Leading Articles

• Radiotherapy and locally advanced rectal cancer (pages 1443–1445)
• The state of midline closure of the abdominal wall (pages 1446–1447)

Systematic Reviews

• Systematic review of sarcopenia in patients operated on for gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatobiliary malignancies (pages 1448–1458)
• Meta-analysis of radical resection rates and margin assessment in pancreatic cancer (pages 1459–1472)

Randomised Clinical Trials

• Randomized clinical trial investigating the stress response from two different methods of analgesia after laparoscopic colorectal surgery (pages 1473–1479)

Original Articles

• Multicentre study of abdominal aortic aneurysm measurement and enlargement (pages 1480–1487)
• Pragmatic staging of oesophageal cancer using decision theory involving selective endoscopic ultrasonography, PET and laparoscopy (pages 1488–1499)
• Comparison of outcomes after laparoscopy-assisted and open total gastrectomy for early gastric cancer (pages 1500–1505)
• Effects of macrophage-dependent peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ signalling on adhesion formation after abdominal surgery in an experimental model(pages 1506–1516)
• Ischaemic conditioning reduces kidney injury in an experimental large-animal model of warm renal ischaemia (pages 1517–1525)
• Enhanced recovery protocol after liver resection (pages 1526–1532)
• Selective internal radiation therapy for liver malignancies (pages 1533–1540)
• Associating portal embolization and artery ligation to induce rapid liver regeneration in staged hepatectomy (pages 1541–1550)
• Postoperative infectious complications after pancreatic resection (pages 1551–1560)
• Impact of bacterial contamination of the abdominal cavity during pancreaticoduodenectomy on surgical-site infection (pages 1561–1566)
• Multicentre study of robotic intersphincteric resection for low rectal cancer (pages 1567–1573)
• Quality-of-life outcomes following pelvic exenteration for primary rectal cancer (pages 1574–1580)
• Experimental study of the potential hazards of surgical smoke from powered instruments (pages 1581–1586)

Scientific Surgery

• Scientific surgery (page 1587)

Spanish Translations

• Spanish translation section (pages e242–e248)