Progress and Changes in Surgery: Portal Hypertension Yasuo Idezuki, M.D., Ph.D., Outgoing President, ISS/SIC 1995-1997 Pages: 759 - 766
Address to the Opening Ceremony of the 37th World Congress of Surgery Alastair R. Brown, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.A.C.S., Congress President and Incoming President of the Society Pages: 767 - 768
Address to the General Assembly of the International Society of Surgery at the 37th World Congress of Surgery Alastair R. Brown, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.A.C.S., Congress President and Incoming President of the Society Pages: 769 - 770
Expression of Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase in Circulating Neutrophils of the Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome and Septic Patients Yasuhiro TsukaharaTakashi MorisakiMasao Tanaka Pages: 771 - 777
Infective Complications after Abdominal Surgery in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Role of CD4+ Lymphocytes in Prognosis Carlos EmparanIgnacio M. IturburuJaime J. Mendez Pages: 778 - 782
Serum Interleukin-6, Interleukin-8, Hepatocyte Growth Factor, and Nitric Oxide Changes during Thoracic Surgery Takatsugu YamadaMichiyoshi HisanagaHiroshige Nakano Pages: 783 - 790
l-Arginine: Effect on Reperfusion Injury after Heart Transplantation Gábor SzabóSusanne BährleSiegfried Hagl Pages: 791 - 798
Single-stage, Bilateral, Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Lung Volume Reduction Surgery for End-stage Emphysema Wickii T. VigneswaranFrancis J. PodbielskiAbid Khurshid Pages: 799 - 802
Surgical Treatment of Spontaneous Pneumothorax: Ten-year Experience Kalliopi AthanassiadiG. KalavrouziotisN. Exarchos Pages: 803 - 806
Effects of Surgical Sympathectomy on Skin Blood Flow in a Rat Model of Chronic Limb Ischemia François M.H. van DielenHarrie A.J.M. KurversPeter J.E.H.M. Kitslaar Pages: 807 - 811
Allogeneic Vascularized Grafting of Human Knee Joints under Postoperative Immunosuppression of the Recipient Gunther O. HofmannMartin H. KirschnerVolker Bühren Pages: 818 - 823
Intraperitoneal Normal Saline Infusion for Postoperative Pain after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Evangelos C. TsimoyiannisPhilipos SiakasMaria Kambili Pages: 824 - 828
Ultrasound-guided Laparoscopic Cryoablation of Hepatic Tumors: Preliminary Report Emanuele LezocheAlessandro M. PaganiniAndrea Tamburini Pages: 829 - 836
Hepatic Steatosis in Liver Transplant Donors: Common Feature of Donor Population? Miguel Angel García UreñaFrancisco Colina Ruiz-DelgadoRamón Gómez Sanz Pages: 837 - 844
Importance of Arterial Blood Supply to the Femur and Tibia for Transplantation of Vascularized Femoral Diaphyses and Knee Joints Martin H. KirschnerJohannes MenckGunther O. Hofmann Pages: 845 - 852
Expression of CD44 Variant 6 and Lymphatic Invasion: Importance to Lymph Node Metastasis in Gastric Cancer Kazushi KurozumiToshirou NishidaMasahiko Tsujimoto Pages: 853 - 858
Assessing the Suitability of Gastric Carcinoma for Limited Resection: Endoscopic Prediction of Lymph Node Metastases Tsutomu NamienoKazumitsu KoitoYukifumi Kondo Pages: 859 - 864
Assessing the Suitability of Gastric Carcinoma for Limited Resection: Histologic Differentiation of Endoscopic Biopsy Tsutomu NamienoKazumitsu KoitoYukifumi Kondo Pages: 865 - 868
Tumor Recurrence following Resection for Early Gastric Carcinoma and Its Implications for a Policy of Limited Resection Tsutomu NamienoKazumitsu KoitoYukifumi Kondo Pages: 869 - 873
Pattern of Recurrence after Resection for Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Tumors of the Pancreas Masayuki ShoYoshiyuki NakajimaHiroshige Nakano Pages: 874 - 878
Therapeutic Management of Rare Malignant Pancreatic Tumors in Children Sandra VossenPeter E. GoretzkiUlrich Willnow Pages: 879 - 882
Late Results of Heterotopic Autotransplantation of Splenic Tissue into the Greater Omentum Thomas WeberErnst HanischRainer Maria Seufert Pages: 883 - 889
Early Operative Intervention for Urologic Complications of Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Adam J. KaplanJohn F. ValenteRino Munda Pages: 890 - 894
Interleukin-6 Levels in Colorectal Cancer Tissues Hiroshi KomodaYasuhiro TanakaTetsuto Takao Pages: 895 - 898
Origin of Laparoscopy: Coincidence or Surgical Interdisciplinary Thought? G.S. LitynskiV. Paolucci Pages: 899 - 902