1. Abandonment

   • Josef E. Fischer

   SSAT Presidential Address Pages: 827 - 830

2. Tissue and organ engineering: Can we build intestine and vital organs?

   • Joseph P. Vacanti

   State-of-the-Art Lecture Pages: 831 - 835

3. Etiology, treatment, and outcome of esophageal ulcers: A 10-year experience in an urban emergency hospital

   • Daisuke Higuchi
   • Choichi Sugawa
   • Charles E. Lucas

   SSAT Articles Pages: 836 - 842

4. Electrical stimulation of the vagus nerve restores motility in an animal model of achalasia

   • Yashodhan S. Khajanchee
   • Roger VanAndel
   • Lee L. Swanstrom

   OriginalPaper Pages: 843 - 849

5. Patterns of regional lymph node involvement in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma of the left lobe

   • Jiro Okami
   • Keizo Dono
   • Morito Monden

   OriginalPaper Pages: 850 - 856

6. Diabetes and hyperlipidemia correlate with gallbladder contractility in leptin-related murine obesity

   • Khoi Q. Tran
   • Matthew I. Goldblatt
   • Henry A. Pitt

   OriginalPaper Pages: 857 - 863

7. Butyrate inhibits pancreatic cancer invasion

   • Buckminster Farrow
   • Piotr Rychahou
   • B. Mark Evers

   OriginalPaper Pages: 864 - 870

8. Objective psychomotor skills assessment of experienced and novice flexible endoscopists with a virtual reality simulator

   • E. Matt Ritter
   • David A. McClusky III
   • C. Daniel Smith

   OriginalPaper Pages: 871 - 878

9. Epidemiology of surgically treated gastric cancer in the United States, 1988-2000

   • Reid M. Wainess
   • Justin B. Dimick
   • Michael W. Mulholland

   OriginalPaper Pages: 879 - 883

10. A better cell cycle target for gene therapy of colorectal cancer: Cyclin G

    • Rodrigo Perez
    • Nancy Wu
    • Robert W. Beart Jr.

    OriginalPaper Pages: 884 - 889

11. Cystic pancreatic neoplasms: Enucleate or resect?

    • James M. Kiely
    • Attila Nakeeb
    • Henry A. Pitt

    2003 AHPBA Articles Pages: 890 - 897

12. Binding pancreaticojejunostomy: 150 consecutive cases without leakage

    • Shu You Peng
    • Yi Ping Mou
    • Lin Hua Zhou

    OriginalPaper Pages: 898 - 900

13. Induction of MIC-1/growth differentiation factor-15 following bile duct injury

    • Leonidas G. Koniaris

    OriginalPaper Pages: 901 - 905

14. Management of epiphrenic diverticula

    • Alexander Klaus
    • Ronald A. Hinder
    • Sami R. Achem

    Original Articles Pages: 906 - 911

15. Old and new TNM in carcinoma of the gastric antrum: Analysis of our personal experience

    • Paolo Del Rio
    • Paolo Dell’Abate
    • Mario Sianesi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 912 - 916

16. Unusual complications of long-term percutaneous gastrostomy tubes

    • Harvey L. Bumpers
    • Don W. D. Collure
    • Eddie L. Hoover

    OriginalPaper Pages: 917 - 920

17. Laparoscopic enucleation of solitary true pancreatic cyst in an adult

    • Ugo Cioffi
    • Matilde De Simone
    • Marco Montorsi

    OriginalPaper Pages: 921 - 924

18. Surgical treatment of small bowel cancer: A 20-year single institution experience

    • Hiromichi Ito
    • Alexander Perez
    • Edward E. Whang

    OriginalPaper Pages: 925 - 930

19. Coexpression of carcinoembryonic antigen and e-cadherin in colorectal adenocarcinoma with liver metastasis

    • Jin C. Kim
    • Seon A. Roh
    • Jung S. Kim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 931 - 938