1. Editorial

   • Riccardo Lencioni

   OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1363 - 1363

2. Long-term Follow-up Outcome of Patients Undergoing Radiofrequency Ablation for Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma

   • Junji Machi
   • Racquel S. Bueno
   • Linda L. Wong

   OriginalPaper 30 September 2005 Pages: 1364 - 1373

   

3. Evaluation of Effect of Hemihepatic Vascular Occlusion and the Pringle Maneuver during Hepatic Resection for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma and Impaired Liver Function

   • Gar-Yang Chau
   • Wing-Yiu Lui
   • Chew-Wun Wu

   OriginalPaper 05 October 2005 Pages: 1374 - 1383

   

4. Vascular Control during Hepatectomy: Review of Methods and Results

   • Vassilios Smyrniotis
   • Charalampos Farantos
   • Nikolaos Arkadopoulos

   OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1384 - 1396

5. Anti-apoptosis Effects of Oxymatrine Protect the Liver from Warm Ischemia Reperfusion Injury in Rats

   • Hongchi Jiang
   • Fanqiang Meng
   • Xueying Sun

   OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1397 - 1401

   

6. Selective Intraoperative Cholangiography and Single-Stage Management of Common Bile Duct Stone in Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

   • Shih-Chi Wu
   • Feng-Chi Chen
   • Chong-Jeh Lo

   OriginalPaper 15 October 2005 Pages: 1402 - 1408

   

7. No Mortality among 100 Consecutive Pancreaticoduodenectomies in a Middle-volume Center

   • Yasuyuki Suzuki
   • Yasuhiro Fujino
   • Yoshikazu Kuroda

   OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1409 - 1414

8. Prospective Randomized Trial Comparing Billroth I and Roux-en-Y Procedures after Distal Gastrectomy for Gastric Carcinoma

   • Makoto Ishikawa
   • Joji Kitayama
   • Hirokazu Nagawa

   OriginalPaper 05 October 2005 Pages: 1415 - 1420

   

9. Invited Commentary

   • Michael Sarr

   Invited Commentary 05 October 2005 Pages: 1421 - 1421

10. Histological Grading in Gastric Cancer by Ming Classification: Correlation with Histopathological Subtypes, Metastasis, and Prognosis

    • Thomas Luebke
    • Stephan E. Baldus
    • Stefan P. Moenig

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1422 - 1427

    

11. Invited Commentary

    • Masaki Kitajima

    Invited Commentary 05 October 2005 Pages: 1428 - 1428

12. ¹⁸F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography: Useful Technique for Predicting Malignant Potential of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors

    • Yoichi Kamiyama
    • Ryuusuke Aihara
    • Keigo Endo

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1429 - 1435

    

13. Surgical Treatment of Appendiceal Adenocarcinoid (Goblet Cell Carcinoid)

    • Pascal Bucher
    • Pascal Gervaz
    • Philippe Morel

    OriginalPaper 08 September 2005 Pages: 1436 - 1439

14. Surgical Treatment of Chronic Amebic Colitis

    • Mehmet Ozdogan
    • Atac Baykal
    • Omer Aran

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1440 - 1443

    

15. Access to Care and Satisfaction in Colorectal Cancer Patients

    • Geoffrey A. Porter
    • Karen M. Inglis
    • Paul J. Veugelers

    OriginalPaper 05 October 2005 Pages: 1444 - 1451

    

16. Salvage Abdominoperineal Resection and Perineal Wound Healing in Local Recurrent or Persistent Anal Cancer

    • Floris T.J. Ferenschild
    • Maarten Vermaas
    • Johannes H.W. de Wilt

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1452 - 1457

    

17. Impact of Emergency Surgery in the Outcome of Rectal and Left Colon Carcinoma

    • Claudio Coco
    • Alessandro Verbo
    • Aurelio Picciocchi

    OriginalPaper 15 October 2005 Pages: 1458 - 1464

    

18. What Is The Role of Mechanical Bowel Preparation in Patients with Pilonidal Sinus Undergoing Surgery? Prospective, Randomized, Surgeon-blinded Trial

    • Cem Terzi
    • Aras Emre Canda
    • Mehmet Fuzun

    OriginalPaper 30 October 2005 Pages: 1465 - 1471

    

19. Does Nephrectomy for Trauma Increase the Risk of Renal Failure?

    • George C. Velmahos
    • Constantinos Constantinou
    • George Gkiokas

    OriginalPaper 15 September 2005 Pages: 1472 - 1475

20. Mortality in Severely Injured Elderly Trauma Patients—When Does Age Become a Risk Factor?

    • Christian A. Kuhne
    • Steffen Ruchholtz
    • Dieter Nast-Kolb

    OriginalPaper 15 October 2005 Pages: 1476 - 1482

    

21. Effect of Neostigmine on Organ Injury in Murine Endotoxemia: Missing Facts about the Cholinergic Antiinflammatory Pathway

    • Seda B. Akinci
    • Nadir Ulu
    • Ulku Aypar

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1483 - 1489

22. The Use of Stereotactic Excisional Biopsy in the Management of Invasive Breast Cancer

    • Waël C. Hanna
    • Sebastian V. Demyttenaere
    • David M. Fleiszer

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2005 Pages: 1490 - 1494

    

23. Non-palpable Breast Lesions: Sample or Excise?

    • Kerstin Sandelin

    Invited Commentary 10 October 2005 Pages: 1495 - 1496

24. Favorable Surgical Results in 433 Elderly Patients with Papillary Thyroid Cancer

    • Takashi Uruno
    • Akira Miyauchi
    • Kanji Kuma

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1497 - 1501

    

25. Invited Commentary

    • M.B Thomas Reeve

    Invited Commentary 05 October 2005 Pages: 1502 - 1503

26. Intraoperative Monitoring of Intact PTH in Surgery for Renal Hyperparathyroidism as an Indicator of Complete Parathyroid Removal

    • Miguel Echenique Elizondo
    • Francisco Javier Díaz-Aguirregoitia
    • Fernando Vidaur

    OriginalPaper 15 October 2005 Pages: 1504 - 1509

    

27. Outcomes of Lung Transplantation in Patients with Scleroderma

    • Malek G. Massad
    • Charles R. Powell
    • Alexander S. Geha

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1510 - 1515

    

28. Pulmonary Resection for Non-small-cell Lung Cancer in Patients on Hemodialysis: Clinical Outcome and Long-term Results

    • Paola Ciriaco
    • Monica Casiraghi
    • Piero Zannini

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1516 - 1519

29. Clinical and Radiologic Evaluation of Foramen of Morgagni Hernias and the Transthoracic Approach

    • Mehmet Sırmalı
    • Hasan Türüt
    • Güven Çetin

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2005 Pages: 1520 - 1524