary Data Eleni G. PapaioannouChristina MagkouNikolaos M. Sitaras OriginalPaper Pages: 668 - 672
Soluble and Cell-Associated Forms of Some Yet to be Identified Factor in Transfused Blood Which Promotes Solid Tumor Growth in Mice Manabu OkuyamaSatoru MotoyamaJun-ichi Ogawa OriginalPaper Pages: 673 - 677
FK506 to Prevent Lung Injury After Hindlimb Ischemia and Reperfusion in a Rat Model: An Electron Microscopic Study Serdar AkgunAtike TekeliSinan Arsan OriginalPaper Pages: 678 - 684
Relationship Between Fibril Length and Tissue Ingrowth in the Healing of Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene Grafts Kazuaki HazamaHidehiko MiuraToshiya Nishibe OriginalPaper Pages: 685 - 689
Omeprazole is More Effective than Famotidine for Preventing Acute Gastritis in Rats Umit TopalogluTolga MuftuogluSelcuk Unalmiser OriginalPaper Pages: 690 - 694
Concomitant Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Infective Endocarditis: Report of a Case Yoshikazu HachiroHideyuki HaradaTomio Abe Case Reports Pages: 695 - 697
Large Perigraft Seroma After Aortoiliac Bypass with an Expanded Polytetrafluoroethylene Graft: Report of a Case Takaki SugimotoTakashi KitadeShigeru Kurisu OriginalPaper Pages: 698 - 700
Emergency Pylorus-Preserving Pancreatoduodenectomy Followed by Second-Stage Pancreatojejunostomy for a Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor of the Duodenum with an Intratumoral Gas Figure: Report of a Case Yoshikazu SakakimaSoichiro InoueAkimasa Nakao OriginalPaper Pages: 701 - 705
Radiation-Induced Rectal Cancer Originating from a Rectocutaneous Fistula: Report of a Case Shozo YokoyamaKatsunari TakifujiHiroki Yamaue OriginalPaper Pages: 706 - 709
Successful Resection of a Ruptured Hepatoblastoma Prior to Chemotherapy: Report of a Case Toshio IidaMasahiro SuenagaKoaki Oguma OriginalPaper Pages: 710 - 714
A Functioning-Desensitization Paraganglioma Which Caused Hemodynamic Instability During Tumoral Resection: Report of a Case Mustafa TuranSinan GursoySebile Dokmetas OriginalPaper Pages: 715 - 718
Treatment Strategies for Perianal Rhabdomyosarcoma: Report of Two Cases Yoshio WatanabeAkihiro YamaguchiKeizo Horibe OriginalPaper Pages: 719 - 724