1. Utilization of cholecystectomy—a prospective outcome analysis in 1325 patients

   • L. William Traverso
   • Rocelyn Lonborg
   • L. Frederick Fenster

   Original Articles Pages: 1 - 5

2. Common bile duct stone characteristics: correlation with treatment choice during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

   • Robert A. Duensing
   • Russell A. Williams
   • Samuel E. Wilson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 6 - 12

3. Villous tumors of the duodenum: Reappraisal of local vs. extended resection

   • Michael B. Farnell
   • George H. Sakorafas
   • David M. Nagorney

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 23

4. Sodium salicylate inhibits proliferation and induces Gl cell cycle arrest in human pancreatic cancer cell lines

   • Richard A. Perugini
   • Theodore P. McDade
   • Mark P. Callery

   OriginalPaper Pages: 24 - 33

5. A prospective analysis of staging laparoscopy in patients with primary and secondary hepatobiliary malignancies

   • William R. Jarnagin
   • Jessica Bodniewicz
   • Yuman Fong

   OriginalPaper Pages: 34 - 43

6. Preconditioning protects against ischemia/reperfusion injury of the liver

   • Bengt Nilsson
   • Styrbjörn Friman
   • Dick S. Delbro

   OriginalPaper Pages: 44 - 49

7. Suppression of gastric acid secretion in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease results in gastric bacterial overgrowth and deconjugation of bile acids

   • Jörg Theisen
   • Dhiren Nehra
   • Jeffrey H. Peters

   OriginalPaper Pages: 50 - 54

8. Clinical outcome and long-term survival rates after esophagectomy are not determined by age over 70 years

   • Jan Johansson
   • Bruno Walther

   OriginalPaper Pages: 55 - 62

9. Organ-preserving resection of the gastroesophageal junction and substitution with a gastric corpus rotation tube: an experimental study

   • Martin K. Schilling
   • Daniel Mettler
   • Markus W. Büchler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 69

10. Interleukin-10 protects against lethalit of intra- abdominal infection and sepsis

    • Anthony J. Rongione
    • Amy M. Kusske
    • David W. McFadden

    OriginalPaper Pages: 70 - 76

11. Small bowel transplantation induces adrenergic hypersensitivity in heal longitudinal smooth muscle in rats

    • Noriya Ohtani
    • Bruno M. Balsiger
    • Michael G. Sarr

    OriginalPaper Pages: 77 - 85

12. Nitric oxide pathways in circular muscle of the rat jejunum before and after small bowel transplantation

    • Bruno M. Balsiger
    • Judith A. Duenes
    • Michael G. Sarr

    OriginalPaper Pages: 86 - 92

13. Effect of massive small bowel resection on the bax/bcl- w ratio and enterocyte apoptosis

    • Lawrence E. Stern
    • Richard A. Falcone Jr.
    • Brad W. Warner

    OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 100

14. Comparison of massive vs. repeated resection leading to short bowel syndrome

    • Jon S. Thompson

    OriginalPaper Pages: 101 - 104

15. Role of laparoscopy in the initial multimodality management of patients with near- obstructing rectal cancer

    • Jonathan B. Koea
    • Jose G. Guillem
    • Alfred Cohen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 108

16. MDM2/p53 protein expression in the development of colorectal adenocarcinoma

    • Ghada Abdel-Fattah
    • Boris Yoffe
    • Kamal Ltani

    OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 114