Vol. 232 No. 1 JANUARY 2014

Regular Contributions
Pulmonary Rehabilitation Improves Exercise Capacity and Dyspnea in Air Pollution-Related Respiratory Disease Naomi Miyamoto Hideaki Senjyu Takako Tanaka Masaharu Asai Yorihide Yanagita Yudai Yano Tsuyoshi Nishinakagawa Kenji Kotaki Chika Kitagawa Naoto Rikitomi Ryo Kozu and Sumihisa Honda [PDF]	1
CD44 Expression Is Predictive of Poor Prognosis in Pharygolaryngeal Cancer: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Liang Chai Hongyan Liu Zhili Zhang Feng Wang Qingying Wang Shuihong Zhou and Shenqing Wang [PDF]	9
Doctor-Patient Communication without Family Is Most Frequently Practiced in Patients with Malignant Tumors in Home Medical Care Settings Takuma Kimura Teruhiko Imanaga and Makoto Matsuzaki [PDF]	21
Learning Disability in 10- to 16-Year-Old Adolescents with Very Low Birth Weight in Japan Keiko Tanabe Koji Tamakoshi Saya Kikuchi and Jun Murotsuki [PDF]	27
The Perception and Experience of Gender-Based Discrimination Related to Professional Advancement among Japanese Physicians Kosuke Yasukawa and Kyoko Nomura [PDF]	35
Case
Chylothorax in POEMS Syndrome Yujin Kudo Hiroyuki Miura Eiji Nakajima Hidenobu Takahashi Akiko Aoki and Norihiko Ikeda [PDF]	43
Regular Contributions
Improving the One-year Mortality of Stroke Patients: An 18-year Observation in a Teaching Hospital Hua-Fen Chen Chung-Yi Li Siu-Pak Lee Yam-Ting Kwok and Yiu-Tong Chu [PDF]	47
Postoperative Drainage with One Chest Tube Is Appropriate for Pulmonary Lobectomy: A Randomized Trial Makoto Tanaka Motoyasu Sagawa Katsuo Usuda Yuichiro Machida Masakatsu Ueno Nozomu Motono and Tsutomu Sakuma [PDF]	55
Osteoma of the Internal Auditory Canal Mimicking Vestibular Schwannoma: Case Report and Review of 17 Recent Cases Jun Suzuki Yusuke Takata Hiromitsu Miyazaki Izumi Yahata Yasuhiko Tachibana Toshimitsu Kobayashi Tetsuaki Kawase and Yukio Katori [PDF]	63