1. External coating of colonic anastomoses: a systematic review

   • Hans-Christian Pommergaard
   • Michael Patrick Achiam
   • Jacob Rosenberg

   Review 21 August 2012 Pages: 1247 - 1258

   

2. Anastomotic leak after restorative proctosigmoidectomy for cancer: what are the chances of a permanent ostomy?

   • James W. Ogilvie Jr
   • David W. Dietz
   • Luca Stocchi

   Original Article 16 February 2012 Pages: 1259 - 1266

   

3. Ostomy function after abdominoperineal resection—a clinical and patient evaluation

   • E. Angenete
   • A. Correa-Marinez
   • E. Haglind

   Original Article 27 March 2012 Pages: 1267 - 1274

4. Increased use of multidisciplinary treatment modalities adds little to the outcome of rectal cancer treated by optimal total mesorectal excision

   • Kah Hoong Chang
   • Myles J. Smith
   • Joe F. Dowdall

   Original Article 08 March 2012 Pages: 1275 - 1283

   

5. Close distal margins do not increase rectal cancer recurrence after sphincter-saving surgery without neoadjuvant therapy

   • Jason Wei-Min Lim
   • Min-Hoe Chew
   • Choong-Leong Tang

   Original Article 24 August 2012 Pages: 1285 - 1294

   

6. Evaluation of histological regression grading systems in the neoadjuvant therapy of rectal cancer

   • D. Vallböhmer
   • E. Bollschweiler
   • U. Drebber

   Original Article 22 May 2012 Pages: 1295 - 1301

   

7. Metachronous carcinomas in colorectum and its clinicopathological significance

   • Alfred King-Yin Lam
   • Vinod Gopalan
   • Simon Siu

   Original Article 25 July 2012 Pages: 1303 - 1310

   

8. Impact and prognostic implications of colon cancers stage II sub-classification through the years

   • Laura Lorenzon
   • Emanuela Pilozzi
   • Mario Ferri

   Original Article 06 May 2012 Pages: 1311 - 1318

   

9. Tumor location determines midkine level and its association with the disease progression in colorectal cancer patients: a pilot study

   • Malgorzata Krzystek-Korpacka
   • Dorota Diakowska
   • Andrzej Gamian

   Original Article Open access 06 May 2012 Pages: 1319 - 1324

   

10. Effect of neoadjuvant cetuximab, capecitabine, and radiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: results of a phase II study

    • Pei-Long Sun
    • Bing Li
    • Qi-Fa Ye

    Original Article 20 March 2012 Pages: 1325 - 1332

    

11. Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 is a valuable prognostic factor in colorectal cancer patients with normal levels of carcinoembryonic antigen and may help predict lung metastasis

    • Pei-Ching Lin
    • Jen-Kou Lin
    • Shih-Ching Chang

    Original Article 20 March 2012 Pages: 1333 - 1338

    

12. Identification of patients likely to benefit from metastasectomy in stage IV colorectal cancer

    • Manabu Shimomura
    • Masazumi Okajima
    • Hideki Ohdan

    Original Article 10 March 2012 Pages: 1339 - 1346

    

13. Can neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predict the survival of colorectal cancer patients who have received curative surgery electively?

    • Sum-Fu Chiang
    • Hsin-Yuan Hung
    • Jr-Rung Lin

    Original Article 31 March 2012 Pages: 1347 - 1357

    

14. Bilobar spreading of colorectal liver metastases does not significantly affect survival after R0 resection in the era of interdisciplinary multimodal treatment

    • K. Homayounfar
    • A. Bleckmann
    • B. M. Ghadimi

    Original Article Open access 21 March 2012 Pages: 1359 - 1367

    

15. Expression of interleukin-4 and interleukin-13 and their receptors in colorectal cancer

    • Andrea Formentini
    • Philipp Braun
    • Marko Kornmann

    Original Article 24 March 2012 Pages: 1369 - 1376

    

16. Diagnostic accuracy of C-reactive protein and white blood cell counts in the early detection of inflammatory complications after open resection of colorectal cancer: a retrospective study of 1,187 patients

    • Rene Warschkow
    • Thomas Steffen
    • Ignazio Tarantino

    Letter to the Editor 22 December 2011 Pages: 1377 - 1377

17. Short- and long-term effects of selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitor paracoxib on ileal and colonic anastomosis in rats

    • Irio Goncalves
    • Alexandre Bakonyi
    • Luis Eduardo Naresse

    Letter to the Editor 03 January 2012 Pages: 1379 - 1381

18. Linoleic acid and colorectal cancer cell growth suppression: is the deregulation of mitochondrial survivin the key factor?

    • Raffaella Mormile
    • Giorgio Vittori
    • Federico Quaini

    Letter to the Editor 11 January 2012 Pages: 1383 - 1384

19. VIPoma that arose from the rectum in a 65-year-old male patient

    • Jung Hyun Jo
    • Seungtaek Lim
    • Sang Joon Shin

    Letter to the Editor 16 February 2012 Pages: 1385 - 1386

20. Letter to the editor: a meta-analyses of association between polymorphism of MTHFR A1298C and colorectal cancer risk

    • Hong Ge
    • Xiaoli Zheng
    • Jinming Yu

    Letter to the Editor 21 February 2012 Pages: 1387 - 1388

21. Bilateral laparoscopic adrenalectomy for synchronous metastasis of colonic cancer

    • Virginia Muñoz-Atienza
    • Ma. Carmen Manzanares-Campillo
    • Jesús Martín-Fernánndez

    Letter to the Editor 23 February 2012 Pages: 1389 - 1390