Issue Information

• Issue Information (pages 1395–1403)

Leading article

• Evolution of laparoscopic liver resection (pages 1405–1407)

The art of surgery

• The Anatomy Lesson of Nicolaes Tulp, painted by Rembrandt in 1632 (page 1408)

Systematic reviews

• Meta-analysis of sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer using the magnetic technique (pages 1409–1419)
• Systematic review of risk prediction models for diabetes after bariatric surgery(pages 1420–1427)
• Systematic review of e-learning for surgical training (pages 1428–1437)

Randomized clinical trial

• Randomized clinical trial comparing surgery, endovenous laser ablation and ultrasound-guided foam sclerotherapy for the treatment of great saphenous varicose veins (pages 1438–1444)

Statistical nugget

• Causal relationship and confounding in statistical models (pages 1445–1446)

Randomized clinical trial

• Randomized clinical trial of chewing gum after laparoscopic colorectal resection(pages 1447–1452)

Original articles

• A global country-level comparison of the financial burden of surgery (pages 1453–1461)
• Delays in the presentation to stroke services of patients with transient ischaemic attack and minor stroke (pages 1462–1466)
• Multicentre observational study of surgical system failures in aortic procedures and their effect on patient outcomes (pages 1467–1475)
• Radiofrequency ablation compared with laparoscopic adrenalectomy for aldosterone-producing adenoma (pages 1476–1486)
• Patterns of disease relapse in primary extremity soft-tissue sarcoma (pages 1487–1496)
• Role of omentectomy as part of radical surgery for gastric cancer (pages 1497–1503)
• Propensity score-based analysis of outcomes of laparoscopic versus open liver resection for colorectal metastases (pages 1504–1512)
• Long-term survival of patients undergoing liver resection for very large hepatocellular carcinomas (pages 1513–1520)
• Outcome after associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy and conventional two-stage hepatectomy for colorectal liver metastases (pages 1521–1529)
• Effect of appendicectomy on colonic inflammation and neoplasia in experimental ulcerative colitis (pages 1530–1538)
• Health economic analysis of laparoscopic lavage versus Hartmann’s procedure for diverticulitis in the randomized DILALA trial (pages 1539–1547)
• Cost-effectiveness of pelvic exenteration for locally advanced malignancy (pages 1548–1556)
• Retrospective analysis of 30-day mortality for emergency general surgery admissions evaluating the weekend effect (pages 1557–1565)

Scientific surgery

• Scientific surgery (page 1566)

 Spanish abstracts

• Spanish translation section (pages e178–e184)