1. Surgeon fatigue does not affect surgical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

   • Naoya Koda
   • Yoko Oshima
   • Hideaki Shimada

   Review Article 13 September 2020 Pages: 659 - 668

   

2. Troubleshooting in thoracoscopic anatomical lung resection for lung cancer

   • Atsushi Watanabe

   Review Article 17 September 2020 Pages: 669 - 677

3. Management options for post-esophagectomy chylothorax

   • Vaibhav Kumar Varshney
   • Sunita Suman
   • Pushpinder Singh Khera

   Review Article 17 September 2020 Pages: 678 - 685

   

4. Staging laparoscopy is mandatory for the treatment of pancreatic cancer to avoid missing radiologically negative metastases

   • Tatsuyuki Takadate
   • Takanori Morikawa
   • Michiaki Unno

   Original Article 08 September 2020 Pages: 686 - 694

   

5. Indocyanine green fluorescence navigation in laparoscopic hepatectomy: a retrospective single-center study of 120 cases

   • Hao Lu
   • Jian Gu
   • Xin-zheng Dai

   Original Article Open access 31 October 2020 Pages: 695 - 702

   

6. Postoperative inguinal pain and disability after Lichtenstein versus ONSTEP hernia repair: analysis of responses to the inguinal pain questionnaire in Spanish

   • Jorge Aguilar-García
   • Rodrigo Villafuerte-Fernandez
   • Mario A. Martinez-Jimenez

   Original Article 11 October 2020 Pages: 703 - 712

   

7. Determining the protective characteristics and risk factors for the development of anastomotic leakage after low anterior resection for rectal cancer

   • Nobuaki Suzuki
   • Shin Yoshida
   • Hiroaki Nagano

   Original Article Open access 02 October 2020 Pages: 713 - 720

   

8. Indications for laparoscopic surgery for older rectal cancer patients with comorbidities

   • Yuichi Hisamatsu
   • Naotaka Kuriyama
   • Masaki Mori

   Original Article 17 September 2020 Pages: 721 - 726

   

9. Criteria for liver resection for metastasis from bile duct cancer

   • Shintaro Yamazaki
   • Tadatoshi Takayama
   • Tokio Higaki

   Original Article 09 October 2020 Pages: 727 - 732

   

10. Incisional hernia after liver transplantation: mesh-based repair and what else?

    • Aristotelis Perrakis
    • Dagmar Knüttel
    • Nikolaos Vassos

    Original Article Open access 16 October 2020 Pages: 733 - 737

11. Bowel obstruction as a serious complication of patients with femoral hernia

    • Mauricio Gonzalez-Urquijo
    • Valeria C. Tellez-Giron
    • Gerardo Gil-Galindo

    Original Article 08 October 2020 Pages: 738 - 744

    

12. Clinical implications of the preoperative lymphocyte C-reactive protein ratio in esophageal cancer patients

    • Akira Yamamoto
    • Yuji Toiyama
    • Masaki Ohi

    Original Article 01 November 2020 Pages: 745 - 755

    

13. Machine learning to predict the cancer-specific mortality of patients with primary non-metastatic invasive breast cancer

    • Cheng-Mao Zhou
    • Qiong Xue
    • Jian-Jun Yang

    Original Article 26 October 2020 Pages: 756 - 763

    

14. Enhanced patterns on intraoperative contrast-enhanced ultrasonography predict outcomes after curative liver resection in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

    • Ikuo Nakamura
    • Etsuro Hatano
    • Hiroko Iijima

    Original Article 22 September 2020 Pages: 764 - 776

    

15. Taste alteration after gastrectomy in patients with gastric cancer

    • Takaomi Hagi
    • Yukinori Kurokawa
    • Yuichiro Doki

    Original Article 02 January 2021 Pages: 777 - 784

    

16. Standard versus eversion-modified double-staple technique for low colorectal anastomoses after resection of rectal cancer

    • Giulio Illuminati
    • Rocco Pasqua
    • Mario Valle

    Original Article Open access 31 October 2020 Pages: 785 - 791

    

17. Inguinal hernia associated with radical prostatectomy

    • Satoru Nagatani
    • Hiroaki Tsumura
    • Yasuko Kameda

    Original Article 26 September 2020 Pages: 792 - 797

18. Oligometastatic recurrence as a prognostic factor after curative resection of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

    • Takeshi Morinaga
    • Masaaki Iwatsuki
    • Hideo Baba

    Original Article 01 November 2020 Pages: 798 - 806

    

19. Usefulness of laparoscopic surgery and preoperative examinations for chronic recurrent small bowel obstruction

    • Masashi Yahagi
    • Yoshiyuki Ishii
    • Masahiko Watanabe

    Original Article 10 January 2021 Pages: 807 - 813

    

20. Relationship between the tumor location and clinicopathological features in left-sided pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

    • Teijiro Hirashita
    • Yukio Iwashita
    • Masafumi Inomata

    Original Article 24 September 2020 Pages: 814 - 820

    

21. Short-term outcomes of gastrectomy after neoadjuvant chemotherapy for clinical stage III gastric cancer: propensity score-matched analysis of a multi-institutional database

    • Shinichi Umeda
    • Mitsuro Kanda
    • Yasuhiro Kodera

    Original Article 10 November 2020 Pages: 821 - 828

    

22. Educational application of intraoperative records from an energy device in laparoscopic gastrectomy: a preliminary report

    • Hisahiro Hosogi
    • Kazutaka Obama
    • Yoshiharu Sakai

    Original Article 11 October 2020 Pages: 829 - 835

    

23. A method to identify pulmonary intersegmental planes with intravenous vitamin B₂ injection

    • Daisuke Saito
    • Isao Matsumoto
    • Hirofumi Takemura

    Original Article 14 September 2020 Pages: 836 - 843

    

24. Transvaginal peritoneocele repair with anterior levatorplasty for patients with a rectocele and an enterocele

    • Kotaro Maeda
    • Yoshikazu Koide
    • Yeong Cheol Cheong

    How To Do It 08 October 2020 Pages: 844 - 847