Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy is not associated with a higher complication rate vs. surgery alone in patients undergoing esophagectomy

Scott T. Kelley, Domenico Coppola, Richard C. Karl

Factors affecting quality of life after minimally invasive Heller myotomy for achalasia

Yannis Raftopoulos, Rodney J. Landreneau, Fernando Hayetian, Pavlos Papasavas, Keith S. Naunheim, Steven R. Hazelrigg, Ricardo Santos, Daniel Gagné, Philip Caushaj, Robert J. Keenan

Clinicopathologic characteristics of gastric cancer in a young patient population

Antonio Ramos-De la Medina, Noel Salgado-Nesme, Gonzalo Torres-Villalobos, Heriberto Medina-Franco

Choledochal cysts in western adults: Complexities compared to children

Michael Nicholl, Henry A. Pitt, Patrick Wolf, Janice Cooney, Munci Kalayoglu, Joel Shilyansky, Layton F. Rikkers

Summary statement

Matthias Stelzner

Overview: Epidemiology, indications, goals, extent, and nature of work-up

David A. Rothenberger

Indications and surgical alternatives for palliation of rectal cancer

Victor W. Fazio

Indications and results of endoscopic rectal stenting

Todd H. Baron

Endoscopic methods (other than stents) for palliation of rectal carcinoma

Michael B. Kimmey

Palliative management of rectal cancer: The roles of chemotherapy and radiation therapy

Leonard B. Saltz

Palliative treatment of rectal cancer: Is radiotherapy alone a good option?

Christopher G. Willett, Leonard L. Gunderson

Predicting resectability of periampullary cancer with three-dimensional computed tomography

Michael G. House, Charles J. Yeo, John L. Cameron, Kurt A. Campbell, Richard D. Schulick, Steven D. Leach, Ralph H. Hruban, Karen M. Horton, Elliot K Fishman, Keith D. Lillemoe

Does "clonal progression" relate to the development of intraductal papillary mucinous tumors of the pancreas?

Keita Wada, Tadahiro Takada, Hideki Yasuda, Hodaka Amano, Masahiro Yoshida, Maki Sugimoto, Hiroshi Irie

Introduction

Steven M. Strasberg

Hilar cholangiocarcinoma

Bryan Clary, William Jarnigan, Henry Pitt, Gregory Gores, Ronald Busuttil, Theodore Pappas

Adult-adult living donor liver transplantation

Masatoshi Makuuchi, Charles M. Miller, Kim Olthoff, Myron Schwartz

Protection of the liver during hepatic surgery

Pierre-Alain Clavien, Jean Emond, Jean Nicolas Vauthey, Jacques Belghiti, Ravi S. Chari, Steven M. Strasberg

Preoperative lower esophageal sphincter pressure affects outcome of laparoscopic esophageal myotomy for achalasia

Mustafa A. Arain, Jeffrey H. Peters, Anan P. Tamhankar, Giuseppe Portale, Gideon Almogy, Steven R. DeMeester, Peter F. Crookes, Jeffrey A. Hagen, Cedric G. Bremner, Tom R. DeMeester

Effects of manometrically discovered nonspecific motility disorders of the esophagus on the outcomes of antireflux surgery

Vic Velanovich, Arvind Mahatme

Lymphoepithelial cysts of the pancreas: Case report and review of the literature

Pablo Capitanich, Mario L. Iovaldi, Mario Medrano, Patricio Malizia, Javier Herrera, Francisco Celeste, Luis A. R. Boerr, Carlos Moran Obiol, Norberto A. Mezzadri

The role and interactions of nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), and prostanoids in the pathogenesis of postoperative ileus in rats

R. P. Korolkiewicz, J. Sein-Anand, J. Ruczyński, P. Rekowski, L. Bieniaszewski, Z. Chodorowski, J. Petrusewicz, M. Ujda, J. Dábkowski, M. Bitel, S. Kato, K. Takeuchi

Successful perioperative management of factor X deficiency associated with primary amyloidosis

Kazuaki Takabe, Peter R. Holman, Kenneth D. Herbst, Catherine A. Glass, Michael Bouvet

SSAT patient care guidelines

Surgical repair of groin hernias

Esophageal achalasia

Surgical repair of incisional hernias

Letters to the editors

Katrien Vekemans, Filip Braet, Eddie Wisse

Reply

Jorg Haier