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  1. Hypercoagulability is associated with an increased risk of microvascular complications and free flap failures. The authors present their experience and approach to diagnosing and treating patients with heteroz...

    Authors: Florian Falkner, Benjamin Thomas, Martin Aman, Eva-Maria Risse, Gerhard Wittenberg, Emre Gazyakan, Leila Harhaus, Amir K. Bigdeli, Ulrich Kneser and Christian A. Radu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:190
  2. High level of anion gap (AG) was associated with organic acidosis. This study aimed to explore the relationship between delta AG (ΔAG = AGmax − AGmin) during first 3 days after intensive care unit (ICU) admission...

    Authors: Kai Xie, Chao Zheng, Gao-Ming Wang, Yi-Fei Diao, Chao Luo, Ellen Wang, Li-Wen Hu, Zhi-Jian Ren, Jing Luo, Bin-Hui Ren and Yi Shen
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:186
  3. Previous studies reported that transnasal ileus tube was a new and useful method for rapid relief of small intestinal obstruction. However, no study reported the impacts of the transnasal ileus tube for Crohn’...

    Authors: Lingyun Zuo, Lei Cao, Chengliang Ding, Hongfei Tu, Cheng Wei, Lili Yuan, Huali Wang and Bin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:183
  4. According to the different numbers and locations of cervical disc arthroplasty (CDA) and anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF), three-level hybrid surgery (HS) has many constructs. The purpose of the ...

    Authors: Kangkang Huang, Han Wang, Hao Liu, Yang Meng, Chen Ding, Beiyu Wang, Tingkui Wu and Ying Hong
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:179
  5. To investigate the effect of the ratio of the medial tibial plateau width to the total tibial plateau width on the therapeutic efficacy of high tibial osteotomy (HTO) on the medial side for the treatment of kn...

    Authors: Long Yuan, Shuaishuai Niu, Chuanxing Zhai, Sen Li, Jichao Bian, Xiaowei Zhao, Yuanmin Zhang and Guodong Wang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:177
  6. The most common complications of myomectomy are intraoperative hemorrhage and postoperative adhesion. The key point to overcome this problem is to improve suture quality. However, to date, there is still no co...

    Authors: Xi Zeng, Lin Li, Hui Ye and Mingrong Xi
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:175
  7. In gastrectomies, especially subtotal gastrectomies and operations on the gastroesophageal junction, identifying the exact location of the tumor and establishing the appropriate resection line is very importan...

    Authors: Hiroyuki Sagawa, Masaki Saito, Sunao Ito, Shunsuke Hayakawa, Shohei Ueno, Tomotaka Okubo, Tatsuya Tanaka, Ryo Ogawa, Hiroki Takahashi, Yoichi Matsuo, Akira Mitsui, Masahiro Kimura and Shuji Takiguchi
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:174
  8. To compare the surgical outcomes between the transoral-vestibular robotic thyroidectomy (TOVRT) and bilateral axillo-breast approach robotic thyroidectomy (BABART).

    Authors: Qingqing He, Jian Zhu, Xiaolei Li, Meng Wang, Gang Wang, Peng Zhou, Dan Wang, Changrui Liu, Luming Zheng, Dayong Zhuang, Ziyi Fan, Fang Yu, Yunhan Ma, Xianjiao Cao, Suai Wang, Tao Yue…
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:173
  9. Symptomatic pseudarthrosis and cage migration/protrusion are difficult complications of transforaminal or posterior lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF/PLIF). If the patient experiences severe radicular symptoms due...

    Authors: Masato Tanaka, Zhang Wei, Akihiro Kanamaru, Shin Masuda, Yoshihiro Fujiwara, Koji Uotani, Shinya Arataki and Taro Yamauchi
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:172
  10. Treatment for regional lymph node recurrence after initial treatment for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) differs among institutions. Though some retrospective cohort studies have shown that lymphaden...

    Authors: Takashi Shigeno, Akihiro Hoshino, Shiho Matsunaga, Rumi Shimano, Naoya Ishibashi, Hajime Shinohara, Hiroyuki Shiobara, Chiharu Tomii, Katsumasa Saito, Naoto Fujiwara, Yuya Sato, Kenro Kawada, Masanori Tokunaga and Yusuke Kinugasa
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:171
  11. Laparoscopic surgery for cancer located in the transverse colon or splenic flexure is difficult because of vascular variability in this region and adjacent vital organs such as the pancreas, spleen, and duodenum.

    Authors: Toshihiro Nakao, Mitsuo Shimada, Kozo Yoshikawa, Takuya Tokunaga, Masaaki Nishi, Hideya Kashihara, Chie Takasu, Yuma Wada, Toshiaki Yoshimoto, Syoko Yamashita and Yosuke Iwakawa
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:170
  12. Intussusception recurrence (IR) induced by intestinal lymphoid hyperplasia (ILH) in children is rare, and surgical treatment is the final resort if IR is refractory to medications and non-surgical intervention...

    Authors: Hui Wang, Hongyan Li, Wang Xin, Liandi Xu, Guoqing Zhang and Qingtao Yan
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:169
  13. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a global health crisis in 2020. This pandemic also had a negative impact on standard procedures in general surgery. Surgeons were challenged to find the best treatment plans for pa...

    Authors: Mirhasan Rahimli, Cora Wex, Felix Wiesmueller, Frederike Weber, Maximilian Dölling, Alexander Rose, Sara Al-Madhi, Mihailo Andric, Roland Croner and Aristotelis Perrakis
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:168
  14. To develop and validate a prediction model to evaluate the perioperative hypoglycemia risk in hospitalized type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients undergoing elective surgery.

    Authors: Huiwu Han, Juan Lai, Cheng Yan, Xing Li, Shuoting Hu, Yan He and Hong Li
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:167
  15. Gynecologic patients undergoing day surgery are discharged in an intermediate stage of recovery. The quality of discharge teaching and discharge readiness are important to patients’ postsurgical outcomes, but ...

    Authors: Huaxuan You, Anjiang Lei, Xin Li, Xu Liao and Jing Chang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:166
  16. In clinical practice, acetabular posterior wall fracture combined with femoral head fracture is rare. However, with the increasing number of engineering and traffic accidents, such fractures, have increased si...

    Authors: Shichao Lian, Zhong Yang, Zongliang Hu and Weidong Mu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:165
  17. Preserving the left colic artery (LCA) during anterior resection for rectal cancer is controversial, and robust evidence of the outcomes of LCA preservation plus apical lymph node dissection is lacking. The pu...

    Authors: Huichao Zheng, Fan Li, Xingjie Xie, Song Zhao, Bin Huang and Weidong Tong
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:164
  18. This study aimed to externally evaluate the accuracy of four predictive scores for conversion to open surgery after rectal laparoscopic resection. None of the four scores achieved external validation previously.

    Authors: Hamza Sekkat, Amine Souadka, Lise Courtot, Ali Rafik, Laila Amrani, Amine Benkabbou, Pierre Peyrafort, Urs Giger-Pabst, Elias Karam, Raouf Mohsine, Anass M. Majbar and Mehdi Ouaissi
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:162
  19. With the widespread use of the posterior surgery, more and more surgeons chose posterior surgery to treat thoracic and lumbar tuberculosis. But others still believed that the anterior surgery is more conducive...

    Authors: Jincheng Qiu, Yan Peng, Xianjian Qiu, Wenjie Gao, Tongzhou Liang, Yuanxin Zhu, Taiqiu Chen, Wenjun Hu, Bo Gao, Zhihuai Deng, Anjing Liang and Dongsheng Huang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:161
  20. Although some factors that predict the prognosis in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor (pNET) have been confirmed, the predictive value of lymph node metastasis (LNM) in the prognosis of pNETs remains conflicting...

    Authors: Zheng Zhang, Fei Wang, Zheng Li, Zeng Ye, Qifeng Zhuo, Wenyan Xu, Wensheng Liu, Mengqi Liu, Guixiong Fan, Yi Qin, Yue Zhang, Xuemin Chen, Xianjun Yu, Xiaowu Xu and Shunrong Ji
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:160
  21. Transvaginal intestinal evisceration is an extremely rare surgical emergency with potentially fatal consequences. Only a few more than 100 cases with this pathology have been described in the literature. Aetio...

    Authors: Elena Arabadzhieva, Dimitar Bulanov, Zhivko Shavalov, Atanas Yonkov and Sasho Bonev
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:157
  22. Relapsed childhood polymicrobial osteomyelitis associated with dermatophytosis has not been reported in the literature.

    Authors: Ping Kong, Youliang Ren, Jin Yang, Wei Fu, Ziming Liu, Zhengdao Li, Wenbin He, Yunying Wang, Zhonghui Zheng, Muliang Ding, Edward M. Schwarz, Zhongliang Deng and Chao Xie
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:156
  23. To investigate the effectiveness and feasibility of a novel vertebral osteotomy technique, transpedicular opening-wedge osteotomy (TOWO) was used to correct rigid thoracolumbar kyphotic deformities in patients...

    Authors: Guang Bin Zheng, Zhenghua Hong, Zhangfu Wang and Binbin Zheng
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:155
  24. Thoracoscopic esophagectomy has been extensively used worldwide as a curative surgery for patients with esophageal cancer; however, complications such as anastomotic leakage and stenosis remain a major concern...

    Authors: Yuji Shishido, Tomoyuki Matsunaga, Masahiro Makinoya, Wataru Miyauchi, Shota Shimizu, Kozo Miyatani, Chihiro Uejima, Masaki Morimoto, Yuki Murakami, Takehiko Hanaki, Kyoichi Kihara, Manabu Yamamoto, Naruo Tokuyasu, Shuichi Takano, Teruhisa Sakamoto, Hiroaki Saito…
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:152
  25. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage is one of the major complications after endoscopic endonasal surgery. The reconstructive nasoseptal flap is widely used to repair CSF leakage. However, it could not be utilize...

    Authors: Chang Ki Jang, Soo Jeong Park, Eui Hyun Kim, Jin Mo Cho, Ju Hyung Moon, Kyoung Su Sung, Je Beom Hong, Jaejoon Joon Lim, Minkyun Na, Chang-Ki Hong, Tae Hoon Roh and Jiwoong Oh
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:151
  26. To evaluate the efficacy of anterior debridement and bone grafting with fusion using internal fixation (BFIF) combined with anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy in the treatment of subaxial cervical spine tuberculos...

    Authors: Haopeng Luan, Kai Liu, Yao Wang, Alafate Kahaer, Weibin Sheng, Maierdan Maimaiti and Qiang Deng
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:150
  27. Laparoscopic low anterior rectal resection is the most widely used surgical procedure for middle and low rectal cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and safety of the extracorporeal...

    Authors: Yulin Liu, Peng Yu, Han Li, Lijian Xia, Xiangmin Li, Meijuan Zhang, Zhonghui Cui and Jingbo Chen
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:148
  28. Determine whether robotic surgery is more effective than transanal and conventional laparoscopic surgery in preserving bowel and urinary function after total mesorectal excision (TME).

    Authors: Takuya Miura, Yoshiyuki Sakamoto, Hajime Morohashi, Akiko Suto, Shunsuke Kubota, Aika Ichisawa, Daisuke Kuwata, Takahiro Yamada, Hiroaki Tamba, Shuntaro Matsumoto and Kenichi Hakamada
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:147
  29. The effectiveness of hemorrhoidal artery ligation supplementation in reducing the incidence of post laser hemorrhoidoplasty bleeding has not been investigated.

    Authors: Shu Yu Lim, Retnagowri Rajandram and April Camilla Roslani
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:146
  30. Aortic dissection is one of the most common emergency condition leading to internal organs or lower limb ischemia and aortic rupture. Herein, we described a reverse “cheese wire” endovascular fenestration repa...

    Authors: Tonglei Han, Yani Wu, Chong Jin, Xiaolong Wei and Zhiqing Zhao
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:145
  31. Mismatch between knee surface and prosthesis components is related to postoperative complications. Morphological differences between ethnicity and gender may affect prosthesis coverage. The purpose of this stu...

    Authors: Yiming Xu, Bin Feng, Yulei Dong, Zhibo Zheng, Yanyan Bian and Xisheng Weng
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:144
  32. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most common cancer in women and the third most common cancer in men worldwide, with an increasing trend in its incidence in Asian countries. In the present study, we aimed...

    Authors: Ali Reza Safarpour, Alimohammad Bananzadeh, Ahmad Izadpanah, Leila Ghahramani, Seyed Mohammad Kazem Tadayon, Faranak Bahrami and Seyed Vahid Hosseini
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:142

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Surgery 2022 22:244

  33. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical and functional outcomes of patients with femoral and tibial critical-sized bone defect (CSBD) treated by trifocal bone transport using the Ilizarov method.

    Authors: Kai Liu, Yanshi Liu, Feiyu Cai, Chenchen Fan, Peng Ren and Aihemaitijiang Yusufu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:141
  34. A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials was recently published in BMC Surgery that compared the use of human albumin with 6% hydroxyethyl starches 130/0.4 for cardiopulmonary bypass prime and periopera...

    Authors: Christian J. Wiedermann
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:140

    The Research to this article has been published in BMC Surgery 2021 21:342

  35. Laparoscopy is widely used in pancreatic surgeries nowadays. The efficient and correct judgment of the location of the anatomical structures is crucial for a safe laparoscopic pancreatic surgery. The technolog...

    Authors: Chengxu Du, Jiaxuan Li, Bin Zhang, Wenfeng Feng, Tengfei Zhang and Dongrui Li
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:139
  36. Inguinal lymphadenectomy (iLAD) is effective for penile carcinoma treatment, but usually results in many complications. This study aims to clinically evaluate the feasibility and clinical significance of a lap...

    Authors: Yongkang Ma, Jianwei Hao, Huaqi Yin, Mingkai Zhu, Bao Guan, Chaoshuai Zhu, Bingqi Dong, Shiming Zhao, Zhaohong He and Tiejun Yang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:138
  37. Hereditary spherocytosis (HS) complicated by splenic infarction is very rare, and it is even rarer to develop splenic infarction after infectious mononucleosis (IM) as a result of Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) infe...

    Authors: Zhongwu Ma, Zhejin Wang, Xiaodan Zhang and Haibo Yu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:136
  38. In previous studies, the difficulty of surgery has rarely been used as a research object. Our study aimed to develop a predictive model to enable preoperative prediction of the technical difficulty of video-as...

    Authors: Zixiao Wang, Yuhang Wang and Daqiang Sun
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:135
  39. Postoperative ileus is one of the most common complications after diverting loop ileostomy closure. Some reports have investigated the risk factors for postoperative complications or ileus after ileostomy clos...

    Authors: Toshihiro Nakao, Mitsuo Shimada, Kozo Yoshikawa, Takuya Tokunaga, Masaaki Nishi, Hideya Kashihara, Chie Takasu, Yuma Wada, Toshiaki Yoshimoto, Syoko Yamashita and Yosuke Iwakawa
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2022 22:131

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