1. Diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of bile duct carcinoma: developments in the past decade

   • Kiichi Tamada
   • Kentaro Sugano

   Review Pages: 319 - 325

2. Endoscopic ultrasonography for diagnosis of submucosal invasion in early gastric cancer

   • Yusuke Matsumoto
   • Hideo Yanai
   • Kiwamu Okita

   Pages: 326 - 331

3. Influence of Helicobacter pylori infection on development of stress-induced gastric mucosal injury

   • Noriyasu Yamamoto
   • Takashi Sakagami
   • Takashi Shimoyama

   Pages: 332 - 340

4. Preventive efficacy of butyrate enemas and oral administration of Clostridium butyricum M588 in dextran sodium sulfate-induced colitis in rats

   • Toshihiko Okamoto
   • Masaya Sasaki
   • Masataka Kusunoki

   Pages: 341 - 346

5. Efficacy of ribavirin in patients with chronic hepatitis B

   • Enrique Galban-García
   • Hector Vega-Sanchez
   • Vitalia Ramos-Sanchez

   Pages: 347 - 352

6. Hepatic vascular side effects of styrene maleic acid neocarzinostatin in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

   • Kenji Ikeda
   • Satoshi Saitoh
   • Hiromitsu Kumada

   Pages: 353 - 360

7. Taurine preserves gap junctional intercellular communication in rat hepatocytes under oxidative stress

   • Toru Fukuda
   • Kenichi Ikejima
   • Nobuhiro Sato

   Pages: 361 - 368

8. Effects of cyclosporin A on water-immersion stress-induced gastric lesion and gastric secretion in rats

   • Masaru Odashima
   • Michiro Otaka
   • Sumio Watanabe

   Short communication Pages: 369 - 371

9. Details of hyperplastic polyps of the stomach shrinking after anti-Helicobacter pylori therapy

   • Atsushi Nakajima
   • Nobuyuki Matsuhashi
   • Kentaro Sugano

   Case report Pages: 372 - 375

10. Heterotopic gastric mucosa in the gallbladder

    • Keisuke Hamazaki
    • Takuzou Fujiwara

    Case report Pages: 376 - 381

11. Non-traumatic gas gangrene in the abdomen: report of six autopsy cases

    • Toshiki Sasaki
    • Hiroshi Nanjo
    • Hirotake Masuda

    Case report Pages: 382 - 390

12. Erythropoietic protoporphyria with severe liver dysfunction and acute pancreatitis

    • Koga Komatsu
    • Tooru Shimosegawa
    • Takayoshi Toyota

    Case report Pages: 391 - 395

13. Lymphoepithelial cyst of the pancreas with sebaceous differentiation

    • Hidetoshi Fujiwara
    • Norio Kohno
    • Yoshio Ishikawa

    Case report Pages: 396 - 401

14. Endoscopic ultrasonography for determining the depth of cancer invasion in gastric cancer

    • Yoko Murata

    Editorial Pages: 402 - 403

15. Is ribavirin treatment really effective for chronic hepatitis B?

    • Shinichi Kakumu

    Editorial Pages: 404 - 406

16. How can we avert hepatic vascular complications in SMANCS therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma?

    • Shuichi Okada

    Editorial Pages: 407 - 409