REVIEW

1. Acute appendicitis-advances and controversies

MINIREVIEWS

1. Application and progress of medical imaging in total mesopancreas excision for pancreatic head carcinoma
2. Retrorectal tumors:A challenge for the surgeons
3. Surgical ampullectomy:A comprehensive review
4. Is surgery the best treatment for elderly gastric cancer patients?

ORIGINAL ARTICLE

1. Nomogram for predicting chylous ascites after right colectomy
2. Comparison of safety,efficacy,and long-term follow-up between“one-step”and“step-up”approaches for infected pancreatic necrosis
3. Risk of station 12a lymph node metastasis in patients with lowerthird gastric cancer
4. Choice of operative method for pancreaticojejunostomy and a multivariable study of pancreatic leakage in pancreaticoduodenectomy
5. Laparoscopic vs open surgery in ileostomy reversal in Crohn’s disease:A retrospective study
6. Preoperative serum carbohydrate antigen 19-9 levels predict early recurrence after the resection of early-stage pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
7. Patients with Clostridium difficile infection and prior appendectomy may be prone to worse outcomes
8. Novel roles of lipopolysaccharide and TLR4/NF-κB signaling pathway in inflammatory response to liver injury in Budd-Chiari syndrome
9. Long-term survival of patients with stage II and III gastric cancer who underwent gastrectomy with inadequate nodal assessment
10. Defecation disorders are crucial sequelae that impairs the quality of life of patients after conventional gastrectomy

SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS

1. Is omentectomy necessary in the treatment of benign or malignant abdominal pathologies?A systematic review

SCIENTOMETRICS

1. Global trends in research related to sleeve gastrectomy:A bibliometric and visualized study