1. Recent trends concerning sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer and new methods for detection of metastasis

   • Masafumi Kurosumi

   Editorial Pages: 341 - 341

2. Significance and problems of histopathological examination and utility of real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction method for the detection of sentinel lymph node metastasis in breast cancer

   • Masafumi Kurosumi
   • Hiroyuki Takei

   Review Article Pages: 342 - 349

3. Intraoperative imprint cytology for the diagnosis of sentinel node metastases in breast cancer

   • Kazuyoshi Motomura
   • Sachiko Nagumo
   • Hideo Inaji

   Review Article Pages: 350 - 353

4. Current technical overviews of sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer

   • Kazuhiko Sato

   Review Article Pages: 354 - 361

5. Current trends of sentinel lymph node biopsy for breast cancer —A surgeon’s perspective

   • Hiroyuki Takei
   • Masafumi Kurosumi
   • Toshio Tabei

   Review Article Pages: 362 - 370

6. The role of contrast enhanced mri in the diagnosis of non-mass image-forming lesions on breast ultrasonograph

   • Keiichi Sotome
   • Yuki Yamamoto
   • Hisami Iri

   Original Article Pages: 371 - 380

7. Significance of pathological evaluation for lymphatic vessel invasion in invasive breast cancer

   • Masahiro Ito
   • Takuya Moriya
   • Noriaki Ohuchi

   Original Article Pages: 381 - 387

8. False-positive and false-negative cases of fine-needle aspiration cytology for palpable breast lesions

   • Takashi Ishikawa
   • Yohei Hamaguchi
   • Hiroshi Shimada

   Original Article Pages: 388 - 392

9. Histological features of breast cancer, highly sensitive to chemotherapy

   • Rie Horii
   • Futoshi Akiyama
   • Takuji Iwase

   Original Article Pages: 393 - 400

10. In vitro evaluation of dose-response curve for paclitaxel in breast cancer

    • Tatsuya Yoshimasu
    • Shoji Oura
    • Tomoko Furukawa

    Original Article Pages: 401 - 405

11. Options for immediate breast reconstruction following skin-sparing mastectomy

    • Kenji Yano
    • Ko Hosokawa
    • Shinzaburo Noguchi

    Original Article Pages: 406 - 413

12. A case of primary small cell carcinoma of the breast

    • Hidekazu Kitakata
    • Kazuo Yasumoto
    • Yutaka Takahashi

    Case Report Pages: 414 - 419

13. Brain metastases after achieving local pathological complete responses with neoadjuvant chemotherapy

    • Shunsuke Tsukamoto
    • Sadako Akashi-Tanaka
    • Takayuki Kinoshita

    Case Report Pages: 420 - 424

14. Ectopic breast tissue in axillary lymph node

    • Masami Kadowaki
    • Takeshi Nagashima
    • Masaru Miyazaki

    Case Report Pages: 425 - 428

15. Intracystic adenomyoepithelioma of the breast — case report and review

    • Hajime Hikino
    • Koji Kodama
    • Hiroshi Miura

    Case Report Pages: 429 - 433

16. Epidermal inclusion cyst of the breast

    • Naruto Taira
    • Kenjiro Aogi
    • Rieko Nishimura

    Case Report Pages: 434 - 437