Surgery General
Mar 13, 2023
Dexmedetomidine use decreases adverse neurocognitive outcomes in adults undergoing cardiovascular surgery, but its effect has been unclear in children with congenital heart disease.The authors conduct...
Mar 13, 2023
Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma is an aggressive tumor that commonly presents at an advanced stage requiring multimodal treatment. Surgical resection remains the only curative option; however, only 20...
Mar 13, 2023
Familiarity with the surgical work environment has been demonstrated to improve outcomes. We sought to investigate the impact of the rate of fragmented practice on textbook outcomes, a validated compo...
Mar 10, 2023
The following is the summary of “Neighborhood Deprivation, Hospital Quality, and Mortality After Cancer Surgery” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Bonner, et al. The goal of...
Mar 07, 2023
The following is a summary of "Timing and necessity of staging imaging in clinical stage II cutaneous melanoma: Cost-effectiveness and clinical decision analysis," published in the JANUARY 2023 issue ...
Mar 07, 2023
The following is the summary of “A comparative study of robotic and laparoscopic approaches to Heller myotomy” published in the December 2022 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Raja, ...
Mar 07, 2023
The following is the summary of “Psychological Health of Surgeons in a Time of COVID-19” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Tan, et al. The purpose of this study is to eval...
Mar 06, 2023
The following is the summary of “What Outcomes Are Most Important to Patients Following a Lower Extremity Limb-threatening Injury?” published in the January 2023 issue of Surgery by Wong, et al. ...
Mar 06, 2023
Pancreatitis is the most common adverse event following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP). Meanwhile, the national temporal trend of post-ERCP pancreatitis (PEP) in children remain...
Mar 06, 2023
The management of traumatic ear amputations remains a rare and difficult occurrence for surgeons. This is due to the fact that the chosen replantation technique must ensure the best vascular supply an...
Mar 06, 2023
To determine factors associated with not achieving a minimal important change (MIC) in the Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS) Function in Sport and Recreation (Sport/Rec), and Knee-Re...
Mar 06, 2023
The number of obese surgical patients continues to grow, and yet obesity's association with surgical outcomes is not totally clear. This study examined the association between obesity and surgical out...
Mar 06, 2023
Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus (TMEV) is a single-stranded RNA virus that causes encephalitis followed by chronic demyelination in SJL mice and spontaneous seizures in C57BL/6 mice. Since ea...
Mar 06, 2023
The International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery 4-tier (ie, A-D) risk classification for postoperative pancreatic fistula grade B/C is based on pancreatic texture and pancreatic duct size: A (not-...
Mar 03, 2023
The following is the summary of “Early ligation of the pulmonary vein can reduce the dissemination of shed tumor cells during thoracoscopic lobectomy” published in the December 2022 issue of Thora...
Mar 02, 2023
The following is the summary of “Ten-year follow-up of lung cancer patients with resected adenocarcinoma in situ or minimally invasive adenocarcinoma: Wedge resection is curative” published in the...
Mar 01, 2023
The following is the summary of “Should all patients receive extended thromboprophylaxis after resection of primary lung cancer?” published in the December 2022 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascula...
Feb 28, 2023
The following is the summary of “Extended resection for potentially operable patients with stage III non–small cell lung cancer after induction treatment” published in the December 2022 issue of...
Feb 27, 2023
The following is the summary of “Outcomes of lung transplantation from donors with a history of substance abuse” published in the January 2023 issue of Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery by Donah...