Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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H. Whitney Boggs Jr.

Staging of colorectal cancer: Biologyvs. morphology

Mark W. Arnold, Donn M. Young, Charles L. Hitchcock, Emilio Barberá-Guillem, Carol Nieroda, Edward W. Martin Jr.

Invited editorial

Ronald Bleday

Results of salvage abdominoperineal resection for anal cancer after radiotherapy

Marc Pocard, Emmanuel Tiret, Karen Nugent, Nidal Dehni, Rolland Parc

Different prognostic effect of postoperative chemoradiation therapy on diploid and nondiploid high-risk rectal cancers

Reiping Tang, Yet-Sen Ho, Hong-Hua Chen, Lai-Chu See, Jeng-Yi Wang

Cecal intubation model in the rat that facilitates selectivein vivo study of colonic epithelial biology

Choong-Leong Tang, Bee-Chuan Ling, Marisa Fielding, Joe J. Tjandra, Peter R. Gibson

Model of implantation of tumor cells simulating recurrence in colonic anastomosis in mice

Yoram Kluger, Yair Galili, Joseph Yossiphov, Arie Shnaper, Gideon Goldman, Micha Rabau

Fulminant colitis in inflammatory bowel disease

N. C. Swan, J. G. Geoghegan, D. P. O'Donoghue, J. M. P. Hyland, K. Sheahan

Pudendal neuropathy is predictive of failure following anterior overlapping sphincteroplasty

Robert Gilliland, Donato F. Altomare, Helio Moreira Jr., Lucia Oliveira, Janice E. Gilliland, Steven D. Wexner

Natural history of diverticular disease

Jyrki Mäkelä, Saija Vuolio, Heikki Kiviniemi, Seppo Laitinen

Does HIV status influence the anatomy of anal fistulas?

Carlo M. Manookian, Thomas P. Sokol, Charles Headrick, Phillip R. Fleshner

Associations between hemorrhoids and other diagnoses

Fabiola Delcò, Amnon Sonnenberg

Invited editorial

Anthony M. Vernava III, Fabiola Delcò, Amnon Sonnenberg

Cytokine production from colonic T cells in patients with ulcerative colitis with and without primary sclerosing cholangitis

U. Broomé, R. Hultcrantz, A. K. Lefvert, Q. Yi

Intact colonic motor response to sudden awakening from sleep in patients with chronic idiopathic (slow-transit) constipation

Gabrio Bassotti, Ugo Germani, Serafina Fiorella, Paola Roselli, Paolo Brunori, William E. Whitehead

Invited editorial

Sidney F. Phillips

Long pedunculated colonic polyp composed of mucosa and submucosa

Hiroaki Matake, Toshiyuki Matsui, Tsuneyoshi Yao, Akinori Iwashita, Toshio Hoashi, Kenshi Yao, Sumio Tsuda, Kuniaki Takenaka, Toshihiro Sakurai, Yutaka Yamada, Mitsuru Seo, Koji Odera, Mitsuo Okada, Keiji Tanaka

Complications of abdominal stoma surgery

Paul C. Shellito

Surgery for intestinal graft-versus-host disease

J. Evans, J. Percy, R. Eckstein, D. Ma, M. Schnitzler

Conservative surgical management of perforating Crohn's disease: Side-to-side enteroenteric neoileocolic anastomosis

Gilberto Poggioli, Simonetta Selleri, Luca Stocchi, Silvio Laureti, Mariacristina Salone, Claudio Marra, Massimo DiSimone, Federica Ugolini, Antonino Cavallari

Fungal sacral osteomyelitis as the initial presentation of Crohn's disease of the small bowel

Nicholas Armstrong, Michael Schurr, Richard Helgerson, Bruce Harms

Cecal infarct

I. Elnakadi, A. Mehdi, S. Franck, T. Roger, D. Larsimont, J. C. Pector

Use of a jejunal pouch with ileal interposition in salvage surgery after restorative proctocolectomy

Nidal Dehni, Christopher Cunningham, Rolland Parc

Self-assessment quiz

Richard L. Nelson

Selected abstracts

Self-assessment quiz: Answers, critiques, and references

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