1. Behind and beyond surgery

   • F. M. Riegler

   editorial 31 March 2017 Pages: 101 - 107

   

2. Surgery of acute severe ulcerative colitis. Subtotal colectomy: when and how to do it?

   • Rosario Fornaro
   • Elisa Caratto
   • Marco Casaccia

   review 22 December 2016 Pages: 108 - 112

   

3. Preoperative nutritional counseling versus standard care prior to bariatric surgery

   • Stavros A. Antoniou
   • Anastasia Anastasiadou
   • Antonios Kafatos

   review 13 January 2017 Pages: 113 - 117

   

4. Oxidative stress and angiogenesis in primary hyperparathyroidism

   • Mariusz Deska
   • Ewa Romuk
   • Jacek Gawrychowski

   original article Open access 14 December 2016 Pages: 118 - 126

   

5. Fecal occult blood test/fecal carcinoembriogenic antigen dual rapid test as a useful tool for colorectal cancer screening

   • Maru Kim
   • Hyung-Jin Kim
   • Kyungja Han

   original article 03 February 2017 Pages: 127 - 131

   

6. Caudate resection for primary and metastatic liver tumors

   • Georgios C. Sotiropoulos
   • Petros Charalampoudis
   • Gregory Kouraklis

   original article 15 February 2017 Pages: 132 - 139

   

7. Impact of ultrasound examination shortly after kidney transplantation

   • Christoph Schwarz
   • Jakob Mühlbacher
   • Gabriela A. Berlakovich

   original article Open access 16 February 2017 Pages: 140 - 144

   

8. Laparoscopic appendectomy using only two 5 mm trocars

   • Hugo Bonatti

   case report 10 February 2017 Pages: 145 - 147