Current Problems in Surgery keeps readers up-to-date on the latest surgical advances. Each month, this publication examines a single clinical problem or condition commonly seen by general surgeons. Issues also focus on topics in surgical research and emerging ideas in surgical subspecialties. Current Problems in Surgery is ideal for information too urgent to await book publication, yet too important to be summarized in a brief journal article.

2016 Topics, Volume 53

January
The Gastrointestinal Immune System: Implications for the Surgical Patient
Joseph F. Pierre, Rebecca A. Busch, and Kenneth A. Kudsk

February
Process Improvement in Surgery
Christina A. Minami, Catherine R. Sheils, Karl Y. Bilimoria, and Anthony D. Yang

March
Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
Mariam F. Eskander, Lindsay A. Bliss, and Jennifer F. Tseng

April
Environmentalism in Surgical Practice
Anna Weiss, Hannah M. Hollandsworth, Adnan Alseidi, Lauren Scovel, Clare French, Ellen L. Derrick, and Daniel Klaristenfeld

May
Endocrine Incidentalomas
Lee F. Starker, Peter A. Prieto, J. Spencer Liles, Hop S. Tran Cao, Elizabeth G. Grubbs, Jeffrey E. Lee, Nancy D. Perrier, and Paul H. Graham

June
The Intestinal Microbiome and Surgical Disease
Monika A. Krezalek, Kinga B. Skowron, Kristina L. Guyton, Baddr Shakhsheer, Sanjiv Hyoju, and John C. Alverdy