Issue 8/2021
Content (48 Articles)
The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Dr. Barclay Stewart to the Editorial Board
Julie Ann Sosa
The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Dr. Michaela A. West to the Editorial Board
Julie Ann Sosa
The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Dr. Denise Carneiro-Pla to the Editorial Board
Julie Ann Sosa
The World Journal of Surgery Welcomes Dr. Adnan Alseidi to the Editorial Board
Julie Ann Sosa
The PanSurg-PREDICT Study: Endocrine Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
K. Van Den Heede, S. Chidambaram, J. Winter Beatty, N. Chander, S. Markar, N. S. Tolley, F. F. Palazzo, J. K. Kinross, A. N. Di Marco, Jasmin Winter Beatty, Swathikan Chidambaram, Sheraz Markar, James K. Kinross, Aimee N. Di Marco, Ayush Kulshreshtha, Rabiya Aseem, Emily K. Deurloo, Nicola C. Quinnen, Nina J. M. DeLa Cruz, Andrew J. Yiu, Natasha Khan, Ola Markiewicz, Ee Teng Goh, Max Denning, Ravi Aggarwal, Sam Mason, Simon Erridge, Simon D. Dryden, Jonathan M. Clarke, Viknesh Sounderajah, Amish Acharya, Simon Rabinowicz, Seema Yalamanchili, Guy Martin, Leigh Warren, Alasdair J. Scott, Elizabeth Burgnon, Sanjay Purkayastha, Robert Mechera, Anthony Glover, Alex Papachristos, Rachel Xuan, Anthony Glover, Bert Dhondt, Mohammed A. Azab, Ahmed Y. Azzam, Dimitris Balalis, Evangelos Fradelos, Dimitris P. Korkolis, Antonia Skotsimara, Efstratia Baili, Eleandros Kyros, Evangelos Felekouras, Ilias Vagios, Lyssandros Karydakis, Maria Mpoura, Athanasios Syllaios, Spyridon Davakis, Theodore Liakakos, Alexandros Charalabopoulos, Andras Fulop, Attila Szijarto, Javeid Bhat, Fazl Parray, Gowhar Aziz, Nisar Chowdri, Rauf Wani, Zameer Shah, Syed Muzamil Andrabi, Asif Mehraj, Amy Fowler, Ali Chaudhary, Ben Murphy, Dayna van der Hoef, Eanna Ryan, Ellen O′Beirn, Fadi Marzouk, Kevin McKevitt, Kulsoom Nizami, Harleen Grewal, Orla Hennessy, Yasmine Roden, Sami A. Elwahab, Christopher Collins, Souad Ayed, Hajer Alwade, Messedah Aldaya, Nasir A. Magboul, Alshahrani Mushabab Ali, Ewout W. Ingwersen, Floor Meijer, Els J. M. Nieveen Van Dijkum, Daan M. Voeten, Suzanne S. Gisbertz, Mark I. Van Berge Henegouwen, Anton F. Engelsman, Ali Yalcinkaya, Can Sahin, Mesut Yavas, Aydin Yavuz, Huseyin Gobut, Hasan Bostanci, Mustafa Sare, Osman Yuksel, Ramazan Kozan, Saygin Altiner, Sezai Leventoglu, Ali Kocataş, Mehmet A. Bozkurt, Yasin Kara, Engin Aybar, Ahmet Can Sari, Elif M. Colak, Siobhan Rooney, Malith Nandasena, Anita Balakrishnan, Mechteld C. De Jong, Radu Mihai, Shahab Khan, Klaas Van Den Heede, Nikita Chander, Swathikan Chidambaram, Fausto Palazzo, Neil Tolley, Aimee Di Marco, Kristie Parkins, Naomi Spencer, Richard J. Egan
Correction to: The PanSurg-PREDICT Study: Endocrine Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
K. Van Den Heede, S. Chidambaram, J. Winter Beatty, N. Chander, S. Markar, N. S. Tolley, F. F. Palazzo, J. K. Kinross, A. N. Di Marco, Jasmin Winter Beatty, Swathikan Chidambaram, Sheraz Markar, James K. Kinross, Aimee N. Di Marco, Ayush Kulshreshtha, Rabiya Aseem, Emily K. Deurloo, Nicola C. Quinnen, Nina J. M. DeLa Cruz, Andrew J. Yiu, Natasha Khan, Ola Markiewicz, Ee Teng Goh, Max Denning, Ravi Aggarwal, Sam Mason, Simon Erridge, Simon D. Dryden, Jonathan M. Clarke, Viknesh Sounderajah, Amish Acharya, Simon Rabinowicz, Seema Yalamanchili, Guy Martin, Leigh Warren, Alasdair J. Scott, Elizabeth Burgnon, Sanjay Purkayastha, Robert Mechera, Anthony Glover, Alex Papachristos, Rachel Xuan, Anthony Glover, Bert Dhondt, Mohammed A. Azab, Ahmed Y. Azzam, Dimitris Balalis, Evangelos Fradelos, Dimitris P. Korkolis, Antonia Skotsimara, Efstratia Baili, Eleandros Kyros, Evangelos Felekouras, Ilias Vagios, Lyssandros Karydakis, Maria Mpoura, Athanasios Syllaios, Spyridon Davakis, Theodore Liakakos, Alexandros Charalabopoulos, Andras Fulop, Attila Szijarto, Javeid Bhat, Fazl Parray, Gowhar Aziz, Nisar Chowdri, Rauf Wani, Zameer Shah, Syed Muzamil Andrabi, Asif Mehraj, Amy Fowler, Ali Chaudhary, Ben Murphy, Dayna van der Hoef, Eanna Ryan, Ellen O′Beirn, Fadi Marzouk, Kevin McKevitt, Kulsoom Nizami, Harleen Grewal, Orla Hennessy, Yasmine Roden, Sami A. Elwahab, Christopher Collins, Souad Ayed, Hajer Alwade, Messedah Aldaya, Nasir A. Magboul, Alshahrani Mushabab Ali, Ewout W. Ingwersen, Floor Meijer, Els J. M. Nieveen Van Dijkum, Daan M. Voeten, Suzanne S. Gisbertz, Mark I. Van Berge Henegouwen, Anton F. Engelsman, Ali Yalcinkaya, Can Sahin, Mesut Yavas, Aydin Yavuz, Huseyin Gobut, Hasan Bostanci, Mustafa Sare, Osman Yuksel, Ramazan Kozan, Saygin Altiner, Sezai Leventoglu, Ali Kocataş, Mehmet A. Bozkurt, Yasin Kara, Engin Aybar, Ahmet Can Sari, Elif M. Colak, Siobhan Rooney, Malith Nandasena, Anita Balakrishnan, Mechteld C. De Jong, Radu Mihai, Shahab Khan, Klaas Van Den Heede, Nikita Chander, Swathikan Chidambaram, Fausto Palazzo, Neil Tolley, Aimee Di Marco, Kristie Parkins, Naomi Spencer, Richard J. Egan
Impact of Preoperative Anemia on Outcomes of Enhanced Recovery Program After Colorectal Surgery: A Monocentric Retrospective Study
Pierre-Yves Hardy, Maxime Degesve, Jean Joris, Carla Coimbra, Emmanuel Decker, Gregory Hans
Factors Affecting Patient Outcomes in Acute Appendicitis in Rural Areas: An Observational Cohort Study
Enver Özkurt
Overcoming Barriers to Accessing Surgery and Rehabilitation in Low and Middle-Income Countries: An Innovative Model of Patient Navigation in Nepal
Jennifer L. Ibbotson, Bijata Luitel, Bikash Adhikari, Kathryn R. Jagt, Erik Bohler, Robert Riviello, Geoffrey C. Ibbotson
Quality Improvement to Address Surgical Burden of Disease at a Large Tertiary Public Hospital in Peru
Katherine R. Iverson, Lina Roa, Sebastian Shu, Milagros Wong, Shayna Rubenstein, Paloma Zavala, Luke Caddell, Cole Graham, Jorge Colina, Segundo R. Leon, Leonid Lecca, Gita N. Mody
Evaluating a Novel Prehospital Emergency Trauma Care Assessment Tool (PETCAT) for Low- and Middle-Income Countries in Sierra Leone
Peter G. Delaney, Zachary J. Eisner, Alfred H. Thullah, Benjamin D. Muller, Kpawuru Sandy, Philip S. Boonstra, John W. Scott, Krishnan Raghavendran
The Burden of Disease and Pathology at a Rapidly Expanding Tertiary Paediatric Surgical Unit in South Africa
A. Zanini, N. Maistry, G. Brisighelli, T. Gabler, D. Harrison, C. Westgarth-Taylor, A. Withers, J. Loveland, N. Patel
Evaluation of Interventions Addressing Timely Access to Surgical Care in Low-Income and Low-Middle-Income Countries as Outlined by the LANCET Commission 2030 Global Surgery Goals: A Systematic Review
Catherine Binda, Irena Zivkovic, Damian Duffy, Geoffrey Blair, Robert Baird
Does Liberal Prehospital and In-Hospital Tranexamic Acid Influence Outcome in Severely Injured Patients? A Prospective Cohort Study
Karlijn J. P. van Wessem, Luke P. H. Leenen
Extremity Tourniquet Training at High Seas
Carlos Yánez Benítez, Marcelo A. F. Ribeiro Jr., Mansoor Khan, Teófilo Lorente-Aznar, Esther Asensio, José Antonio López, Isabel Martínez, Juan L. Blas, Antonio Güemes
Traveling to Receive Treatment for Extremity Soft Tissue Sarcomas: Is it worth the drive?
Roberto J. Vidri, Chandrajit P. Raut, Timothy L. Fitzgerald
The Bacteriology of Acute Cholecystitis: Comparison of Bile Cultures and Clinical Outcomes in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients
Uri Kaplan, Chovav Handler, Bibiana Chazan, Noam Weiner, Ossama A. Hatoum, Anna Yanovskay, Doron Kopelman
Delayed Postoperative Hemorrhage Complicating Major Supramesocolic Surgery Management and Outcomes
Emmanuel Devant, Edouard Girard, Julio Abba, Julien Ghelfi, Pierre-Yves Sage, Christian Sengel, Olivier Risse, Ivan Bricault, Bertrand Trilling, Mircea Chirica
A Comparison of the P-POSSUM and NELA Risk Score for Patients Undergoing Emergency Laparotomy in Singapore
C P T Lai, T T Goo, M W Ong, P S Prakash, W W Lim, P A Drakeford
Rates of Bile Acid Diarrhoea After Cholecystectomy: A Multicentre Audit
Alexia Farrugia, Joseph Anthony Attard, Stuart Hanmer, Stuart Bullock, Siobhan McKay, Marwa Al-Azzawi, Roshneen Ali, Giles Bond-Smith, Ben Colleypriest, Sarah Dyer, Benjamin Masterman, Michael Okocha, Alan Osborne, Rikhilroy Patel, Mahmoud Sallam, Emmanuel Selveraj, Samar Shalaby, Wenrui Sun, Fraser Todd, Joel Ward, Rebecca Windle, Saboor Khan, Nigel Williams, Ramesh P. Arasaradnam
Preoperative Imaging in Renal Transplant Patients with Tertiary Hyperparathyroidism
Megan G. Berger, T. K. Pandian, Melanie L. Lyden, Travis McKenzie, Matthew T. Drake, Benzon M. Dy
Evaluating Nationwide Application of Minimally Invasive Surgery for Treatment of Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Neoplasms
Enes Kaçmaz, Heinz-Josef Klümpen, Willem A. Bemelman, Els J. M. Nieveen van Dijkum, Anton F. Engelsman, Pieter J. Tanis
Familial Non-Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in Pediatric Age: Our Surgical Experience
Claudio Spinelli, Irene Piccolotti, Alessia Bertocchini, Riccardo Morganti, Gabriele Materazzi, Massimo Tonacchera, Silvia Strambi
Invited Commentary: “Familial Non-Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in Pediatric Age: Our Surgical Experience.”
Sarah Jane Commander, Tamara N. Fitzgerald
Update on Incidence, Prevalence, Treatment and Survival of Patients with Small Bowel Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in the Netherlands
Enes Kaçmaz, Arantza Farina Sarasqueta, Susanne van Eeden, Koen M. A. Dreijerink, Heinz-Josef Klümpen, Pieter J. Tanis, Els J. M. Nieveen van Dijkum, Anton F. Engelsman
Airflow Limitation Predicts Postoperative Pneumonia after Esophagectomy
Suguru Maruyama, Akihiko Okamura, Naoki Ishizuka, Yasukazu Kanie, Kei Sakamoto, Daisuke Fujiwara, Jun Kanamori, Yu Imamura, Masayuki Watanabe
Advantageous Short-Term Outcomes of Esophagojejunostomy Using a Linear Stapler Following Open Total Gastrectomy Compared with a Circular Stapler
Yusuke Muneoka, Manabu Ohashi, Rie Makuuchi, Satoshi Ida, Koshi Kumagai, Takeshi Sano, Souya Nunobe
We Asked the Experts: Lessons from the Past Should Guide the Future—Considerations on the Treatment of Esophageal Achalasia
Marco G. Patti, Fernando A. Herbella
Accurate Prediction of Prognosis After Radical Resection of Gastric Cancer by the Modified Systemic Inflammation Score; a Multicenter Dataset Analysis
Kota Inagaki, Mitsuro Kanda, Koki Nakanishi, 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
Factors that make Bariatric Surgery Technically Challenging: A Survey of 370 Bariatric Surgeons
Shahab Shahabi, Miguel Carbajo, Abdelrahman Nimeri, Mohammad Kermansaravi, Amir Hossein Davarpanah Jazi, Abdolreza Pazouki, Kamal Mahawar
Unravelling the Complexity Myth for Minimally Invasive Right Hepatectomy: Liver Parenchymal Features and their Correlation to Objective Outcomes in Major Anatomical Resections
Salila S. Hashmi, Mohammad R. Jajja, Syed O. Nadeem, Daniel W. Maxwell, Austin M. Eckhoff, Edward Lin, Juan M. Sarmiento
Race and Gender Disparity in the Surgical Management of Hepatocellular Cancer: Analysis of the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program Registry
Michael Darden, Geoffrey Parker, Dominique Monlezun, Edward Anderson, Joseph F. Buell
Correlation Between Portal Pressure and Indocyanine Green Retention Rate is Unaffected by the Cause of Cirrhosis: A Prospective Study
Kosuke Kobayashi, Emilie Uldry, Takashi Kokudo, Alessandra Cristaudi, Yoshikuni Kawaguchi, Chikara Shirata, Takamune Yamaguchi, Olivier Dormond, Rafael Duran, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Nicolas Demartines, Nermin Halkic
Investigating Factors at Play in Hepatopancreatobiliary Fellowship Selection: Beliefs versus Reality
Terence Jackson, Joseph S. Lim, Kei Nagatomo, Muhammad Darwish, Edward E. Cho, Houssam Osman, Dhiresh Rohan Jeyarajah
Renal Implications of Left Renal Vein Ligation for Portal Flow Augmentation in Liver Transplantation
Sadhana Shankar, Ashwin Rammohan, Balaji Balasubramanian, Kumar Palaniappan, Rajesh Rajalingam, Mohamed Rela
Laparoscopic Versus Open Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Case Controlled Study with Propensity Score Matching
Yusuke Uemoto, Kojiro Taura, Takahiro Nishio, Yusuke Kimura, Nguyen Hai Nam, Kenji Yoshino, Tomoaki Yoh, Yukinori Koyama, Satoshi Ogiso, Ken Fukumitsu, Takamichi Ishii, Satoru Seo, Shinji Uemoto
Quality of Recovery of Patients Who Underwent Curative Pancreatectomy: Comparison of Total Intravenous Anesthesia Versus Inhalation Anesthesia Using the QOR-40 Questionnaire
Young-Eun Joe, Chang Moo Kang, Hye-Mi Lee, Ki-Jun Kim, Ho Kyoung Hwang, Jeong-Rim Lee
Clinical Implications of Combined Lymphocyte and Neutrophil Count in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer After Preoperative Chemoradiotherapy
Sunseok Yoon, Yoon Oh, Seung Yeop Oh
A Modified Tumor-Node-Metastasis Staging System for Colon Cancer Patients with Fewer than Twelve Lymph Nodes Examined
Hao Zhang, Yunxiao Liu, Chunlin Wang, Zilong Guan, Hang Yu, Chao Xu, Mingyu Zheng, Yuliuming Wang, Hanqing Hu, Rui Huang, Guiyu Wang
Assessing Differences in Lymph Node Metastasis Based Upon Sex in Early Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Han-Yu Deng, Chang Liu, Xiao-Ming Qiu, Da-Xing Zhu, Xiao-Jun Tang, Qinghua Zhou
Letter to the Editor: Impact of Ageing on Hepatic Malignancy Resection: Is Age Really a Risk Factor for Mortality?
Marcus Yeow
Author’s Reply: Impact of Aging on Hepatic Malignancy Resection: is Age Really a Risk Factor for Mortality?
Jianliang Liu, Jessica Reid, Markus Trochsler, Suzanne Edwards, Guy Maddern
Authors’ Reply: Endoscopic versus Conventional Thyroid Surgery: a Comparison of Quality of Life, Cosmetic Outcomes and Overall Patient Satisfaction with Treatment
Goonj Johri, Gyan Chand, Anjali Mishra
Letter to the Editor: Comparison of Common Surgical Procedures in Non-Complicated Pilonidal Sinus Disease, a 7-Year Follow-Up Trial
Marius Dettmer, Markus M. Luedi, Dietrich Doll
Letter to the Editor: Ilioinguinal Nerve Neurectomy is better than Preservation in Lichtenstein Hernia Repair: a Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis
Alberto Aiolfi, Marta Cavalli, Gianluca Bonitta, Davide Bona, Giampiero Campanelli
Authors’ Reply: Ilioinguinal Nerve Neurectomy is better than Preservation in Lichtenstein Hernia Repair: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-analysis
Roberto Cirocchi, Marco Sutera, Piergiorgio Fedeli, Gabriele Anania, Piero Covarelli, Fabio Suadoni, Carlo Boselli, Luigi Carlini, Stefano Trastulli, Vito D’Andrea, Paolo Bruzzone