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  1. To identify factors affecting the harvest of lymph nodes (LNs) and to investigate the association between examining a minimum of 12 LNs and clinical outcomes in stage I-III colorectal cancer (CRC) patients.

    Authors: Hsiang-Lin Tsai, Ching-Wen Huang, Yung-Sung Yeh, Cheng-Jen Ma, Chao-Wen Chen, Chien-Yu Lu, Ming-Yii Huang, I-Ping Yang and Jaw-Yuan Wang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:17
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  2. Surgery for benign disease is associated with a low-risk of developing venous thromboembolism (VTE). Despite a relatively low incidence of postoperative VTE in patients after elective cholecystectomy and abdom...

    Authors: Jan Ulrych, Tomas Kvasnicka, Vladimir Fryba, Martin Komarc, Ivana Malikova, Filip Burget, Radka Brzezkova, Jan Kvasnicka Jr, Zdenek Krska and Jan Kvasnicka
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:16
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  4. Ethical concerns for surgical training on patients, limited working hours with fewer cases per trainee and the potential to better select talented persons for arthroscopic surgery raise the interest in simulat...

    Authors: Stefan Rahm, Karl Wieser, Ilhui Wicki, Livia Holenstein, Sandro F. Fucentese and Christian Gerber
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:14
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  5. Totally laparoscopic distal gastrectomy (TLDG) using intracorporeal anastomosis has gradually developed due to advancements in laparoscopic surgical instruments. However, totally laparoscopic total gastrectomy...

    Authors: Ke Chen, Yang He, Jia-Qin Cai, Yu Pan, Di Wu, Ding-Wei Chen, Jia-Fei Yan, Hendi Maher and Yi-Ping Mou
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:13
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  6. To retrospectively evaluate postoperative genital function, local recurrence rate and survival rate after total mesorectal excision (TME) combined with or without pelvic autonomic nerve preservation (PANP) in ...

    Authors: Zhihua Liu, Meijin Huang, Liang Kang, Lei Wang, Ping Lan, Ji Cui and Jianping Wang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:12
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  7. Preclinical and early clinical external pelvic stabilization using commercially available devices has become common in trauma patient care. Thus, in the emergency department an increasing number of patients wi...

    Authors: Jörg Bayer, Thorsten Hammer, Dirk Maier, Norbert Paul Südkamp and Oliver Hauschild
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:11
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  8. Complex proximal humerus fractures with metaphyseal comminution remain challenging regarding reduction and stability. In most fracture patterns the hard bone of the bicipital groove remains intact. In this cas...

    Authors: Jan Theopold, Bastian Marquaß, Johannes Fakler, Hanno Steinke, Christoph Josten and Pierre Hepp
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:10
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  9. The aim of this study was to assess curative effect of hysteroscopic and laparoscopic myomectomy for type II submucous myomas between 3 and 5 cm in diameter and explore the optimal surgical indications.

    Authors: Haibo Wang, Jinrong Zhao, Xiujuan Li, Ping Li, Caihong Lu, Shujuan Tian and Zhong-hua Wang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:9
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  10. Polypropylene meshes are widely used in hernia repairs. Hernia meshes have been developed incorporating coatings of active agents. One commercially available mesh has a fish oil coating which is promoted as ha...

    Authors: Chia Yew Kong, Lee Lee Lai, Amanda Yin Yen Khoo, Nazarina Abdul Rahman and Kin Fah Chin
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:8
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  11. Severe knee flexion contractures greater than 80° are rare and challenging to manage. Previous studies have demonstrated unsatisfactory clinical results after correcting these deformities because residual flex...

    Authors: Qiang He, Lin Xiao, Jianbing Ma and Guanghui Zhao
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:7
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  13. The interaction of depression and anesthesia and surgery may result in significant increases in morbidity and mortality of patients. Major depressive disorder is a frequent complication of surgery, which may l...

    Authors: Mohamed M. Ghoneim and Michael W. O’Hara
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  14. This study aimed to compare Smith-Petersen osteotomy (SPO), poly-segmental wedge osteotomy (PWO) and pedicular subtraction osteotomy (PSO) in patients with rigid thoracolumbar kyphosis primarily caused by anky...

    Authors: Xumin Hu, Ashish Jung Thapa, Zhaopeng Cai, Peng Wang, Lin Huang, Yong Tang, Jichao Ye, Keng Cheng and Huiyong Shen
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2016 16:4
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  15. 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
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  16. 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
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  17. 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
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

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

  18. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  19. 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
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  20. 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
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  21. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  22. 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
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  23. 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
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  24. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  25. 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
    Content type: Correspondence Published on:

  26. 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
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  27. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  29. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  30. 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
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  31. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. 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
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  35. 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
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  36. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  37. 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
    Content type: Erratum Published on:

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

  38. 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
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  39. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  41. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  42. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  43. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  45. 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
    Content type: Debate Published on:

  46. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  49. 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
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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