1. Basic surgical research

   • K. Messmer

   REVIEW TOPIC: CLINICAL RESEARCH Pages: 297 - 299

2. Clinical research in surgery: questions but few answers

   • H. G. Beger
   • A. Schwarz

   REVIEW TOPIC: CLINICAL RESEARCH Pages: 300 - 305

3. Conceptional and structural conditions for successful clinical research

   • H. Troidl

   REVIEW TOPIC: CLINICAL RESEARCH Pages: 306 - 316

4. Gastroesophageal reflux in neurologically impaired children: partial or total fundoplication?

   • E. Ceriati
   • N. Guarino
   • M. Rivosecchi

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 317 - 319

5. Follow-up after transanal endoscopic microsurgery or transanal excision of large benign rectal polyps

   • M. Mörschel
   • A. Heintz
   • T. Junginger

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 320 - 324

6. Inter- and intraindividual reproducibility of anorectal manometry

   • S. M. Freys
   • K.-H. Fuchs
   • A. Thiede

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 325 - 329

7. Experience gained from operation of 103 adrenal incidentalomas

   • C. Proye
   • M. Jafari Manjili
   • J. L. Wemeau

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 330 - 333

8. German medullary thyroid carcinoma/multiple endocrine neoplasia registry

   • Friedhelm Raue
   • and the German MTC/MEN Study Group

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 334 - 336

9. Thyroid carcinoma in intrathoracic goiter

   • M. Nervi
   • P. Iacconi
   • P. Miccoli

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 337 - 339

10. Polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule in childhood ganglioneuroma and neuroblastoma of different histological grade and clinical stage

    • S. Glüer
    • M. Zense
    • D. von Schweinitz

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 340 - 344

11. Genetically modified fibroblasts induce angiogenesis in the rat epigastric island flap

    • H.-G. Machens
    • Jeffrey R. Morgan
    • Alfred C. Berger

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 345 - 350

12. Effect of granulocytes on the microcirculation in free-flap surgery

    • F.-W. Peter
    • H. U. Steinau
    • J. H. Barker

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 351 - 354

13. Lymph node dissection in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma – who benefits?

    • B. Mann
    • H. J. Buhr

    HOW TO DO IT Pages: 355 - 358

14. Cost analysis of three different surgical procedures for treatment of a pelvic tumour

    • J. Bruns
    • S. Luessenhop
    • P. Behrens

    EVIDENCE-BASED SURGERY Pages: 359 - 363