Issue 7/2021
Content (50 Articles)
The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Dr. Jennifer Kuo to the Editorial Board
Julie Ann Sosa
The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Dr. Masato Nagino to the Editorial Board
Julie Ann Sosa
The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Professor Kathryn Chu to the Editorial Board
Julie Ann Sosa
The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Dr. Tamara Fitzgerald to the Editorial Board
Julie Ann Sosa
Patient-Reported Quality of Life Following Laparotomy in a Resource-Limited Setting
Laura N. Purcell, Rachel Reiss, Mercy Mtalimanja, Patricia Kuyenda, Vanessa Msosa, Katherine D. Westmoreland, Anthony Charles
We Asked the Experts: Autotransfusion for the Provision of Blood in Lower-and-Middle-Income Countries
Timothy Craig Hardcastle
Effectiveness of Quality Improvement Processes, Interventions, and Structure in Trauma Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
James Jin, Salesi’ Akau’ola, Cheng-Har Yip, Peter Nthumba, Emmanuel A. Ameh, Stijn de Jonge, Mira Mehes, Iferemi Waiqanabete, Jaymie Henry, Andrew Hill
The Worldwide Epidemiology of Acute Appendicitis: An Analysis of the Global Health Data Exchange Dataset
Dakshitha P. Wickramasinghe, Chrisjit Xavier, Dharmabandhu N. Samarasekera
Out of the Loop: The Value of a Preoperative Loopogram for Colostomy Reversal in Trauma
Nolitha Makapi Tisetso Morare, Meshack Nkosinaye Motha, Maeyane Stephens Moeng
Yoga—An Alternative Form of Therapy in Patients with Blunt Chest Trauma: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Mallikarjun Gunjiganvi, Purva Mathur, Minu Kumari, Karan Madan, Atin Kumar, Rajesh Sagar, Sushma Sagar, Amit Gupta, Biplab Mishra, Altaf Hussain Mir, Mohini Meti, Subodh Kumar
Post-traumatic Splenic Injury Outcomes for Nonoperative and Operative Management: A Systematic Review
Sabrina Gill, John Hoff, Ashley Mila, Carol Sanchez, Mark McKenney, Adel Elkbuli
Simultaneous Casualty Admissions—Do they Affect Treatment in the Receiving Trauma Center?
Michel Paul Johan Teuben, Carsten Mand, Laura Moosdorf, Kai Sprengel, Alba Shehu, Roman Pfeifer, Steffen Ruchholtz, Rolf Lefering, Hans-Christoph Pape, Kai Oliver Jensen
Patients over 65 years with Acute Complicated Calculous Biliary Disease are Treated Differently—Results and Insights from the ESTES Snapshot Audit
Gary A. Bass, Amy E. Gillis, Yang Cao, Shahin Mohseni, Andreas Shamiyeh, Lena Rosetti, Günter Klimbacher, Bettina Klugsberger, Paul Healy, Conor Moriarty, Colm Power, Nauar Knightly, Arnold DK Hill, Desmond C Winter, Michael E Kelly, Ben E Creavin, Éanna J Ryan, Caoimhe C Duffy, Michael Sugrue, Michael Hugh Moore, Louise Flanagan, Jessica Ryan, Conor Keady, Brian Fahey, Kevin L McKevitt, Kevin Barry, Kevin C Conlon, Keno Mentor, Andrea Kazemi-Nava, Barbara Julies, Paul F Ridgway, Dara O Kavanagh, Mark Donnelly, Cathleen McCarrick, Umair Muhammad, Tara M Connelly, Paul C Neary, Sabina Magalina, Valerio Cozza, Antonio LaGreca, Daniele Gui, Alessia Malagnino, Mauro Zago, Mauro Montuori, Alan Biloslavo, Natasa Samardzic, Stefano Fracon, Davide Cosola, Nicolò de Manzini, Urânia Fernandes, Paulo Avelar, Rita Marques, Ana Sofia Esteves, André Marçal, Carina Gomes, Daniela Machado, Tobias Teles, Sofia Neves, Miguel Semiao, Rui Cunha, Jorge Pereira, Júlio Constantino, Milene Sá, Carlos Casimiro, Lidia Ionescu, Roxana Livadariu, Ludmila Stirbu, Radu Danila, Daniel Timofte, Bogdan Astefaniei, Aitor Landaluce Olavarria, Begoña Estraviz Mateos, Jaime Gonzalez Taranco, David Gomez, Jon Barrutia, Julio Zeballos, Dieter Morales Garcia, Ana Lozano Najera, Erik Gonzalez Tolaretxipi, Luis Tallon-Aguilar, José Pintor-Tortolero, Alejandro Sanchez-Arteaga, Virginia Duran-Muñóz Cruzado, Violeta Camacho-Marente, José Tinoco-Gonzalez, Anna Älverdal, Stefan Redeen, Shahin Mohseni, Ahmad Mohammad Ismail, Rebecka Ahl, Spyros Marinos, Naomi Warner, Rikhil Patel, Tania Magro, Romeshan Sunthareswaran, Andrei Mihailescu, Goran Pokusewski, Al exandru Leopold Bubuianu, Corneliu Dimitriu, Marius Paraoan, Arjun Desai, Katie Jones, Makhosini Mlotshwa, Kenny Ross, Simon Lambracos, Yegor Tryliskyy, Daniel C Cullinane
Invited Commentary: Optimization of the Management of Elderly Patients with Acute Complicated Calculous Biliary Disease is Feasible
T. Codjia, L. Schwarz
Nighttime Cholecystectomies are Safe When Controlled for Individual Patient Risk Factors–A Nationwide Case–Control Analysis
Kian Merati-Kashani, Claudio Canal, Dominique Lisa Birrer, Pierre-Alain Clavien, Valentin Neuhaus, Matthias Turina
Are Surgeons Working Smarter or Harder? A Systematic Review Comparing the Physical and Mental Demands of Robotic and Laparoscopic or Open Surgery
Laura Seohyun Park, Feiyang Pan, Daniel Steffens, Jane Young, Jonathan Hong
Validation of the Appendicitis Inflammatory Response (AIR) Score
Manne Andersson, Blanka Kolodziej, Roland E. Andersson
Non-operative Management of Small Bowel Obstruction in Patients with No Previous Abdominal Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Zubair Bayat, Matthew P. Guttman, Jonah Shiroky, Paul J. Karanicolas
Effectiveness of Pain Control of Local Anaesthetic Wound Infusion Following Elective Midline Laparotomy: A Randomized Trial
Daniel Gathege, Abdallah Abdulkarim, David Odaba, Stanley Mugambi
Application of Real-Time Augmented Reality Laparoscopic Navigation in Splenectomy for Massive Splenomegaly
Hai-Su Tao, Jin-Yu Lin, Wang Luo, Rui Chen, Wen Zhu, Chi-Hua Fang, Jian Yang
Illustrations of Hernia Surgery in the Early Period of the Ottoman Empire by Şerefeddin Sabuncuoğlu
Fatih Doğan, Fatma Nilay Tutak
How Much is Enough? Public Perception of Minimum Surgeon Volumes
Julia M. Danford, Sandra L. Wong, Brenda Sirovich, Daniel Underbaake, Meredith J. Sorensen
The Public may be Right: Should We Reconsider Minimum Surgeon Volumes?
Quan-Yang Duh
Recurrence of Non-functional Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors After Curative Resection: A Tumor Burden-Based Prediction Model
Ding-Hui Dong, Xu-Feng Zhang, Alexandra G. Lopez-Aguiar, George Poultsides, Flavio Rocha, Sharon Weber, Ryan Fields, Kamran Idrees, Cliff Cho, Shishir K. Maithel, Timothy M. Pawlik
Development of a Rapid Intraoperative Point-of-Care Method Using Tissue Suspension to Differentiate Parathyroid Tissue: A Possible Substitute for Frozen Sections
Toyone Kikumori, Masahiro Shibata, Dai Takeuchi
Faster than Frozen: Promising Preliminary Data for Rapid Parathyroid Tissue Confirmation Via a Novel Point-of-Care Method
Rajshri M. Gartland, Richard A. Hodin
The Added Value of Technetium-99 m Sestamibi Scan in Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism and Positive Ultrasound
T. Yalon, M. Neymark, A. Rottenberg, L. Appelbaum, D. Assaf, Y. Kluger, H. Mazeh, M. Mekel
The Clinical Significance of Lymph Node Ratio and Ki-67 Expression in Papillary Thyroid Cancer
Helene Lindfors, Catharina Ihre Lundgren, Jan Zedenius, C. Christofer Juhlin, Ivan Shabo
Causes, Risk Factors and Outcomes of Patients Readmitted to the Intensive Care Unit After Esophageal Cancer Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Chaoyang Tong, Hui Cao, Yuanyuan Xu, Deyuan Li, Hui Zhang, Meiying Xu, Yan Luo, Jingxiang Wu
Accuracy of Modern Clinical Risk Score Including RAS Status Changes Based on Whether Patients Received Perioperative Chemotherapy for Colorectal Liver Metastases
Yoshinori Takeda, Yoshihiro Mise, Masaru Matsumura, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Jiro Yoshimoto, Hiroshi Imamura, Takuji Noro, Junji Yamamoto, Naoki Ishizuka, Yosuke Inoue, Hiromichi Ito, Yu Takahashi, Akio Saiura
Predictive Values of Preoperative Markers for Resectable Pancreatic Body and Tail Cancer Determined by MDCT to Detect Occult Metastases
He Cheng, Guopei Luo, Kaizhou Jin, Zhiwen Xiao, Yunzhen Qian, Yitao Gong, Xianjun Yu, Chen Liu
How Should We Treat Pancreatic Metastases from Renal Cell Carcinoma? A Meta-Analysis
Teijiro Hirashita, Yukio Iwashita, Yuichi Endo, Atsuro Fujinaga, Toshitaka Shin, Hiromitsu Mimata, Masafumi Inomata
Clinical Impact of Portal Vein Distance on Computed Tomography for Postoperative Pancreatic Fistula after Pancreatoduodenectomy
Yutaka Endo, Minoru Kitago, Masahiro Shinoda, Hiroshi Yagi, Yuta Abe, Go Oshima, Shutaro Hori, Takahiro Yokose, Kodai Abe, Ryo Takemura, Ryota Ishi, Yuko Kitagawa
Detecting Hospital Outliers in Post-Pancreatectomy Care Using Funnel Plots from 2009–2018 Based on Nationwide Medico-Administrative Data
Alain Bernard, Jonathan Cottenet, Serge Aho, Alexandre Doussot, Anne-Sophie Mariet, Olivier Facy, Catherine Quantin
The Role of Visceral Obesity, Sarcopenia and Sarcopenic Obesity on Surgical Outcomes After Liver Resections for Colorectal Metastases
M. Runkel, T. D. Diallo, S. A. Lang, F. Bamberg, M. Benndorf, S. Fichtner-Feigl
Patient Acceptance of Routine Serial Postoperative Endoscopy Following Low Anterior Resection (LAR) and Its Ability to Detect Biomarkers in Anastomotic Lavage Fluid
Kristina Guyton, Natalia Belogortseva, Zoe Levine, Brooke Deatherage Kaiser, Naseer Sangwan, Neil Hyman, Benjamin D. Shogan, Olga Zaborina, John C. Alverdy
Conflicting Guidelines: A Systematic Review on the Proper Interval for Colorectal Cancer Treatment
Charlotte J. L. Molenaar, Loes Janssen, Donald L. van der Peet, Desmond C. Winter, Rudi M. H. Roumen, Gerrit D. Slooter
The Relationship Between Co-morbidity, Screen-Detection and Outcome in Patients Undergoing Resection for Colorectal Cancer
Mark S. Johnstone, Donald C. McMillan, Paul G. Horgan, David Mansouri
Pelvimetric and Nutritional Factors Predicting Surgical Difficulty in Laparoscopic Resection for Rectal Cancer Following Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy
Yanwu Sun, Jianhua Chen, Chengwei Ye, Huiming Lin, Xingrong Lu, Ying Huang, Pan Chi
Single-Centre Experience of Supra-Renal Vena Cava Resection and Reconstruction
Nikola Vladov, Radoslav Kostadinov, Vassil Mihaylov, Ivelin Takorov, Tsonka Lukanova, Maria Yakova, Tsvetan Trichkov, Evelina Odisseeva, Ventsislav Mutafchiyski
Impact of Bypass Flow Assessment on Long-Term Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Limb-Threatening Ischemia
Ilijas Cinara, Petar Zlatanovic, Milos Sladojevic, Ivan Tomic, Perica Mutavdzic, Stefan Ducic, Aleksandra Vujcic, Lazar Davidovic
Outcomes Following Immediate Vertical Rectus Abdominis Myocutaneous (VRAM) Flap-Based Perineal Reconstruction Following Resectional Surgery For Pelvic Malignancies
Rhiannon L. Harries, Rami W. Radwan, Madlen Dewi, Jonathan Cubitt, James Warbrick-Smith, Omair Sadiq, John Beynon, Martyn D. Evans, Peter Drew, S. Ather, P. Bose, T. V. Chandrasekaran, N. Das, M. Davies, J. Featherstone, D. A. Harris, G. V. Kanda Swamy, U. Khot, M. Lucas, K. Lutchman-Singh, G. Taylor
Letter to the Editor: Outcomes of Incisional Hernia Repair Surgery After Multiple Re-recurrences: A Propensity Score Matched Analysis
Daoxi Wang, Panyi Yang, Lang Li, Lei Yang, Xueyang Tang
Authors’ Reply: Outcomes of Incisional Hernia Repair Surgery After Multiple Recurrences: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis
D. Sneiders, G. H. J. de Smet, F. den Hartog, J. F. Lange, J-F. Gillion
Letter to the Editor: Are Adrenal Lesions of 6 cm or More in Diameter a Contraindication to Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy? A Case Control Study
Annalisa Comandatore, Lorenzo Maria Fatucchi, Valentina Pucci, Matteo Bianchini
Author’s Reply: Are Adrenal Lesions of 6 cm or more in Diameter a Contraindication to Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy? A Case Control Study
Andrea Balla, Livia Palmieri, Francesca Meoli, Diletta Corallino, Monica Ortenzi, Pietro Ursi, Mario Guerrieri, Silvia Quaresima, Alessandro M. Paganini
Letter to the Editor: Role of Chewing Gum in Reducing Postoperative Ileus after Reversal of Ileostomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Paweł Konstanty Korolkiewicz, Łukasz Sein Anand
Letter to the Editor: Outcomes of Laparoscopic Splenectomy for Treatment of Splenomegaly: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
H. Fifer, A. Lewis, G. Perin, S. P. Balasubramanian
Author’s Reply: Outcomes of Laparoscopic Splenectomy for the treatment of Splenomegaly: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
María Rita Rodríguez-Luna, Carmen Balagué, Sonia Fernandez Ananin, Ramon Vilallonga, Eduardo Mª Targarona