REVIEW

1. Neoadjuvant treatment:A window of opportunity for nutritional prehabilitation in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
2. Current trends in three-dimensional visualization and real-time navigation as well as robot-assisted technologies in hepatobiliary surgery
3. How can probiotic improve irritable bowel syndrome symptoms?

MINIREVIEWS

1. Role of minimally invasive techniques in gastrointestinal surgery:Current status and future perspectives
2. Trends of rapamycin in survival benefits of liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma
3. Finding the seed of recurrence:Hepatocellular carcinoma circulating tumor cells and their potential to drive the surgical treatment

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1. Comparison of perioperative outcomes between laparoscopic and open partial splenectomy in children and adolescents
2. Suture ligation for submucosal hemostasis during hand-sewn sidetoside duodeno-ileostomy in simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplantation
3. Evaluating the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with ypT0–1 rectal cancer treated with preoperative chemoradiotherapy
4. Optimal postoperative surveillance strategies for stage III colorectal cancer
5. Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 as a novel prognostic biomarker in distal cholangiocarcinoma
6. Novel suturing technique,based on physical principles,achieves a breaking point double that obtained by conventional techniques
7. Quality of life after colorectal surgery:A prospective study of patients compared with their spouses

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

1. Literature review of the outcome of and methods used to improve transperineal repair of rectocele

META-ANALYSIS

1. Perioperative steroid administration reduces overall complications in patients undergoing liver resection:A meta-analysis

CASE REPORT

1. Three colonic cancers,two sites of complete occlusion,one patient:A case report
2. Fluorescence in situ hybridization-based confirmation of acute graftvshost disease diagnosis following liver transplantation:A case report