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  1. Preoperative hypercapnia and hypoxemia are reportedly risk factors for postoperative complications. This study aimed to establish the long-term survival risk associated with abnormal preoperative arterial bloo...

    Authors: Shinjiro Mizuguchi, Takashi Iwata, Nobuhiro Izumi, Takuma Tsukioka, Shoji Hanada, Hiroaki Komatsu and Noritoshi Nishiyama
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:3
  2. Patients with cervical spondylosis myelopathy (CSM) and complicated with hypertension are often experiencing a blood pressure decrease after taking cervical decompressive surgery in clinical observations, but ...

    Authors: Hong Liu, Hai-Bo Wang, Lin Wu, Shi-Jun Wang, Ze-Chuan Yang, Run-Yi Ma, Kathleen H. Reilly, Xiao-Yan Yan, Ping Ji and Yang-feng Wu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:2
  3. Authors: Tjibbe J. Gardenbroek, Thomas D. Pinkney, Saloomeh Sahami, Dion G. Morton, Christianne J. Buskens, Cyriel Y. Ponsioen, Pieter J. Tanis, Mark Löwenberg, Gijs R. van den Brink, Ivo A. M. J. Broeders, Hendrikus J. M. Pullens, Tom Seerden, Maarten J. Boom, Rosalie C. Mallant-Hent, Robert E. G. J. M. Pierik, Juda Vecht…
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:1

    The original article was published in BMC Surgery 2015 15:30

  4. Splenectomy after combined colosplenic trauma or iatrogenic splenic injury during colorectal surgery associates with worse short- and long-term outcomes, including reduced survival in patients with colorectal ...

    Authors: Bora Karip, Metin Mestan, Özgen Işık, Metin Keskin, Kafkas Çelik, Yalın İşcan and Kemal Memişoğlu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:129
  5. Incisional surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most frequent complications that occur after colorectal surgery. Surgery for colorectal perforation carries an especially high risk of incisional SSI beca...

    Authors: Takehito Yamamoto, Takeshi Morimoto, Ryosuke Kita, Hideyuki Masui, Hiromitsu Kinoshita, Yusuke Sakamoto, Kazuyuki Okada, Junji Komori, Akira Miki, Masato Kondo, Kenji Uryuhara, Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Hiroki Hashida, Satoshi Kaihara and Ryo Hosotani
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:128
  6. The aim of the present study was to investigate the safety of bioabsorbable plates and screws in humans.

    Authors: Mehmet Isyar, Ibrahim Yilmaz, Gurdal Nusran, Olcay Guler, Sercan Yalcin and Mahir Mahirogullari
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:127
  7. Metastases to the pancreas are rare, accounting for less then 2 % of all pancreatic malignancies. However, both the benefit of extended tumor resection and the ideal oncological approach have not been establis...

    Authors: Georg Wiltberger, Julian Nikolaus Bucher, Felix Krenzien, Christian Benzing, Georgi Atanasov, Moritz Schmelzle, Hans-Michael Hau and Michael Bartels
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:126
  8. Although neuroendocrine tumors are most commonly found in the digestive system, neuroendocrine tumors originating from the bile duct are rare, and neuroendocrine carcinomas derived from the perihilar bile duct...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Kihara, Hiroshi Yokomizo, Takahiro Urata, Michiko Nagamine and Toshihiko Hirata
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:125
  9. In a previous report, we described a method of reconstruction using tumor-bearing autograft treated by liquid nitrogen for malignant bone tumor. Here we present the first case of bone deformity correction foll...

    Authors: Akihiko Takeuchi, Norio Yamamoto, Toshiharu Shirai, Hideji Nishida, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Koji Watanabe, Shinji Miwa and Hiroyuki Tsuchiya
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:124
  10. The prognosis of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is worse when the tumor is located in the pancreatic body or tail, compared to being located in the pancreatic head. However, for localized, resectable ...

    Authors: Dietrich A. Ruess, Frank Makowiec, Sophia Chikhladze, Olivia Sick, Hartwig Riediger, Ulrich T. Hopt and Uwe A. Wittel
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:123
  11. Pancreaticoduodenectomy remains the exclusive technique for surgical resection of cancers located within both the pancreatic head and periampullary region. Amongst peri-procedural complications, hemorrhage is ...

    Authors: Chad G. Ball, Elijah Dixon, Charles M. Vollmer and Thomas J. Howard
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:122
  12. The reported incidence of hollow viscus injuries (HVI) in blunt trauma patients is approximately 1 %. The most common site of injury to the intestine in blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) is the small bowel followed...

    Authors: Michail G. Vailas, Demetrios Moris, Stamatios Orfanos, Chrysovalantis Vergadis and Alexandros Papalampros
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:121
  13. Radical antegrade modular pancreatosplenectomy (RAMPS) is a relatively new modification of the standard distal pancreatosplenectomy. In this method, dissection proceeds from right-to-left to achieve negative p...

    Authors: Masaaki Murakawa, Toru Aoyama, Masahiro Asari, Yusuke Katayama, Koichiro Yamaoku, Amane Kanazawa, Akio Higuchi, Manabu Shiozawa, Satoshi Kobayashi, Makoto Ueno, Manabu Morimoto, Naoto Yamamoto, Takaki Yoshikawa, Yasushi Rino, Munetaka Masuda and Soichiro Morinaga
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:120
  14. There is still not any standardized operative strategy that is well-accepted all over the world for lumbarhernia. We are here to investigate the feasibility of the trans-abdominal partial extra-peritoneal (TAP...

    Authors: Jing Sun, Xin Chen, Jianwen Li, Yun Zhang, Feng Dong and Minhua Zheng
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:118
  15. Breast-preserving surgery (Bp) and sentinel lymph node biopsy (SNB) are established as standard treatment for axillary lymph node-negative early breast cancer.

    Authors: Shinichiro Kashiwagi, Naoyoshi Onoda, Yuka Asano, Kento Kurata, Tamami Morisaki, Satoru Noda, Hidemi Kawajiri, Tsutomu Takashima and Kosei Hirakawa
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:117
  16. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether variant meso-Rex bypass with transposition of abdominal autogenous vein can be used as an alternative treatment modality for selected patients with symptomatic ext...

    Authors: Tae-Yong Ha, Kyung-Mo Kim, Gi-Young Ko, Seak Hee Oh, Tae-Won Kwon, Yong-Pil Cho and Sung-Gyu Lee
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:116
  17. Surgical management of renal secondary hyperparathyroidism (sHPT) is varying. Total parathyroidectomy with heterotopic autotransplantation (TPTX + AT) is one of the standard surgical procedures in sHPT, but th...

    Authors: Chrysanthi Anamaterou, Matthias Lang, Simon Schimmack, Gottfried Rudofsky, Markus W. Büchler and Hubertus Schmitz-Winnenthal
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:113
  18. We assessed the effectiveness of dual antiplatelet therapy (DAPT) post elective or urgent (i.e., post acute coronary syndrome [ACS]) coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG).

    Authors: Subodh Verma, Shaun G. Goodman, Shamir R. Mehta, David A. Latter, Marc Ruel, Milan Gupta, Bobby Yanagawa, Mohammed Al-Omran, Nandini Gupta, Hwee Teoh and Jan O. Friedrich
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:112
  19. The risk factors of predicting the need for postoperative decompressive craniectomy due to intracranial hypertension after primary craniotomy remain unclear. This study aimed to investigate the value of intrao...

    Authors: He-xiang Zhao, Yi Liao, Ding Xu, Qiang-ping Wang, Qi Gan, Chao You and Chao-hua Yang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:111
  20. Authors: WAA Borstlap, CJ Buskens, KMAJ Tytgat, JB Tuynman, ECJ Consten, RC Tolboom, G. Heuff, AAW van Geloven, BA van Wagensveld, CACA Wientjes, MF Gerhards, SMM de Castro, J. Jansen, AWH van der Ven, E. van der Zaag, JM Omloo…
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:110

    The original article was published in BMC Surgery 2015 15:78

  21. Management of asthma in chronically affected patients is a serious health problem. Our aim was to show that surgical treatment of chronic bronchial asthma by unilateral resection of the internal branch of the ...

    Authors: Ubaidullo Kurbon, Hamza Dodariyon, Abdumalik Davlatov, Sitora Janobilova, Amu Therwath and Massoud Mirshahi
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:109
  22. Clinical data indicate that laparoscopic surgery reduces postoperative inflammatory response and benefits patient recovery. Little is known about the mechanisms involved in reduced systemic and local inflammat...

    Authors: Torben Glatz, Ann-Kathrin Lederer, Birte Kulemann, Gabriel Seifert, Philipp Anton Holzner, Ulrich Theodor Hopt, Jens Hoeppner and Goran Marjanovic
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:108
  23. ABO blood type is an established prognostic factor in several malignancies, but its role in esophageal cancer (EC) is largely unknown. The aim of this study is to determine whether ABO blood group is associate...

    Authors: Wei Wang, Lei Liu, Zhiwei Wang, Min Wei, Qi He, Tianlong Ling, Ziang Cao, Yixin Zhang, Qiang Wang and Minxin Shi
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:106
  24. Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion, total disk replacement and open door laminoplasty have been widely used to treat patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy and/or radiculopathy. In our clinical pra...

    Authors: Yuqing Sun, Aikeremujiang. Muheremu, Kai Yan, Jie Yu, Shan Zheng and Wei Tian
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:105
  25. Guidelines of the International Consensus on the Diabetic Foot state that “Amputation of the lower extremity or part of it is usually preceded by a foot ulcer”. The authors’ impression has been that this state...

    Authors: Jeffrey M. East, Delroy A. Fray, Dwayne E. Hall and Chapman A. Longmore
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:104
  26. Recurrence of post-burn contractures, following inadequate management of post-burn contractures (PBC), is under reported. It is associated with multiple operations and an increased cost to patients and their f...

    Authors: Deo Darius Balumuka, George William Galiwango and Rose Alenyo
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:103
  27. The recent push for the publication of individual surgeon outcomes underpins public interest in safer surgery. Conventional, retrospective assessment of surgical performance without continuous monitoring may l...

    Authors: Stephen O´Neill, Stephen J. Wigmore and Ewen M. Harrison
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:102
  28. Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is still controversial in cases where malignancy is suspected. However, many proponents of this technique argue that in the hands of an experienced surgeon, laparoscopy can be safely...

    Authors: Michał Pędziwiatr, Mateusz Wierdak, Michał Natkaniec, Maciej Matłok, Magdalena Białas, Piotr Major, Piotr Budzyński, Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk and Andrzej Budzyński
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:101
  29. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) patients frequently present with borderline resectable disease, which can be due to invasion of the portal/superior mesenteric vein (PV/SMV). Here, we analyzed this grou...

    Authors: Christoph W. Michalski, Bo Kong, Carsten Jäger, Silke Kloe, Barbara Beier, Rickmer Braren, Irene Esposito, Mert Erkan, Helmut Friess and Jorg Kleeff
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:100
  30. Duodenal gastrointestinal stromal tumors (DGIST) are rare, and data on their management is limited. We here report the clinicopathological characteristics, different surgical treatments, and long-term prognosi...

    Authors: Chaoyong Shen, Haining Chen, Yuan Yin, Jiaju Chen, Luyin Han, Bo Zhang, Zhixin Chen and Jiaping Chen
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:98
  31. Hardware removals are among the most commonly performed surgical procedures worldwide. Current literature offers little data concerning postoperative patient satisfaction. The purpose of our study was to evalu...

    Authors: Georg Reith, Vera Schmitz-Greven, Kai O. Hensel, Marco M. Schneider, Tibor Tinschmann, Bertil Bouillon and Christian Probst
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:96
  32. Total thyroidectomy presents a risk of bilateral vocal cord paralysis, which can lead to compromised airway. Visual Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve (RLN) identification significantly decreases this risk of RLN lesio...

    Authors: Lilly Khamsy, Paul E. Constanthin, Samira M. Sadowski and Frédéric Triponez
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:95
  33. Few reports from the medical literature have presented severe mesh-related complications following laparoscopic repair of inguinal hernia. One of these complications is being mesh erosion into bowel, resulting...

    Authors: Jad A. Degheili, Maen Aboul Hosn, Mustapha El Lakis and Ali H. Hallal
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:94
  34. Solitary metastases to the pancreas are rare. Therefore the value of resection in curative intention remains unclear. In the literature there are several promising reports about resection of solitary metastasi...

    Authors: Johannes Baur, Ulla Schedelbeck, Alina Pulzer, Christina Bluemel, Vanessa Wild, Martin Fassnacht and U. Steger
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:93
  35. In plastic surgery, skin damage induced by ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) is a multifactorial process that often occurs. Methane gas has been reported to be a new therapeutic gas for attenuating I/R injury. In thi...

    Authors: Kexin Song, Mingzi Zhang, Jianqiang Hu, Yunqi Liu, Yifang Liu, Youbin Wang and Xuemei Ma
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:92
  36. With the decreasing number of surgeons on surgical teams, reduced port surgery (RPS) operations have become popular. We herein present our initial experience with RPS, which was successfully performed using a ...

    Authors: Jo Tashiro, Shigeki Yamaguchi, Toshimasa Ishii, Hiroka Kondo, Kiyoka Hara and Ryuichi Kuwahara
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:91
  37. Japan has one of the highest five-year relative survival rates for colorectal cancer in the world, with its own traditions of perioperative care and a unique insurance system. The benefits of enhanced recovery...

    Authors: Dai Shida, Kyoko Tagawa, Kentaro Inada, Keiichi Nasu, Yasuji Seyama, Tsuyoshi Maeshiro, Sachio Miyamoto, Satoru Inoue and Nobutaka Umekita
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:90
  38. Portal hypertension (PHT) requires invasive measures to prevent rupture and bleeding of esophagogastric varices; however, the long-term results of subtotal splenectomy plus fixation of the retrosternal omentum...

    Authors: Haibo Chu, Wei Han, Lei Wang, Yongbo Xu, Fengguo Jian, Weihua Zhang, Tao Wang and Jianhua Zhao
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:89
  39. To compare long term effects of two bariatric procedures for Chinese type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients with a body mass index (BMI) of 28-35 kg/m2.

    Authors: Jingge Yang, Cunchuan Wang, Guo Cao, Wah Yang, Shuqing Yu, Hening Zhai and Yunlong Pan
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:88
  40. Roux-en-Ygastric bypass (RYGB) and sleeve gastrectomy (SG) rank among the most frequently applied bariatric procedures worldwide due to their positive risk/benefit correlation. A systematic review revealed a s...

    Authors: Lars Fischer, Anna-Laura Wekerle, Thomas Bruckner, Inga Wegener, Markus K. Diener, Moritz V. Frankenberg, Daniel Gärtner, Michael R. Schön, Matthias C. Raggi, Emre Tanay, Rainer Brydniak, Norbert Runkel, Corinna Attenberger, Min-Seop Son, Andreas Türler, Rudolf Weiner…
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:87
  41. Inadequate health literacy affects more than 90 million Americans and it has been associated with adverse outcomes in the medicine field including increased hospitalization rates and greater mortality. Since s...

    Authors: Gildasio S. De Oliveira Jr., Robert J. McCarthy, Michael S. Wolf and Jane Holl
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:86
  42. To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of the DS Titanium Ligation Clip for appendicular stump closure in laparoscopic appendectomy.

    Authors: Alexander Rickert, Colin M. Krüger, Norbert Runkel, Andreas Kuthe, Jörg Köninger, Boris Jansen-Winkeln, Carsten N. Gutt, Daniel R. Marcus, Brian Hoey, Moritz N. Wente and Peter Kienle
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:85
  43. To describe a new type of incision of the vagina during transobturator sling procedure and to evaluate by ultrasound the tape position at 3, 6 and 12 months after surgery.

    Authors: L. Pirtea, I. Sas, Razvan Ilina, D. Grigoraș and O. Mazilu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:84
  44. Preoperative weight loss and abnormal serum-albumin have traditionally been associated with reduced survival. More recently, a correlation between postoperative complications and reduced long-term survival has...

    Authors: E. K. Aahlin, G. Tranø, N. Johns, A. Horn, J. A. Søreide, K.C. Fearon, A. Revhaug and K. Lassen
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2015 15:83

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