1. The effects of fast-track surgery on inflammation and immunity in patients undergoing colorectal surgery

   • Jinhua Feng
   • Ka Li
   • Yanjie Hu

   Original Article 12 August 2016 Pages: 1675 - 1682

   

2. Differences between colon and rectal cancer in complications, short-term survival and recurrences

   • Max P.L. van der Sijp
   • Esther Bastiaannet
   • J. W. T. Dekker

   Original Article Open access 06 August 2016 Pages: 1683 - 1691

   

3. Sigmoid resection with primary anastomosis and ileostomy versus laparoscopic lavage in purulent peritonitis from perforated diverticulitis: outcome analysis in a prospective cohort of 40 consecutive patients

   • Jonathan Catry
   • Antoine Brouquet
   • Christophe Penna

   Original Article 08 September 2016 Pages: 1693 - 1699

   

4. Robot-assisted versus laparoscopic surgery for lower rectal cancer: the impact of visceral obesity on surgical outcomes

   • Akio Shiomi
   • Yusuke Kinugasa
   • Yushi Yamakawa

   Original Article 06 September 2016 Pages: 1701 - 1710

5. Self-reported wellbeing and body image after abdominoperineal excision for rectal cancer

   • Elisabeth González
   • Kajsa Holm
   • Eva Angenete

   Original Article Open access 10 August 2016 Pages: 1711 - 1717

   

6. The important risk factor for lateral pelvic lymph node metastasis of lower rectal cancer is node-positive status on magnetic resonance imaging: study of the Lymph Node Committee of Japanese Society for Cancer of the Colon and Rectum

   • Shimpei Ogawa
   • Jin-ichi Hida
   • Kenichi Sugihara

   Original Article 30 August 2016 Pages: 1719 - 1728

   

7. Long-term outcome of extralevator abdominoperineal excision (ELAPE) for low rectal cancer

   • Sigmar Stelzner
   • Gunter Hellmich
   • Helmut Witzigmann

   Original Article 09 September 2016 Pages: 1729 - 1737