Editorial
7 Breast carcinoma
Grammaticos
Leading articles
9 The management of thyroid nodules. First part: benign nodules
Leoutsakos V.
19 Variables predicting the severity in acute pancreatitis
Anghelacopoulos SE, Uhl W, Buchler MW.
28 Pheochromocytoma
Aidonopoulos AP.
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.
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.
60 A re-evaluation of efficacy of octreotide in phase I-II. Study of acute pancreatitis
Uhl W, Anghelacopoulos SE, Friess H, Büchler MW.
