1. Editor’s Note

   • John G. Hunter

   Editorial Note 23 June 2007 Pages: 1723 - 1723

2. Prognostic Factors Affecting Locoregional Recurrence in Patients with Stage IIIB Noninflammatory Breast Cancer

   • Kaptan Gülben
   • Uğur Berberoğlu
   • Hüseyin Altınyollar

   OriginalPaper 15 July 2007 Pages: 1724 - 1730

   

3. Breast-conserving Therapy for Palpable and Nonpalpable Breast Cancer: Can Surgical Residents Do the Job Irrespective of Experience?

   • Berry Cleffken
   • Job Postelmans
   • Hans van der Bijl

   OriginalPaper Open access 14 July 2007 Pages: 1731 - 1736

4. Distribution of Na⁺/I^– Symporter in Thyroid Cancers in an Iodine-deficient Population: An Immunohistochemical Study

   • Anjali Mishra
   • Lily Pal
   • Saroj Kanta Mishra

   OriginalPaper 26 July 2007 Pages: 1737 - 1742

   

5. Minimally Invasive Video-Assisted Thyroidectomy for Small Follicular Thyroid Nodules

   • Mohamed A. F. Hegazy
   • Ashraf A. Khater
   • Ola T. Abdel Dayem

   OriginalPaper 26 July 2007 Pages: 1743 - 1750

   

6. Pain after Open Preperitoneal Repair versus Lichtenstein Repair: A Randomized Trial

   • Simon Nienhuijs
   • Erik Staal
   • Luc Strobbe

   OriginalPaper Open access 18 May 2007 Pages: 1751 - 1757

   

7. Invited Commentary

   • Andrew C. de Beaux

   Invited Commentary 13 July 2007 Pages: 1758 - 1759

8. Classifying Postherniorrhaphy Pain Syndromes Following Elective Inguinal Hernia Repair

   • M. J. A. Loos
   • R. M. H. Roumen
   • M. R. M. Scheltinga

   OriginalPaper Open access 14 June 2007 Pages: 1760 - 1765

   

9. Classifying Postherniorrhaphy Pain Syndromes Following Elective Inguinal Hernia Repair

   • Andrew Kingsnorth

   Invited Commentary 04 July 2007 Pages: 1766 - 1767

10. VEGF-C Expression in Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus

    • Christian Möbius
    • José Freire
    • Hubert J. Stein

    OriginalPaper 05 March 2007 Pages: 1768 - 1772

11. VEGF-C Expression in Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Adenocarcinoma of the Esophagus

    • Jeffrey Hagen

    Invited Commentary 15 July 2007 Pages: 1773 - 1774

12. Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Hepatitis B Endemic Area

    • Adam St. J. R. Bartlett
    • John L. McCall
    • Ed Gane

    OriginalPaper 04 July 2007 Pages: 1775 - 1781

    

13. Outcomes and prognostic factors of cirrhotic patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after radical major hepatectomy

    • Li Zhou
    • Jing-An Rui
    • Hai-Tao Zhao

    OriginalPaper 04 July 2007 Pages: 1782 - 1787

    

14. Significance of Ductal Margin Status in Patients Undergoing Surgical Resection for Extrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

    • Ryoko Sasaki
    • Yuichiro Takeda
    • Nobuhiro Ohkohchi

    OriginalPaper 25 July 2007 Pages: 1788 - 1796

    

15. Surgical management of intestinal malrotation in adults

    • Tao Fu
    • Wei Dong Tong
    • Bao Hua Liu

    OriginalPaper 25 April 2007 Pages: 1797 - 1803

    

16. Surgical management of intestinal malrotation in adults

    • I. Montali
    • M. von Flüe

    Invited Commentary 08 August 2007 Pages: 1804 - 1805

17. Relations Among Circulating Monocytes, Dendritic Cells, and Bacterial Translocation in Patients With Intestinal Obstruction

    • Hisanori Shiomi
    • Tomoharu Shimizu
    • Tohru Tani

    OriginalPaper 04 July 2007 Pages: 1806 - 1812

    

18. Cytoreductive Surgery and Intraperitoneal Chemohyperthermia for Chemoresistant and Recurrent Advanced Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: Prospective Study of 81 Patients

    • Eddy Cotte
    • Olivier Glehen
    • Francois Noel Gilly

    OriginalPaper 15 July 2007 Pages: 1813 - 1820

    

19. Does Intraperitoneal Therapy Have a Role in Recurrent Ovarian Cancer?

    • Joanna M. Cain

    EditorialNotes 11 July 2007 Pages: 1821 - 1821

20. Effect of Red Chili Consumption on Postoperative Symptoms During the Posthemorrhoidectomy Period: Randomized, Double-blind, Controlled Study

    • Pravin J. Gupta

    OriginalPaper 25 July 2007 Pages: 1822 - 1826

    

21. Economics and the Laparoscopic Surgery Learning Curve: Comparison with Open Surgery for Rectosigmoid Cancer

    • Jun-Seok Park
    • Sung-Bum Kang
    • Gui-Neum Cheon

    OriginalPaper 11 July 2007 Pages: 1827 - 1834

    

22. Pyrrolidine Dithiocarbamate Prevents Deleterious Effects of Remote Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury on Healing of Colonic Anastomoses in Rats

    • Zafer Teke
    • Faruk Onder Aytekin
    • Akin Ozden

    OriginalPaper 14 June 2007 Pages: 1835 - 1842

    

23. Multidisciplinary Crisis Simulations: The Way Forward for Training Surgical Teams

    • Shabnam Undre
    • Maria Koutantji
    • Charles Vincent

    OriginalPaper 04 July 2007 Pages: 1843 - 1853

    

24. A Simplified Technique for Translaryngeal Tracheostomy (TLT). A Preliminary Report

    • S. Katsaragakis
    • D. Theodorou
    • J. Bramis

    OriginalPaper 19 July 2007 Pages: 1854 - 1857

    

25. Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections: APACHE II Score, Dissemination, and Survival

    • Tuncay Yilmazlar
    • Ersin Ozturk
    • Halil Ozguc

    OriginalPaper 04 July 2007 Pages: 1858 - 1862

    

26. In Situ Intestinal Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in the Pig: A Model Using the First Jejunal Artery for Flushing

    • Thierry Yandza
    • Mourad Mekaouche
    • Jean Gugenheim

    OriginalPaper 04 July 2007 Pages: 1863 - 1868

    

27. Daily Diurnal Variation in Admissions for Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

    • Shane Killeen
    • Peter Neary
    • Gregory Fulton

    OriginalPaper 15 June 2007 Pages: 1869 - 1871

    

28. Reversal of Diabetes in Mice by Intrahepatic Injection of Bone-derived GFP-murine Mesenchymal Stem Cells Infected with the Recombinant Retrovirus-carrying Human Insulin Gene

    • Jian Xu
    • Yuhua Lu
    • Zhiwei Wang

    OriginalPaper 25 July 2007 Pages: 1872 - 1882

    

29. Typhoid Intestinal Perforations: Twenty-six Year Experience

    • S. Selcuk Atamanalp
    • Bulent Aydinli
    • M. Ilhan Yildirgan

    OriginalPaper 15 July 2007 Pages: 1883 - 1888

30. Modified Technique of Laparoscopic Intraperitoneal Hernioplasty for Irreducible Scrotal Hernias (Omentoceles): How to Remove the Hernial Contents

    • Chinnusamy Palanivelu
    • Muthukumaran Rangarajan
    • Suviraj James John

    Rural and International Surgery 25 July 2007 Pages: 1889 - 1891

    

31. Modified Technique of Laparoscopic Intraperitoneal Hernioplasty for Irreducible Scrotal Hernias

    • B. Ramana

    Invited Commentary 30 May 2007 Pages: 1892 - 1893

32. One-stage Correction of Rectovestibular Fistula by Transfistula Anorectoplasty (TFARP)

    • Akshay Pratap
    • Rohit Prasad Yadav
    • Ritoban Sen

    Rural and International Surgery 25 July 2007 Pages: 1894 - 1897

    

33. Rural Surgery In India

    • Vinay Mehendale

    Rural and International Surgery 20 July 2007 Pages: 1898 - 1899

34. Criteria to Prove the Oncopreventive Effect of Antireflux Surgery

    • Johannes Lenglinger
    • Margit Eisler
    • Martin Riegler

    Letter to the Editor 13 July 2007 Pages: 1900 - 1900

35. Reply

    • Jesper Lagergren
    • Pernilla Lagergren (nee Viklund)

    Letter to the Editor 26 July 2007 Pages: 1901 - 1901

36. Reply

    • James Hewes

    Letter 09 May 2007 Pages: 1902 - 1902

37. Reply

    • N. Joseph Espat

    Letter to the Editor 04 July 2007 Pages: 1903 - 1903

38. Letter to the Editor

    • Dietrich Doll
    • Sven Petersen

    Letter to the Editor 27 April 2007 Pages: 1904 - 1905

39. Reply

    • Pradeep P. Sharma

    Letter to the Editor 11 July 2007 Pages: 1906 - 1906

40. Rectus Sheath Hematoma: A Series of Unfortunate Events

    • Dale Maharaj
    • Andrew Perry

    Letters to Editor 04 July 2007 Pages: 1907 - 1907