1. AFSUMB 2004: a group undertaking

   • Nobuyuki Taniguchi

   EDITORIAL Pages: 139 - 140

2. A novel treatment for early gastrointestinal carcinoma by ultrasonic endoscopic mucosal stripping

   • Hidetoshi Ohta
   • Naoaki Shintani
   • Hiroshi Natori

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 141 - 148

3. Questionnaire survey on the state of routine echocardiographic examinations in Japan: second report

   • Katsusuke Kajihara
   • Masatsugu Iwase
   • Hitoshi Hishida

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 149 - 157

4. Clinical course of acute hemorrhagic infarction of a thyroid nodule

   • Kaoru Kobayashi
   • Shuji Fukata
   • Akira Miyauchi

   CASE REPORT Pages: 159 - 162

5. The Seventh Congress of the Asian Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology and the 77th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japan Society of Ultrasonics in Medicine

   • Kouichi Itoh

   REPORT Pages: 163 - 166