Therapeutic laparoscopy in general surgery; enteral nutrition in the intensive care unit; renal parathyroidism; oncogenes, growth factors and prognosis in colorectal cancer; an appraisal of the gastrooesophageal antireflux barrier and the lower oesophageal sphincter; inflammatory bowel diseases; uteroendoscopy; an approach to the management of penile cancer; rectal prolapse and other abnormalities of the pelvis floor; controversies in the surgical management of asymptomatic peripheral vascular disease; reconstruction of the deep venous valves of the lower extremity; nesdioblastosis - still an enigma.