Letter from the Editor

Editorial

7 Breast carcinoma

Grammaticos

Leading articles

9     The management of thyroid nodules. First part: benign nodules

Leoutsakos V.

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19     Variables predicting the severity in acute pancreatitis

Anghelacopoulos SE, Uhl W, Buchler MW.

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28     Pheochromocytoma

Aidonopoulos AP.

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31     Nodular goiter and thyroid carcinoma

Aidonopoulos AP.

Clinical studies

34     Influence of contrast medium on course and outcome of severe acute pancreatitis: results of a randomized controlled multicenter study

Anghelacopoulos SE, Uhl WH, Beger HG, Adler G, Gaus W, Malfertheiner P, Büchler MW.

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44     Subacute hematogenous osteomyelitis in severly ill patients.A 13-year retrospective study

Bischiniotis I, Tziris N, Koulouris N, Papadimitriou N, Aidonopoulos A.

Experimental work

48     Combined ivIG and a-tocopherol pretreatment attenuates lipid peroxidation of the liver after severe ischemia/reperfusion injury

Giakoustidis D, Iliadis S, Giakoustidis A, Tsantilas D, Kostopoulou E, Kontos N, Papageorgiou G, Gerasimidis T.

Case reports

56     Surgical treatment of sacrococcygeal chordoma. A case report

Giakoustidis D, Karamanos D, Tsinoglou N, Tsantilas D,Venizelos J, Christodoulou A, Gerasimidis Th.

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60     A re-evaluation of efficacy of octreotide in phase I-II. Study of acute pancreatitis

Uhl W, Anghelacopoulos SE, Friess H, Büchler MW.

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