Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Total robotic lateral pancreaticojejunostomy and modified Frey’s procedure for chronic calcific pancreatitis

Vaibhav Kumar Varshney, Raghav Nayar, Sabir Hussain, B Selvakumar

Clinical outcomes of neoadjuvant therapy followed by selective inguinal lymph node dissection and total mesorectal excision for metastasized low rectal cancer

Hiroshi Hasegawa, Takeru Matsuda, Kimihiro Yamashita, Ryuichiro Sawada, Hitoshi Harada, Naoki Urakawa, Hironobu Goto, Shingo Kanaji, Taro Oshikiri, Yoshihiro Kakeji

Multicenter retrospective cohort Italian study on elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy performed by the surgical residents

Angelo Iossa, Alessandra Micalizzi, Mary Giuffrè, Maria Chiara Ciccioriccio, Pietro Termine, Francesco De Angelis, Cristian Eugeniu Boru, Giuseppe Di Buono, Antonio Salzano, Matteo Chiozza, Carlotta Agostini, Vania Silvestri, Antonino Agrusa, Gabriele Anania, Umberto Bracale, Francesco Coratti, Giuseppe Cavallaro, Francesco Corcione, Mario Morino, Gianfranco Silecchia

Long-term (11 + years) efficacy of sleeve gastrectomy as a stand-alone bariatric procedure: a single-center retrospective observational study

Ioannis Kehagias, Aggeliki Bellou, Dimitrios Kehagias, George Markopoulos, Theofilos Amanatidis, Andreas Alexandrou, Konstantinos Albanopoulos, Charalampos Lampropoulos

Predictors of poor outcomes after cholecystectomy in gallstone pancreatitis: NSQIP analysis of 30-day morbidity and mortality

Jessica K. Liu, Caitlyn Braschi, Christian de Virgilio, Junko Ozao-Choy, Dennis Y. Kim, Ashkan Moazzez

Prognostic implications of histologic growth patterns and tumor-infiltrating macrophages in colorectal liver metastases

Yuki Takahashi, Kenichi Matsuo, Toshimitsu Shiozawa, Kaori Suzuki, Hiroaki Shimizu, Kuniya Tanaka

Hybrid esophagogastric tube anastomosis after minimally invasive McKeown esophagectomy to prevent stenosis in patients with esophageal cancer

Daisuke Fujimoto, Keizo Taniguchi, Junpei Takashima, Fumihiko Miura, Hirotoshi Kobayashi

Introduction of laparoscopic nephrectomy for autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease as the standard procedure

M. N. Thomas, R. R. Datta, R. Wahba, D. Buchner, C. Chiapponi, C. Kurschat, F. Grundmann, A. Urbanski, S. Tolksdorf, R. Müller, J. Henze, V.-M. Petrescu-Jipa, F. Meyer, C. J. Bruns, D. L. Stippel

Short-term outcomes of sleeve gastrectomy plus uncut jejunojejunal bypass (SG–uncut JJB) in patients with obesity: a preliminary prospective cohort study

Haoyu Zhang, Zhiwei Zhai, Ke Cao, Ganbin Li, Zhenjun Wang, Jiagang Han

Severity of post-Roux-en-Y gastric bypass dumping syndrome and weight loss outcomes: is there any correlation?

Mohammad Kermansaravi, Shahab ShahabiShahmiri, Ramon Vilallonga, Barmak Gholizadeh, Amir Hossein DavarpanahJazi, Yeganeh Farsi, Rohollah Valizadeh, Masoud Rezvani

Transanal full-thickness excision for rectal neoplasm: is it advisable to leave the defect open?

J. A. Gracia, M. Elia, E. Cordoba, A. Gonzalo, J. M. Ramirez

Seven centimeters as an optimal cutoff value for prognosis stratification in large monofocal hepatocellular carcinoma

Yi-Hao Yen, Wei-Feng Li, Kwong-Ming Kee, Chih-Chi Wang, Yu-Fan Cheng, Sheng-Nan Lu, Chao-Hung Hung, Yueh-Wei Liu, Tsung-Hui Hu

Pre- and postoperative C-reactive protein as a risk factor of organ/space surgical site infection after hepatectomy

Satoshi Yasuda, Daisuke Hokuto, Naoki Kamitani, Yasuko Matsuo, Shunsuke Doi, Kenji Nakagawa, Satoshi Nishiwada, Minako Nagai, Taichi Terai, Masayuki Sho

Inguinal hernia treatment in Switzerland: inpatient vs. outpatient setting — HerStAmb Study (prospective observational two-centre comparative study)

Michal Ziga, Laurin Burla, Adrienne Imhof, Thomas Gürtler, Markus Weber

Comparison of balloon dissection and telescopic dissection of the preperitoneal space in laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal hernia repair: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Hsin-Cheng Chu, Su-Wei Hu, Wen-Ling Wu, Ka-Wai Tam

Morbidity and survival after laparoscopic versus open pancreatoduodenectomy: propensity score matched comparison

Mathieu Vandeputte, Franky Vansteenkiste, Wim Ceelen, Celine De Meyere, Mathieu D’Hondt

Adrenocortical carcinoma with venous tumor invasion: is there a role for mini-invasive surgery?

Alberto Olivero, Kan Liu, Enrico Checchucci, Lei Liu, Lulin Ma, Guoliang Wang, Guglielmo Mantica, Stefano Tappero, Daniele Amparore, Michele Sica, Cristian Fiori, Quingbo Huang, Shaoxi Niu, Baojun Wang, Xin Ma, Xiaofei Hou, Francesco Porpiglia, Carlo Terrone, Xu Zhang

Cirrhotic and non-cirrhotic huge hepatocellular carcinoma (≥ 10 cm): a comparative study of surgical management and follow-up treatment in a single institution

Pongserath Sirichindakul, Sarat Sanguanlosit, Wipusit Taesombat, Methee Sutherasan, Athaya Vorasittha, Bunthoon Nonthasoot

Preoperative frailty assessment in older patients with colorectal cancer: use of clinical and radiological tool

Jorge Luis Aguilar-Frasco, Paulina Moctezuma-Velázquez, Jorge Humberto Rodríguez-Quintero, Emma Castro, Francisco Armillas-Canseco, Cristian Axel Hernández-Gaytán, Francisco U. Pastor-Sifuentes, Carlos Moctezuma-Velázquez

Clinical characteristics and prognosis of patients with healthcare-associated cholecystitis receiving percutaneous cholecystostomy

Peng Yao, Zhihui Chang, Beibei Li, Chuanzhuo Wang, Zhaoyu Liu

The efficacy of adjuvant radioactive iodine after reoperation in patients with persistent or recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer: a systematic review

Jaivikash Raghupathy, Benjamin Kye Jyn Tan, Harris J. J. M. D. Song, Alys Z. Q. Chia, Yi Zhao Tan, Samantha Peiling Yang, Rajeev Parameswaran

No difference in outcomes between large- and small-pore meshes in a prospective, randomized, multicenter trial investigating open retromuscular meshplasty for incisional hernia repair

Andreas Kroh, Markus Zufacher, Roman Eickhoff, Daniel Heise, Marius Helmedag, Florian Ulmer, Ulf P. Neumann, Joachim Conze, Ralf-Dieter Hilgers, Marcel Binnebösel

Short- and long-term outcomes of preservation versus ligation of the inferior mesenteric artery in laparoscopic D3 lymph node dissection for descending colon cancer: a propensity score-matched analysis

Aya Sato, Ken Imaizumi, Hiroyuki Kasajima, Kentaro Ichimura, Kentaro Sato, Daisuke Yamana, Yosuke Tsuruga, Minoru Umehara, Michihiro Kurushima, Kazuaki Nakanishi

Hepatic artery–related complications after live donor liver transplantation

Viniyendra Pamecha, Piyush Kumar Sinha, Amar Mukund, Nilesh Sadashiv Patil, Nihar Mohapatra, Shalini Thapar, Ashok Choudhury, Gaurav Sindwani, Anubhav Harshit Kumar, Sahil Gupta

Laparoscopic versus open in right posterior sectionectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Zigang Ding, Hongcai Fang, Mingwen Huang, Tao Yu

Percutaneous ethanol injection is an acceptable bridging therapy to hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation

Gabriel Lazzarotto-da-Silva, Tomaz J. M. Grezzana-Filho, Leandro A. Scaffaro, Mauricio Farenzena, Rafaela K. Silva, Alexandre de Araujo, Soraia Arruda, Flavia H. Feier, Lucas Prediger, Glória S. Lazzaretti, Mario R. Alvares-da-Silva, Aljamir D. Chedid, Cleber R. P. Kruel, Marcio F. Chedid

Reply to “Letter to the Editor on Yurttas C et al. Limitations of laparoscopy to assess the peritoneal cancer index and eligibility for cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC in peritoneal metastasis”

Can Yurttas, Alfred Königsrainer, Philipp Horvath

Surgical treatment for pancreatic cystic lesions—implications from the multi-center and prospective German StuDoQ|Pancreas registry

Jonas Henn, Patricia K. Wyzlic, Irene Esposito, Alexander Semaan, Vittorio Branchi, Carsten Klinger, Heinz J. Buhr, Ulrich F. Wellner, Tobias Keck, Philipp Lingohr, Tim R. Glowka, Steffen Manekeller, Jörg C. Kalff, Hanno Matthaei

Detailed analysis of recurrent sites after wedge resection for primary hepatocellular carcinoma considering the potential usefulness of anatomic resection: a retrospective cohort study

Daisuke Hokuto, Satoshi Yasuda, Naoki Kamitani, Yasuko Matsuo, Shunsuke Doi, Masayuki Sho

Laparoscopic splenectomy for massive splenomegaly: the “splenic no-touch” technique for hilar control by anterior lienorenal approach

Srikanth Gadiyaram, Murugappan Nachiappan

Relationship between prognostic impact of N3 lymph node metastasis at the root of the feeding artery and location of colon cancer

Yusuke Mizuuchi, Yoshitaka Tanabe, Masafumi Sada, Koji Tamura, Kinuko Nagayoshi, Shuntaro Nagai, Yusuke Watanabe, Sadafumi Tamiya, Kenoki Ohuchida, Kohei Nakata, Toru Nakano, Masafumi Nakamura

Index admission vs elective laparoscopic common bile duct exploration: a district general hospital experience over 6 years

Mahmoud I. Al-Ardah, Rebecca E. Barnett, Hannah Rotennburg, Louise E. Maitland, Michael G. Clarke, James Clark, Allwyn M. Cota, Paul M. Peyser, Ian G. Finlay

The usefulness of the endoscopic surgical skill qualification system in laparoscopic right hemicolectomy: a single-center, retrospective analysis with propensity score matching

Masayoshi Iwamoto, Yusuke Makutani, Yoshinori Yane, Hokuto Ushijima, Yasumasa Yoshioka, Toshiaki Wada, Koji Daito, Tadao Tokoro, Yasutaka Chiba, Kazuki Ueda, Junichiro Kawamura

Intraoperative metabolic changes associated with cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy

Jesús David Rubio-López, Manuel Durán-Martínez, Andrea Moreno-Blázquez, Lidia Rodríguez-Ortiz, Blanca Rufián-Andújar, Francisca Valenzuela-Molina, Ángela Casado Adam, Juan M. Sánchez-Hidalgo, Sebastián Rufián-Peña, Antonio Romero-Ruiz, J Briceño-Delgado, Álvaro Arjona-Sánchez

Defining the surgical management for non-colorectal liver metastases

Yan Luk, Wong Hoi She, Simon H. Y. Tsang, Wing Chiu Dai, Albert C. Y. Chan, Tan To Cheung, Chung Mau Lo

Preoperative prediction of malignancy and surgical treatment strategy in appendiceal tumors: multicenter review of 51 consecutive cases

Koji Tamura, Takashi Ueki, Hiromichi Nakayama, Yusuke Watanabe, Masafumi Sada, Kinuko Nagayoshi, Yusuke Mizuuchi, Kenoki Ohuchida, Hitoshi Ichimiya, Masafumi Nakamura

Endoscopic mucosal ischemic index for predicting anastomotic complications after esophagectomy: a prospective cohort study

Shinichiro Kobayashi, Kengo Kanetaka, Akira Yoneda, Naoyuki Yamaguchi, Kazuma Kobayashi, Yasuhiro Nagata, Yasuhiro Maruya, Shun Yamaguchi, Masaaki Hidaka, Susumu Eguchi

Timing of real-time indocyanine green fluorescence visualization for lymph node dissection during laparoscopic colon cancer surgery

Hiromitsu Kinoshita, Kenji Kawada, Yoshiro Itatani, Ryosuke Okamura, Nobu Oshima, Tomoaki Okada, Koya Hida, Kazutaka Obama

Is pain control for chronic neuropathic pain after inguinal hernia repair using endoscopic retroperitoneal neurectomy effective? A meta-analysis of 142 patients from 1995 to 2022

Stephanie Taha-Mehlitz, Anas Taha, Alex Janzen, Baraa Saad, Dana Hendie, Vincent Ochs, Lukas Krähenbühl

Laparoscopic versus open central pancreatectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis in a single centre

Dujiang Yang, Mao Li, Zhenlu Li, Ling Zhang, Weiming Hu, Nengwen Ke, Junjie Xiong

Modified serial techniques “ASTRO” facilitated laparoscopic total mesorectal excision for ultralow-lying rectal cancer in obese male patients: how we do it (with video)

Yefeng Yin, Meng Zhuang, Xiyue Hu, Junguang Liu, Shiwen Mei, Jianqiang Tang

A surgeon’s framework for the unplanned intraoperative consultation

Sunjay Kumar, Talar Tatarian, Francesco Palazzo

Long-term outcomes of revisional one anastomosis gastric bypass post laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

Salman AlSabah, Eliana Al Haddad, Saud Al-Subaie, Shehab Ekrouf, Ahmad Almulla, Mohannad Alhaddad, Mais Shiekh Aljabal, Khaled Alenezi

A preoperative risk score based on multifrequency bioelectrical impedance analysis in patients undergoing liver resection

Kazutaka Kojima, Junichi Shindoh, Masaru Matsumura, Satoshi Okubo, Masaji Hashimoto

Laparoscopic bile duct exploration during pregnancy: a multi-center case series and literature review

Víctor Lopez-Lopez, Lalin Navaratne, David Ferreras, Pedro Jose Gil, Virinder K Bansal, Anne Mattila, Pablo Parra-Membrives, Tania Gaspar Marco, Juan Jose Ruiz-Manzanera, Ahmad H M Nassar, Francisco Sánchez-Bueno, Ricardo Robles-Campos, Alberto Martinez-Isla

Current status of metabolic surgery in patients with type I diabetes mellitus and obesity: a nationwide multicenter study

Omar Thaher, Volodymyr Iaroshevych, Jamal Driouch, Martin Hukauf, Roland S. Croner, Christine Stroh

Partial staple line reinforcement with synthetic buttressing material in laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis

Christoph Eckharter, Nickolaus Heeren, Francesco Mongelli, Martin Sykora, Julia Mühlhäusser, Nathalie Lottenbach, Andreas Scheiwiller, Jürg Metzger, Jörn-Markus Gass

Short-term complications after onlay versus preperitoneal mesh repair of umbilical hernias: a prospective randomized double-blind trial

Mariana Kumaira Fonseca, Lissandro Tarso, Jader Gus, Leandro Totti Cavazzola

Incidence and risk factors of symptomatic Petersen’s hernias in bariatric and upper gastrointestinal surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Konstantinos G. Apostolou, Ioannis I. Lazaridis, Prodromos Kanavidis, Margarita Triantafyllou, Anastasia Gkiala, Andreas Alexandrou, Dimitrios Ntourakis, Tarik Delko, Dimitrios Schizas

Fascial dehiscence: predictable complication? Development and validation of a risk model: a retrospective cohort study

Marcos Gonzalez, Tatiana Ruffa, Rodolfo Scaravonati, Victoria Ardiles, Claudio Brandi, Santiago Bertone

Effects of indocyanine green fluorescence imaging of laparoscopic anatomic liver resection for HCC: a propensity score-matched study

Yi Zhou, Chuanhai Zhang, Yifan Wang, Jihai Yu, Di Wang, Jinliang Ma

Efficacy of laparoscopic Toupet fundoplication compared to endoscopic and surgical procedures for GERD treatment: a randomized trials network meta-analysis

E. Rausa, D. Ferrari, M. E. Kelly, A. Aiolfi, Marco Vitellaro, M. Rottoli, G. Bonitta, D. Bona

Oligometastatic disease and visceral resections in advanced malignant melanoma: a propensity-matched analysis

Alexander Urbanski, Julia Minnemann, Cornelia Mauch, Thomas Schmidt, Nicole Kreuzberg, Max Schlaak, Christiane J. Bruns, Dirk L. Stippel, Roger Wahba

Influence of cholestasis on portal vein embolization-induced hypertrophy of the future liver remnant

Xinwei Chang, Remon Korenblik, Bram Olij, Robrecht R. M. M. Knapen, Christiaan van der Leij, Daniel Heise, Marcel den Dulk, Ulf P. Neumann, Frank G. Schaap, Ronald M. van Dam, Steven W. M. Olde Damink

A nationwide population-based study on the clinical and economic burden of anastomotic leakage in colorectal surgery

Marie-Christin Weber, Maximilian Berlet, Christian Stoess, Stefan Reischl, Dirk Wilhelm, Helmut Friess, Philipp-Alexander Neumann

Outcomes of elderly patients following thoracoscopic esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Shirou Kuwabara, Kazuaki Kobayashi, Natsuru Sudo

Impact of serum albumin concentration and neutrophil–lymphocyte ratio score on gastric cancer prognosis

Teresa Costa, Jorge Nogueiro, Daniel Ribeiro, Pedro Viegas, Hugo Santos-Sousa

Hepatic artery resection in distal cholangiocarcinoma

Tatsuaki Sumiyoshi, Kenichiro Uemura, Taiichi Takasaki, Naru Kondo, Keijiro Katayama, Kenjiro Okada, Shingo Seo, Hiroyuki Otsuka, Masahiro Serikawa, Yasutaka Ishii, Tsuboi Tomofumi, Shinya Takahashi

Surgical therapy of celiac axis and superior mesenteric artery syndrome

J. P. Jonas, F. Rössler, S. Ghafoor, A. Kobe, T. Pfammatter, C. Schlag, C. A. Gutschow, H. Petrowsky, P. C. Müller, C. E. Oberkofler

State-of-the-art abdominal wall reconstruction and closure

Sullivan A. Ayuso, Sharbel A. Elhage, Matthew J. Salvino, Jana M. Sacco, B. Todd Heniford

The risk of hepatic pseudoaneurysm after liver trauma in relation to the severity of liver injury: a meta-analysis and meta-regression analysis

Trish Duncan, Shahab Hajibandeh, Shahin Hajibandeh, Murhaf Assaf, Giorgio Alessandri, Nagappan Kumar, David O’Reilly

Laparoscopy in high-risk emergency general surgery reduces intensive care stay, length of stay and mortality

Iain Wilson, Saqib Rahman, Philip Pucher, Stuart Mercer

Post-hepatectomy biliary leaks: analysis of risk factors and development of a simplified predictive scoring system

Shraddha Patkar, Aditya Kunte, Sridhar Sundaram, Mahesh Goel

Granular cell tumour of the pancreas: a case report and systematic review

Kevin Tree, Krishna Kotecha, Shreya Mehta, Talia L. Fuchs, Christopher W. Toon, Anthony J. Gill, Jaswinder S. Samra, Anubhav Mittal

Appendiceal goblet cell carcinoma has marginal advantages from perioperative chemotherapy: a population-based study with an entropy balancing analysis

Claudio Ricci, Davide Campana, Carlo Ingaldi, Giuseppe Lamberti, Laura Alberici, Valentina Tateo, Giovanni Castagna, Gianluca Ricco, Fulvio Calderaro, Deborah Malvi, Francesca Rosini, Riccardo Casadei

Re-evaluation of the prognosis of alpha-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer from a single center: a case series study

Miho Akabane, Akikazu Yago, Shusuke Haruta, Yu Ohkura, Masaki Ueno, Harushi Udagawa

Quantitative perfusion assessment using indocyanine green during surgery — current applications and recommendations for future use

P. Van Den Hoven, J. Osterkamp, N. Nerup, M. B. S. Svendsen, Alexander Vahrmeijer, J. R. Van Der Vorst, M. P. Achiam

Early laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis: should we operate beyond the first week?

Malek Barka, Mohamed Salah Jarrar, Jihene Sahli, Zied Ben Abdessalem, Fehmi Hamila, Sabri Youssef

Safety and efficacy of laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy with SOFY versus laparoscopic total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y for treating cT1-2 Siewert II/III adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction: a single-center prospective cohort study

Haiqiao Zhang, Zhi Zheng, Xiaoye Liu, Chenglin Xin, Yong Huang, Yuan Li, Jie Yin, Jun Zhang

Letter to the Editor on Yurttas C et al. “Limitations of laparoscopy to assess the peritoneal cancer index and eligibility for cytoreductive surgery with HIPEC in peritoneal metastasis”

Fabio Carboni, Mario Valle

Evaluation of preoperative procollagen type 1 N-terminal peptide and collagen type 1 C-telopeptide levels in the prediction of postoperative hypocalcemia in patients undergoing parathyroidectomy due to primary hyperparathyroidism

Hüseyin Fahri Martlı, Barış Saylam, Sadettin Er, Çiğdem Yücel, Mesut Tez

Distinct role of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes between synchronous and metachronous colorectal cancer

Yuki Imazu, Yasuko Matsuo, Daisuke Hokuto, Satoshi Yasuda, Takahiro Yoshikawa, Naoki Kamitani, Chieko Yoshida, Toshihide Sasaki, Masayuki Sho

Subserosal vascular density predicts oncological features of T2 gallbladder cancer

Miho Akabane, Junichi Shindoh, Kei Kohno, Satoshi Okubo, Masaru Matsumura, Yutaka Takazawa, Masaji Hashimoto

Health-related quality of life outcomes following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass versus one anastomosis gastric bypass

Karl Peter Rheinwalt, Anna Fobbe, Andreas Plamper, Patrick Hamid Alizai, Sophia Marie-Therese Schmitz, Maximilian Joseph Brol, Jonel Trebicka, Ulf Peter Neumann, Tom Florian Ulmer

Pathophysiological basis, clinical assessment, investigation and management of patients with obstructed defecation syndrome

John Bunni, Matthew J. Laugharne

Systematic evaluation of guidelines for laparoscopic surgery and endoscopic management for colon cancer

Hai-Jing Li, Yue-Ying Lin, Xu-Dong Ma, Zhang-Xiong Liang, Chao-Si Wang, Dai-Yan Wen, Da-Li Sun, Yong-Qing Duan

A critical appraisal of the ISGLS definition of biliary leakage after liver resection

Svenja Sliwinski, Jan Heil, Josephine Franz, Hanan El Youzouri, Michael Heise, Wolf O. Bechstein, Andreas A. Schnitzbauer

Current standards of surgical management of gastric cancer: an appraisal

Christian T. J. Magyar, Ankit Rai, Karl R. Aigner, Parvezikbal Jamadar, Tung Y. Tsui, Beat Gloor, Somprakas Basu, Yogesh K. Vashist

Analysis of predictors for postoperative complications after pancreatectomy––what is new after establishing the definition of postpancreatectomy acute pancreatitis (PPAP)?

O. Radulova-Mauersberger, F. Oehme, L. Missel, C. Kahlert, T. Welsch, J. Weitz, Marius Distler

Laparoscopic revision of duct-to-mucosa pancreaticojejunostomy anastomotic stricture after laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy

Haoyang Wang, Meng Zou, Pan Gao, Bing Peng, Yunqiang Cai

Perioperative chemotherapy with 5-FU, leucovorin, oxaliplatin, and docetaxel (FLOT) for esophagogastric adenocarcinoma: ten years real-life experience from a surgical perspective

Leila Sisic, Nerma Crnovrsanin, Henrik Nienhueser, Jin-On Jung, Sabine Schiefer, Georg Martin Haag, Thomas Bruckner, Martin Schneider, Beat P. Müller-Stich, Markus W. Büchler, Thomas Schmidt

Lymphoepithelial cyst of the pancreas: can common imaging features help to avoid resection?

Ekaterina Khristenko, Elena Esteban Garcia, Matthias M. Gaida, Thilo Hackert, Philipp Mayer, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Miriam Klauss

Prevalence of urinary dysfunction after minimally invasive surgery for deep rectosigmoid endometriosis

Mariana de Sousa Ribeiro de Carvalho, Gianluca Pellino, Ana Maria Gomes Pereira, Fernando Bray-Beraldo, Reginaldo Guedes Coelho Lopes, Salomone Di Saverio

OAGB with shortened excluded ileal loop as an effective treatment for type 2 diabetes mellitus in the cases of Caucasian men and women with obesity of the first degree (BMI 30–35 kg/m2)

Paweł Jaworski, Artur Binda, Krzysztof Barski, Karolina Wawiernia, Emilia Kudlicka, Michał Wąsowski, Piotr Jankowski, Wiesław Tarnowski

Prognostic role of platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio, neutrophil-to-lymphocyte, and lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio in operated rectal cancer patients: systematic review and meta-analysis

Giuseppe Portale, Patrizia Bartolotta, Danila Azzolina, Dario Gregori, Valentino Fiscon

Parachute-like pull-through anastomosis for low rectal cancer: a new method for preservation of anal function

JianWei Wang, Xun Ye, Qin Zhou, ChengCai Xu, YiQun Fan, Na Luan, XiaoLing Zhu

Re: Olivero A, et al. Adrenocortical carcinoma with venous tumor invasion: is there a role for mini-invasive surgery?

Marina M. Tabbara, Javier Gonzalez, Gaetano Ciancio

Are physical performance and frailty assessments useful in targeting and improving access to adjuvant therapy in patients undergoing resection for pancreatic cancer?

S. Powell-Brett, J. Hodson, R. Pande, S. Mann, Alice Freer, Zoe Wyrko, Clare Hughes, J. Isaac, R. P. Sutcliffe, K. Roberts

Learning curve of robotic rectal surgery using risk-adjusted cumulative summation: a 5-year institutional experience

Hiroshi Oshio, Tsuneo Konta, Yukiko Oshima, Gen Yunome, Shinji Okazaki, Ichiro Kawamura, Yuya Ashitomi, Masaaki Kawai, Hiroaki Musha, Fuyuhiko Motoi

Endoscopic vacuum therapy significantly improves clinical outcomes of anastomotic leakages after 2-stage, 3-stage, and transhiatal esophagectomies

Jonas Maier, A. Kandulski, N. E. Donlon, J. M. Werner, A. Mehrl, M. Müller, A. Doenecke, H. J. Schlitt, M. Hornung, A. R. R. Weiss

Technical aspects of percutaneous endovascular arteriovenous fistula creation with the Ellipsys® Vascular Access System. Preliminary results after 16 patients

Dominik Liebetrau, Sebastian Zerwes, Hagen Kerndl, Jochen Schaal, Alexander Hyhlik-Dürr

Correction to: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery Journal

Great progress for totally implantable venous access devices: still not completed

Adriana Toro, Emanuele Gaspare Fontana, Martina Rapisarda, Isidoro Di Carlo

Paul Clairmont and his connections to American surgery

David E. Clark

Evolution of the digital operating room: the place of video technology in surgery

Samy Cheikh Youssef, Kaled Haram, Jonathan Noël, Vipul Patel, James Porter, Prokar Dasgupta, Nadine Hachach-Haram

Readmission with acute kidney injury following ileostomy: patterns and predictors of a common phenomenon

Niv Pencovich, Jacob Samuel Silverman, Nir Horesh, Nadav Nevo, Rony Eshkenazy, Ilan Kent, Edward Ram, Ido Nachmany

Risk factors indicating the need for surgical therapy in patients with pyogenic liver abscesses

Iago Justo, Viviana Vega, Alberto Marcacuzco, Óscar Caso, María García-Conde, Alejandro Manrique, Jorge Calvo, Álvaro García-Sesma, Rafael San Juan, Mario Fernández-Ruiz, Cristina Rivas, María Rosa Calero, Carlos Jiménez-Romero

Outcomes following open versus laparoscopic multi-visceral resection for locally advanced colorectal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Shafquat Zaman, Pratik Bhattacharya, Ali Yasen Y Mohamedahmed, Fang Yi Cheung, Kamila Rakhimova, Salomone Di Saverio, Rajeev Peravali, Akinfemi Akingboye

Enhanced recovery pathway in open and minimally invasive colorectal cancer surgery: a prospective study on feasibility, compliance, and outcomes in a high-volume resource limited tertiary cancer center

Martin Thomas, Vandana Agarwal, Ashwin DeSouza, Riddhi Joshi, Minal Mali, Karuna Panhale, Omkar K. Salvi, Reshma Ambulkar, Shailesh Shrikhande, Avanish Saklani

Comparison between Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI®) and Clavien-Dindo Classification for laparoscopic single-stage treatment of choledocholithiasis with concomitant cholelithiasis

Erik Llàcer-Millán, Mihai-Calin Pavel, Robert Memba, Daniel Coronado, Sergio González, Mar Achalandabaso, Laia Estalella, Elisabet Julià-Verdaguer, Erlinda Padilla-Zegarra, Chris Collins, Rosa Jorba

Mechanisms linking bariatric surgery to adipose tissue, glucose metabolism, fatty liver disease and gut microbiota

Saverio Latteri, Maria Sofia, Stefano Puleo, Angelica Di Vincenzo, Saverio Cinti, Sergio Castorina

Can repeated surgical resection offer a chance of cure for recurrent cholangiocarcinoma?

Andrea Laurenzi, Giovanni Brandi, Federica Greco, Enrico Prosperi, Andrea Palloni, Matteo Serenari, Giorgio Frega, Matteo Ravaioli, Alessandro Rizzo, Matteo Cescon

Sarcopenia of kidney transplant recipients as a predictive marker for reduced graft function and graft survival after kidney transplantation

H. Karakizlis, N. Trudel, A. Brose, A. Reinisch, M. Reichert, A. Hecker, F. Bender, I. Askevold, L. Rainer, R. Weimer, G. A. Krombach, W. Padberg, J. Liese

First jejunal vein, jejunal trunk, and pancreatico-duodenectomy: resolving the literature conundrum

Gunjan Desai, Prasad K. Wagle

Kidney transplantation following iliac revascularization in severe atherosclerosis: a comparative study

Anna E. Cyrek, Lena Flögel, Arkadius Pacha, Moritz Kaths, Jürgen Treckmann, Andreas Paul, Maren Schulze

Assessment of risk factors and establishment of a nomogram model to predict early high-output ileostomy

Ying Chen, Zhongxiang Cai, Yan Liu, Jun Zhong, Fan Cheng

Hepaticojejunostomy for bile duct injury: state of the art

A. Marichez, J-P. Adam, C. Laurent, L. Chiche

Risks and benefits of pancreaticoduodenectomy in patients aged 80 years and over

Naoki Ikenaga, Kohei Nakata, Toshiya Abe, Noboru Ideno, Nao Fujimori, Takamasa Oono, Nobuhiro Fujita, Kousei Ishigami, Masafumi Nakamura

Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage for biliary obstruction in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: a 10-year analysis of safety and outcomes using the CCI index

Alfredo Páez-Carpio, Amelia Hessheimer, Patricia Bermúdez, Federico X. Zarco, Elena Serrano, Julián Moreno, Víctor Molina, Fabio Ausania, Enrique Carrero, Marta Burrel, Constantino Fondevila, Fernando M. Gómez

Prognostic significance of acellular mucin in patients undergoing cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (CRS/HIPEC) for appendiceal neoplasms

Derek J. Erstad, Kristen A. Robinson, Karen Beaty, Safia Rafeeq, Yi-Ju Chiang, Kanwal Raghav, John P. Shen, Michael J. Overman, Wai Chin Foo, Melissa W. Taggart, Paul. F. Mansfield, Richard E. Royal, Keith F. Fournier, Christopher P. Scally

Ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block for postoperative analgesia in Chinese patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a double-blind randomized controlled trial

Heng Lu, Qingyun Xie, Wei Ye, Zhaohua Zhou, Zehua Lei

Effectiveness of no drainage after elective day-case laparoscopic cholecystectomy, even with intraoperative gallbladder perforation: a randomized controlled trial

Huanbing Zhu, Daren Liu, Donger Zhou, Jinhong Wu, Yuanquan Yu, Yun Jin, Dan Ye, Chao Ding, Xiaoxiao Zhang, Bingying Huang, Shuyou Peng, Jiangtao Li

Predictive value of the Naples prognostic score on postoperative outcomes in patients with rectal cancer

Atsushi Sugimoto, Tatsunari Fukuoka, Hisashi Nagahara, Masatsune Shibutani, Yasuhito Iseki, Hiroaki Kasashima, Maho Sasaki, Masaichi Ohira, Kiyoshi Maeda

Real-time quantification of intestinal perfusion and arterial versus venous occlusion using laser speckle contrast imaging in porcine model

Yao Z. Liu, Saloni Mehrotra, Chibueze A. Nwaiwu, Vasiliy E. Buharin, John Oberlin, Roman Stolyarov, Steven D. Schwaitzberg, Peter C. W. Kim

The role of adjuvant pharmacotherapy with liraglutide for patients with inadequate weight loss following bariatric surgery

James R. M. Colbourne, Oliver M. Fisher, Shirley Mo, Georgia S. Rigas, Michael L. Talbot

Long-term patient-focussed outcomes remain under-evaluated in reviews of pyloric drainage procedures in oesophagectomy

T. Arkle, S. Sivarajan, S. Kulasegaran, N. Penney, B. Kumar

The “Tube Submarine Technique”: a safe and easy technique to place an external drainage tube during hepaticojejunostomy in minimally invasive surgery

Shoki Sato, Yosuke Inoue, Atsushi Oba, Yoshihiro Ono, Takafumi Sato, Hiromichi Ito, Yu Takahashi

Minimally invasive versus open liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: a propensity score matching analysis of 224 patients

Kam Cheung Wong, Kit Fai Lee, Eugene Y. J. Lo, Andrew K. Y. Fung, Hon Ting Lok, Sunny Y. S. Cheung, Kelvin K. C. Ng, John Wong, Paul B. S. Lai, Charing C. N. Chong

Radiofrequency ablation versus liver resection and liver transplantation for small combined hepatocellular-cholangiocarcinoma stratified by tumor size

Shuai Peng, Song-Chen Dong, Dou-Sheng Bai, Chi Zhang, Sheng-Jie Jin, Guo-Qing Jiang

A 15-year experience: intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay for the management of primary hyperparathyroidism in a UK endocrine surgical unit

N Patel, C Whittet, D Zhao, J Rees, MJ Stechman, DM Scott-Coombes

Nomogram for predicting the probability of permanent stoma in patients with acute obstructive colorectal cancer

Nengquan Sheng, Jun Yan, Zhigang Wang, Zhenqian Wu

Impact of obstructive ventilatory impairment on intraoperative bleeding during laparoscopic hepatectomy

Masanori Nakamura, Yukiyasu Okamura, Teiichi Sugiura, Ryo Ashida, Katsuhisa Ohgi, Mihoko Yamada, Shimpei Otsuka, Goro Nakayama, Yasuhiro Kodera, Katsuhiko Uesaka

Multimodal treatments for resectable esophagogastric junction cancer: A Bayesian network meta-analysis

Pengfei Shao, Shazhen Nima, Yang Tse, Zhuoma Suolang, Cangjue Pubu

Preoperative hemoglobin levels, extended resections and the body mass index influence survival after pancreaticoduodenectomy

Emmanouil Panagiotakis, Tabea Selzer, Gabriele Böhm, Harald Schrem, Florian W. R. Vondran, Zhi Qu, Johann Ockenga, Bernd Hertenstein, Michael Winterhalter, Hüseyin Bektas

Comparison of the safety and effectiveness of different surgical timing for acute cholecystitis after percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Xuyun Wang, Xiangdong Niu, Pengxian Tao, Yan Zhang, He Su, Xiaopeng Wang

Completely 3-dimensional laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy with modified Blumgart pancreaticojejunostomy: an analysis of 100 consecutive cases

Liu Wensheg, Ji Shunrong, Xu Wenyan, Shi Yihua, Liu Mengqi, Li Zheng, Zhuo Qifeng, Xu Xiaowu, Yu Xianjun

Is there no need to discuss adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer patients with high tumor budding and lymphovascular invasion?

Serkan Zenger, Bulent Gurbuz, Ugur Can, Ergin Erginoz, Ibrahim Halil Ozata, Serpil Postgil Yilmaz, Orhun Cıg Taskin, Onder Peker, Volkan Adsay, Emre Balik, Dursun Bugra

Value of palliative surgery in perihilar cholangiocarcinoma

Felix Dondorf, Oliver Rohland, Aladdin Ali Deeb, Michael Ardelt, Utz Settmacher, Falk Rauchfuss

Feasibility and safety of robotic surgery for low rectal cancer combined with transanal total mesorectal excision

Masayuki Ando, Takeru Matsuda, Ryuichiro Sawada, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Kimihiro Yamashita, Hitoshi Harada, Naoki Urakawa, Hironobu Goto, Shingo Kanaji, Taro Oshikiri, Yoshihiro Kakeji

Factors predicting 30-day mortality after pancreaticoduodenectomy—the impact of elevated aspartate aminotransferase

Deeksha Kapoor, Azhar Perwaiz, Amanjeet Singh, Arun N. Kumar, Adarsh Chaudhary

The comparison of short-term outcomes between robotic and laparoscopic radical distal gastrectomy

Yang Song, Qianshi Zhang, Zhen Feng, Bo Wang, Shuangyi Ren

State-of-the-art surgery for Crohn’s disease: part III-perianal Crohn’s disease

Katharina M. Scheurlen, Anne MacLeod, Sandra L. Kavalukas, Susan Galandiuk

ypTNM staging is a potentially useful prognostic stratification tool in patients with advanced gastric cancer after preoperative chemotherapy

Ryota Otsuka, Koichi Hayano, Hideki Hayashi, Masaya Uesato, Kentaro Murakami, Takeshi Toyozumi, Yasunori Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Kurata, Akira Nakano, Hisahiro Matsubara

New challenges in cholangiocarcinoma candidates for elective surgery: harnessing the microbiome dysbiosis

Oriana Lo Re, Victor López-López, Andrés Balaguer-Román, María Antonia Martínez-Sánchez, Dilmurodjon Eshmuminov, Camilo Julio Llamoza-Torres, Kohei Miura, Alberto Baroja-Mazo, Pablo Ramírez, Ricardo Robles-Campos, Bruno Ramos-Molina

Laparoscopic and robotic intracorporeal resection and end-to-end anastomosis in left colectomy: a prospective cohort study — stage 2a IDEAL framework for evaluating surgical innovation

X. Serra-Aracil, L. Mora-Lopez, I. Gomez-Torres, A. Pallisera-Lloveras, A. Serracant, A. Garcia-Nalda, O. Pino-Perez, A. Torrecilla, S. Navarro-Soto

The diagnostic value of the systemic immune-inflammatory index in acute appendicitis cases in the emergency department

Mehmet Ali Telafarlı, Mustafa Yeni

A randomized controlled trial evaluating effects of prophylactic irrigation-suction near pancreaticojejunostomy on postoperative pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy

Ronggui Lin, Yuhuang Liu, Xianchao Lin, Fengchun Lu, Yuanyuan Yang, Congfei Wang, Haizong Fang, Yanchang Chen, Heguang Huang

A feasible and safe approach for repeat laparoscopic liver resection and patient selection based on standardized preoperative prediction of surgical difficulty

Shinji Onda, Koichiro Haruki, Kenei Furukawa, Jungo Yasuda, Norimitsu Okui, Yoshihiro Shirai, Takashi Horiuchi, Toru Ikegami

A comparative study of stoma-related complications from diverting loop ileostomy or colostomy after colorectal surgery

Koichiro Kumano, Daichi Kitaguchi, Yohei Owada, Eiki Kinoshita, Shoko Moue, Kinji Furuya, Yusuke Ohara, Tsuyoshi Enomoto, Tatsuya Oda

Mid-term efficacy and postoperative wound management of laser hemorrhoidoplasty (LHP) vs conventional excisional hemorrhoidectomy in grade III hemorrhoidal disease: the twisting trend

Claudio Gambardella, Luigi Brusciano, Antonio Brillantino, Simona Parisi, Francesco Saverio Lucido, Gianmattia del Genio, Salvatore Tolone, Alfredo Allaria, Salomone Di Saverio, Francesco Pizza, Alessandro Sturiale, Ludovico Docimo

Effects of proximal gastrectomy with narrow gastric tube anastomosis compared with total gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y anastomosis on upper gastric cancer

Zhuo-Yin Wang, Jing-Tao Wang, Rui-Xin Li, Guo-Jun Wang, Tian-Yu Zhu, Bu-Lang Gao

Early C-reactive protein after colorectal surgery is not predictive of anastomotic leak: a retrospective cohort study

Praachi Raje, Benjamin G. Allar, Kevin R. Arndt, Kristen T. Crowell, Evangelos Messaris

Brazilian guide to nutrition in bariatric and metabolic surgery

Silvia Elaine Pereira, Carina Rossoni, Maria Paula Carlin Cambi, Silvia Leite Faria, Fernanda Cristina Carvalho Mattos, Tarcila Beatriz Ferraz De Campos, Tarissa Beatrice Zanata Petry, Silvia Alves Da Silva, Andrea Z. Pereira, Luciana Mela Umeda, Carla Nogueira, Maria Goretti Pessoa De Araújo Burgos, Daniéla Oliveira Magro

Surgical resection for large hepatocellular carcinoma and those beyond BCLC: systematic review with proposed management algorithm

Saneya Pandrowala, Shraddha Patkar, Mahesh Goel, Darius Mirza, S. K. Mathur

Association of a newly developed Cancer Cachexia Score with survival in Stage I–III colorectal cancer

Yasuhiro Takano, Keita Kodera, Shu Tsukihara, Sumika Takahashi, Kobayashi Yasunobu, Hironori Kanno, Satoshi Ishiyama, Ryota Saito, Nobuyoshi Hanyu, Ken Eto

Learning curve for minimal invasive cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) procedures

Manuel Durán-Martínez, Gonzalo Gómez-Dueñas, Lidia Rodriguez-Ortíz, Juan Manuel Sanchez-Hidalgo, Antonio Gordon Suárez, Ángela Casado-Adam, Sebastián Rufián-Peña, Blanca Rufián Andujar, Francisca Valenzuela-Molina, María Carmen Vázquez-Borrego, Antonio Romero-Ruiz, Javier Briceño-Delgado, Álvaro Arjona-Sánchez

The impact of mesorectal fat area on recurrence following total mesorectal excision for lower rectal cancer

Ikuma Shioi, Yusuke Yamaoka, Akio Shiomi, Hiroyasu Kagawa, Hitoshi Hino, Shoichi Manabe, Kai Chen, Kenji Nanishi, Akifumi Notsu

A prediction nomogram for postoperative gastroparesis syndrome in right colon cancer: a retrospective study

Zhiming Cai, Huimei Lin, Zhixiong Li, Weixiang Chen, Jinfeng Zhou, Haiyan Wu, Peng Zheng, Yanchang Xu

Liver transplantation and hepatocellular carcinoma: is TIPS deleterious? A multicentric retrospective study of the ARCHET research group with propensity score matching

Christophe Laurent, Michel Rayar, Charlotte Maulat, Fabrice Muscari, Arthur Marichez, Emilie Gregoire, Sophie Chopinet, Jean Yves Mabrut, Karim Boudjema, Mickael Lesurtel, Jean-Philippe Adam, Kayvan Mohkam, Laurence Chiche

Surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria: an analysis of data from the EUROCRINE registry

L. Hargitai, T. Clerici, T. J. Musholt, P. Riss

Comparison of specimen extraction site and another site for protective loop ileostomy in laparoscopic low anterior rectal resection: a retrospective comparative study

Chao Liu, Jizhun Zhang, Leping Li, Li Zhang, Liang Shang, Yan Ma

Major and minor complications in Veress needle (VN) and direct trocar insertion (DTI) for laparoscopic closed-entry techniques: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

C. Taliento, G. Pontrelli, A. Rondoni, M. Desgro, M. Steinkasserer, G. Scutiero, G. Vizzielli, P. Greco

Stapled disc excision for the repair of intraoperative rectal injury during robotic surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis

Carlo Alberto Manzo, Valerio Celentano

Major iatrogenic bile duct injury during elective cholecystectomy: a Czech population register-based study

Dušan Klos, Michal Gregořík, Tomáš Pavlík, Martin Loveček, Jana Tesaříková, Pavel Skalický

18F-fluorocholine PET/MRI versus ultrasound and sestamibi for the localization of parathyroid adenomas

ME Noltes, L Rotstein, A Eskander, WP Kluijfhout, P Bongers, A. H. Brouwers, S. Kruijff, U. Metser, JD Pasternak, P. Veit-Haibach

Future liver remnant augmentation preceding ex vivo hepatectomy with IVC replacement: a strategy to achieve R0 margins

Maria Baimas-George, Matthew S. Strand, Joshua M. Davis, Lon B. Eskind, Mark Lessne, David M. Levi, Dionisios Vrochides

Research highlight: surgical outcomes of gluteal VY plasty after extensive abdominoperineal resection or total pelvic exenteration

Anke H. C. Gielen, Evie Colier, Shan S. Qiu, Kristien B. M. I. Keymeulen, Laurents P. S. Stassen, Jarno Melenhorst

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for obesity treatment in adolescents and young adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Mohammed T. Al-Mohaidly, Abdulrahman K. Al-Asmari, Haseeb A. Khan, Ayshah S. Alshngeetee, Isra Khan, Yaser A. Al-Asmari, Ghadah O. Al-Hussain, Sarah S. Alsalem, Ayaat Khan, Aishah M. Babtain, Ebtihaj A. Aljorfi, Hend A. Alshumiesy, Mashael A. Aluraifej

A sandwiching method that simplifies hepatic left lateral segment inversion to secure an optimal surgical view around the esophageal hiatus in laparoscopic and robotic gastrectomy for upper gastric and esophagogastric junction cancers

Hiroki Harada, Masaru Hayami, Rie Makuuchi, Satoshi Ida, Koshi Kumagai, Manabu Ohashi, Souya Nunobe

Incidence of symptomatic gallstones after bariatric surgery: the impact of expectant management

Jorge Nogueiro, Hugo Santos-Sousa, Miguel Ribeiro, Filipe Cruz, André Pereira, Fernando Resende, André Costa-Pinho, John Preto, Bernardo Sousa-Pinto, Eduardo Lima-da-Costa, Silvestre Carneiro

125I Radioactive Seed Localization vs. Conventional Surgery for the Treatment of Mesenchymal Tumours: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis

Alberto G Barranquero, Sara Corral Moreno, Alberto Martínez Lorca, Lourdes Hernández-Cosido, María Eugenia Rioja Martín, Antonio Mena Mateos, Jacobo Cabañas Montero, Jose María Fernández-Cebrián

Risk factors for recurrent disease in small papillary thyroid cancers – a Swedish register-based study

Haytham Bayadsi, Carolina Nylén, Maria Sandström, Jakob Angelsten, Malin Sund, Joakim Hennings

Clinical influence of conversion of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy to one anastomosis gastric bypass on gastroesophageal reflux disease

Shlomi Rayman, Maor Staierman, Dan Assaf, Jacob Rachmuth, Idan Carmeli, Andrei Keidar

Esophageal high-resolution manometry demands visual interpretation in addition to mathematical software-based analysis

Fernando A. M. Herbella, Marco G. Patti, Francisco Schlottmann

Long-term adjuvant chemotherapy after resection for pancreatic cancer patients with positive peritoneal lavage cytology

Katsuhisa Ohgi, Teiichi Sugiura, Yukiyasu Okamura, Ryo Ashida, Mihoko Yamada, Shimpei Otsuka, Akiko Todaka, Katsuhiko Uesaka

Overall survival among patients who undergo resection does not differ significantly between T1a and T1b hepatocellular carcinoma based on the 8th American Joint Commission on Cancer

Yueh-Wei Liu, Wei-Feng Li, Fang-Ying Kuo, Hock-Liew Eng, Chih-Chi Wang, Chih-Che Lin, Chee-Chien Yong, Yi-Hao Yen

The role of prophylactic administration of CPAP in general surgical wards after open visceral surgery in reducing postoperative pneumonia—a retrospective cohort study

Jonas Herzberg, Salman Yousuf Guraya, Daniel Merkle, Tim Strate, Human Honarpisheh

Effect of thoracic epidural anesthesia on postoperative outcome in major liver surgery: a retrospective cohort study

Christoph R. Behem, Juliane C. Wegner, Hans O. Pinnschmidt, Gillis Greiwe, Michael F. Graessler, Sandra Funcke, Rainer Nitzschke, Constantin J. C. Trepte, Sebastian A. Haas

Radiographic tumor burden score is useful for stratifying the overall survival of hepatocellular carcinoma patients undergoing resection at different Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer stages

Wei-Feng Li, Yueh-Wei Liu, Chih-Chi Wang, Chee-Chien Yong, Chih-Che Lin, Yi-Hao Yen

Clinical characteristics and predictive factors of postoperative intra-abdominal abscess after distal pancreatectomy

Yutaka Nakano, Yutaka Endo, Minoru Kitago, Ryo Nishiyama, Hiroshi Yagi, Yuta Abe, Yasushi Hasegawa, Shutaro Hori, Masayuki Tanaka, Gaku Shimane, Shigeyoshi Soga, Tomohisa Egawa, Shigeo Okuda, Yuko Kitagawa

De Garengeot’s hernia patients entirely treated laparoscopically: a safe and feasible alternative—a systematic review

Alberto Gómez-Portilla, Elena Merino, Eduardo López de Heredia, Alberto Gareta, Montserrat Ojeda

A systematic review of minimal length of lroximal margin in gastric adenocarcinoma resection

Antoine Mariani, Aziz Zaanan, Lionel Rebibo, Grégory Martin, Julien Taieb, Mehdi Karoui

Is preoperative sarcopenia associated with postoperative complications after pelvic exenteration surgery?

Sergei Bedrikovetski, Luke Traeger, Alice A. Jay, Martin K. Oehler, Jonathan Cho, Marcus Wagstaff, Ryash Vather, Tarik Sammour

Pancreaticoduodenectomy with celiac artery resection (PD-CAR) for unresctable locally advanced pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Kenjiro Kimura, Ryosuke Amano, Jun Tauchi, Kohei Nishio, Go Ohira, Hiroji Shinkawa, Shogo Tanaka, Akira Yamamoto, Hisashi Motomura, Takeaki Ishizawa

Short-term outcomes in robotic vs laparoscopic ileal pouch-anal anastomosis surgery: a propensity score match study

Sofoklis Panteleimonitis, Mahmood Al-Dhaheri, Mick Harper, Ibrahim Amer, Ayman Abdelhafiz Ahmed, Mohamed Abu Nada, Amjad Parvaiz

New method of remnant closure during distal pancreatectomy

D. Kelemen, A. Kerbeche, N. Farkas, A. Vereczkei

Robotic-assisted rectosigmoid resection rectopexy with natural orifice specimen extraction (NOSE): technical notes, short-term results, and functional outcome

Jamal Driouch, Omar Thaher, Sebastian Brinkmann, Dirk Bausch, Torben Glatz

Duodenum-preserving pancreatic head resection or pancreatoduodenectomy for the surgical treatment of paraduodenal pancreatitis: a retrospective cohort study

Oleksandr Usenko, Igor Khomiak, Andrii Khomiak, Andrii Malik, Vladislav Kropelnytskyi, Mark Krol

Laparoscopic-assisted robotic distal gastrectomy for gastric cancer by Billroth II reconstruction

Sayuri Konishi, Dai Manaka, Michina Morioka, Atsushi Ikeda, Ryo Kudo, Yasuhiro Saito, Takano Ota, Yuri Kanaya, Yusuke Okamura, Ryo Takahashi, Satoru Seo

Comparing surgical outcomes of approaches to adrenalectomy — a systematic review and network meta-analysis of randomised clinical trials

Matthew G. Davey, Éanna J. Ryan, Noel E. Donlon, Odhrán K. Ryan, Mohammed Al Azzawi, Michael R. Boland, Michael J. Kerin, Aoife J. Lowery

Farewell to Prof. Markus W. Büchler as Editor-in-Chief of Langenbeck’s Archives of Surgery and future direction of our journal

Christoph Michalski, Pascal Probst

Prognostic significance of the immuno-peritoneal cancer index in peritoneal metastatic patients treated with cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy

Yasemin Yildirim, Selman Sokmen, Ali Durubey Cevlik, Tayfun Bisgin, Berke Manoglu, Funda Obuz

Standardized lymph node dissection for gallbladder cancer under laparoscopy: en-bloc resection technique

Jian Cheng, Jie Liu, Chang-Wei Dou, Zhong-Chun Xie, Bing-Fu Fan, Li-Ming Jin, Lei Liang, Cheng-Wu Zhang

Histological prognosticators in neoadjuvant naive oesophageal cancer patients

Kiera Hardy, Jakub Chmelo, Abraham Joel, Maziar Navidi, Bridget H Fergie, Alexander W Phillips

Variant anatomy of non-recurrent laryngeal nerve: when and how should it be taught in surgical residency?

Victoria Zheng, Reshma Rajeev, Diluka Pinto, Mechteld Christine de Jong, Dinesh Kumar Sreenivasan, Rajeev Parameswaran

Real-time semi-quantitative assessment of anastomotic blood perfusion in mini‑invasive rectal resections by Sidestream Dark Field (SDF) imaging technology: a prospective in vivo pilot study

Tonghai Xu, Xiang Gao, Hao Yuan, Shuang Li, Zili Zhou, Guojin Gong, Guiqing Jia, Gaoping Zhao

Time to surgery is not an oncological risk factor in HCC patients undergoing liver resection

Carlos Constantin Otto, Guanwu Wang, Anna Mantas, Daniel Heise, Philipp Bruners, Sven Arke Lang, Tom Florian Ulmer, Ulf Peter Neumann, Lara Rosaline Heij, Jan Bednarsch

Pathological study of sternal osteomyelitis after median thoracotomy—a prospective cohort study

Olimpiu Bota, Jessica Pablik, Feras Taqatqeh, Maxime Mülhausen, Klaus Matschke, Adrian Dragu, Stefan Rasche, Kevin Bienger

Factors associated with mortality in patients with extremity necrotizing soft-tissue infections: a single academic center experience

Keita Nagira, Tomofumi Ogoshi, Keiichi Akahori, Shinpei Enokida, Makoto Enokida, Takahiro Ueda, Masato Homma, Hideki Nagashima

Chronic pain following totally extra-peritoneal inguinal hernia repair: a randomized clinical trial comparing glue and absorbable tackers

Igor Jeroukhimov, Daniel Dykman, Yehuda Hershkovitz, Natan Poluksht, Vladimir Nesterenko, Amir Ben Yehuda, Albert Stephansky, Oded Zmora

Regional transplant rates depend more on physician-dependent variables than on proximity to transplant center

Elnaz Payani, Nikolaus Börner, Dionysios Kolliogiannis, Stefan Brunner, Ingo Klein, Ursula Ehmer, Gerald Denk, Christian M. Lange, Klaudja Ograja, Peter Dietrich, Jens Werner, Markus Guba

The falciform/round ligament “flooring,” an effective method to reduce life-threatening post-pancreatectomy hemorrhage occurrence

Théophile Guilbaud, Cindy Faust, Olivier Picaud, Karine Baumstarck, Thibaud Vicenty, Georges Farvacque, Charles Vanbrugghe, Stéphane Berdah, Vincent Moutardier, David Jérémie Birnbaum

Impact of liver volumetric regeneration on survival outcomes in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after major hepatectomy

Nguyen Hai Nam, Tomoaki Yoh, Yutaro Hori, Koshiro Morino, Hiroto Nishino, Takahiro Nishio, Yukinori Koyama, Satoshi Ogiso, Kazuyuki Nagai, Ken Fukumitsu, Yoichiro Uchida, Takashi Ito, Takamichi Ishii, Satoru Seo, Koichiro Hata, Kojiro Taura, Etsuro Hatano

 Laparoscopic cholecystectomy versus percutaneous catheter drainage for acute calculous cholecystitis in patients over 90 years of age

Camilo Ramírez-Giraldo, Andrés Isaza-Restrepo, Enid Ximena Rico-Rivera, Juan Carlos Vallejo-Soto, Isabella Van-Londoño

The efficacy and safety of laparoscopic common bile duct exploration and cholecystectomy for the treatment of difficult common bile duct stones combined with gallstones: a multicenter retrospective study

Wangcheng Xie, Zhilong Ma, Jieliang Zuo, Jian Gong, Weidi Yu, Ping Wang, Wei Han, Zhenshun Song, Tingsong Yang

Simultaneous pancreas-kidney transplantation: which graft warns the most?

Tommaso Giuliani, Javier Maupoey Ibáñez, Eva Montalvá-Orón, Andrea Boscà Robledo, Cristina Martínez Chicote, Ana Hernando Sanz, Cristina Ballester Ibañez, David Calatayud Mizrahi, Isabel Beneyto Castelló, Juan Francisco Merino Torres, Rafael López Andújar

Efficacy of intraoperative intravenous lidocaine infusion on postoperative opioid consumption after laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a randomized controlled trial

Chamaidi Sarakatsianou, Konstantinos Perivoliotis, Ioannis Baloyiannis, Stavroula Georgopoulou, Aikaterini Tsiaka, George Tzovaras

The role of main pancreatic duct stent in the enucleation of benign/borderline pancreatic head tumors: a cohort study

Xinzhe Yu, Wei Wang, Song Yu, Chuanxin Yang, Xinyu Huang, Zhou Yuan

Predictive factors associated with anastomotic leakage after resection of rectal cancer: a multicenter study with the Hiroshima Surgical study group of Clinical Oncology

Tomoaki Bekki, Manabu Shimomura, Tomohiro Adachi, Masashi Miguchi, Satoshi Ikeda, Masanori Yoshimitsu, Mohei Kohyama, Masahiro Nakahara, Hironori Kobayashi, Kazuhiro Toyota, Yosuke Shimizu, Daisuke Sumitani, Yasufumi Saito, Yuji Takakura, Yasuyo Ishizaki, Shinya Kodama, Masahiko Fujimori, Minoru Hattori, Wataru Shimizu, Hideki Ohdan

Total vs less than total thyroidectomy for benign multinodular non-toxic goiter: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

S. Bharath, Sanjay Kumar Yadav, Dhananjaya Sharma, Chandan Kumar Jha, Anjali Mishra, Saroj Kanta Mishra, Saket Shekhar

Non-curative resection for surgical T4b esophageal cancer: esophagectomy or non-esophagectomy?

Yusuke Fujii, Hiroyuki Daiko, Kentaro Kubo, Kyohei Kanematsu, Daichi Utsunomiya, Daisuke Kurita, Koshiro Ishiyama, Junya Oguma

Postoperative drainage management and wound complications following resection of lower limb soft tissue tumors: a retrospective cohort study

A. L. H. Gerken, P. Jawny, H. Weigl, C. Yang, J. Hardt, F. Menge, P. Hohenberger, C. Weiß, C. Reißfelder, J. Jakob

Venous thromboembolism following colectomy for diverticular disease: an English population-based cohort study

Anjali K D S Yapa, David J Humes, Colin J Crooks, Christopher A Lewis-Lloyd

Prognostic predictors for recurrence following curative resection in grade I/II pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours

Amit Chopde, Amit Gupta, Vikram Chaudhari, Rahul Parghane, Sandip Basu, Vikas Ostwal, Anant Ramaswamy, Ameya Puranik, Shailesh V. Shrikhande, Manish S. Bhandare

Varying negative appendectomy rates after laparoscopic appendectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Siri R. Henriksen, Camilla Christophersen, Jacob Rosenberg, Siv Fonnes

Diagnosis and treatment of primary thyroid lymphoma from a surgical perspective: a multi-institutional study

C. González-Sánchez, M. P. Salvador-Egea, E. Glückmann-Maldonado, A. Ríos, J. Martín-Fernández, J. I. Pérez-García, F. García-Lorenzo, B. Flores-Pastor, J. Gómez-Ramírez, J. Ortega-Serrano, S. Ros-López, J. Villar-del-Moral, D. Morales-García, M. T. Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, J. Domènech-Calvet, José Manuel Nuño-Vázquez-Garza, G. Franch-Arcas

Influence of hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy on renal blood perfusion

Lukas F. Liesenfeld, Andreas Brandl

Comparison of functional and oncological outcome of conformal sphincter preservation operation, low anterior resection, and abdominoperineal resection in very low rectal cancer: a retrospective comparative cohort study with propensity score matching

Ge Sun, Zheng Lou, Kuo Zheng, Yuntao Chen, Hang Zhang, Rongbo Wen, Xianhua Gao, Ronggui Meng, Haifeng Gong, Chenguang Bai, Edgar J.B. Furnée, Wei Zhang

Oral care reduces incidence of pneumonia after esophagectomy: systematic review and meta-analysis

Uzair Jogiat, Megan Kirkland, Kevin Verhoeff, Eric L.R. Bédard, Janice Y. Kung, Simon R. Turner

Optimal waiting period to surgical treatment after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced rectum cancer: a retrospective observational study

Khayal Aslanov, Ali Emre Atici, Damlanur Karaman, Emine Bozkurtlar, Şevket Cumhur Yegen

Low incidence of recurrence and chronic pain after groin hernia repair in adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Hugin Reistrup, Kristoffer Andresen, Jacob Rosenberg

An audit of Complicated Choledochal Cysts- 15-years' experience at a tertiary care center

Amith Kumar Pakkala, Phani Kumar Nekarakanti, Bheerappa Nagari, Ashish Kumar Bansal, VenuMadhav Thumma, Suryaramachandra Varma Gunturi

Large goiters and postoperative complications: does it really matter?

Joaquín Gómez-Ramírez, Paula Cubillo Heras, Raquel Arranz Jiménez, Luz Divina Juez Saez, Elisa York Pineda, Camilo Zapata Syro, Constantino Fondevila Campo

Robotic versus laparoscopic versus open major hepatectomy – an analysis of costs and postoperative outcomes in a single-center setting

Sebastian Knitter, Linda Feldbrügge, Nora Nevermann, Brigitta Globke, Santiago Andres Ortiz Galindo, Thomas Winklmann, Felix Krenzien, Philipp K. Haber, Thomas Malinka, Georg Lurje, Wenzel Schöning, Johann Pratschke, Moritz Schmelzle

Comparison of long-term outcomes of splenectomy with periesophagogastric devascularization and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in treating cirrhotic portal hypertension patients with recurrent variceal bleeding

Wenfeng Zhu, Xiaowen Wang, Yun Lv, Haoqi Chen, Xiaolong Chen, Xuejiao Li, Shuguang Zhu, Zexin Lin, Genshu Wang

Fluorescence use in minimally invasive metabolic and bariatric surgery — a systematic review of the literature

Mateusz Wityk, Natalia Dowgiałło-Gornowicz, Igor Feszak, Maciej Bobowicz

Feasibility of laparoscopic radical antegrade modular pancreatosplenectomy (RAMPS) as a standard treatment for distal resectable pancreatic cancer

Shoki Sato, Atsushi Oba, Tomotaka Kato, Kosuke Kobayashi, Y.H. Andrew Wu, Yoshihiro Ono, Takafumi Sato, Hiromichi Ito, Yosuke Inoue, Yu Takahashi

Textbook outcome in colon carcinoma: implications for overall survival and disease-free survival

Juan Jesús Rubio García, F. Mauri Barberá, C. Villodre Tudela, S. Carbonell Morote, A. I. Fábregues Olea, C. Alcázar López, C. Llopis Torremocha, J. Ruiz López, A. Gomis Martín, M. Romero Simo, J. M. Ramia-Ángel

Intracorporeal versus extracorporeal anastomosis in segmental resections for colon cancer: a retrospective cohort study of 328 patients

Pedja Cuk, Musa Büyükuslu, Sören Möller, Victor Jilbert Verwaal, Issam Al-Najami, Mark Bremholm Ellebæk

Prolonged door-to-antibiotics time is associated with high hospital mortality in patients with perforated colorectal peritonitis

Katsuhiro Ogawa, Yuta Shiraishi, Ryuichi Karashima, Hidetoshi Nitta, Toshiro Masuda, Katsutaka Matsumoto, Hiroshi Sawayama, Yuji Miyamoto, Hideo Baba, Hiroshi Takamori

Surgical outcomes in pelvic exenteration for advanced and recurrent malignancy: a high volume single institution experience

Lucas De Crignis, Aurélien Dupré, Pierre Meeus, Patrice Peyrat, Michel Rivoire

Analysis of surgical outcomes of laparoscopic versus open surgery for locally advanced mid-transverse colon cancer

Kenta Iguchi, Masakatsu Numata, Manabu Shiozawa, Keisuke Kazama, Sho Sawazaki, Yusuke Katayama, Koji Numata, Akio Higuchi, Teni Godai, Nobuhiro Sugano, Hiroyuki Mushiake, Yasushi Rino

Clinicopathological study of surgically treated non-neoplastic diseases of the pancreas with special reference to autoimmune pancreatitis

Makoto Seki, Eiji Ninomiya, Akio Saiura, Yu Takahashi, Yosuke Inoue, Masamichi Katori, Noriko Yamamoto, Manabu Takamatsu, Yo Kato, Keiko Yamada, Kiyoshi Matsueda, Yasuo Ohkura

A novel laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair technique: single-port lateral non-abdominal pre-peritoneal approach

Ali Avanaz

Primary admission to a surgical service facilitates early cholecystectomy in acute cholecystitis but does not influence patient outcome

Jens Strohäker, Julia Sabrow, Anke Meier, Alfred Königsrainer, Ruth Ladurner, Can Yurttas

Radiomic applications in upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery

Joseph P. Doyle, Pranav H. Patel, Nikoletta Petrou, Joshua Shur, Matthew Orton, Sacheen Kumar, Ricky H. Bhogal

Preoperative BChE serves as a prognostic marker in patients with resectable AEG after neoadjuvant chemotherapy

Lisa Gensthaler, Gerd Jomrich, Jonas Brugger, Dagmar Kollmann, Matthias Paireder, Milena Bologheanu, Alexander Horn, Franz M. Riegler, Reza Asari, Sebastian F. Schoppmann

Comparison of laparoscopic port site skin closure techniques (CLOSA): transcutaneous suturing versus subcuticular sutures versus adhesive strips: a prospective single-blinded randomized control trial

Pradeep Kumar Singh, Kallol Kumar Das Poddar, Prakash Kumar Sasmal, Pankaj Kumar, S. Manwar Ali, Tushar Subhadarshan Mishra

Survival outcome of surgical resection compared to non-resection for Bismuth type IV perihilar cholangiocarcinoma

Jinmok Bae, Dong Woo Shin, Kwang Bum Cho, Keun Soo Ahn, Tae-Seok Kim, Yong Hoon Kim, Koo Jeong Kang

Rectal colonization is predictive for surgical site infections with multidrug-resistant bacteria in abdominal surgery

Matthias Mehdorn, Susanne Kolbe-Busch, Norman Lippmann, Yusef Moulla, Uwe Scheuermann, Boris Jansen-Winkeln, Iris F. Chaberny, Ines Gockel, Woubet Tefera Kassahun

Low hepatic artery resistive index on Doppler ultrasound performed on the first post-liver transplant day is associated both with hepatic artery thrombosis and decreased graft survival

Rodrigo P. Capra, Gabriel Lazzarotto-da-Silva, Tomaz J. M. Grezzana-Filho, Gabriel S. Viana, João E. Prediger, Bruno Rabolini, Rafaela K. Silva, Lucas Prediger, Alexandre de Araujo, Mario R. Alvares-da-Silva, Flavia H. Feier, Marcio F. Chedid, Cleber R. P. Kruel

Effect of ghrelin administration on postoperative inflammatory response and bodyweight loss in patients with oesophageal cancer undergoing oesophagectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Elizabeth Forshaw, Shahin Hajibandeh, Shahab Hajibandeh

A patient tailored approach to the surgical treatment of hemorrhoids leads to equal satisfaction following hemorrhoidectomy, stapled hemorrhoidopexy or a combination of both

Rachel Gefen, Adham Handal, Carmel Ben-Ezra, Shani Y. Parnasa, Ido Mizrahi, Mahmoud Abu-Gazala, Alon J. Pikarsky, Noam Shussman

Early closure compared to late closure of temporary ileostomy in rectal cancer: a randomized controlled trial study

Hadi Ahmadi-Amoli, Mohsen Rahimi, Raziyeh Abedi-kichi, Nazli Ebrahimian, Seyed-Mohammad Hosseiniasl, Reza Hajebi, Ehsan Rahimpour

Prognostic significance of circulating basophil counts in patients who underwent esophagectomy for esophageal cancer

Suguru Maruyama, Akihiko Okamura, Yasukazu Kanie, Kengo Kuriyama, Kei Sakamoto, Jun Kanamori, Yu Imamura, Masayuki Watanabe

Risk factors and outcomes for cholangitis after hepatic resection

Christopher W. Mangieri, Matthew A. Strode, Omeed Moaven, Cristian D. Valenzuela, Richard A. Erali, Russell Howerton, Perry Shen, Clancy J. Clark

Prognostic differences in grading and metastatic lymph node pattern in patients with small bowel neuroendocrine tumors

Lisa Reinhard, Martina T. Mogl, Fabian Benz, Agata Dukaczewska, Frederike Butz, Eva Maria Dobrindt, Frank Tacke, Johann Pratschke, Peter E. Goretzki, Henning Jann

Stapled side-to-side anastomosis for ileostomy reversal: a simple and reproducible technique with video

Goudarz T. Passand, Arthur Marichez, Soline Celarier, Bertrand Celerier, Benjamin Fernandez

The effect of the enhanced recovery programme on long-term survival following liver resection for colorectal liver metastases

Joel Lambert, Thomas Mair, Kalaiyarasi Arujunan, Abdulwarith Shugaba, Harmony Uwadiae, Anne Livesey, Rami Ahmad, Georgios Sgourakis, Christopher Gaffney, Daren Subar

Colonization of the gastric juice by Candida spp. promotes surgical site infection after hepatectomy

Hiroya Iida, Masaki Kaibori, Hiromitsu Maehira, Haruki Mori, Nobuhito Nitta, Takeru Maekawa, Katsushi Takebayashi, Sachiko Kaida, Toru Miyake, Masaji Tani

Posterior retroperitoneal versus transperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy in adults: results from the EUROCRINE® surgical registry

Klaas Van Den Heede, Safa Vatansever, Tolga Girgin, Sam Van Slycke, Özer Makay, David Scott-Coombes, Anders Bergenfelz, Thomas Clerici, Philipp Riss, Thomas Musholt, Erik Nordenström, Sam Van Slycke, Maurizio Iacobone, Laurent Brunaud, Marcin Barczynski, Konstantinos Nastos, Marco Raffaelli, Marit Helene Hansen, Christina Martinez Santos, Olov Norlén, Menno Vriens, Fausto Palazzo, Arnold Trupka

Effects of extremely low-pressure pneumoperitoneum on postoperative recovery after single site robot-assisted cholecystectomy: a randomized controlled trial

Sung Eun Park, Tae Ho Hong

Quality of life and outcomes after rubber band ligation for haemorrhoidal disease

Paula Pastor Peinado, Juan Ocaña, Pedro Abadía Barno, Araceli Ballestero Pérez, Juan Diego Pina Hernández, Gloria Rodríguez Velasco, Irene Moreno Montes, Elena Mendía Conde, Estela Tobaruela de Blas, José María Fernández Cebrián, Javier Die Trill, Juan Carlos García Pérez

Sarcopenia and visceral fat in patients with incisional hernia after urgent laparotomy

Lucia Romano, Fabiana Fiasca, Antonella Mattei, Leonardo Tersigni, Camilla Gianneramo, Mario Schietroma, Francesco Carlei, Antonio Giuliani

Textbook outcome contributes to long-term prognosis in elderly colorectal cancer patients

Yuto Maeda, Masaaki Iwatsuki, Chisho Mitsuura, Atsushi Morito, Mayuko Ohuchi, Keisuke Kosumi, Kojiro Eto, Katsuhiro Ogawa, Yoshifumi Baba, Shiro Iwagami, Yuji Miyamoto, Naoya Yoshida, Hideo Baba

Outcomes of umbilical hernia repair in cirrhotic veterans: a VASQIP study

Awni Shahait, Jose Wilson B. Mesquita-Neto, Donald Weaver, Gamal Mostafa

Prognostic significance of common hepatic artery lymph node metastasis in gastric cancer

Mevlut Yordanagil, Metin Ercan, Adem Senturk, Bilge Elcin

Preoperative percent body fat in bioelectrical impedance analysis predicts pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy

Jiro Kimura, Kenta Sui, Motoyasu Tabuchi, Shinya Sakamoto, Takahiro Murokawa, Jun Iwata, Sojiro Morita, Tastuo Iiyama, Takehiro Okabayashi

High ligation versus low ligation of the inferior mesenteric artery in laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery: a retrospective study on surgical and long-term outcome

Wenqing Feng, Yiming Miao, Wenchang Li, Zifeng Xu, Fangqian Chen, Zeping Lv, Wangyi Liu, Minhua Zheng, Jingkun Zhao, Yaping Zong, Aiguo Lu

Tumor burden score-AFP-albumin-bilirubin grade score predicts the survival of patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after liver resection

Zhan-Cheng Qiu, Chuan Li, Yu Zhang, Fei Xie, Yu Yu, Shu-Sheng Leng, Ting-Hao Chen, Tian-Fu Wen

Incisional hernia rates between intracorporeal and extracorporeal anastomosis in minimally invasive ileocolic resection for Crohn's disease

Giacomo Calini, Solafah Abdalla, Mohamed A. Abd El Aziz, Kevin T. Behm, Sherief F. Shawki, Kellie L. Mathis, David W. Larson

Anastomotic leak risk factors following colon cancer resection: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Juan He, Mei He, Ji-Hong Tang, Xian-Hua Wang

Benchmarking outcomes for distal pancreatectomy: critical evaluation of four multicenter studies

P. C. Müller, J. M. A. Toti, C. Guidetti, C. Kuemmerli, M. Bolli, A. T. Billeter, B. P. Müller

Thyroid surgery in the elderly: a surgical cohort

Fien Van den Eynde, Klaas Van Den Heede, Nele Brusselaers, Sam Van Slycke

Changes in diagnosis and operative treatment of insulinoma over two decades

D. Wiese, F. G. Humburg, P. H. Kann, A. Rinke, M. Luster, A. Mahnken, D. K. Bartsch

Minimally invasive versus open adrenalectomy for adrenocortical carcinoma: the keys surgical factors influencing the outcomes—a collective overview

Alessio Giordano, Francesco Feroci, Mauro Podda, Emanuele Botteri, Monica Ortenzi, Giulia Montori, Mario Guerrieri, Nereo Vettoretto, Ferdinando Agresta, Carlo Bergamini

Does the visceral fat area impact the histopathology specimen metrics after total mesorectal excision for distal rectal cancer?

M Gachabayov, DM Felsenreich, S Bhatti, R Bergamaschi, Seon-Hahn Kim, Guglielmo Niccolo Piozzi, Rosa Jimenez-Rodriguez, Li-Jen Kuo, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Fabio Cianchi, Oktar Asoglu, Vusal Aliyev, Dejan Ignjatovic, Yosef Nasseri, Moshe Barnajian, Dorin E. Popa

Clinical utility and applicability of the,Esophagus Complication Consensus Group’ (ECCG) classification of anastomotic leakage following hybrid Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy

Isabel Bartella, Stefanie Brunner, Lars M. Schiffmann, Petra Schiller, Thomas Schmidt, Hans F. Fuchs, Seung Chon, Christiane J. Bruns, Wolfgang Schröder

Effectiveness of computed tomography scoring for the early diagnosis of anastomotic leakage after esophagectomy

Kentaro Yatabe, Kazuo Koyanagi, Tadashi Higuchi, Yoshiaki Shoji, Miho Yamamoto, Yamato Ninomiya, Akihito Kazuno, Junya Oguma, Masaki Mori, Soji Ozawa

Safety and efficacy of augmented-rectangle technique versus delta-shaped anastomosis for treating gastric cancer in total laparoscopic distal gastrectomy

Haiqiao Zhang, Yasheng Xue, Zhi Zheng, Xiaoye Liu, Chenglin Xin, Yong Huang, Jie Yin, Jun Zhang

Safety and efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy based on our resectability criteria for locally advanced perihilar cholangiocarcinoma

Kazuyuki Gyoten, Naohisa Kuriyama, Koki Maeda, Takahiro Ito, Aoi Hayasaki, Takehiro Fujii, Yusuke Iizawa, Akihiro Tanemura, Yasuhiro Murata, Masashi Kishiwada, Shugo Mizuno

Converting a probe-based fluorescence system into an easy-to-use adjunct for the detection of parathyroid glands accidentally resected intraoperatively

Wei Chen, Ru Zhang, Ruijie Yang, Jie Hu, John E. Phay, Peng Liu, Xiaopeng Ma, Ronald X. Xu

Preoperative Prognostic Nutritional Index was not predictive of short-term complications after laparoscopic resection for rectal cancer

Giuseppe Portale, Francesco Cavallin, Chiara Cipollari, Ylenia Spolverato, Diletta Di Miceli, Matteo Zuin, Antonio Mazzeo, Alberto Morabito, Teodoro Sava, Valentino Fiscon

The value of intraoperative dynamic liver function test ICG in predicting postoperative complications in patients undergoing staged hepatectomy: a pilot study

Karoline Horisberger, Fabian Rössler, Christian E. Oberkofler, Dimitri Raptis, Henrik Petrowsky, Pierre-Alain Clavien

Self-expandable metallic stent as bridge to surgery vs. emergency resection in obstructive right-sided colon cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Mirjam Mäder, Fabian Kalt, Marcel Schneider, Philipp Kron, Michaela Ramser, Victor Lopez-Lopez, Sebastiano Biondo, Jean-Luc Faucheron, Suzuki Yoshiyuki, Markus von der Groeben, Allan Novak, Gerfried Teufelberger, Kuno Lehmann, Dilmurodjon Eshmuminov

Reconstruction, oversewing, or taking the anastomosis down – which surgical intervention is most potent in the treatment of anastomotic leaks following colorectal resections?

M. El-Ahmar, F. Koch, M. Ristig, K. Lehmann, J. P. Ritz

Performance and diagnostic accuracy of scoring systems in adult patients with suspected appendicitis

David Eng Yeow Gan, Nik Ritza Kosai Nik Mahmood, Jitt Aun Chuah, Firdaus Hayati

Abdominal wound dehiscence and incisional hernia prevention in midline laparotomy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis

Edgard Efrén Lozada Hernández, Juan Pablo Hernández Bonilla, Diego Hinojosa Ugarte, Miguel Magdaleno García, Juan Carlos Mayagoitía González, Luis Abraham Zúñiga Vázquez, Enrique Obregón Moreno, Aldo Edyair Jiménez Herevia, Roland Kevin Cethorth Fonseca, Paulina Ramírez Guerrero

A prospective randomized trial on laparoscopic total vs partial fundoplication in patients with atypical symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease

Mykola Paranyak, Rikesh Patel

Appendiceal stump closure in laparoscopic appendectomy: one endoloop vs. two endoloops vs. two endoclips—does it matter?

Rudnicki Yaron, Soback Hagai, Tibi Nayyera, Gutwetter Nili, Ken-Dror Shai, Avital Shmuel

Usefulness of the endoscopic surgical skill qualification system for laparoscopic colectomy for transverse colon cancer: a Japanese multicenter analysis

Kazuhide Ishimaru, Tetsuro Tominaga, Takashi Nonaka, Makoto Hisanaga, Hiroaki Takeshita, Hidetoshi Fukuoka, Kazuo To, Kenji Tanaka, Terumitsu Sawai, Takeshi Nagayasu

Ten recommendations for sarcoma surgery: consensus of the surgical societies based on the German S3 guideline “Adult Soft Tissue Sarcomas”

Jens Jakob, Dimosthenis Andreou, Jens Bedke, Dominik Denschlag, Hans Roland Dürr, Steffen Frese, Thomas Gösling, Thomas Graeter, Viktor Grünwald, Robert Grützmann, Jürgen Hoffmann, Ingolf Juhasz-Boess, Bernd Kasper, Vlada Kogosov, Wolfram Trudo Knoefel, Burkhard Lehner, Marcus Lehnhardt, Lars H. Lindner, Cordula Matthies, Jalid Sehouli, Selma Ugurel, Peter Hohenberger

Clinicopathological features and management of biliary cystic tumors of the liver: a single-center experience

El-Sayed Abou El-Magd, Mohamed El-Shobari, Ramy A. Abdelsalam, Amr Abbas, Youssif Elmahdy, Hosam Hamed

Comparison of clinical outcomes of stoma reversal during versus after chemotherapy for rectal cancer patients

Kun-Yu Tsai, Jeng-Fu You, Shu-Huan Huang, Tzong-yun Tsai, Pao-Shiu Hsieh, Cheng-Chou Lai, Wen-Sy Tsai, Hsin-Yuan Hung

Incidence and risk factors of blowout within 90 days after a primary Hartmann’s procedure: a retrospective cohort study

Josefine Secher, Rogini Balachandran, Lene Hjerrild Iversen

Preliminary robotic abdominal wall reconstruction experience: single-centre outcomes of the first 150 cases

Luca Ferraro, Giampaolo Formisano, Adelona Salaj, Simona Giuratrabocchetta, Francesco Toti, Luca Felicioni, Lucia Salvischiani, Paolo Pietro Bianchi

Sexual dysfunction between laparoscopic and open inguinal hernia repair: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Chairat Supsamutchai, Pichet Wattanapreechanon, Sitanun Saengsri, Chumpon Wilasrusmee, Napaphat Poprom

Exposure of the hepatic vein trunk via tracing of its branches: a useful surgical procedure for laparoscopic anatomical hepatectomy

Naokazu Chiba, Yuta Abe, Shigeto Ochiai, Takahiro Gunji, Toshimichi Kobayashi, Toru Sano, Koichi Tomita, Shigeyuki Kawachi

Clinical impact of a celiac axis stenosis in patients undergoing hepatobiliary surgery

Pawel A. Bieniek, Shadi Katou, Hermann Kraehling, Max Masthoff, Haluk Morgul, Andreas Pascher, Benjamin Struecker

Surgical resection for liver recurrence after curative resection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

Yoshiyuki Shibata, Kenichiro Uemura, Tatsuaki Sumiyoshi, Kenjiro Okada, Hiroyuki Otsuka, Masahiro Serikawa, Yasutaka Ishii, Yoshiaki Murakami, Koji Arihiro, Shinya Takahashi

Randomized controlled trial comparing cosmetic results of midline incision versus off-midline incision for specimen extraction in laparoscopic colectomy

Hiromitsu Iwamoto, Kenji Matsuda, Katsunari Takifuji, Koichi Tamura, Yasuyuki Mitani, Yuki Mizumoto, Yuki Nakamura, Toshihiro Sakanaka, Shozo Yokoyama, Tsukasa Hotta, Hiroki Yamaue

Utility of near infrared fluorescent cholangiography in detecting biliary structures during challenging minimally invasive cholecystectomy

Gaetano Piccolo, Matteo Barabino, Francesca Lecchi, Giampaolo Formisano, Adelona Salaj, Guglielmo Niccolò Piozzi, Paolo Pietro Bianchi

Short-term outcomes of colorectal cancer surgery in patients with dialysis: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Yasuhiro Takano, Wataru Kai, Yasunobu Kobayashi, Hironori Kanno, Nobuyoshi Hanyu

Innovative suture technique for robotic hepaticojejunostomy: double-layer interrupted sutures

Kosei Takagi, Yuzo Umeda, Ryuichi Yoshida, Tomokazu Fuji, Kazuya Yasui, Takahito Yagi, Toshiyoshi Fujiwara

Prevalence of elevated alkaline phosphatase levels among post-bariatric surgery patients

Claudius Ciecko, Hayrettin Okut, Brent Lancaster, Tiffany Schwasinger-Schmidt

Inferior mesenteric artery ligation level in rectal cancer surgery: still no answer—a systematic review and meta-analysis

Roberto Cirocchi, Francesco Marchetti, Giulio Mari, Francesco Bagolini, Davide Cavaliere, Stefano Avenia, Gabriele Anania, Giovanni Tebala, Annibale Donini, Richard Justin Davies, Abe Fingerhut

Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration following prior gastrectomy: surgical safety and feasibility

Sun Min Park, Kwang Yeol Paik

The short- and long-term outcome after the surgical management of common bile duct stones in a tertiary referral hospital

Gabriel F. Hess, Philipp Sedlaczek, Jasmin Zeindler, Simone Muenst, Andreas M. Schmitt, Silvio Däster, Martin Bolli, Otto Kollmar, Savas D. Soysal

The effect of reinforcing sutures and trans-anal drainage tube on the outcome of laparoscopic resection for rectal cancer: propensity score‑matched analysis

Hong-Qiang Zhang, Lei Xu, Zhen-Ling Wang, Yu Shao, Yang Chen, Yun-Fei Lu, Zan Fu

Prognostic impact of lung recurrence in patients with biliary tract cancer

Tatsuaki Sumiyoshi, Kenichiro Uemura, Ryuta Shintakuya, Kenjiro Okada, Masahiro Serikawa, Yasutaka Ishii, Koji Arihiro, Yoshiaki Murakami, Jyunji Murashita, Shinya Takahashi

Efficacy of palliative surgery for gastric cancer patients with peritoneal metastasis who still have residual peritoneal dissemination after chemotherapy

Masayuki Shinkai, Motohiro Imano, Masashi Kohda, Tomoya Nakanishi, Yoko Hiraki, Takaomi Hagi, Hiroaki Kato, Osamu Shiraishi, Atsushi Yasuda, Masanobu Tsubaki, Shozo Nishida, Takushi Yasuda

Preoperative planning and intraoperative real-time navigation with indocyanine green fluorescence in robotic liver surgery

Gianluca Rompianesi, Francesca Pegoraro, Lorenzo Ramaci, Carlo DL Ceresa, Roberto Montalti, Roberto I Troisi

Impact on defecatory, urinary and sexual function after high-tie sigmoidectomy: a post-hoc analysis of a multicenter randomized controlled trial comparing extended versus standard complete mesocolon excision

Pere Planellas, Franco Marinello, Garazi Elorza, Thomas Golda, Ramon Farrés, Eloy Espín-Basany, Jose Maria Enríquez-Navascués, Esther Kreisler, Lídia Cornejo, Antoni Codina-Cazador

Appendiceal neuroendocrine neoplasms and resection of the mesoappendix: a retrospective comparative study

Ali Sarfarazi, Michael Russell, Greer Janssen, Ashish Taneja

Surgical outcomes in elective sigmoid resection for diverticulitis stratified according to indication: a propensity-score matched cohort study with 903 patients

Fabio Nocera, Fabian Haak, Alberto Posabella, Fiorenzo Valente Angehrn, Ralph Peterli, Beat P. Müller-Stich, Daniel C. Steinemann

A surgical strategy for intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma — the hilar first concept

Nora Nevermann, Julia Bode, Maxine Vischer, Lina Feldbrügge, Sebastian Knitter, Felix Krenzien, Uwe Pelzer, Uli Fehrenbach, Timo Alexander Auer, Georg Lurje, Moritz Schmelzle, Johann Pratschke, Wenzel Schöning

Spleen volume is a predictor of posthepatectomy liver failure and short-term mortality for hepatocellular carcinoma

Takahiro Ito, Akihiro Tanemura, Toru Kuramitsu, Taichi Murase, Benson Kaluba, Daisuke Noguchi, Tekehiro Fujii, Takuya Yuge, Koki Maeda, Aoi Hayasaki, Kazuyuki Gyoten, Yusuke Iizawa, Yasuhiro Murata, Naohisa Kuriyama, Masashi Kishiwada, Shugo Mizuno

Incidence and risk factors of hypoparathyroidism and hypocalcemia after hemithyroidectomy

Jae Yeong Jeong, Chang Myeon Song, Yong Bae Ji, Jung Hwan Park, Dong Sun Kim, Kyung Tae

Short-term outcomes and costs analysis of robotic-assisted versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy—a retrospective single-center analysis

Antonia Gantschnigg, Oliver Owen Koch, Franz Singhartinger, Peter Tschann, Wolfgang Hitzl, Klaus Emmanuel, Jaroslav Presl

Laparoscopic vs open repair for primary midline ventral hernia: a prospective cohort study

Line Schjøth-Iversen, Mushegh A. Sahakyan, Xiaoran Lai, Arne Refsum

Effectiveness of virtual reality in managing pain and anxiety in adults during periprocedural period: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Muhammad Suraim Kodvavi, Mustafa Ali Asghar, Rimmel Abdul Ghaffar, Ilsa Nadeem, Sunaina Bhimani, Varsha Kumari, Azkah Rabbani, Maham Iqbal, Raahim Naeem, Aqsa Muhammad Nasir, Syed Shayaan Hassan, Muhammad Salman Ghazni

Open vs robotic gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis on 1469 patients from the IMIGASTRIC prospective database

Stefano Trastulli, Jacopo Desiderio, Jian-Xian Lin, Daniel Reim, Chao-Hui Zheng, Felice Borghi, Fabio Cianchi, Enrique Norero, Ninh T. Nguyen, Feng Qi, Andrea Coratti, Maurizio Cesari, Francesca Bazzocchi, Orhan Alimoglu, Steven T. Brower, Graziano Pernazza, Simone D’Imporzano, Juan-Santiago Azagra, Yan-Bing Zhou, Shou-Gen Cao, Francesco Guerra, Tong Liu, Giacomo Arcuri, Paulina González, Fabio Staderini, Alessandra Marano, Domenico Di Nardo, Amilcare Parisi, Chang-Ming Huang, Giovanni Domenico Tebala

Results after intraoperative open and endovascular revascularization of acute mesenteric ischemia requiring a laparotomy

Marvin Kapalla, Rahul Choubey, Jürgen Weitz, Christian Reeps, Steffen Wolk

Analysis of surgical outcomes and risk factors for anastomotic leakage following trans-hiatal resection of esophagogastric junction cancer

Yudai Higuchi, Yoshihiko Kawaguchi, Katsutoshi Shoda, Hidenori Akaike, Ryo Saito, Suguru Maruyama, Kensuke Shiraishi, Shinji Furuya, Hidetake Amemiya, Hiromichi Kawaida, Daisuke Ichikawa

Effect of intraoperative anastomotic reinforcement suture on the prevention of anastomotic leakage of double-stapling anastomosis for laparoscopic rectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Chaoyang Wang, Xiaolong Li, Hao Lin, Jiahua Ju, Haibao Zhang, Yongjiang Yu

Systematic review and meta-analysis of cost-effectiveness of minimally invasive versus open pancreatic resections

Suhyun Lee, Chris Varghese, Matthew Fung, Bijendra Patel, Sanjay Pandanaboyana, Bobby V. M. Dasari

Two-year outcomes of conservatively managed appendicitis during the COVID-19 pandemic—a multicentre cohort study

N Habib Bedwani, C Smith, M Kelada, DK Pattern, W K Mak, W English, V Shatkar

Exploring safety and efficacy of rivaroxaban after living donor liver transplantation: a retrospective study

Bilal Ahmed Khan, Abdullah Khalid, Zubair Saeed, Ihsan-ul-Haq, Muhammad Yasir Khan, Sohail Rashid, Ammara Naveed, Faisal Saud Dar

Purse string closure of perineal defects after abdominoperineal excision

Alexandra Pellegrin, Gaétan Pasinato, Jean-Marc Regimbeau, Charles Sabbagh

Pancreaticoduodenectomy with preoperative total embolization of the hepatic arteries (PD-HAE)—a novel treatment with sacrifice of the hepatic arterial blood supply without the need for arterial reconstruction

JH Storkholm, SK Burgdorf, PN Larsen, CP Hansen

The clinical implication of minimally invasive versus open pancreatoduodenectomy for non-pancreatic periampullary cancer: a systematic review and individual patient data meta-analysis

Bas A. Uijterwijk, Meidai Kasai, Daniel H. L. Lemmers, Palanivelu Chinnusamy, Jony van Hilst, Benedetto Ielpo, Kongyuan Wei, Ki Byung Song, Song C. Kim, Sjors Klompmaker, Jin-Young Jang, Kelly M. Herremans, Lapo Bencini, Andrea Coratti, Michele Mazzola, Krishna V. Menon, Brian K. P. Goh, Renyi Qin, Marc G. Besselink, Mohammed Abu Hilal, Abdul Hakeem, Fernando Burdio, Palanisamy Senthilnathan, Patricia Sánchez, Hyeong Seok Kim, Steven J. Hughes, Alessandro Giani

Silicone prosthetics and anti-thyroid autoimmunity

V. G. Zolotykh, A. N. Gvozdetckii, V. A. Maevskaya, V. J. Utekhin, L. P. Churilov, Y. Shoenfeld, P. K. Yablonskiy

Aggressive surgical intervention may improve prognosis in patients with ovarian metastasis from colorectal cancer

Masatoshi Nomura, Mitsuyoshi Tei, Kentaro Nishida, Soichiro Mori, Akinobu Yasuyama, Yukihiro Yoshikawa, Koki Tamai, Takuya Hamakawa, Daisuke Takiuchi, Masanori Tsujie, Yusuke Akamaru

Prognosis of repeat hepatectomy for liver transplantable hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after hepatectomy: a Retrospective Cohort Study with the Hiroshima Surgical Study Group of Clinical Oncology (HiSCO)

Masahiro Ohira, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Michinori Hamaoka, Tomoyuki Abe, Takashi Onoe, Masashi Inoue, Naruhiko Honmyo, Koichi Oishi, Hideki Ohdan

Lymph node ratio as a tool to stratify patients with N1b papillary thyroid cancer

Ziyu Luo, Hu Hei, Jianwu Qin, Chen Zheng, Wenbo Gong, Bin Zhou

Surgical outcome improvement by shared decision-making: value of a preoperative multidisciplinary target clinic for the elderly in colorectal surgery

Roxane D. Staiger, Daniel Curley, Natalie V. Attwood, Sarah R. Haile, Tan Arulampalam, Joanna C. Simpson

Early vs late drain removal after pancreatic resection—a systematic review and meta-analysis

Andrew Guan Ru Wu, Ramkumar Mohan, Khi Yung Fong, Zhaojin Chen, Glenn Kunnath Bonney, Alfred Wei Chieh Kow, Iyer Shridhar Ganpathi, Ning Qi Pang

Surgical treatment of internal hernia after Roux–en-Y gastric bypass — impact of institutional standards and surgical approach

Lars Kollmann, Johan F. Lock, Cathérine Kollmann, Miljana Vladimirov, Christoph-Thomas Germer, Florian Seyfried

The emerging role of MRI neurography in the diagnosis of chronic inguinal pain

Alexa De la Fuente Hagopian, Sebastian Guadarrama-Sistos Vazquez, Souha Farhat, Narainsai K. Reddy, Michael A. Trakhtenbroit, Anthony Echo

Comparative analysis of surgical management approaches for hydatid liver cysts: conventional vs. minimally invasive techniques

Walid Elmoghazy, Jowhara Alqahtani, Seon Woo Kim, Ibnouf Sulieman, Ahmed Elaffandi, Hatem Khalaf

Accuracy of deep neural learning models in the imaging prediction of pathological complete response after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced rectal cancer: a systematic review

Sowmya Prabhakaran, Keith Wai Keong Choong, Swetha Prabhakaran, Kay Tai Choy, Joseph CH Kong

Clinical efficacy of anastomotic reinforcement suture in preventing anastomotic leakage after rectal cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Tao Zhang, Gang Wang, Guida Fang, Lei Qiu, Feng Lu, Kaihong Yin, Yongchang Miao

Anatomical variations in living donors for liver transplantation—prevalence and relationship

Abdullah Khalid, M. Asad Saleem, Ihsan-ul-Haq, Yasir Khan, Sohail Rashid, Faisal Saud Dar

Textbook outcome contributes to long-term prognosis in older adults with gastric cancer

Atsushi Morito, Masaaki Iwatsuki, Yuto Maeda, Chishou Mitsuura, Yoshihiro Hara, Chihiro Matsumoto, Tasuku Toihata, Keisuke Kosumi, Kojiro Eto, Yoshifumi Baba, Shiro Iwagami, Yuji Miyamoto, Naoya Yoshida, Hideo Baba

On-demand (SOS) analgesia through Transversus Abdominis Plane (TAP) catheter route for post-operative pain relief in Emergency Laparotomies—a non-randomised interventional study (STAPLE trial)

Kallol Kumar Das Poddar, Pankaj Kumar, Upendra Hansda, Mahesh Kumar Sethi, Tushar Subhadarshan Mishra, Prakash Kumar Sasmal, Medhavi, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Rahul Kumar

Functional, biological, and radiological evaluation of the pancreaticojejunal anastomosis 1 year after pancreatoduodenectomy: a prospective study

Gaëtan-Romain Joliat, Pierre Allemann, Ismail Labgaa, Nicolas Demartines, Naik Vietti Violi, Sabine Schmidt, Markus Schäfer

How i do it: microscope augmented pancreaticojejunostomy

Christopher Seng Hong Lim, Anubhav Mittal, Jaswinder Singh Samra

The impact of colon injuries on the outcome of gunshot wounds to the abdomen

Yonita Singh, Sooraj Motilall, Bongani L. Khulu, Brandon S. Jackson

Laparoscopic vs. open loop ileostomy reversal: a meta-analysis of randomized and non-randomized studies

Fabio Rondelli, Alessandro Gemini, Saverio Cerasari, Stefano Avenia, Walter Bugiantella, Jacopo Desiderio

A comparison of two techniques of postoperative analgesia: lignocaine-fentanyl intravenous infusion and ropivacaine-fentanyl epidural infusion in patients undergoing cytoreductive cancer surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)—prospective randomized control study

Kiran Mahendru, Rakesh Garg, Sachidanand Jee Bharati, Vinod Kumar, Nishkarsh Gupta, Seema Mishra, Sushma Bhatnagar, Mukurdipi Ray, Suryanarayana Deo

Empty pelvis syndrome: a retrospective audit from a tertiary cancer center

Sri Siddhartha Nekkanti, Bhushan Jajoo, Anand Mohan, Lakshanya Vasudevan, Zoya Peelay, Mufaddal Kazi, Ashwin Desouza, Avanish Saklani

The efficiency and safety of modified tissue-selecting therapy stapler combined with complete anal canal epithelial preservation operation in circumferential mixed hemorrhoids: a randomized controlled trial

Hua Huang, Ke Wen, Xufeng Ding, Lei Yan, Yunfei Gu, Lijiang Ji

Failure of peritoneal lavage to prevent operative site infection and peritoneal tumor recurrence in pancreatic surgery

Mai Ishihara, Akihiro Nakamura, Yuki Takahashi, Yuzo Minegishi, Kenichi Matsuo, Kuniya Tanaka

A comparison between real-time intraoperative voice dictation and the operative report in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a multicenter prospective observational study

Özgür Eryigit, Floyd W. van de Graaf, Vincent B. Nieuwenhuijs, Meindert N. Sosef, Eelco J. R. de Graaf, Anand G. Menon, Marilyne M. Lange, Johan F. Lange

Necessity of routine perioperative epidural catheter placement in laparoscopic colorectal resections: a retrospective data analysis

A. Koehler, F. Koch, M. El-Ahmar, M. Ristig, K. Lehmann, J.-P. Ritz

Early administration of postoperative BCAA-enriched PPN may improve lean body mass loss in gastric cancer patients undergoing gastrectomy

Mikiko Sakuraya, Keishi Yamashita, Michitaka Honda, Masahiro Niihara, Motohiro Chuman, Marie Washio, Kei Hosoda, Takeshi Naitoh, Yusuke Kumamoto, Naoki Hiki

Contribution of prophylactic administration of flurbiprofen for mesenteric traction syndrome to postoperative leakage or bleeding in gastrointestinal surgery: a retrospective observational study

Manzo Suzuki, Junpei Shibata, Toshiaki Mochizuki, Hiroyasu Bito

Endoscopic management of acute sigmoid volvulus in high risk surgical elderly patients: a randomized controlled trial

Said Negm, Ahmed Farag, Ahmed Shafiq, Adel Moursi, Amr A. Abdelghani

Sequential Y90 liver radioembolization and portal vein embolization: an additional strategy to downstage liver tumors and to enhance liver hypertrophy before major hepatectomies

Pietro Addeo, Pierre de Mathelin, Pierre De Marini, Michel Greget, Philippe Bachellier

Investigation of the variation of vessels around the pancreatic head based on the first jejunal vein anatomy at pancreaticoduodenectomy

Keisuke Toya, Yoshito Tomimaru, Shogo Kobayashi, Kazuki Sasaki, Yoshifumi Iwagami, Daisaku Yamada, Takehiro Noda, Hidenori Takahashi, Yuichiro Doki, Hidetoshi Eguchi

Real-world accuracy of computed tomography in patients admitted with small bowel obstruction: a multicentre prospective cohort study

L. B. J. Nielsen, M. P. Ærenlund, M. Alouda, M. Azzam, T. Bjerke, J. Burcharth, C. B. Dibbern, T. K. Jensen, J. Q. Jordhøj, I. Lolle, T. Malik, L. Ngo-Stuyt, E. Ø. Nielsen, M. Olausson, A. P. Skovsen, M. A. Tolver, H. G. Smith

Predictors of urinary tract infection after lower gastrointestinal surgery

Gianluca Buzzi, Maria Antonello, Federico Scognamiglio, Ottavia De Simoni, Gaya Spolverato, Pierluigi Pilati, Salvatore Pucciarelli, Imerio Angriman, Marco Scarpa, Ignazio Castagliuolo

Survival after combined resection and ablation is not inferior to that after resection alone, in patients with four or more colorectal liver metastases

Iakovos Amygdalos, Lea Hitpass, Felix Schmidt, Gerrit Josephs, Jan Bednarsch, Marie-Luise Berres, Tom Lüdde, Steven W. M. Olde Damink, Tom Florian Ulmer, Ulf P. Neumann, Philipp Bruners, Sven Arke Lang

Surgical management of parastomal hernia following radical cystectomy and ileal conduit: A french multi-institutional experience

Nicolas Bel, Pierre-Yves Blanc, David Moszkowicz, Bradford Kim, Pablo Ortega Deballon, Delia Berrada, David Liu, Benoit Romain, Delchet Ophélie, Yohann Renard, Guillaume Passot, Yann Neuzillet, Alexandra Masson Lecomte, Juliette Cotte, Julien Anract, Evanguelos Xylinas, Antoine Grassin, Jade Lehrer, Alain Ruffion, Marc Colombel, Jena Francois Gillion

Impact of empiric antibiotic therapy on the clinical outcome of acute calculous cholecystitis

Maite de Miguel-Palacio, Ana-María González-Castillo, Estela Membrilla-Fernández, María-José Pons-Fragero, Amalia Pelegrina-Manzano, Luis Grande-Posa, Ricard Morera-Casaponsa, Juan-José Sancho-Insenser

Laparoscopic resection of schwannoma in the lateral pelvic space based on the fascia plane: how we do it (with video)

Junguang Liu, Yingze Ning, Shiwen Mei, Wenlong Qiu, Bin Tang, Jianqiang Tang

Prognostic factor in patient with recurrent pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Tatsuaki Sumiyoshi, Kenichiro Uemura, Ryuta Shintakuya, Kenjiro Okada, Hiroyuki Otsuka, Kenta Baba, Masahiro Serikawa, Yasutaka Ishii, Tomofumi Tsuboi, Koji Arihiro, Yoshiaki Murakami, Jyunji Murashita, Shinya Takahashi

Continuous irrigation after pancreatectomy: a systematic review

Ilaria Pergolini, Florian Scheufele, Elke Demir, Stephan Schorn, Helmut Friess, Güralp O. Ceyhan, Ihsan Ekin Demir

Surgeon’s narcissism, hostility, stress, bullying, meaning in life and work environment: a two-centered analysis

Michael El Boghdady, Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

Early drain removal after live liver donor hepatectomy is safe — a randomized controlled pilot study

Parthiban Durairaj, Viniyendra Pamecha, Nihar Mohapatra, Nilesh Sadashiv Patil, Gaurav Sindwani

Platelets as a prognostic factor for patients with adenocarcinoma of the gastroesophageal junction

Joy Feka, Gerd Jomrich, Daniel Winkler, Ayseguel Ilhan-Mutlu, Ivan Kristo, Matthias Paireder, Erwin Rieder, Milena Bologheanu, Reza Asari, Sebastian F. Schoppmann

Slowly cutting, loose seton ligature and staged fistulotomy for healing of idiopathic perianal fistula and influence on anal continence

Lisa Schrader, Birgitte Brandstrup, Gunnar Olaison

Pancreatic cancer near the splenic hilum has a higher likelihood of splenic vessel invasion and unfavorable survival

Hiroki Ueda, Hidenori Takahashi, Shogo Kobayashi, Kazuki Sasaki, Yoshihumi Iwagami, Daisaku Yamada, Yoshito Tomimaru, Tadafumi Asaoka, Takehiro Noda, Masahiro Tanemura, Yuichiro Doki, Hidetoshi Eguchi

Short-term efficacy of additional laparoscopic-assisted radical gastrectomy after non-curative endoscopic submucosal dissection for early gastric cancer

Zhi-Hao Hu, Jing-Tao Wang, Rui-Xin Li, Guo-Jun Wang, Bu-Lang Gao

Laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy versus laparoscopic central pancreatectomy for benign or low-grade malignant tumors in the pancreatic neck

Song Huang, Jia Zhang, Yong Huang

Lateral lymph node involvement presents another challenge in rectum cancer in the age of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy + total mesorectal excision: an evaluation of survival outcomes

Ümit Özdemir, Elif Gündoğdu, Melek Yakar, Funda Canaz, Murat Ulaş, İlter Özer

Nomogram predicting surgical risk of laparoscopic left-sided hepatectomy for hepatolithiasis

Chen Yuan, Dongxiao Yang, Linlong Xu, Jia Liu, Huaiyang Li, Xin Yu, Shubing Zou, Kai Wang, Zhigang Hu

Reusable scrub caps are cost-effective and help reduce the climate footprint of surgery

Divyansh Agarwal, Tina Bharani, Wynne Armand, Jonathan E. Slutzman, John T. Mullen

Serum amylase on postoperative day 1 is superior to serum lipase in predicting clinically relevant pancreatic fistula after partial pancreaticoduodenectomy

Ioannis Mintziras, Sabine Wächter, Jerena Manoharan, Max Benjamin Albers, Veit Kanngiesser, Elisabeth Maurer, Detlef K. Bartsch

Systemic causes are important risk factors for failure after unscheduled colorectal revision surgery

Frédéric Borie, Clara Bourla, Bertrand Millat, Jean Gugenheim

Career goals of surgeons in Switzerland

Diana Fenner, Pascal Probst, Jennifer M. Klasen, Pia Antony, Fabian Hauswirth, Markus K. Muller

Outcomes after emergency appendicectomy in patients with liver cirrhosis: a population-based cohort study from England

Alfred Adiamah, Adil Rashid, Colin J. Crooks, John S. Hammond, Peter Jepsen, Joe West, David J. Humes

Oncological recurrence following pathological complete response after neoadjuvant treatment in patients with esophageal cancer — a retrospective cohort study

Julian Hipp, Jasmina Kuvendjiska, Hans Christian Hillebrecht, Stephan Herrmann, Sylvia Timme-Bronsert, Stefan Fichtner-Feigl, Jens Hoeppner, Markus K. Diener

Incidence and clinical relevance of postoperative diarrhea after minimally invasive gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a single institution retrospective study of 1476 patients

Masahiro Fujita, Masaya Nakauchi, Kazumitsu Suzuki, Akiko Serizawa, Shingo Akimoto, Tsuyoshi Tanaka, Susumu Shibasaki, Kazuki Inaba, Takumi Tochio, Yoshiki Hirooka, Ichiro Uyama, Koichi Suda

Impact of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally advanced colon cancer on postoperative complications

Andrew Lynch, Rodrigo Arean-Sanz, Ana Sofia Ore, Giulio Cataldo, Kristen Crowell, Anne Fabrizio, Thomas E. Cataldo, Evangelos Messaris

Incidence of opioid use and early postoperative pain intensity after primary unilateral inguinal hernia repair at a single-center specialty hospital

Marguerite Mainprize, Ayse Yilbas, Fernando A. C. Spencer Netto, Anton Svendrovski, Joel Katz

Assessment of the level III of Inoue by preoperative endoscopic ultrasound and elastography: a novel approach to predict a periarterial divestment technique in borderline resectable (BR) or locally advanced (LA) pancreatic adenocarcinoma—How I do it

Piero Alberti, Elizabeth Pando, Monder Abu-Suboh, Miquel Masachs, Xavier Merino, Maite Salcedo, Teresa Macarulla, Joaquin Balsells, Ramon Charco

Is triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cell 1 (TREM-1) protein a new marker of serious infectious complications in colorectal surgery?: case-matched pilot study

Magdalena Pisarska-Adamczyk, Anna Rzepa, Maria Kapusta, Karolina Zawadzka, Beata Kuśnierz-Cabala, Michał Wysocki, Piotr Małczak, Piotr Major, Anna Zub-Pokrowiecka, Mateusz Wierdak, Michał Pędziwiatr

One-year outcome after open inguinal hernia repair with self-fixated mesh: a randomized controlled trial

Anna-Maria Thölix, Jyrki Kössi, Jukka Harju

Correction to: A comparison of two techniques of postoperative analgesia: lignocaine-fentanyl intravenous infusion and ropivacaine-fentanyl epidural infusion in patients undergoing cytoreductive cancer surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC)—prospective randomized control study

Kiran Mahendru, Rakesh Garg, Sachidanand Jee Bharati, Vinod Kumar, Nishkarsh Gupta, Seema Mishra, Sushma Bhatnagar, Mukurdipi Ray, Suryanarayana Deo

The analysis of factors increasing the odds for type 2 diabetes mellitus remission following re-do bariatric surgery after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy- cohort study

Michał Wysocki, Karol Ciszek, Justyna Rymarowicz, Piotr Zarzycki, Maciej Walędziak, Katarzyna Bartosiak, Paweł Jaworski, Wojciech Kupczyk, Jacek Szeliga, Wiesław Tarnowski, Magdalena Pisarska-Adamczyk, Piotr Małczak, Michał Pędziwiatr, Piotr Major, Tomasz Stefura, Piotr Myśliwiec, Hady Razak Hady, Paulina Głuszyńska, Monika Proczko-Stepaniak, Michał Szymański, Michał Janik, Andrzej Kwiatkowski, Magdalena Materlak, Łukasz Czyżykowski, Maciej Mawlichanów, Piotr Kowalewski, Natalia Dowgiałło-Gornowicz, Paweł Lech, Anna Harań, Grzegorz Kowalski, Rafał Mulek, Michał Kreft, Michał Orłowski, Paula Franczak, Artur Binda, Mateusz Kamiński, Maciej Pastuszka, Wojciech Lisik, Paweł Szymański, Bartosz Katkowski, Michał Leśniak

Lap. Nissen fundoplication leads to better respiratory symptom control than Toupet in the long term of 20 years

Philipp Gehwolf, Teresa Agerer, Nadine Stacul, Katrin Kienzl-Wagner, Aline Schäfer, Valeria Berchtold, Fergül Cakar-Beck, Gasser Elisabeth, Heinz Wykypiel

Liver resection for metastatic GIST tumor improves survival in the era of tyrosine kinase inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Arash Rahimi-Ardabily, Sanjana Murdande, Michael Dong, Katie W. Gu, Brianna Zhang, Kendall Miller, Krist Aploks, Xiang Da Dong

Correction to: Surgeon’s narcissism, hostility, stress, bullying, meaning in life and work environment: a two‑centered analysis

Michael El Boghdady, Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

Application of fluorescence-guided surgery in the acute care setting: a systematic literature review

Pietro Fransvea, Valeria Fico, Caterina Puccioni, Luca D’Agostino, Gianluca Costa, Alberto Biondi, Giuseppe Brisinda, Gabriele Sganga

The percentages of signet-ring cells (SRCs) affects the prognosis after radical gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer

Yubo Ma, Yi Wang, Can Hu, Mengli Zi, Jinxia Chen, Mengxuan Cao, Li Yuan, Litao Yang, Yian Du

Interleukin-8 is superior to CRP for the prediction of severe complications in a prospective cohort of patients undergoing major liver resection

Mathieu Pecqueux, Frederik Brückner, Andreas Bogner, Florian Oehme, Hans‑Michael Hau, Felix von Bechtolsheim, Hanns‑Christoph Held, Franziska Baenke, Marius Distler, Carina Riediger, Jürgen Weitz, Christoph Kahlert

Patient-reported impact of emergency laparotomy on employment and health status 1 year after surgery

Erin C. McIlveen, Jennifer Edwards, Mark Vella, Laura McKinlay, Claire Hancock, Tara Quasim, Susan J. Moug

Is laparoscopic surgery a preferred option for benign conditions in the caudate lobe of the liver?

Jie Huang, Ding-Wei Xu, Xin-cheng Li, Ao Li, Yan Zhang, Manqing Hu

Time to interval cholecystectomy and associated outcomes in a population aged 50 and above with mild gallstone pancreatitis

Jian D. Blundell, Robert C. Gandy, Jacqueline C. T. Close, Lara A. Harvey

Efficacy and safety of postoperative preemptive use of tolvaptan for patients with cirrhosis undergoing hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma

Yuta Kobayashi, Junichi Shindoh, Kazutaka Kojima, Miho Akabane, Masahiro Kobayashi, Satoshi Okubo, Masaru Matsumura, Masaji Hashimoto

Metastatic lymph node ratio as an important prognostic factor in advanced gallbladder carcinoma with at least 6 lymph nodes retrieved

Junke Wang, Fei Liu, Wenjie Ma, Haijie Hu, Fuyu Li

Comparison of complications for cirrhotic versus non-cirrhotic patients undergoing pancreaticoduodenectomy

Alicia Amairan G. Zamorano, Paula Spang Valencia, Gina R. Porrazzo, Tariq Almerey, John A. Stauffer

Defunctioning stoma and anastomotic stricture in rectal cancer surgery: a propensity score matching study

Haoran Wang, Xiao Wang, Peng Wang, Kai Lv, Haoqing He, Wenguang Yuan, Mofan Fu, Jingbo Chen, Hui Yang

Endometriosis with colonic and rectal involvement: surgical approach and outcomes in 142 patients

Abigail Christiansen, Tara M. Connelly, Eddy P. Lincango, Tommaso Falcone, Cara King, Rosanne Kho, Miguel Luna Russo, Xue Jia, Michael Valente, Hermann Kessler

Multi-visceral resection for left-sided pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: a multicenter retrospective analysis from European countries

Cecilia Ferrari, Piera Leon, Massimo Falconi, Ugo Boggi, Tullio Piardi, Laurent Sulpice, Davide Cavaliere, Edoardo Rosso, Mircea Chirica, Ferruccio Ravazzoni, Riccardo Memeo, Patrick Pessaux, Vito De Blasi, Matteo Mascherini, Franco De Cian, Francis Navarro, Fabrizio Panaro

Feasibility and outcomes of living-donor liver transplantation utilizing the right hemi-liver graft with portal vein anatomical variations

Ahmed Shehta, Mohamed Elshobari, Tarek Salah, Ahmad M. Sultan, Amr Yasen, Usama Shiha, Mohamed El-Saadany, Ahmed Monier, Rami Said, Mohamed S. Habl, Reham Adly, Basma Abd Elmoaem El Ged, Rasha Karam, Reem Khaled, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Ehab E. Abdel-Khalek, Mohamed Abdel Wahab

Nomogram for predicting adhesive small bowel obstruction following emergency gastrointestinal surgery

Puyue Gao, Zongping Yu, Yiqi Wang, Wenchao Xiu

A contemporary analysis of the pre- and intraoperative recognition of multigland parathyroid disease

E Lawrence, G Johri, R Dave, R Li, A Gandhi

Utility and diagnostic accuracy of intraoperative frozen sections in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgical pathology

Archana Rastogi, N. S. Ashwini, Indira Rath, Chhagan Bihari, Shridhar V. Sasturkar, Viniyendra Pamecha

Personalized checkpoint acupuncture can reduce postoperative pain after abdominal surgery—a STRICTA-conform pilot study

Erfan Ghanad, Cui Yang, Christel Weiß, Mario Goncalves, Maria Joao Santos, Nuno Correia, Christoph Reissfelder, Henry Johannes Greten, Florian Herrle

Use of patient-derived explants as a preclinical model for precision medicine in colorectal cancer: A scoping review

Milton Mui, Molly Clark, Tamara M. S. H. Vu, Nicholas Clemons, Frédéric Hollande, Sara Roth, Robert Ramsay, Michael Michael, Alexander G. Heriot, Joseph C. H. Kong

Accidental parathyroidectomy during total thyroidectomy and hypoparathyroidism in a large series of 766 patients: incidence and consequences in a referral center

Nunzia Cinzia Paladino, Hanna Remde, Carole Guerin, Isabelle Morange, David Taïeb, Frédéric Sebag

Does anastomotic leakage after intersphincteric resection for ultralow rectal cancer influence long-term outcomes? A retrospective observational study

Feifan Liu, Bin Zhang, Jianbin Xiang, Guangzuan Zhuo, Yujuan Zhao, Yiming Zhou, Jianhua Ding

Physical frailty recovery is slower than mental frailty recovery after non-cardiac surgery in older adult patients

Tomokazu Kishiki, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Hideaki Yoshino, Nobuyoshi Aso, Aiko Iioka, Takashi Wakamatsu, Kazuna Honda, Isao Kataoka, Sangchul Kim, Shun Ishii, Satoshi Isobe, Toshiya Shirota, Mayumi Ide, Seiichi Taniai, Kumi Moriyama, Tomoko Yorozu, Haruhiko Kondo, Yoshihiro Sakamoto, Nobutsugu Abe, Eiji Sunami

Robotic-assisted repair of incisional hernia—early experiences of a university robotic hernia program and comparison with open and minimally invasive sublay technique (eMILOS)

Gabriel A. Plitzko, Björn-Ole Stüben, Anastasios Giannou, Matthias Reeh, Jakob R. Izbicki, Nathaniel Melling, Michael Tachezy

Diagnosis and management of anastomotic leaks after Ivor Lewis esophagectomy: a single-center experience

Andrés R. Latorre-Rodríguez, Jasmine Huang, Lara Schaheen, Michael A. Smith, Samad Hashimi, Ross M. Bremner, Sumeet K. Mittal

TOETVA: a single surgeon’s learning curve and a case report of CASTLE thyroid tumor

Xiaohu Jin, Zhiqi Huang, Peng Guo, Ronghua Yuan

Surgical strategies to treat portal vein thrombosis during adult liver transplantation

Martin de Santibanes, Victoria Ardiles, Jimmy Walker Uño, Juan Mattera, Eduardo de Santibanes, Juan Pekolj

Combined application of inflammation-related biomarkers to predict postoperative complications of rectal cancer patients: a retrospective study by machine learning analysis

Kunyue Wang, Youyuan Tang, Feng Zhang, Xingpo Guo, Ling Gao

Comparison of ointment-based agents after excisional procedures for hemorrhoidal disease: a network meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Konstantinos Perivoliotis, Charito Chatzinikolaou, Dimitrios Symeonidis, Konstantinos Tepetes, Ioannis Baloyiannis, George Tzovaras

Splenic flexure cancer: is right extended hemicolectomy better than left hemicolectomy?

Devesh S. Ballal, Harsh Mohan Agrawal, Mufaddal Kazi, Ashwin Desouza, Avanish P. Saklani

Surgical approaches for achalasia and obesity: a systematic review and patient-level meta-analysis

Stephen Kunz, Hamza Ashraf, Christopher Klonis, Sarah K. Thompson, Ahmad Aly, David S. Liu

Achievement of benchmark outcomes by a young surgical attendant performing pancreatoduodenectomies

Sakchai Ruangsin, Somkiat Sunpaweravong, Supparerk Laohawiriyakamol

Technological advancements in surgical laparoscopy considering artificial intelligence: a survey among surgeons in Germany

Sebastian Lünse, Eric L. Wisotzky, Sophie Beckmann, Christoph Paasch, Richard Hunger, René Mantke

Effect of early administration of tolvaptan on pleural effusion post-hepatectomy

Hiroya Iida, Hiromitsu Maehira, Haruki Mori, Nobuhito Nitta, Takeru Maekawa, Katsushi Takebayashi, Sachiko Kaida, Toru Miyake, Masaji Tani

Comment on “Open vs robotic gastrectomy with D2 lymphadenectomy: a propensity score-matched analysis on 1469 patients from the IMIGASTRIC prospective database”

Luigina Graziosi, Nicola Natalizi, Annibale Donini

Management of groin hernias detected by ultrasound: a comprehensive study

Franco Alejandro Corvatta, Rubén Emilio Díaz, Santiago Bertone, Sebastián Roche, Claudio Darío Brandi

Waiting for bile duct dilation before repair of bile duct injury: a worthwhile strategy?

Arthur Marichez, Benjamin Fernandez, Yaniss Belaroussi, Paul Mauriac, Céline Julien, Clément Subtil, Bruno Lapuyade, Jean-Philippe Adam, Christophe Laurent, Laurence Chiche

A systematic review of venous thromboembolism mechanical prophylaxis devices during surgery

Brianna Herring, Darren Lowen, Prahlad Ho, Russell Hodgson

Transversus abdominis plane block vs quadratus lumborum block for postoperative analgesia in inguinal hernia repair: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Liqing Gao, Kai Xie, Jielan Ding, Gan Jin

The impact of a dedicated social media strategy on enhancing surgical education

Carly N. Bisset, Frank D. McDermott, Deborah S. Keller

Impact of trans-anal versus laparoscopic total mesorectal excision on the surgical and pathologic outcomes of patients with rectal cancer: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Mobeen Farooqi, Ahmed Hussain, Abdullah Ahmad, Zaofshan Zaheer, Muhammad Daniyal, Asma Tahir, Laveeza Fatima, Ruqqaya Maham, Anoosh Farooqui, Aimal Khan

Digestive cancer surgery in low-mid income countries: analysis of postoperative mortality and complications in a single-center study

Hamza Sekkat, Hassan Agouzoul, Zineb Loudyi, Jaouad Naddouri, Jihane El Hamzaoui, Samira El Fakir, Mohammed Omari, Youness Bakali, Mouna Mhamdi Alaoui, Mohammed Raiss, Abdelmalek Hrora, Farid Sabbah

TSH receptor autoantibody levels post-total thyroidectomy in Graves’ ophthalmopathy: a meta-analysis

Arsalan Anees, Femi E. Ayeni, Guy D. Eslick, Senarath Edirimanne

Evaluation of an established colorectal robotic programme at an NHS district general hospital: audit of outcomes and systematic review of published data

Peter G Vaughan-Shaw, Abraham S Joel, Mohamed Farah, Frank Ofoezie, Deena Harji, Maren Liane, Saif Choudhary, James T Royle, Stephen Holtham, Golam Farook

Nerve identification during open inguinal hernia repair: a systematic review and meta-analyses

Viktor Bay Moseholm, Jason Joe Baker, Jacob Rosenberg

Global liver transplantation: emerging trends and ethical challenges

Angela L. Hill, Maryam Khan, Amen Z. Kiani, Jessica D. Lindemann, Neeta Vachharajani, Majella B. Doyle, William C. Chapman, Adeel S. Khan

Does month of birth influence colorectal cancer prognosis?

José Martín-Arévalo, David Moro-Valdezate, Vicente Pla-Martí, Stephanie García-Botello, Pablo Moya-Marcos, Ana Izquierdo-Moreno, Leticia Pérez-Santiago, David Casado-Rodrigo, Susana Roselló-Keränen, Alejandro Espí-Macías

Multiplanar CT reconstructions allow optimization of the laparoscopic surgical approach for liver lesions

Fabien Werey, Kevin Allart, Jeanne Dembinski, Juliette Yvart-Degardin, Jean-Marc Regimbeau

The impact of anemia and blood transfusion on mortality after open abdominal surgery in the elderly

Henrik Buhl, Astrid Nørgaard, Astrid Otkjaer, Lars Nannestad Jørgensen, Henrik Løvendahl Jørgensen

New approach of circumferential lymph node dissection around the superior mesenteric artery for pancreatic cancer during pancreaticoduodenectomy (with video)

Yoshihiro Ono, Yosuke Inoue, Tomotaka Kato, Kosuke Kobayashi, Manabu Takamatsu, Oba Atsushi, Takafumi Sato, Hiromichi Ito, Yu Takahashi

Assessment of the ileoanal pouch for the colorectal surgeon

Valerio Celentano, Carlo Alberto Manzo

Risk factors for ischemia/necrosis of the colonic stump after proctectomy and delayed coloanal anastomosis

Jules Le Pessot, Alexandra Pellegrin, Jean-Marc Regimbeau, Charles Sabbagh

Retroperitonealization of the pancreatic stump in distal pancreatectomy: a novel technique to reduce postoperative pancreatic fistula

Taoyuan Yin, Jingxiong Yuan, Yi Wu, Shizhen Li, Min Wang, Ruizhi He, Renyi Qin

Impact of fluorescent thoracic duct lymphography via intranodal approach in minimal access esophageal cancer surgery

Subramanyeshwar R. Thammineedi, Sujit C. Patnaik, Pratap Reddy, Srijan Shukla, Yogesh K. Vashist, Syed Nusrath

Postoperative computed tomography findings predict re-drainage cases after early drain removal in pancreaticoduodenectomy

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