Are medical costs in Japan really too high for the nation to tolerate? Hiroaki Osada Editorial Pages: 1 - 2
Physiological comparison of off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in patients on chronic hemodialysis Susumu ManabeHirokuni AraiMakoto Sunamori Original Article Pages: 3 - 10
Long-term survival after three-field lymph-adenectomy for an adenocarcinoma in Barrett’s esophagus with metastasis to Virchow’s node Satoru MatonoHiromasa FujitaKazuo Shirouzu Case Report Pages: 11 - 15
Stenosis of the bicuspid aortic valve with systemic lupus erythematosus Masaru YoshikaiJunichi MurayaHiroya Fujita Case Report Pages: 16 - 18
Successful repair of transposition of the great arteries with right aortic arch and coarctation of the aorta Shunji UchitaMasaaki KoideToshiki Hatsune Case Report Pages: 19 - 22
Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the thymus Manabu YasudaTomohisa YasukawaToshikazu Yusa Case Report Pages: 23 - 26
Surgical treatment with deep hypothermia for thoracic aortic aneurysm in a patient with renal transplantation Toru TakahashiKiyohiro OhshimaYasuo Morishita Case Report Pages: 27 - 30
Large cell carcinoma with neuroendocrine morphology of the lung Daiki MasuyaDage LiuHiroyasu Yokomise Case Report Pages: 31 - 34
Ectopic cervico-mediastinal thymoma confirmed by flow cytometric analysis of tumor-derived lymphocytes Teruo IwasakiKatsuhiro NakagawaKunimitsu Kawahara Case Report Pages: 35 - 39
Double switch operation for congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries after two-staged pulmonary artery banding Yoshimasa UnoKiyozo MoritaKatsushi Kinouchi Case Report Pages: 40 - 43
Congenital quadricuspid aortic valve with tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia Yasuyuki SuzukiKazuyuki DaitokuIkuo Fukuda Case Report Pages: 44 - 46