1. Botulinum toxin and anal fissure: Efficacy and safety systematic review

   • Eugenia Yiannakopoulou

   Review 06 August 2011 Pages: 1 - 9

2. Association between OCTN1/2 gene polymorphisms (1672C-T, 207G-C) and susceptibility of Crohn's disease: a meta-analysis

   • Chao Xuan
   • Bei-Bei Zhang
   • Rui-Juan Tian

   Original Article 25 June 2011 Pages: 11 - 19

   

3. Knock-down of ubiquitin-specific protease 22 by micro-RNA interference inhibits colorectal cancer growth

   • Hui Xu
   • Yan-Long Liu
   • Xin-Shu Dong

   Original Article 20 July 2011 Pages: 21 - 30

   

4. Down-regulation of HLA-A mRNA in peripheral blood mononuclear cell of colorectal cancer

   • Ming-Chen Zhu
   • Yi-Jun Xu
   • Feng Yan

   Original Article 23 September 2011 Pages: 31 - 36

   

5. Downregulation of Notch-1/Jagged-2 in human colon tissues from Hirschsprung disease patients

   • Huimin Jia
   • Keren Zhang
   • Weilin Wang

   Original Article 03 September 2011 Pages: 37 - 41

   

6. Focused preoperative patient stoma education, prior to ileostomy formation after anterior resection, contributes to a reduction in delayed discharge within the enhanced recovery programme

   • Jenan Younis
   • Gisella Salerno
   • Jonathan P. Trickett

   Original Article 10 June 2011 Pages: 43 - 47

7. Morbidity related to defunctioning ileostomy closure after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis and low colonic anastomosis

   • Henderik L. van Westreenen
   • Annelies Visser
   • Willem A. Bemelman

   Original Article Open access 15 July 2011 Pages: 49 - 54

   

8. Postoperative complications after closure of a diverting ileostoma—differences according to closure technique

   • Kajsa Gustavsson
   • Ulf Gunnarsson
   • Pia Jestin

   Original Article 16 August 2011 Pages: 55 - 58

9. Extraperitoneal vs. intraperitoneal route for permanent colostomy: a meta-analysis of 1,071 patients

   • Lei Lian
   • Xian-Rui Wu
   • Jian-Ping Wang

   Original Article 03 September 2011 Pages: 59 - 64

   

10. Mentored trainees obtain comparable operative results to experts in complex laparoscopic colorectal surgery

    • Federico Costantino
    • Didier Mutter
    • Jacques Marescaux

    Original Article 23 August 2011 Pages: 65 - 69

11. Despite aggressive histopathology survival is not impaired in young patients with colorectal cancer

    • Vera Simone Schellerer
    • Susanne Merkel
    • Roland Siegfried Croner

    Original Article 01 September 2011 Pages: 71 - 79

    

12. Apical-node metastasis in sigmoid colon or rectal cancer: is it a factor that indicates a poor prognosis after high ligation?

    • Jin-Wook Yi
    • Taek-Gu Lee
    • Sung-Bum Kang

    Original Article 08 July 2011 Pages: 81 - 87

    

13. Does the outcome of colonic flexure cancers differ from the other colonic sites?

    • Irshad A. Shaikh
    • Stuart A. Suttie
    • Satheesh Yalamarthi

    Original Article 18 August 2011 Pages: 89 - 93

    

14. Laparoscopic-assisted versus open resection of right-sided colonic cancer—a prospective randomized controlled trial

    • Jimmy Chak-Man Li
    • Ka Lau Leung
    • Sophie Sok-Fei Hon

    Original Article 23 August 2011 Pages: 95 - 102

    

15. Violation of treatment guidelines — hazard for rectal cancer patients

    • Eivind Jullumstrø
    • Arne Wibe
    • Tom-Harald Edna

    Original Article Open access 23 August 2011 Pages: 103 - 109

16. Quality of surgical care, local recurrence, and survival in patients with low- and midrectal cancers following multimodal therapy

    • Ilmo Kellokumpu
    • Jaana Vironen
    • Kyösti Nuorva

    Original Article 26 October 2011 Pages: 111 - 120

    

17. Intra-abdominal dilation of artificial bowel sphincter pressure-regulating balloon: a case report

    • Bartholomeus van Wunnik
    • Walter Mastboom
    • Cornelius Baeten

    Case Report Open access 02 March 2011 Pages: 121 - 123

    

18. Fulminant gangrenous ischemic colitis: is it the solely severe type of ischemic colitis?

    • Hyo Kang
    • Ho Goon Kim
    • Young Jin Kim

    Letter to the Editor 19 April 2011 Pages: 125 - 126

19. Common bile duct obstruction by intraluminal colorectal metastasis without evidence of liver or intraabdominal nodal metastasis

    • Thomas I Peng Soh
    • Bhavesh Kishor Doshi
    • Benjamin Yen Seong Chuah

    Letter to the Editor 26 April 2011 Pages: 127 - 128

20. Blood albumin level in cases with colorectal cancer

    • Viroj Wiwanitkit

    Letter to the Editor 19 April 2011 Pages: 129 - 129

21. Loop ileostomy or loop colostomy: which one is better for fecal diversion?

    • Tzu-An Chen

    Letter to the Editor 19 April 2011 Pages: 131 - 132