1. IFSO 2000 Plus

   • Mervyn Deitel

   EditorialNotes 01 December 2000 Pages: 493 - 493

2. IFSO — and the Future of Surgery

   • Emanuel Hell

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 495 - 497

3. Obligations of the Bariatric Surgeon

   • George S M Cowan Jr

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 498 - 501

4. Quality of Life after Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding for Severe Obesity: Postoperative and Retrospective Preoperative Evaluations

   • Michaela Schok
   • Rinie Geenen
   • Bert van Ramshorst

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 502 - 508

5. Complications of the Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: 1,040 Patients - What Have We Learned?

   • Kelvin D Higa
   • Keith B Boone
   • Tienchin Ho

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 509 - 513

6. Early Results of Laparoscopic Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch: A Case Series of 40 Consecutive Patients

   • Christine J Ren
   • Emma Patterson
   • Michel Gagner

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 514 - 523

7. Laparoscopic BPD

   • Nicola Scopinaro

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 524 - 524

8. Bariatric Re-operations: Are They Preventable?

   • Khaled Gawdat

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 525 - 529

9. Panniculectomy Adjuvant to Obesity Surgery

   • Daniel Igwe Jr
   • Malgorzata Stanczyk
   • Basil Felahy

   OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 530 - 539

10. Comparison of 21 vs. 25 mm Gastrojejunostomy in the Gastric Bypass Procedure - Early Results

    • Richard D Stahl
    • Rex A Sherer
    • Carolyn E Seevers

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 540 - 542

11. Time Trends in Obesity Surgery 1987 through 1996 in Sweden — A Population-Based Study

    • Emilia Leffler
    • Sven Gustavsson
    • Britt-Marie Karlson

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 543 - 548

12. Cost-Effective Bariatric Surgery in Germany Today

    • Hans Werner Kuhlmann
    • Rainer Andrea Falcone
    • Anna Maria Wolf

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 549 - 552

13. Insurance Decisions about Obesity Surgery: A New Type of Randomization?

    • Patricia Choban
    • Brandon Lu
    • Louis Flancbaum

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 553 - 556

14. Revisional Surgery for Morbid Obesity - Conversion to the Lap-Band® System

    • Paul O'Brien
    • Wendy Brown
    • John Dixon

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 557 - 563

15. Aberrant Left Hepatic Artery in Laparoscopic Gastric Banding

    • H Nehoda
    • M Lanthaler
    • F Aigner

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 564 - 568

16. Variation in Lipid Levels in Morbidly Obese Patients Operated with the LAP-BAND® Adjustable Gastric Banding System: Effects of Different Levels of Weight Loss

    • Luca Busetto
    • Claudia Pisent
    • Franco Favretti

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 569 - 577

17. Intragastric Balloon in Obese Patients

    • S B Doldi
    • G Micheletto
    • E Lattuada

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 578 - 581

18. Bleeding from the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract after Mason's Vertical Banded Gastroplasty

    • Alexandros Papakonstantinou
    • Ioannis Terzis
    • Evangelos Hadjiyannakis

    Report 01 December 2000 Pages: 582 - 584

19. Bone Disease from Duodenal Exclusion

    • Edward E Mason

    ReviewPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 585 - 586

20. Author Index to Volume 10

    • Editorial Office

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 596 - 597

21. Key Word Index to Volume 10

    • Editorial Office

    OriginalPaper 01 December 2000 Pages: 597 - 598