1. Secretin, 100 years later

   • William Y. Chey
   • Ta-Min Chang

   Review Pages: 1025 - 1035

2. Esophageal motility in Japanese patients with Barrett’s esophagus

   • Katsuhiko Iwakiri
   • Toshiaki Sugiura
   • Choitsu Sakamoto

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1036 - 1041

3. Symptomatic and endoscopic outcome of heartburn 3–4.5 years after starting lansoprazole therapy: a prospective study of 142 patients

   • Niazy Abu Farsakh

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1042 - 1048

4. Spraying of phenol red dye as a screening test for Helicobacter pylori infection in surgically resected stomach specimens

   • Jun Mitsuhashi
   • Hiroyuki Mitomi
   • Katsunori Saigenji

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1049 - 1052

5. Interspousal transmission of hepatitis C in Thailand

   • Vorayod Boonyarad
   • Anuchit Chutaputti
   • Yong Poovorawan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1053 - 1059

6. Esophagogastric varices as a prognostic factor for the determination of clinical stage in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis

   • Eiji Takeshita
   • Teru Kumagi
   • Morikazu Onji

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1060 - 1065

7. Percutaneous ultrasound-guided radiofrequency ablation with artificial pleural effusion for hepatocellular carcinoma in the hepatic dome

   • Yasunori Minami
   • Masatoshi Kudo
   • Hitoshi Shiozaki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1066 - 1070

8. Prevention of gallstones by ursodeoxycholic acid after cardiac surgery

   • Toshiji Ai
   • Ryosaku Azemoto
   • Hiromitsu Saisho

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1071 - 1076

9. The buried bumper syndrome: migration of internal bumper of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube into the abdominal wall

   • Rasİm GenÇosmanoĞlu
   • Demet KoÇ
   • Nurdan TÖzÜn

   Case report Pages: 1077 - 1080

10. Mesenteric pseudocyst of the sigmoid colon

    • Toshio Iida
    • Masahiro Suenaga
    • Koaki Oguma

    Case report Pages: 1081 - 1085

11. Patients with severe liver cirrhosis followed up by L-[1-¹³C] phenylalanine breath test

    • Yukimoto Ishii
    • Shigeru Suzuki
    • Satoshi Asai

    Case report Pages: 1086 - 1090

12. Spindle cell carcinoma of the intrahepatic bile duct in a patient with primary sclerosing cholangitis

    • Masahiro Shinoda
    • Motohide Shimazu
    • Masaki Kitajima

    Case report Pages: 1091 - 1096

13. Intrahepatic sarcomatoid cholangiocarcinoma

    • Masaki Kaibori
    • Yusai Kawaguchi
    • Yasuo Kamiyama

    Case report Pages: 1097 - 1101

14. Abnormal arrangement of the pancreato-biliary ductal system associated with advanced gallbladder cancer diagnosed 3 years after follow-up ultrasonography

    • Naotaka Fujita
    • Yutaka Noda
    • Jun Horaguchi

    Case report Pages: 1102 - 1105

15. Characteristics of clinicopathological and histological findings of superficial depressed type of colorectal submucosal invasive carcinoma, compared with polyp type

    • Ryo Wada
    • Michio Matsumoto
    • Shigeharu Hamatani

    Letters to the editor Pages: 1106 - 1107

16. Toxic megacolon associated with cytomegalovirus infection in ulcerative colitis

    • Yoshifumi Shimada
    • Tsuneo Iiai
    • Yoichi Ajioka

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1107 - 1108

17. Treatment of esophagitis/vagitis-induced paroxysmal atrial fibrillation by proton-pump inhibitors

    • Claudia StÖllberger
    • Josef Finsterer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1109 - 1109

18. Are esophagogastric varices a late manifestation in primary biliary cirrhosis?

    • Yasuni Nakanuma

    Editorial Pages: 1110 - 1112

19. Prevention of black pigment gallstone formation after cardiac surgery by ursodeoxycholic acid

    • Masato Abei
    • Naomi Tanaka

    Editorial Pages: 1113 - 1115