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  1. A daily algorithm for hospital discharge (DAHD) is a key point in the concept of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) protocol. We aimed to evaluate the length of stay (LOS), rate of complications, and hospi...

    Authors: Iuri Santana Neville, Francisco Matos Ureña, Danilo Gomes Quadros, Davi J. F. Solla, Mariana Fontes Lima, Claudia Marquez Simões, Eduardo Vicentin, Ulysses Ribeiro Jr, Robson Luis Oliveira Amorim, Wellingson Silva Paiva and Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:105

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  2. Long term results of endovascular coiling are yet scarce. This study reviews the impact of comorbidities on the success of endovascular coiling of both ruptured and unruptured intracranial aneurysms. Endovascu...

    Authors: Saima Ahmad

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:104

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  4. To retrospectively evaluate the feasibility and safety of intraoperative assessment of bowel perfusion in totally laparoscopic surgery for colon cancer using indocyanine green fluorescence imaging (IGFI).

    Authors: Hao Su, Hongliang Wu, Mandula Bao, Shou Luo, Xuewei Wang, Chuanduo Zhao, Qian Liu, Xishan Wang, Zhixiang Zhou and Haitao Zhou

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:102

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  6. Laparoscopic total gastrectomy for gastric cancer is feasible but less commonly performed compared to laparoscopic distal gastrectomy due to technical difficulties such as reconstruction. There is no standard ...

    Authors: Sejin Lee, Harim Lee, Jeong Ho Song, Seohee Choi, Minah Cho, Taeil Son, Hyoung-Il Kim and Woo Jin Hyung

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:100

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  9. Most contemporary studies suggested that intersegmental parameters including disc height and local lordosis contribute to the sagittal balance of fused lumbar. Although similar clinical outcomes following MIS-...

    Authors: Fuping Li, Chen Li, Xin Xi, Zhili Zeng, Bin Ma, Ning Xie, Hang Wang, Yan Yu and Liming Cheng

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:97

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  10. Osteoporotic thoracolumbar burst fracture (OTLBF) is common in seniors. Due to the fracture of the posterior vertebra and spinal canal occupancy, the risk of cement leakage and spine injury is high in OTLBF pa...

    Authors: Xuan-geng Deng, Xiao-ming Xiong, Dun Wan, Hua-gang Shi, Guo-long Mei and Wei Cui

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:96

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  11. Cancer cells are often found postoperatively at surgical resection margins (RM) in patients with gastric cancer because of submucosal infiltration or hesitation to secure adequate RM. This study was designed t...

    Authors: Yuta Kumazu, Tsutomu Hayashi, Takaki Yoshikawa, Takanobu Yamada, Kentaro Hara, Yota Shimoda, Masato Nakazono, Shinsuke Nagasawa, Manabu Shiozawa, Soichiro Morinaga, Yasushi Rino, Munetaka Masuda, Takashi Ogata and Takashi Oshima

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:95

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  12. The choice of surgery for perianal sepsis is currently controversial. Some people advocate one-time radical surgery for perianal sepsis, while others advocate incision and drainage. The objective of this study...

    Authors: Zongqi He, Jun Du, Kaiwen Wu, Jiajia Chen, Bensheng Wu, Jianhua Yang, Zhizhong Xu, Zhihui Fu, Li Pan, Ke Wen and Xiaopeng Wang

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:94

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  14. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) is essential for managing biliary and pancreatic disorders. Infection is the most morbid complication of ERCP and among the most common causes of ERCP-rela...

    Authors: Fahed Merei, Galina Shapiro, Ibrahim Abu Shakra, Amitai Bickel, Samer Ganam, Maxim Bez and Eli Kakiashvili

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:92

    Content type: Case report

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  15. One anastomosis gastric bypass- minigastric bypass (OAGB-MGB) is an emerging bariatric surgery that is being endorsed by surgeons worldwide. Internal herniation is a rare and dreaded complication after malabso...

    Authors: Ibrahim Abu Shakra, Maxim Bez, Amitai Bickel, Walid Kassis, Samer Ganam, Fahed Merei, Nour Karra, Khatib Kamal, Doron Fischer and Eli Kakiashvili

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:91

    Content type: Case report

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  17. The safety of total laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy still remains controversial. Laparoscopic assisted pancreaticoduodenectomy (LAPD) may be an alternative selection. The purpose of the present study is t...

    Authors: Feng Tian, Yi-zhi Wang, Su-rong Hua, Qiao-fei Liu and Jun-chao Guo

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:89

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  18. Mediastinal venous aneurysm is a very rare disease and can be easily misdiagnosed. Patients are often asymptomatic while venous aneurysm of large size with adjacent structures oppressed can lead to discomfort....

    Authors: Cheng Fang, Hui Pan, Zhoubin Li, Liang Ma and Weili Han

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:88

    Content type: Case report

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  20. Double aortic arch (DAA) is a congenital anomaly of the aorta. Esophageal cancer with DAA is rare, and consequently, the appropriate surgical approach has not been standardized. Herein, we report the utilizati...

    Authors: Shu Mushiake, Kohei Taniguchi, Sang-Woong Lee, Tetsunosuke Shimizu, Yoshiro Imai, Ryo Tanaka, Kotaro Honda, Keitaro Tashiro, Masaru Kawai and Kazuhisa Uchiyama

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:86

    Content type: Case report

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  21. Synchronous cancer in patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) increases morbidity and mortality after AAA repair. However, little is known about the impact of the history of cancer on mortality after AAA...

    Authors: Sanghyun Ahn, Jin-Young Min, Hyunyoung G. Kim, Hyejin Mo, Seung-Kee Min, Sangil Min, Jongwon Ha and Kyoung-Bok Min

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:85

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  24. Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) is the most common form of well-differentiated endocrine malignancy. Distant metastases of PTC are rare and usually occur in the bones, lungs, and thoracic lymph nodes despite th...

    Authors: Haoyuan Ren, Nengwen Ke, Chunlu Tan, Xing Wang, Wen Cao and Xubao Liu

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:82

    Content type: Case report

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  25. Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS), a malignant neoplasm that normally differentiates to form striated muscle, is the most common type of childhood soft tissue sarcoma. However, it infrequently occurs in adults and is unc...

    Authors: Mitsuyoshi Okazaki, Hidehiro Tajima, Yoshinao Ohbatake, Hiroyuki Shinbashi, Shinichi Nakanuma, Isamu Makino, Itasu Ninomiya, Sachio Fushida, Koushiro Ohtsubo and Tetsuo Ohta

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:81

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  26. The Fontan procedure has become the standard operation for patients with single ventricle physiology. Due to cardiac hypokinesis and high central venous pressure, laparoscopic approach, especially in hepatecto...

    Authors: Yuki Yokota, Takehiro Noda, Shogo Kobayashi, Kenichi Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Sakano, Yoshifumi Iwagami, Yoshito Tomimaru, Hirofumi Akita, Kunihito Gotoh, Koji Umeshita, Yuichiro Doki and Hidetoshi Eguchi

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:80

    Content type: Case report

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  27. Perforation of a marginal peptic ulcer after pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD) can lead to severe conditions, although its clinical features have not been well reported. In this article, we present three cases of m...

    Authors: Ikuma Shioi, Naoyuki Yokoyama, Motoharu Hirai, Masaru Komatsu, Akira Kubota, Makoto Aoki, Daisuke Sato and Tetsuya Otani

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:79

    Content type: Case report

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  28. The reverse treatment of patients with synchronous colorectal liver metastases (CRLM) is a sequential approach with systemic chemotherapy first, followed by liver resection, and finally, primary tumor resectio...

    Authors: Céline Du Pasquier, Didier Roulin, Pierre Bize, Christine Sempoux, Caterina Rebecchini, Michael Montemurro, Markus Schäfer, Nermin Halkic and Nicolas Demartines

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:78

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  31. Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is often diagnosed at an advanced stage resulting in a low resectability rate. Even after potentially curative resection the risk for tumor recurrence is high. Although th...

    Authors: Fabian Bartsch, Felix Hahn, Lukas Müller, Janine Baumgart, Maria Hoppe-Lotichius, Roman Kloeckner and Hauke Lang

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:75

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  32. Percutaneous kyphoplasty (PKP) has become an important minimally invasive surgical technique for fracture stabilization and pain relief in patients with vertebral compression fractures. However, intraspinal ce...

    Authors: Ziquan Li, Keyi Yu, Xiao Chang, Siyi Cai, Jun Gao and Yipeng Wang

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:74

    Content type: Case report

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  33. The objective of the study was to investigate the association between obesity and the presence of secondary surgery following neurolysis, direct nerve repair, or nerve grafting in patients with traumatic brach...

    Authors: Pichitchai Atthakomol, Kamilcan Oflazoglu, Kyle R. Eberlin, Jonathan Winograd, Neal C. Chen and Sang-Gil Lee

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:73

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  35. Simultaneous dislocation of the radial head and distal radio-ulnar joint without fracture (Criss-Cross Injury) in an adult patient is rarely reported in previous studies. The pathological changes and injury pa...

    Authors: Xiang-Yun Jin, Wen-Bo Zhao, Yu-Qi Dong and Yi-Gang Huang

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:71

    Content type: Case report

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  37. Various techniques are used to detect intraoperative bleeding points in thyroid surgery. We aimed to assess the effect of increasing peak airway pressure to 30, 40 and 50 cm H2O manually in detecting intraoperati...

    Authors: Cigdem Akyol Beyoglu, Serkan Teksoz, Aylin Ozdilek, Murat Akcivan, Emre Erbabacan, Fatis Altindas and Guniz Koksal

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:69

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  39. The diagnosis of gallbladder tuberculosis remains elusive even to the most experienced clinicians. Our aim is to describe our experience of this rare disease, and to raise awareness of the increasing likelihoo...

    Authors: Tewodross Getu Wolde, Kuirong Jiang, Yi Miao and Jishu Wei

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:67

    Content type: Case report

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  40. The development of adjacent segment degeneration (ASD) following ACDF is well established. There is no analytical study related to effects of plate profile on the biomechanics of the adjacent-level after ACDF....

    Authors: Xin-Feng Li, Lin-Yu Jin, Chao-Ge Liang, Hong-Ling Yin and Xiao-Xing Song

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:66

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  41. The aim of this study was to compare quilting suture with conventional suture on the formation of seroma at pectoral area after mastectomy (ME) with sentinel lymph nodes biopsy (SLN) or axillary lymph nodes di...

    Authors: Yuhui Wu, Shouman Wang, Jian Hai, Jie Mao, Xue Dong and Zhi Xiao

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:65

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  42. Anastomotic leakage is a dangerous postoperative complication of oesophageal surgery. The present study aimed to develop a simple and practical scoring system to predict the risk of anastomotic leakage after o...

    Authors: Chengya Huang, Haixia Yao, Qi Huang, Huijie Lu, Meiying Xu and Jingxiang Wu

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:64

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  43. Right extended liver resection is frequently required to achieve tumor-free margins. Portal venous embolization (PVE) of the prospective resected hepatic segments for conditioning segments II/III does not alwa...

    Authors: Nadja Lehwald-Tywuschik, Sascha Vaghiri, Jan Schulte am Esch, Salman Alaghmand, Yan Klosterkemper, Lars Schimmöller, Anja Lachenmayer, Hany Ashmawy, Andreas Krieg, Stefan A. Topp, Alexander Rehders and Wolfram Trudo Knoefel

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:63

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  45. Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is often diagnosed in advanced stage. Aim of this study was to analyse the influence of resection margins and tumor distance to the liver capsule on survival and recurrenc...

    Authors: Fabian Bartsch, Janine Baumgart, Maria Hoppe-Lotichius, Beate K. Straub, Stefan Heinrich and Hauke Lang

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:61

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  46. The association between delayed gastric emptying (DGE) after pancreatoduodenectomy (PD) and pancreatic reconstruction technique remain unclear. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the occurrence of...

    Authors: S. Hayama, N. Senmaru and S. Hirano

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:60

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  47. To assess the safety, tumor control and renal function preservation of the emergency retroperitoneal laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) for ruptured renal angiomyolipoma (AML) and summarize our single-cent...

    Authors: Wei He, Xiaoxu Chen, Haiyong Ji, Jianwei Wang and Zhihong Niu

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:59

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  48. Single-stage repair of incisional hernias in contaminated fields has a high rate of surgical site infection (30–42%) when biologic grafts are used for repair. In an attempt to decrease this risk, a novel graft...

    Authors: Samuel Minor, Carl J. Brown, Paul S. Rooney, Jason P. Hodde, Lisa Julien, Tracy M. Scott, Ahmer A. Karimuddin, Manoj J. Raval and P. Terry Phang

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:58

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  49. Rectal cancer (RC) surgery often results in permanent colostomy, seriously limiting the quality of life (QOL) in patients in terms of bowel function. This study aimed to examine defecation function and QOL in ...

    Authors: Guojun Tong, Guiyang Zhang, Jian Liu, Zhaozheng Zheng, Yan Chen, Min Li, Yan Zhong, Pingping Niu and Xuting Xu

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:57

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  50. Retrohepatic inferior vena cava (RIVC) resection without reconstruction in ex vivo liver resection and autotransplantation (ERAT) for advanced alveolar echinococcosis (HAE) is unclear.

    Authors: Xianwei Yang, Tao Wang, Junjie Kong, Bin Huang and Wentao Wang

    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:56

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