1. Evaluation of the Histoculture Drug Response Assay as a Sensitivity Test for Anticancer Agents

   • Satoshi Suda
   • Seiji Akiyama
   • Akimasa Nakao

   Original Articles 05 February 2014 Pages: 477 - 481

2. Elevated Serum Pro-MMP2 Levels in Patients with Stage IV Thymoma

   • Hidefumi Sasaki
   • Haruhiro Yukiue
   • Yoshitaka Fujii

   OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 482 - 486

3. Comparison Between Straight and J-Pouch Coloanal Anastomoses in Surgery for Rectal Cancer

   • Jen-Kou Lin
   • Huang-Sheng Wang
   • Tzu-Chen Lin

   OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 487 - 492

4. Successful Tracheal Transplantation with Fresh Allografts in a Rabbit Model

   • Erkan Dıkmen
   • Murat Kara
   • Adem Güngör

   OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 493 - 497

5. Laparoscopic Vagotomy Using Mini-Instruments in the Rat: A New Laparoscopic Small Animal Model

   • Eren Berber
   • Ibrahim Berber
   • Cavit Avci

   OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 498 - 502

6. Antitumor Effects Induced by the Combination of TNP-470 as an Angiogenesis Inhibitor and Lentinan as a Biological Response Modifier in a Rabbit Spontaneous Liver Metastasis Model

   • Bun Sano
   • Yasuyuki Sugiyama
   • Shigetoyo Saji

   OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 503 - 509

7. Right Nonrecurrent Laryngeal Nerve Deforming a Superior Parathyroid Adenoma: Report of a Case

   • Shih-Ming Huang
   • Chau-Chin Lee
   • Chung-Yu Lai

   Case Reports 05 February 2014 Pages: 510 - 512

8. Pasteurella multocida Endocarditis: Report of a Case

   • Yoshihiro Fukumoto
   • Yukinori Moriyama
   • Akira Taira

   OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 513 - 515

9. Accessory Mitral Valve Associated with Aortic Regurgitation in an Elderly Patient: Report of a Case

   • Hideki Yao
   • Takashi Miyamoto
   • Yoshihito Inai

   OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 516 - 518

10. Esophageal Intramural Pseudodiverticulosis with Mallory-Weiss Syndrome: Report of a Case

    • Naoto Yamamoto
    • Masaki Nakamura
    • Nobuhiko Nishino

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 519 - 522

11. An Unusual Foreign Body in the Esophagus: Report of a Case

    • Ayten Kayi Cangir
    • Tuğbay Tuğ
    • İlker Ökten

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 523 - 524

12. Primary Gastric T-Cell Lymphoma Without Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1: Report of a Case

    • Masanori Watanabe
    • Yukichi Moriyama

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 525 - 530

13. A Gastric Duplication Cyst with an Aberrant Pancreatic Ductal System: Report of a Case

    • Atsushi Muraoka
    • Masaki Tsuruno
    • Koichi Mizobuchi

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 531 - 535

14. T-Cell Malignant Lymphoma of the Ileum Causing Ileac Fistulas: Report of a Case

    • Takashi Sakakibara
    • Tsuneo Kurasawa
    • Masahiko Tsurumaru

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 536 - 540

15. Multiple Perforated Ulcers of the Small Intestine Associated with Allergic Granulomatous Angiitis: Report of a Case

    • Yasuko Nakamura
    • Yoichi Sakurai
    • Makoto Kuroda

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 541 - 546

16. Pseudomyxoma Peritonei of Appendiceal Cancer with Metastasis to the Stomach: Report of a Case

    • Ryo Yoshida
    • Kazuhiko Yoshioka
    • Noriko Sakaida

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 547 - 550

17. Completely Laparoscopic Total Colectomy for Chronic Constipation: Report of a Case

    • Yoshifumi Inoue
    • Hiroshi Noro
    • Hikaru Matsuda

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 551 - 554

18. Malignant Melanoma of the Anorectum: Report of Four Cases

    • Rika Fukui
    • Fumitake Hata
    • Koichi Hirata

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 555 - 558

19. Treatment of Budd-Chiari Syndrome with Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty: Report of a Case

    • Masato Suzuoki
    • Satoshi Kondo
    • Hiroyuki Katoh

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 559 - 562

20. Adrenal Angiosarcoma: Report of a Case

    • Enricomaria Pasqual
    • Franco Bertolissi
    • Pier Paolo Cagol

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 563 - 565

21. Ruptured Staphylococcal Splenic Abscess Resulting in Peritonitis: Report of a Case

    • Sabapathy Prakash Balasubramanian
    • Prasada Rao Mojjada
    • Shashanka Mohan Bose

    OriginalPaper 05 February 2014 Pages: 566 - 567

22. An Easy, Safe, and Sure Way of Open Stent Grafting: Chain-Stitch Bonding with a Balloon Catheter

    • Shinji Miyamoto
    • Tetsuo Hadama
    • Hirotsugu Hamamoto

    How to Do It 05 February 2014 Pages: 568 - 570

23. Erratum to: Staple-Line Ulcer in the Ileal Reservoir Following Restorative Proctocolectomy

    • Tsuneo Fukushima
    • Akira Sugita
    • Masaru Shinozaki

    Erratum 05 February 2014 Pages: 571 - 571