Surgery Today

The Japan Society for Surgical Infection: guidelines for the prevention, detection, and management of gastroenterological surgical site infection, 2018

• Open Access
• Guideline

Hiroki Ohge, Toshihiko Mayumi, Seiji Haji, Yuichi Kitagawa, Masahiro Kobayashi, Motomu Kobayashi, Toru Mizuguchi, Yasuhiko Mohri, Fumie Sakamoto, Junzo Shimizu, Katsunori Suzuki, Motoi Uchino, Chizuru Yamashita, Masahiro Yoshida, Koichi Hirata, Yoshinobu Sumiyama, Shinya Kusachi

Association between preoperative tumor necrosis factor alpha inhibitor and surgical site infection after surgery for inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Review Article

Motoi Uchino, Hiroki Ikeuchi, Junzo Shimizu, Hiroki Ohge, Seiji Haji, Toru Mizuguchi, Yasuhiko Mohri, Chizuru Yamashita, Yuichi Kitagawa, Katsunori Suzuki, Motomu Kobayashi, Masahiro Kobayashi, Fumie Sakamoto, Masahiro Yoshida, Toshihiko Mayumi, Koichi Hirata, Yoshio Takesue

Robotic surgery for rectal cancer as a platform to build on: review of current evidence

• Review Article

Pietro Achilli, Fabian Grass, David W. Larson

Impact of the preoperative body composition indexes on intraoperative blood loss in patients undergoing pancreatoduodenectomy

• Original Article

Kenta Ishii, Yukihiro Yokoyama, Tomoki Ebata, Tsuyoshi Igami, Takashi Mizuno, Junpei Yamaguchi, Shunsuke Onoe, Nobuyuki Watanabe, Masato Nagino

One-year outcomes of bariatric surgery in older adults: a case-matched analysis based on the Tehran Obesity Treatment Study

• Original Article

Shayan Aryannezhad, Alireza Khalaj, Farhad Hosseinpanah, Maryam Mahdavi, Majid Valizadeh, Maryam Barzin

Conversion to open laparotomy during laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy: lessons from a single-center experience in 70 consecutive patients

• Original Article

Ippei Matsumoto, Keiko Kamei, Shumpei Satoi, Takaaki Murase, Masataka Matsumoto, Kohei Kawaguchi, Yuta Yoshida, Dongha Lee, Atsushi Takebe, Takuya Nakai, Yoshifumi Takeyama

Preoperative one-stop magnetic resonance imaging evaluation of the pancreaticobiliary junction and hepatic arteries in children with pancreaticobiliary maljunction: a prospective cohort study

• Original Article

Wan-liang Guo, Jian Wang

The predictive value of preoperative risk assessments and frailty for surgical complications in lung cancer patients

• Original Article

Hiroyuki Kaneda, Takahito Nakano, Tomohiro Murakawa

The prognostic relevance of primary tumor sidedness to surgical treatment for recurrent colon cancer

• Original Article

Tairin Uchino, Akira Ouchi, Koji Komori, Takashi Kinoshita, Taihei Oshiro, Tsuyoshi Sano, Yasuhiro Shimizu

Superiority of log odds of positive lymph nodes (LODDS) for prognostic prediction after gastric cancer surgery: a multi-institutional analysis of 7620 patients in China

• Original Article

Pengfei Gu, Jingyu Deng, Zhe Sun, Zhenning Wang, Wei Wang, Han Liang, Huimian Xu, Zhiwei Zhou

Preoperative endoscopic tattooing using India ink to determine the resection margins during totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer

• Original Article

Yuta Yamazaki, Shingo Kanaji, Gosuke Takiguchi, Naoki Urakawa, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Masashi Yamamoto, Yoshiko Matsuda, Kimihiro Yamashita, Takeru Matsuda, Taro Oshikiri, Tetsu Nakamura, Satoshi Suzuki, Yoshihiro Kakeji

Controlling lymph node micrometastases by neoadjuvant chemotherapy affects the prognosis in advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

• Original Article

Yoko Hiraki, Yutaka Kimura, Motohiro Imano, Hiroaki Kato, Mitsuru Iwama, Osamu Shiraishi, Atsushi Yasuda, Masayuki Shinkai, Tomoki Makino, Masaaki Motoori, Makoto Yamasaki, Hiroshi Miyata, Takao Satou, Taroh Satoh, Hiroshi Furukawa, Masahiko Yano, Yuichiro Doki, Takushi Yasuda

The neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio as a novel independent prognostic factor for multiple metastatic lung tumors from various sarcomas

• Original Article

Hiromasa Yamamoto, Kei Namba, Haruchika Yamamoto, Tomohiro Toji, Junichi Soh, Kazuhiko Shien, Ken Suzawa, Takeshi Kurosaki, Shinji Otani, Mikio Okazaki, Seiichiro Sugimoto, Masaomi Yamane, Katsuhito Takahashi, Toshiyuki Kunisada, Takahiro Oto, Shinichi Toyooka

New method for the assessment of perineural invasion from perihilar cholangiocarcinoma

• Original Article

Hiroshi Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Igami, Yoshie Shimoyama, Tomoki Ebata, Yukihiro Yokoyama, Kensaku Mori, Masato Nagino

The Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) Score as a prognostic factor for obstructive colorectal cancer patients received stenting as a bridge to curative surgery

• Original Article

Ryuichiro Sato, Masaya Oikawa, Tetsuya Kakita, Takaho Okada, Tomoya Abe, Takashi Yazawa, Haruyuki Tsuchiya, Naoya Akazawa, Masaki Sato, Tetsuya Ohira, Yoshihiro Harada, Haruka Okano, Kei Ito, Takashi Tsuchiya

Newly developed primary malignancies in long-term survivors who underwent curative esophagectomy for squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus

• Original Article

Dai Shimizu, Masahiko Koike, Mitsuro Kanda, Fuminori Sonohara, Norifumi Hattori, Masamichi Hayashi, Chie Tanaka, Suguru Yamada, Yasuhiro Kodera

The usefulness and utilization of a detachable steel wire-rimmed retractor (KN retractor) for endoscopic thyroid and parathyroid surgery

• Original Article

Akihiro Nakajo, Koji Minami, Yoshiaki Shinden, Tadahiro Hirashima, Hazuki Saho, Yuki Nomoto, Ayako Nagata, Takao Ohtsuka

Impact of pretreatment asymptomatic renal dysfunction on clinical course after esophagectomy

• Original Article

Yuki Kirihataya, Kohei Wakatsuki, Sohei Matsumoto, Hiroshi Nakade, Tomohiro Kunishige, Shintaro Miyao, Masayuki Sho

Modified left subsuperior segmentectomy via 2-cm uniportal video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery

• How To Do It

Gaoli Liu, Haifeng Hu, Ping Dong, Shaowen Zhang, Zhangfan Mao

Acknowledgment to reviewers

• Acknowledgment