1. Updates in aortic wall pathology

   • Hiroaki Osada
   • Kenji Minatoya

   Review Article 30 November 2021 Pages: 1671 - 1679

   

2. Correlation between our symptom-based scoring system and the Eckardt score for assessing patients with esophageal achalasia

   • Kazuto Tsuboi
   • Takahiro Masuda
   • Ken Eto

   Original Article 19 April 2022 Pages: 1680 - 1687

   

3. Predictors of a difficult Pringle maneuver in laparoscopic liver resection and evaluation of alternative procedures to assist bleeding control

   • Shinichiro Nakada
   • Yuichiro Otsuka
   • Hironori Kaneko

   Original Article 29 June 2022 Pages: 1688 - 1697

   

4. Correction to: Predictors of a difficult Pringle maneuver in laparoscopic liver resection and evaluation of alternative procedures to assist bleeding control

   • Shinichiro Nakada
   • Yuichiro Otsuka
   • Hironori Kaneko

   Correction 09 August 2022 Pages: 1698 - 1698

5. Prognostic significance of the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and red cell distribution width (RDW) in obstructive colorectal cancer patients with a stent inserted as a bridge to curative surgery

   • Ryuichiro Sato
   • Masaya Oikawa
   • Takashi Tsuchiya

   Original Article 19 April 2022 Pages: 1699 - 1710

   

6. Correction to: Prognostic significance of the mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and red cell distribution width (RDW) in obstructive colorectal cancer patients with a stent inserted as a bridge to curative surgery

   • Ryuichiro Sato
   • Masaya Oikawa
   • Takashi Tsuchiya

   Correction 03 June 2022 Pages: 1711 - 1713

7. Decreased numbers of gastric, colorectal, lung, and breast cancer surgeries performed in 17 cancer-designated hospitals in Gunma Prefecture of Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic

   • Hiroshi Saeki
   • Ken Shirabe
   • Hiroshi Koyama

   Original Article 15 April 2022 Pages: 1714 - 1720

   

8. A prognostic scoring system for conversion surgery after trastuzumab-based chemotherapy for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive advanced gastric cancer

   • Takaaki Arigami
   • Daisuke Matsushita
   • Takao Ohtsuka

   Original Article Open access 11 May 2022 Pages: 1721 - 1730

   

9. Impact of post-operative paralytic ileus on post-operative outcomes after surgery for colorectal cancer: a single-institution, retrospective study

   • Ryota Matsui
   • Kunihiko Nagakari
   • Yoichi Ishizaki

   Original Article 16 April 2022 Pages: 1731 - 1740

10. Increase in pediatric complicated appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic: a multi-center retrospective study

    • Daisuke Kanamori
    • Masashi Kurobe
    • Takao Ohki

    Original Article 07 June 2022 Pages: 1741 - 1745

    

11. Non-adjacent interlobar lymph node metastasis distant from small-sized peripheral non-small cell lung cancer

    • Tomohiro Maniwa
    • Toru Kimura
    • Jiro Okami

    Original Article 30 April 2022 Pages: 1746 - 1752

    

12. Preliminary study for developing a navigation system for gastric cancer surgery using artificial intelligence

    • Yuya Sato
    • Jun Sese
    • Yusuke Kinugasa

    Original Article 05 May 2022 Pages: 1753 - 1758

    

13. A comparison of the surgical invasiveness and short-term outcomes between thoracoscopic and pneumatic mediastinoscopic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

    • Ken Sasaki
    • Yusuke Tsuruda
    • Takao Ohtsuka

    Original Article 12 May 2022 Pages: 1759 - 1765

    

14. Cost of postoperative complications of lower anterior resection for rectal cancer: a nationwide registry study of 15,187 patients

    • Hiraku Kumamaru
    • Yoshihiro Kakeji
    • Hiroaki Miyata

    Original Article Open access 24 May 2022 Pages: 1766 - 1774

    

15. Crohn’s disease and short bowel syndrome

    • Philippe Pinton

    Letter to the Editor Open access 29 June 2022 Pages: 1775 - 1776