Volume 65(12) pgs. 1411-1554,e1070-e1120 December 2022

1. Why Are Real Patient Outcomes Important?.

2. Life After Rectal Cancer Treatment: Time to Turn to the Experts.

3. The Middle Compartment: Keystone or Cul De Sac?.

4. Presentation of Monkeypox in Colorectal Clinic.

5. Perianal and Rectal Lesions in the Monkeypox Outbreak: Diagnosis and Proposed Management.

6. Hemorrhoids and Hogwarts.

7. What Every Colorectal Surgeon Should Know About Private Practice Compensation Models.

8. Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction.

9. Management of Acute Colonic Pseudo-Obstruction: What to Do When the Colon Is Doing Nothing.

10. The Role of Preoperative Imaging in the Detection of Lateral Lymph Node Metastases in Rectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Diagnostic Test Meta-analysis.

11. Research Perspective on The Role of Preoperative Imaging in the Detection of Lateral Lymph Node Metastases in Rectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Diagnostic Test Meta-analysis.

12. Assessment of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Patients With Anal Squamous-Cell Cancer Undergoing Combined Modality Therapy.

13. Their Whole Lives Are Going To Change: A Photo-Elicitation Study of Rectal Cancer Survivorship.

14. Case-Matched Comparison of Functional and Quality of Life Outcomes of Local Excision and Total Mesorectal Excision Following Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Cancer.

15. Differences in Surgical Outcomes and Quality-of-Life Outcomes in Pelvic Exenteration Between Locally Advanced Versus Locally Recurrent Rectal Cancers.

16. A Rectal Cancer Surgical Decision Aid Is Not Enough: A Qualitative Study.

17. Bowel Functional Outcomes After Long-Course or Short-Course Radiation for Advanced Rectal Cancers: A Propensity-Matched Analysis.

18. Ileoanal Pouch Syndrome Is Common and Associated With Significant Disability in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis Undergoing IPAA.

19. Long-term Outcome of Radical Excision Versus Phenolization of the Sinus Tract in Primary Sacrococcygeal Pilonidal Sinus Disease: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

20. Does Concomitant Pelvic Organ Prolapse Repair at the Time of Rectopexy Impact Rectal Prolapse Recurrence Rates? A Retrospective Review of the Prospectively Collected Pelvic Floor Disorders Consortium Quality Improvement Database Pilot.

21. Long-term Bowel Dysfunction and Decline in Quality of Life Following Surgery for Colon Cancer: Call for Personalized Screening and Treatment.

22. Decisional Regret Among Patients Undergoing Colectomy.

23. Abridged Abstracts From the Medical Literature.

24. Transvaginal Natural Orifice Specimen Extraction Following Laparoscopic Combined D3 Right Hemicolectomy and Liver Resection.

25. Laparoscopic Anterior Resection With Supratrigonal Cystectomy in a Case of Locally Advanced Sigmoid Cancer.

26. Management of the Patient With a Prolapsed Ileostomy.

27. Endoluminal Surgery Using a New Enabling Platform With Working Channels to Facilitate Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection in the Treatment of Complex Colorectal Lesions.

28. Comment on: Transanal Total Mesorectal Excision Versus Anterior Total Mesorectal Excision for Rectal Cancer: A Propensity Score-Matched, Population-Based Study in Catalonia, Spain.

29. Reply.

30. Comment on: Is Polycystic Ovary Syndrome a Predisposing Factor for Pilonidal Sinus Disease?.

31. The Author Replies.

32. Reviewers for Diseases of the Colon & Rectum.

33. December 2022 translations.

34. Announcements.

35. Colon and Rectal Surgery Regional Society Meetings.