Issue 4/2023
Content (38 Articles)
Inspirational Women in Surgery: Prof. Afua A.J. Hesse, Paediatric Surgeon, Ghana
Florence Dedey, Adam Gyedu
The Impact of Depression in Patients Undergoing Emergency Abdominal Surgery: An Exploratory Study
Hanna Maroof, Dinh Van Chi Mai, Jihene El-Kafsi, Henry D. De’Ath
Emergency General Surgery and Mental Health in the COVID-19 Syndemic: In Search of the Double-Edged Blade
Robert K. Goldman, Jesse R. Fann
Women Representation on Editorial Boards in Latin America Journals: Promoting Gender Equity in Academic Surgery, Anesthesia, and Obstetrics
Letícia Nunes Campos, Abbie Naus, Ayla Gerk Rangel, Gabriela Rangel Brandão, Isabella Faria, Tayana Assomptia Jean Pierre, Camila Verônica Souza Freire, Sofia Schmitt Schlindwein, Brenda Feres, Sofia Wagemaker, Lucas Sousa Salgado, Roseanne Ferreira, Júlia Loyola Ferreira
Creating Diversity on Surgical Editorial Boards
Herbert Chen, Carmen C. Solórzano
Surgical Complications Requiring Reoperation in Open Versus Minimally Invasive Radical Nephrectomy: A Contemporary Analysis of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
Jose M. El-Asmar, Christian Habib Ayoub, Peter Kfoury, Anthony Abou-Mrad, Albert El-Hajj
Outcomes of Cardiac Gunshot Injuries Presenting at an Urban Trauma Facility in Johannesburg, South Africa
Maeyane S. Moeng, Shumani Makhadi, Mbavhalelo C. Molewa
Sex-based Disparities Among Surgical Faculty Positions Across Medical Colleges in Pakistan
Hareem Rauf, Russell Seth Martins, Hibba Erum Arif, Aymen Ahmed, Arisha Nawaz, Mahim A. Malik
Time to Treatment Initiation for Six Cancer Types: An Analysis of Data from a Nationwide Registry in Japan
Tomone Watanabe, Ryoko Rikitake, Tamaki Kakuwa, Yuichi Ichinose, Mariko Niino, Yu Mizushima, Masato Ota, Manami Fujishita, Yoichiro Tsukada, Takahiro Higashi
Geospatial Analysis of Accessibility to Surgical Care, a Brazilian Local Perspective
Bruna Oliveira Trindade, Gabriela R. Brandão, Sarah Bueno Motter
Sex-Based Differences in Survival Among Patients with Acute Abdomen Undergoing Surgery in Malawi: A Propensity Weighted Analysis
Avital Yohann, Gift Mulima, Linda Kayange, Laura Purcell, Jared Gallaher, Anthony Charles
Causes of Increased Use of Closed Reduction and Internal Fixation for High-Energy-Related Traumatic Sacral Fractures
Yi-Hsun Yu, Ping-Jui Tsai, Chang-Heng Liu, I.-Jung Chen, Yung-Heng Hsu, Ying-Chao Chou, I.-Chuan Tseng
Intravenous Tranexamic Acid Given at Femoral Fragility Fracture Surgery Reduces Blood Transfusion Requirements Fourfold
Matilda F. R. Powell-Bowns, Rhys K. Olley, Conor McCann, James R. Balfour, Caitlin M. Brennan, Jasmine Peh, Andrew D. Duckworth, Chloe E. H. Scott
Assessing Clinical Acumen in Predicting Acute Appendicitis in Emergency Surgery: A Prospective Study
Angus J. Lloyd, Michael R. Boland, Eoin Cleere, Frances Fallon, James Toale, Arnold D. K. Hill
Three Centuries of Appendicectomy
Philip J. J. Herrod, Alex T. Kwok, Dileep N. Lobo
Impact of Preoperative Patient Education on Postoperative Recovery in Abdominal Surgery: A Systematic Review
Freya Brodersen, Jonas Wagner, Faik Güntac Uzunoglu, Corinna Petersen-Ewert
Association of Preoperative Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio with Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury and Mortality Following Major Noncardiac Surgeries
Jie Wang, Yaodan Bi, Jun Ma, Yijun He, Bin Liu
Assessment and Reporting of Perioperative Adverse Events and Complications in Patients Undergoing Inguinal Lymphadenectomy for Melanoma, Vulvar Cancer, and Penile Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Giovanni E. Cacciamani, Luis G. Medina, Aref S. Sayegh, Anibal La Riva, Laura C. Perez, Michael B. Eppler, Inderbir Gill, Rene Sotelo
The Angers CT Score is a Risk Factor for the Failure of the Conservative Management of Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: A Prospective Observational Multicentric Study
Anita Paisant, Jeanne Burgmaier, Paul Calame, Mélanie Loison, Sébastien Molière, Cécile Brigand, Dihia Belabbas, Emilie Duchalais, Jean-Marc Regimbeau, Thierry Yzet, Arnaud Alves, Audrey Fohlen, Damien Bergeat, Estelle Vauclair, Julie Pellegrini, Emilia Ragot, Alexandre Lansier, Emeric Abet, Alexandre Nevot, Pascal Rousset, Mehdi Ouaissi, Marie Besson, Maxime Ronot, Massimo Giacca, Edouard Girard, Yann Tessier, Damien Massalou, Florent Poirier, Zaher Lakkis, Christophe Aubé, Jean Francois Hamel, Guillaume Passot, Aurélien Venara
Deliberate Compensated Vasoplegia–A Novel Pharmaceutical Approach for Controlling Blood Pressure During Surgery for Pheochromocytoma
Haggi Mazeh, Daniel Weiss, Michael Peter, Simona Grozinsky-Glasberg, Kira Oleinikov, Auryan Szalat, Ariel Ronen, Evgeny Koganov
The Effects of Chronic Steroid Use on Postoperative Complications Following Thyroidectomy
Elizabeth S. Koh, Frank R. Chen, Sophia Chen, Theodore Quan, Karen L. Leung, Jason Yang
Inflammatory and Nutritional Status Influences Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Esophagectomy
Shao-jun Xu, Ping-lan Wang, Chao Chen, Cheng-xiong You, Rui-qin Chen, Wen-wei Wu, Shu-chen Chen
Pancreaticoduodenectomy After Liver Transplantation: A Single-Center Experience
Caleb Blake, Tariq Almerey, David Hyman, Justin Nguyen, John A. Stauffer
Safety and Feasibility of Primary Closure Following Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration for Treatment of Choledocholithiasis
Lunjian Xiang, Jingjing Li, Dingzhi Liu, Lang Yan, Hongrui Zeng, Yan Liu
Invited Commentary to "Safety and Feasibility of Primary Closure Following Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration for Treatment of Choledocholithiasis" by Lunjian Xiang et al.
Mauro Podda, Benedetto Ielpo
Correction: Safety and Feasibility of Primary Closure Following Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration for Treatment of Choledocholithiasis
Lunjian Xiang, Jingjing Li, Dingzhi Liu, Lang Yan, Hongrui Zeng, Yan Liu
Prognostic Impact of Margin Status in Distal Cholangiocarcinoma
Toshio Nakagohri, Shinichiro Takahashi, Shigenori Ei, Yoshihito Masuoka, Taro Mashiko, Toshihito Ogasawara, Kenichi Hirabayashi
Risk Stratification of Patients with Marginal Hepatic Functional Reserve Using the Remnant Hepatocyte Uptake Index in Gadoxetic Acid-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Safe Liver Surgery
Miho Akabane, Junichi Shindoh, Yuta Kobayashi, Satoshi Okubo, Masaru Matsumura, Masaji Hashimoto
Oncologic Liver Resections in a Geriatric Population: Peri-operative, Long-Term and Quality-of-Life Outcomes—Experience from a High-Volume Centre in India
Shraddha Patkar, Jasmine Agarwal, Aditya Kunte, Saneya Pandrowala, Mahesh Goel
Impact of the Intermittent Pringle Maneuver for Predicting Post-hepatectomy Liver Failure: A Cohort Study of 597 Consecutive Patients
Koshiro Morino, Satoru Seo, Tomoaki Yoh, Rei Toda, Kenji Yoshino, Takahiro Nishio, Gen Yamamoto, Takamichi Ishii, Kojiro Taura, Etsuro Hatano
We Asked the Experts: Watch and Wait; Treatment of Rectal Cancer
Arun Nagarajan, Steven D. Wexner
We Asked the Experts: Surgical Approach to Low Rectal Cancer—Where Innovation Happens
Fabian Grass, David W. Larson
Comparison Between Several CT-Derived Psoas Muscle Sarcopenia Markers for Predicting Survival After Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Pau Forte-Genescà, Eduard Casajuana Urgell, Carles Díaz-Duran, Lorena Romero-Montaña, Ezequiel Paredes-Mariñas, Albert Clarà-Velasco
Reassessing the Role of Sarcopenia for Predicting Long-Term Survival After Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
Viraj Pandit, Hassan Aziz
Correction: 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
Letter to the Editor: Overall Survival in Patients with Stage IV Pan-NET Eligible for Liver Transplantation
Espen Thiis-Evensen
Author´s Reply: Overall Survival in Patients with Stage IV Pan-NET Eligible for Liver Transplantation
Josefine Kjaer, Olov Norlén, Per Hellman, Peter Stalberg
Correction: Author´s Reply: Overall Survival in Patients with Stage IV Pan-NET Eligible for Liver Transplantation
Josefine Kjaer, Olov Norlén, Per Hellman, Peter Stalberg