INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

1. Hepatobiliary & Pancreatic Diseases International (HBPD INT)

EDITORIAL

1. Subspecialty radiology and surgery

REVIEW ARTICLES

1. Stepwise approach and surgery for gallbladder adenomyomatosis: a mini-review

1. Therapeutic approaches to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: past achievements and future challenges
2. Outcomes in children with biliary atresia following liver transplantation
3. HBV recurrence lowered by lamivudine/HBIG combination therapy in liver transplant patients: ten-year experience
4. Short-term entecavir versus lamivudine therapy for HBeAg-negative patients with acute-onchronic hepatitis B liver failure
5. Management hepatolithiasis with operative choledochoscopic FREDDY laser lithotripsy combined with or without hepatectomy
6. Values of circulating GPC-3 mRNA and alpha-fetoprotein in detecting patients with hepatocellular carcinoma
7. Ethyl pyruvate prevents in flammatory factors release and decreases intestinal permeability in rats with D-galactosamine-induced acute liver failure

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

1. Application of acoustic radiation force impulse imaging for the evaluation of focal liver lesion elasticity
2. EthyI pyruvate prevents inf l ammatory factors reIease and decreases intestinaI permeabiIity in rats with D-gaIactosamine-induced acute Iiver faiIure
3. Correlation of S1P1 and ERp29 expression to progression, metastasis, and poor prognosis of gallbladder adenocarcinoma
4. Pancreaticoduodenectomy: a comparison of superior approach with classical Whipple's technique
5. Decreased expression of DAB2IP in pancreatic cancer with wild-type KRAS

BRIEF REPORTS

1. Hepaticojejunostomy with the "Hand-Fan" technique
2. Risk factors of choledocholithiasis formation after liver transplantation

CASE REPORT

1. Technical note on complete excision of choledochal cysts