Issue 8/2019
Content (30 Articles)
Defining the Three Delays in Referral of Surgical Emergencies from District Hospitals to University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Rwanda
Christophe Mpirimbanyi, Egide Abahuje, Aime Dieudone Hirwa, Miguel Gasakure, Elisee Rwagahirima, Christian Niyonzima, Adolphe Niyoyita Hakizimana, Epiphanie Ishimwe, Faustin Ntirenganya, Jennifer Rickard
Perioperative Mortality Rates as a Health Metric for Acute Abdominal Surgery in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Future Recommendations
Marie-Rachelle Felizaire, Tiffany Paradis, Andrew Beckett, Paola Fata, Jeremy Grushka, Walter Johnson, Kosar Khwaja, John G. Meara, Gabriel Ndayisaba, Ipshita Prakash, Tarek Razek, Tongmeesee Somprasong, Evan Wong, Prem Yohannan, Dan L. Deckelbaum
Spontaneous Retroperitoneal and Rectus Sheath Hemorrhage—Management, Risk Factors and Outcomes
Josefine S. Baekgaard, Trine G. Eskesen, Jae Moo Lee, D. Dante Yeh, Haytham M. A. Kaafarani, Peter J. Fagenholz, Laura Avery, Noelle Saillant, David R. King, George C. Velmahos
A 5-Year Evaluation of the Implementation of Triple Diagnostics for Early Detection of Severe Necrotizing Soft Tissue Disease: A Single-Center Cohort Study
Femke Nawijn, Roderick M. Houwert, Karlijn P. J. van Wessem, Rogier K. J. Simmermacher, Geertje A. M. Govaert, Marijke R. van Dijk, Mirjam B. de Jong, Ivar G. J. de Bruin, Luke P. H. Leenen, Falco Hietbrink
Risk Factors for Incarceration in Patients with Primary Abdominal Wall and Incisional Hernias: A Prospective Study in 4472 Patients
Dimitri Sneiders, Yagmur Yurtkap, Leonard F. Kroese, Gert-Jan Kleinrensink, Johan F. Lange, Jean-François Gillion, M. Antor, M. Beck, C. Barrat, C. Berney, D. Binot, J. Bousquet, D. Blazquez, A. Bonan, O. Cas, A. Champault-Fezais, P. Chastan, J.-M. Chollet, J.-P. Cossa, A. Dabrowski, T. Delaunay, S. Démaret, F. Drissi, H. Demian, V. Dubuisson, T. Dugue, G. Fromont, J.-F. Gillion, C. Jacquin, F. Jurczak, H. Khalil, M. Launay-Savary, M. Lepère, D. Lépront, J. H. Longeville, N. Le Toux, J. Loriau, E. Magne, P. Ngo, O. Oberlin, G. Passot, X. Pavis d’Escurac, J. B. Putinier, Y. Renard, B. Romain, M. Soler, S. Roos, J.-M. Thillois, P. Tiry, P. Vu, R. Verhaeghe, M. Warlaumont, C. Zaranis
Clinical and Functional Outcome After Abdominal Wall Incisional Hernia Repair: Evaluation of Quality-of-Life Improvement and Comparison of Assessment Scales
Leo Licari, Giovanni Guercio, Sofia Campanella, Gregorio Scerrino, Sebastiano Bonventre, Roberta Tutino, Leonardo Gulotta, Giuseppe Profita, Dalila Scaturro, Giulia Letizia Mauro, Giuseppe Salamone
Small and Laterally Placed Incisional Hernias Can be Safely Managed with an Onlay Repair
Rudolf Schrittwieser, Ferdinand Köckerling, Daniela Adolf, Martin Hukauf, Simone Gruber-Blum, René H. Fortelny, Alexander H. Petter-Puchner
The Cholecystectomy As A Day Case (CAAD) Score: A Validated Score of Preoperative Predictors of Successful Day-Case Cholecystectomy Using the CholeS Data Set
A. M. El-Sharkawy, N. Tewari, R. S. Vohra, R. S. Vohra, S. Pasquali, A. J. Kirkham, P. Marriott, M. Johnstone, P. Spreadborough, D. Alderson, E. A. Griffiths, S. Fenwick, M. Elmasry, Q. Nunes, D. Kennedy, R. Basit Khan, M. A. Khan, C. J. Magee, S. M. Jones, D. Mason, C. P. Parappally, P. Mathur, M. Saunders, S. Jamel, S. Ul Haque, S. Zafar, M. H. Shiwani, N. Samuel, F. Dar, A. Jackson, B. Lovett, S. Dindyal, H. Winter, T. Fletcher, S. Rahman, K. Wheatley, T. Nieto, S. Ayaani, H. Youssef, R. S. Nijjar, H. Watkin, D. Naumann, S. Emeshi, P. B. Sarmah, K. Lee, N. Joji, J. Heath, R. L. Teasdale, C. Weerasinghe, P. J. Needham, H. Welbourn, L. Forster, D. Finch, J. M. Blazeby, W. Robb, A. G. McNair, A. Hrycaiczuk, A. Charalabopoulos, S. Kadirkamanathan, C. B. Tang, N. V. Jayanthi, N. Noor, B. Dobbins, A. J. Cockbain, A. Nilsen-Nunn, J. de Siqueira, M. Pellen, J. B. Cowley, W. M. Ho, V. Miu, T. J. White, K. A. Hodgkins, A. Kinghorn, M. G. Tutton, Y. A. Al-Abed, D. Menzies, A. Ahmad, J. Reed, S. Khan, D. Monk, L. J. Vitone, G. Murtaza, A. Joel, S. Brennan, D. Shier, C. Zhang, T. Yoganathan, S. J. Robinson, I. J. McCallum, M. J. Jones, M. Elsayed, L. Tuck, J. Wayman, K. Carney, S. Aroori, K. B. Hosie, A. Kimble, D. M. Bunting, A. S. Fawole, M. Basheer, R. V. Dave, J. Sarveswaran, E. Jones, C. J. Kendall, M. P. Tilston, M. Gough, T. Wallace, S. Singh, J. Downing, K. A. Mockford, E. Issa, N. Shah, N. Chauhan, T. R. Wilson, A. Forouzanfar, J. R. Wild, E. Nofal, C. Bunnell, K. Madbak, S. T. Rao, L. Devoto, N. Siddiqi, Z. Khawaja, J. C. Hewes, L. Gould, A. Chambers, D. Urriza Rodriguez, G. Sen, S. Robinson, K. Carney, F. Bartlett, D. M. Rae, T. E. Stevenson, K. Sarvananthan, S. J. Dwerryhouse, S. M. Higgs, O. J. Old, T. J. Hardy, R. Shah, S. T. Hornby, K. Keogh, L. Frank, M. Al-Akash, E. A. Upchurch, R. J. Frame, M. Hughes, C. Jelley, S. Weaver, S. Roy, T. O. Sillo, G. Galanopoulos, T. Cuming, P. Cunha, S. Tayeh, S. Kaptanis, M. Heshaishi, A. Eisawi, M. Abayomi, W. S. Ngu, K. Fleming, D. Singh Bajwa, V. Chitre, K. Aryal, P. Ferris, M. Silva, S. Lammy, S. Mohamed, A. Khawaja, A. Hussain, M. A. Ghazanfar, M. I. Bellini, H. Ebdewi, M. Elshaer, G. Gravante, B. Drake, A. Ogedegbe, D. Mukherjee, C. Arhi, L. Giwa Nusrat Iqbal, N. F. Watson, S. Kumar Aggarwal, P. Orchard, E. Villatoro, P. D. Willson, K. Wa, J. Mok, T. Woodman, J. Deguara, G. Garcea, B. I. Babu, A. R. Dennison, D. Malde, D. Lloyd, S. Satheesan, O. Al-Taan, A. Boddy, J. P. Slavin, R. P. Jones, L. Ballance, S. Gerakopoulos, P. Jambulingam, S. Mansour, N. Sakai, V. Acharya, M. M. Sadat, L. Karim, D. Larkin, K. Amin, A. Khan, J. Law, S. Jamdar, S. R. Smith, K. Sampat, K. M O’shea, M. Manu, F. M. Asprou, N. S. Malik, J. Chang, M. Johnstone, M. Lewis, G. P. Roberts, B. Karavadra, E. Photi, J. Hewes, L. Gould, A. Chambers, D. Rodriguez, D. A. O’Reilly, A. J. Rate, H. Sekhar, L. T. Henderson, B. Z. Starmer, P. O. Coe, S. Tolofari, J. Barrie, G. Bashir, J. Sloane, S. Madanipour, C. Halkias, A. E. Trevatt, D. W. Borowski, J. Hornsby, M. J. Courtney, S. Virupaksha, K. Seymour, S. Robinson, H. Hawkins, S. Bawa, P. V. Gallagher, A. Reid, P. Wood, J. G. Finch, J. Parmar, E. Stirland, J. Gardner-Thorpe, A. Al-Muhktar, M. Peterson, A. Majeed, F. M. Bajwa, J. Martin, A. Choy, A. Tsang, N. Pore, D. R. Andrew, W. Al-Khyatt, C. T. Bhandari, A. Chambers, D. Subramanium, S. K. Toh, N. C. Carter, S. J. Mercer, B. Knight, S. Tate, B. Pearce, D. Wainwright, V. Vijay, S. Alagaratnam, S. Sinha, S. Khan, S. S. El-Hasani, A. A. Hussain, V. Bhattacharya, N. Kansal, T. Fasih, C. Jackson, M. N. Siddiqui, I. A. Chishti, I. J. Fordham, Z. Siddiqui, H. Bausbacher, I. Geogloma, K. Gurung, G. Tsavellas, P. Basynat, A. Kiran Shrestha, S. Basu, A. Chhabra Mohan Harilingam, M. Rabie, M. Akhtar, P. Kumar, S. F. Jafferbhoy, N. Hussain, S. Raza, M. Haque, I. Alam, R. Aseem, S. Patel, M. Asad, M. I. Booth, W. R. Ball, C. P. Wood, A. C. Pinho-Gomes, A. Kausar, M. Rami Obeidallah, J. Varghase, J. Lodhia, D. Bradley, C. Rengifo, D. Lindsay, S. Gopalswamy, I. Finlay, S. Wardle, N. Bullen, S. Y. Iftikhar, A. Awan, J. Ahmed, P. Leeder, G. Fusai, G. Bond-Smith, A. Psica, Y. Puri, D. Hou, F. Noble, K. Szentpali, J. Broadhurst, R. Date, M. R. Hossack, Y. Li Goh, P. Turner, V. Shetty, M. Riera, C. A. Macano, A. Sukha, S. R. Preston, J. R. Hoban, D. J. Puntis, S. V. Williams, R. Krysztopik, J. Kynaston, J. Batt, M. Doe, A. Goscimski, G. H. Jones, S. R. Smith, C. Hall, N. Carty, J. Ahmed, S. Panteleimonitis, R. T. Gunasekera, A. R. Sheel, H. Lennon, C. Hindley, M. Reddy, R. Kenny, N. Elkheir, E. R. McGlone, R. Rajaganeshan, K. Hancorn, A. Hargreaves, R. Prasad, D. A. Longbotham, D. Vijayanand, I. Wijetunga, P. Ziprin, C. R. Nicolay, G. Yeldham, E. Read, J. A. Gossage, R. C. Rolph, H. Ebied, M. Phull, M. A. Khan, M. Popplewell, D. Kyriakidis, A. Hussain, N. Henley, J. R. Packer, L. Derbyshire, J. Porter, S. Appleton, M. Farouk, M. Basra, N. A. Jennings, S. Ali, V. Kanakala, H. Ali, R. Lane, R. Dickson-Lowe, P. Zarsadias, D. Mirza, S. Puig, K. Al Amari, D. Vijayan, R. Sutcliffe, R. Marudanayagam, Z. Hamady, A. R. Prasad, A. Patel, D. Durkin, P. Kaur, L. Bowen, J. P. Byrne, K. L. Pearson, T. G. Delisle, J. Davies, M. A. Tomlinson, M. A. Johnpulle, C. Slawinski, A. Macdonald, J. Nicholson, K. Newton, J. Mbuvi, A. Farooq, B. Sidhartha Mothe, Z. Zafrani, D. Brett, J. Francombe, P. Spreadborough, J. Barnes, M. Cheung, A. Z. Al-Bahrani, G. Preziosi, T. Urbonas, J. Alberts, M. Mallik, K. Patel, A. Segaran, T. Doulias, P. A. Sufi, C. Yao, S. Pollock, A. Manzelli, S. Wajed, M. Kourkulos, R. Pezzuto, M. Wadley, E. Hamilton, S. Jaunoo, R. Padwick, M. Sayegh, R. C. Newton, M. Hebbar, S. F. Farag, J. Spearman, M. F. Hamdan, C. D’Costa, C. Blane, M. Giles, M. B. Peter, N. A. Hirst, T. Hossain, A. Pannu, Y. El-Dhuwaib, T. E. Morrison, G. W. Taylor, R. L. Thompson, K. McCune, P. Loughlin, R. Lawther, C. K. Byrnes, D. J. Simpson, A. Mawhinney, C. Warren, D. McKay, C. McIlmunn, S. Martin, M. MacArtney, T. Diamond, P. Davey, C. Jones, J. M. Clements, R. Digney, W. M. Chan, S. McCain, S. Gull, A. Janeczko, E. Dorrian, A. Harris, S. Dawson, D. Johnston, B. McAree, E. Ghareeb, G. Thomas, M. Connelly, S. McKenzie, K. Cieplucha, G. Spence, W. Campbell, G. Hooks, N. Bradley, A. D. Hill, J. T. Cassidy, M. Boland, P. Burke, D. M. Nally, A. D. Hill, E. Khogali, W. Shabo, E. Iskandar, G. P. McEntee, M. A. O’Neill, C. Peirce, E. M. Lyons, A. W. O’Sullivan, R. Thakkar, P. Carroll, I. Ivanovski, P. Balfe, M. Lee, D. C. Winter, M. E. Kelly, E. Hoti, D. Maguire, P. Karunakaran, J. G. Geoghegan, S. T. Martin, F. McDermott, K. S. Cross, F. Cooke, S. Zeeshan, J. O. Murphy, K. Mealy, H. M. Mohan, K. Nedujchelyn, M. Fahad Ullah, I. Ahmed, F. Giovinazzo, J. Milburn, S. Prince, E. Brooke, J. Buchan, A. M. Khalil, E. M. Vaughan, M. I. Ramage, R. C. Aldridge, S. Gibson, G. A. Nicholson, D. G. Vass, A. J. Grant, D. J. Holroyd, M. A. Jones, C. M. Sutton, P. O’Dwyer, F. Nilsson, B. Weber, T. K. Williamson, K. Lalla, A. Bryant, C. R. Carter, C. R. Forrest, D. I. Hunter, A. H. Nassar, M. N. Orizu, K. Knight, H. Qandeel, S. Suttie, R. Belding, A. McClarey, A. T. Boyd, G. J. Guthrie, P. J. Lim, A. Luhmann, A. J. Watson, C. H. Richards, L. Nicol, M. Madurska, E. Harrison, K. M. Boyce, A. Roebuck, G. Ferguson, P. Pati, M. S. Wilson, F. Dalgaty, L. Fothergill, P. J. Driscoll, K. L. Mozolowski, V. Banwell, S. P. Bennett, P. N. Rogers, B. L. Skelly, C. L. Rutherford, A. K. Mirza, T. Lazim, H. C. Lim, D. Duke, T. Ahmed, W. D. Beasley, M. D. Wilkinson, G. Maharaj, C. Malcolm, T. H. Brown, G. M. Shingler, N. Mowbray, R. Radwan, P. Morcous, S. Wood, A. Kadhim, D. J. Stewart, A. L. Baker, N. Tanner, H. Shenoy, S. Hafiz, J. A. De Marchi, D. Singh-Ranger, E. Hisham, P. Ainley, S. O’Neill, J. Terrace, S. Napetti, B. Hopwood, T. Rhys, J. Downing, S. Kanavati, M. Coats, D. Aleksandrov, C. Kallaway, S. Yahya, B. Weber, A. Templeton, M. Trotter, C. Lo, A. Dhillon, N. Heywood, Y. Aawsaj, A. Hamdan, O. Reece-Bolton, A. McGuigan, Y. Shahin, A. Ali, A. Luther, J. A. Nicholson, I. Rajendran, M. Boal, J. Ritchie
Laparoscopic Transcystic Versus Transductal Common Bile Duct Exploration: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Shahin Hajibandeh, Shahab Hajibandeh, Diwakar Ryali Sarma, Sankar Balakrishnan, Mokhtar Eltair, Rajnish Mankotia, Misra Budhoo, Yogesh Kumar
Low Preoperative Mental and Physical Health is Associated with Poorer Postoperative Recovery in Patients Undergoing Day Surgery: A Secondary Analysis from a Randomized Controlled Study
Ulrica Nilsson, Karuna Dahlberg, Maria Jaensson
The Efficacy and Safety of High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) Therapy for Benign Thyroid Nodules—A Single Center Experience from Singapore
Prajwala S. Prakash, Han Boon Oh, Wee Boon Tan, Rajeev Parameswaran, Kee Yuan Ngiam
Practice Patterns in Parathyroid Surgery: A Survey of Asia-Pacific Parathyroid Surgeons
Rufi Chen, Han Boon Oh, Rajeev Parameswaran, Alexandra Gorelik, Julie A. Miller
Timing of Parathyroidectomy Does Not Influence Renal Function After Kidney Transplantation
Willemijn Y. van der Plas, Mostafa El Moumni, Philipp J. von Forstner, Ezra Y. Koh, Roderick R. Dulfer, Tessa M. van Ginhoven, Joris I. Rotmans, Natasha M. Appelman-Dijkstra, Abbey Schepers, Ewout J. Hoorn, John Th. M. Plukker, Liffert Vogt, Anton F. Engelsman, Els J. M. Nieveen van Dijkum, Schelto Kruijff, Robert A. Pol, Martin H. de Borst
Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Events After Parathyroidectomy in Patients on Renal Replacement Therapy
Kerstin M. Ivarsson, Shahriar Akaberi, Elin Isaksson, Eva Reihnér, Tomasz Czuba, Karl-Göran Prütz, Naomi Clyne, Martin Almquist
Is There an Optimal Time for Parathyroidectomy in Patients with Secondary Hyperparathyroidism?
Tracy S. Wang
Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Early Breast Cancer: Magnetic Tracer as the Only Localizing Agent
Vivian Man, Ting Ting Wong, Michael Co, Dacita Suen, Ava Kwong
Significance of Intramural Metastasis in Patients with Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma: An Indicator of Aggressive Cancer Behavior
Akihiko Okamura, Masayuki Watanabe, Ryotaro Kozuki, Tasuku Toihata, Keita Takahashi, Yu Imamura, Shinji Mine
The Benefits of Docetaxel Plus Cisplatin and 5-Fluorouracil Induction Therapy in Conversion to Curative Treatment for Locally Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma
Masashi Takeuchi, Hirofumi Kawakubo, Shuhei Mayanagi, Kayo Yoshida, Tomoyuki Irino, Kazumasa Fukuda, Rieko Nakamura, Norihito Wada, Hiroya Takeuchi, Yuko Kitagawa
Proposal of a Scoring Scale to Estimate Risk of the Discontinuation of S-1 Adjuvant Monotherapy in Patients with Stage II to III Gastric Cancer: A Multi-Institutional Dataset Analysis
Akimitsu Iizuka, Mitsuro Kanda, Seiji Ito, Yoshinari Mochizuki, Hitoshi Teramoto, Kiyoshi Ishigure, Toshifumi Murai, Takahiro Asada, Akiharu Ishiyama, Hidenobu Matsushita, Chie Tanaka, Daisuke Kobayashi, Michitaka Fujiwara, Kenta Murotani, Yasuhiro Kodera
Propensity Score-Matched Analysis of Pure Laparoscopic Versus Hand-Assisted/Hybrid Major Hepatectomy at Two Western Centers
G. Fiorentini, F. Swaid, F. Cipriani, F. Ratti, C. Heres, A. Tsung, L. Aldrighetti, D. A. Geller
Infrahepatic Inferior Vena Cava Semi-Clamping can Reduce Blood Loss During Hepatic Resection but Still Requires Monitoring to Avoid Acute Kidney Injury
Taisuke Imamura, Yusuke Yamamoto, Teiichi Sugiura, Yukiyasu Okamura, Takaaki Ito, Ryo Ashida, Katsuhisa Ohgi, Katsuhiko Uesaka
Short- and Long-Term Outcomes of Liver Resection for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Associated with the Metabolic Syndrome
Christian Hobeika, François Cauchy, Nicolas Poté, Pierre-Emmanuel Rautou, François Durand, Olivier Farges, Safi Dokmak, Valérie Vilgrain, Maxime Ronot, Valérie Paradis, Olivier Soubrane
Intraoperative Body Fluid Amylase as a Novel Indicator of Postgastrectomy Pancreatic Fistula
Toshiro Tanioka, Kazuyuki Kojima, Toshifumi Saito, Emi Kanemoto, Keisuke Okuno, Kentaro Gokita, Kenta Kobayashi, Masatoshi Nakagawa, Mikito Inokuchi
The Clinical Implications of Peripancreatic Fluid Collection After Distal Pancreatectomy
Jun Yoshino, Daisuke Ban, Toshiro Ogura, Kosuke Ogawa, Hiroaki Ono, Yusuke Mitsunori, Atsushi Kudo, Shinji Tanaka, Minoru Tanabe
Years of Life Lost for Older Patients After Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis
Federico Mazzotti, Alessandro Cucchetti, Yvette H. M. Claassen, Amanda C. R. K. Bos, Esther Bastiaannet, Giorgio Ercolani, Jan Willem T. Dekker
The “Short-Cut” Laparoscopic Reverse Approach: A Novel Strategy for Synchronous Colorectal Cancer and Liver Metastases Requiring Major or Complex Procedures?
Mehdi Karoui, Olivier Scatton
Postoperative Urinary Retention After Laparoscopic Colorectal Resection with Early Catheter Removal: A Prospective Observational Study
Jens Ravn Eriksen, Pia Munk-Madsen, Henrik Kehlet, Ismail Gögenur
Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery (VATS) Talc Pleurodesis Versus Pleurectomy for Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax: A Large Single-Centre Study with No Conversion
Harish Mithiran, Lowell Leow, Kingsfield Ong, Terence Liew, Daveraj Siva, Shen Liang, John Kit Chung Tam
Evaluation of a Novel Bony Landmark-Based Method for Teaching Percutaneous Insertion of Subclavian Venous Catheters in Pediatric Patients
Zhiyang Jace Lin, York Tien Lee, Joyce Horng Yiing Chua, Rachel Wang, Vanessa Lee, Sue Mei Cheah, Seyed Ehsan Saffari, Joyce Ching Mei Lam, Amos Hong Pheng Loh
Letter to Editor: Can Mainstreaming Surgery Advocacy into NCD Advocacy Help Us Overcome the NCD Epidemic?
Manon Pigeolet, Isobel Marks, Zineb Bentounsi, Waruguru Wanjau