1. In favor of video-assisted thoracic surgery and a eulogy for thoracoscopy

   • John R. Benfield

   Editorial Pages: 91 - 92

2. Measurement of rectal cancer

   • Robert W. Beart Jr

   Editorial Pages: 93 - 93

3. Contribution of videothoracoscopy to the management of the cancer patient

   • Valerie W. Rusch
   • Manjit S. Bains
   • Robert J. Ginsberg

   OriginalPaper Pages: 94 - 98

4. Variables related to risk of recurrence in rectal cancer without lymph node metastasis

   • Hiroyuki Ogiwara
   • Toshio Nakamura
   • Shozo Baba

   OriginalPaper Pages: 99 - 104

5. Salvage abdominoperineal resection following combined chemotherapy and radiotherapy for epidermoid carcinoma of the anus

   • Joshua D. I. Ellenhorn
   • Warren E. Enker
   • Stuart H. Q. Quan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 110

6. Patterns of residual disease after preoperative chemoradiation in ultrasound T3 rectal carcinoma

   • Sarkis Meterissian
   • John Skibber
   • David M. Ota

   OriginalPaper Pages: 111 - 116

7. Prostate cancer screening: Role of digital rectal examination and prostate-specific antigen

   • Jerome P. Richie
   • Louis R. Kavoussi
   • Kevin R. Loughlin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 117 - 120

8. Mediastinal tumors in children: Experience with 196 cases

   • Jay L. Grosfeld
   • Michael A. Skinner
   • L. R. Scherer III

   OriginalPaper Pages: 121 - 127

9. Iodine 131 thyroid ablation in female children and adolescents: Long-term risk of infertility and birth defects

   • Mark B. Smith
   • Hasen Xue
   • Richard J. Andrassy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 128 - 131

10. Positron emission tomography and breast masses: Comparison with clinical, mammographic, and pathological findings

    • Joseph P. Crowe Jr.
    • Lee P. Adler
    • Jeffrey Sunshine

    OriginalPaper Pages: 132 - 140

11. Lobular carcinoma in situ: Observation without surgery as an appropriate therapy

    • William Carson
    • Ernesto Sanchez-Forgach
    • Stephen B. Edge

    OriginalPaper Pages: 141 - 146

12. Accelerated hepatic arginine transport in the tumor-bearing rat

    • N. Joseph Espat
    • Edward M. Copeland
    • Wiley W. Souba

    OriginalPaper Pages: 147 - 156

13. Prevention of chronic radiation enteropathy by dietary glutamine

    • Joseph C. Jensen
    • Robert Schaefer
    • V. Suzanne Klimberg

    OriginalPaper Pages: 157 - 163

14. Perineal reconstruction after surgical extirpation of pelvic malignancies using the transpelvic transverse rectus abdominal myocutaneous flap

    • Earl McAllister
    • Karen Wells
    • Wayne Cruse

    OriginalPaper Pages: 164 - 168

15. Management of metastatic brain tumors

    • Raymond Sawaya
    • B. Lee Ligon
    • Rajesh K. Bindal

    Educational Review Pages: 169 - 178

16. SSO news

    • David P. Winchester

    News Pages: 179 - 179