1. The World Journal of Surgery - A Fresh Look

   • John G. Hunter

   Editorial 23 December 2004 Pages: 1 - 2

2. Current and Future Concepts of Abdominal Sepsis

   • Klaus Emmanuel
   • Heike Weighardt
   • Bernhard Holzmann

   Clinical Review 09 December 2004 Pages: 3 - 9

3. Dutch Surgery in Japan

   • Thomas M. van Gulik
   • Yuji Nimura

   Surgical History: The Global View 09 December 2004 Pages: 10 - 17

   

4. Using Cost of Infection as a Tool to Demonstrate a Difference in Prophylactic Antibiotic Efficacy: A Prospective Randomized Comparison of the Pharmacoecomonic Effectiveness of Ceftriaxone and Cefotaxime Prophylaxis in Abdominal Surgery

   • John C. Woodfield
   • Andre M. Van Rij
   • Donna Bolt

   Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 18 - 24

   

5. Esophagectomy: Is It Necessary after Chemoradiotherapy for a Locally Advanced T4 Esophageal Cancer? Prospective Nonrandomized Trial Comparing Chemoradiotherapy with Surgery versus without Surgery

   • Hiromasa Fujita
   • Susumu Sueyoshi
   • Masasuke Matsui

   Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 25 - 31

   

6. Invited Commentary

   • Masayuki Imamura

   OriginalPaper 09 December 2004 Pages: 29 - 31

7. Surgery for Esophageal Cancer after Concomitant Radiochemotherapy: Oncologic and Functional Results

   • Nicolas Plaisant
   • Pierre Senesse
   • Philippe Rouanet

   Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 32 - 38

   

8. Esophageal Carcinoma: Prognostic Differences between Squamous Cell Carcinoma And Adenocarcinoma

   • Christophe Mariette
   • Laetitia Finzi
   • Jean Pierre Triboulet

   Original Scientific Report 09 December 2004 Pages: 39 - 45

   

9. Multiple Primary Carcinomas with Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer: Clinicopathologic Outcome

   • Shoji Natsugoe
   • Masataka Matsumoto
   • Takashi Aikou

   Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 46 - 49

   

10. Morphologic Analysis of Gastroesophageal Reflux Diseases in Patients after Distal Gastrectomy

    • Tsunehiro Takahashi
    • Masashi Yoshida
    • Masaki Kitajima

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 50 - 57

    

11. Concepts, Rationale, and Current Outcomes of Less Invasive Surgical Strategies for Early Gastric Cancer: Data from a quarter-century of experience in a single institution

    • Shouji Shimoyama
    • Yasuyuki Seto
    • Michio Kaminishi

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 58 - 65

12. Efficacy of Hepatic Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinomas Larger than 10 cm

    • Yasuhiko Nagano
    • Kuniya Tanaka
    • Hiroshi Shimada

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 66 - 71

    

13. Gallbladder Carcinoma with Biliary Invasion: Clinical Analysis of the Differences from Nonbiliary Invasion

    • Kun-Ming Chan
    • Ta-Sen Yeh
    • Miin-Fu Chen

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 72 - 75

    

14. The Evaluation of Duct-to-mucosal Pancreaticojejunostomy in pancreaticoduodenectomy

    • Masaji Tani
    • Hironobu Onishi
    • Hiroki Yamaue

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 76 - 79

15. Large Diverticulum and Volvulus of the Small Bowel in Adults

    • Chung Kuao Chou
    • Chee-Wai Mark
    • Jinn-Ming Chang

    Original Scientific Reports 23 December 2004 Pages: 80 - 82

    

16. Intravenous Contrast-enhanced Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis

    • Naoko Iwahashi
    • Yoshimi Kitagawa
    • Hiroshi Kohno

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 83 - 87

    

17. Role of Ganglion Cells in Sigmoid Volvulus

    • Yoshitaka Furuya
    • Hiroshi Yasuhara
    • Toshitaka Nagao

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 88 - 91

18. An Analysis of Rare Carcinoid Tumors: Clarifying These Clinical Conundrums

    • Irvin M. Modlin
    • Michael D. Shapiro
    • Mark Kidd

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 92 - 101

    

19. Usefulness of the 3-Dimensionally Reconstructed Computed Tomography Imaging for Diagnosis of the Site of Tracheal Injury (3D-Tracheography)

    • Yoshihiro Moriwaki
    • Mitsugi Sugiyama
    • Noriyuki Suzuki

    Original Scientific Reports 09 December 2004 Pages: 102 - 105

    

20. Experimental Evaluation of Bursting Pressure in Lymphatic Vessels with Ultrasonically Activated Shears

    • Kaoru Abe
    • Masanori Terashima
    • Kazuyoshi Saito

    Surgical Practice 09 December 2004 Pages: 106 - 109

    

21. Hepatic Surgery Using the Ligasure Vessel Sealing System

    • Fabrizio Romano
    • Claudio Franciosi
    • Franco Uggeri

    Surgical Practice 09 December 2004 Pages: 110 - 112

    

22. A Modified Stapling Technique for Performing Billroth I Anastomosis after Distal Gastrectomy

    • Kunio Takeuchi
    • Yasushi Tsuzuki
    • Hiroyuki Kuwano

    Surgical Practice 23 December 2004 Pages: 113 - 115

    

23. To the Editor

    • Philippe Bachellier
    • Nagy A. Habib
    • Long R. Jiao

    Letters to the Editor 09 December 2004 Pages: 116 - 119

24. Reply

    • Yoshihiro Sakamoto
    • Junji Yamamoto

    Letters to the Editor 23 December 2004 Pages: 116 - 119

    

25. To the Editor

    • Marc Miserez
    • Erik Totte
    • Benoit Navez

    Letters to the Editor 09 December 2004 Pages: 116 - 119

26. Reply

    • Leigh Neumayer

    Letters to the Editor 09 December 2004 Pages: 116 - 119

27. To the Editor

    • Moshe Schein

    Letters to the Editor 09 December 2004 Pages: 116 - 119

28. Reply

    • Emmanouil A. Pikoulis
    • Emmanuel G. Pavlakis

    Letters to the Editor 09 December 2004 Pages: 116 - 119