1. Strategies for treating liver metastasis from gastric cancer

   • Yoshihiro Kakeji
   • Masaru Morita
   • Yoshihiko Maehara

   Review Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 287 - 294

2. Recent advances in chemotherapy for advanced gastric cancer in Japan

   • Masashi Fujii
   • Mitsugu Kochi
   • Tadatoshi Takayama

   Review Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 295 - 300

3. Gastrointestinal cancer metastasis and lymphatic advancement

   • Kazuhide Kumagai
   • Kouji Shimizu
   • Kennichi Yamagata

   Review Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 301 - 306

4. Pouch operation for rectal cancer

   • Jin-ichi Hida
   • Kiyotaka Okuno

   Review Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 307 - 314

5. The role of airway stent placement in the management of tracheobronchial stenosis caused by inoperable advanced lung cancer

   • Kinya Furukawa
   • Junzo Ishida
   • Harubumi Kato

   Original Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 315 - 320

6. Management of right-sided diverticulitis: A retrospective review from a hospital in Japan

   • Kazuhide Matsushima

   Original Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 321 - 325

7. Implementing a standard protocol to decrease the incidence of surgical site infections in rectal cancer surgery

   • Minako Kobayashi
   • Yasuhiro Inoue
   • Masato Kusunoki

   Original Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 326 - 333

8. Variations in the preoperative resources use and the practice pattern in Japanese cholecystectomy patients

   • Kazuaki Kuwabara
   • Shinya Matsuda
   • Kenji Fujimori

   Original Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 334 - 346

9. Inhibition of osteopontin reduces liver metastasis of human pancreatic cancer xenografts injected into the spleen in a mouse model

   • Keisuke Ohno
   • Hidefumi Nishimori
   • Koichi Hirata

   Original Article 26 March 2010 Pages: 347 - 356

10. Diagnosis and surgical management of diaphragmatic agenesis in an adult: Report of a case

    • Dimitrios Pousios
    • Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos
    • Anastasios Piyis

    Case Report 26 March 2010 Pages: 357 - 359

11. Mediastinal metastasis from a fibrolamellar hepatocellular carcinoma: Report of a case

    • Yoshinobu Ichiki
    • Kenji Sugio
    • Kosei Yasumoto

    Case Report 26 March 2010 Pages: 360 - 364

12. Mediastinal lymphangiomyoma in an adult: Report of a case

    • Hideki Ota
    • Yoshihiko Kimura
    • Jun-Ichi Ogawa

    Case Report 26 March 2010 Pages: 365 - 368

13. Commotio cordis as a rare cause of traumatic cardiac arrest in motorbike crashes: Report of a case

    • Chun-Chieh Yeh
    • Chi-Hsun Hsieh
    • Ray-Jade Chen

    Case Report 26 March 2010 Pages: 369 - 372

14. Laparoscopic surgery for the diagnosis and treatment of a paracecal hernia repair: Report of a case

    • Akira Kabashima
    • Naoyuki Ueda
    • Hisanobu Sakata

    Case Report 26 March 2010 Pages: 373 - 375

15. Surgically resected undifferentiated carcinoma with osteoclast-like giant cells of the periampullary region involving the orifice of the papilla of vater: Report of a case

    • Gaku Matsuzawa
    • Ken Shirabe
    • Takashi Nagaie

    Case Report 26 March 2010 Pages: 376 - 379

16. Mixed acinar-endocrine carcinoma of the pancreas with intraductal growth into the main pancreatic duct: Report of a case

    • Shinjiro Kobayashi
    • Takeshi Asakura
    • Takehito Otsubo

    Case Report 26 March 2010 Pages: 380 - 384

17. The evidence for adjuvant treatment of elderly patients (age ≥ 70) with stage III colon cancer is inconclusive

    • Kok-Yang Tan
    • Fumio Konishi
    • Koichi Suzuki

    Short Communication 26 March 2010 Pages: 385 - 387

18. A simple and effective technique for esophageal retraction and fundal translocation during laparoscopic fundoplication

    • Onder Surgit
    • Aydin Inan

    How to Do It 26 March 2010 Pages: 388 - 391