Surgery

Article	Citations
Killing mosquitoes or draining the swamp?	125
A Tribute to Dr Kevin E. Behrns, Editor-in-Chief of SURGERY	106
Letter to the editor on: “AI versus MD: Evaluating the surgical decision-making accuracy of ChatGPT-4”	104
The importance of a vice chair in a department of surgery: A chair's perspective	98
Discussion	97
Discussion	53
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Discussion	43
But can the Bot Write?	42
Discussion	41
Discussion	41
Information for readers	40
Cover 1(with editorial board)	39
Rectal neuroendocrine tumors: Can they be observed?	37
Access to surgical treatment for hepatopancreaticobiliary cancer in the Philippines	36
Clinical impact of coexistent chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis on central lymph node metastasis in low- to intermediate-risk papillary thyroid carcinoma: The MASTER study	34
Proof of concept of improved fluorescence-guided surgery of colon cancer liver metastasis using color-coded imaging of a tumor-labeling fluorescent antibody and indocyanine green restricted to the adj	34
Letter to the editor on “Comparative analysis of treatment modalities for solitary, small (≤3 cm) hepatocellular carcinoma: A systematic review and network meta-analysis of oncologic outcomes”	34
Neoadjuvant gemcitabine and S-1 in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: Effects on nutritional status and pancreaticoduodenectomy outcomes	34
Concurrent SARS-COV-19 and acute appendicitis: Management and outcomes across United States children’s hospitals	33
Social media as a disruptor for academic congresses	33
Cognitive effects of carotid revascularization in octogenarians	33
Gastroesophageal reflux after sleeve gastrectomy. Fact or fiction?	33
Origins and implications of proper citation practices on academic integrity in surgical literature	32

Sex differences in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism	31
“Predictors of lymph node metastasis and survival in radically resected rectal neuroendocrine tumors: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database analysis”: Author’s reply	31
Ancillary documents for NIH grant applications: The pages beyond the science	29
Emergency thoracic surgery patients have worse risk-adjusted outcomes than non-emergency patients	29
Risk of lymph node metastases and conditional survival in appendiceal neuroendocrine neoplasms	29
Surgery and pain relief: A closer look at opioid prescription trends	29
Letter to the editor on “Laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy is safe for the treatment of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma treated by chemoradiotherapy compared with open pancreatoduodenectomy: A match	28
Evaluating the effectiveness of using negative pressure wound therapy in the preservation of the infected prosthetic aortic graft	28
Letter to the editor: “Calcium phosphate deposition, tertiary hyperparathyroidism, and the long-term effect on kidney allografts”	28
Financing and cost-effectiveness of emergency medical services in low- and middle-income countries	27
Is there a place for laparoscopic reoperation for complications after minimally invasive pancreatectomy?	27
Larger recipient vein caliber during lymphatic microsurgical preventive healing approach (LYMPHA) is associated with lower lymphedema rates	27
Surgical management of metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma: Is there a role for multivisceral resection?	26
Barriers to workup and referral of primary hyperparathyroidism: A qualitative study of providers' perspectives	26
Outcomes of synthetic and biologic mesh in abdominal wall reconstruction: A propensity-matched analysis in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention class 1 and 2 wounds	26
Laparoscopic microwave ablation versus percutaneous microwave ablation of hepatic malignancies: Efficacy and recurrence-free survival outcomes in patients	26
Discussion	26
Thyroid surgery outcomes in octogenarians: A national analysis	26
Development of a preoperative score to predict surgical difficulty in liver transplantation	26
Discussion	26
Beyond the language barrier: Assessing health literacy of Spanish breast cancer surgery resources	26
Completion of preoperative chemotherapy and surgical outcome in patients with stenotic colon cancer without obstruction: A cohort study	25
Hyperlipasemia in the immediate postoperative period predicts postoperative pancreatic fistula after pancreatic resections	25
Letter to the editor regarding “Neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves overall survival in stage III but not in stage II colon cancer: A propensity score–matched analysis of the National Cancer Database”	25
Disparities in Time to Surgeon Evaluation Among Patients with Primary Hyperparathyroidism	25
Trends in surgical treatment for ulcerative colitis in the era of biologics – A population-based study using German diagnosis-related groups data	25
Letter to the editor regarding “The role of length of oral resection margin and survival in esophageal cancer surgery after neoadjuvant therapy: A retrospective propensity score–matched study”	25
Information for readers	24
Frailty in emergency general surgery: Low-risk procedures pose similar risk as high-risk procedures for frail patients	24
Lymph node ratio–based model for predicting survival and assessing the benefit of adjuvant chemotherapy in postoperative duodenal adenocarcinoma	24
Cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis during weekend compared with delayed weekday surgery: A nationwide population cohort study	24
Soluble endothelial protein C receptor is an independent predictor of venous thromboembolism after severe injury: Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study	23
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Operative staff perspectives of surgeon coping with intraoperative errors	23
Trauma video review outperforms prospective real-time data collection for study of resuscitative thoracotomy	23
Role of relaxing lateral incisions as an add-on to the difficult hiatal repair in redo and giant hernia cases	23
Influence of Hashimoto's thyroiditis on intraoperative probe-assisted near-infrared autofluorescence detection of parathyroid glands: A cross-sectional study	23
Fluorescence Guided Surgery in Latin America: A Multinational Survey of Adoption, Barriers, and Collaboration,	22
Does spending for subspecialty care in advanced-stage melanoma matter: Are greater access costs actually associated with increased use of immune therapy and improved survival among patients with low i	22
The hidden side of infective endocarditis: Diagnostic and management of 500 consecutive cases in noncardiac surgery centers (2009–2018)	22
Medullary thyroid cancer with RET V804M mutation: more indolent than expected?	22
Decoding risk factors for prolonged hospitalization after take-back to the operating room after liver transplantation: Escalating costs and clinical implications	22
Failed recovery after pancreatoduodenectomy: A significant problem even without surgical complications	22
Local infiltration of liposomal bupivacaine is associated with reduced postoperative admission in anterior abdominal hernia repair	21
Real-world application: Case studies in qualitative research	21
Liver remnant volume to body weight ratio of 0.65% as a lower limit in right hepatic trisectionectomy with bile duct resection	21
Broad-spectrum antibiotic prophylaxis for pancreatoduodenectomy: Assessment of early adoption of randomized trial data	21
Writing for impact: How to prepare a qualitative journal article for a surgical audience	21
National trends in conduit selection for redo coronary arterial bypass grafting	21
Quantitative KRAS mutational burden by next-generation sequencing predicts outcomes in localized pancreatic cancer	21
Use of fluorescence imaging and indocyanine green during thyroid and parathyroid surgery: Results of an intercontinental, multidisciplinary Delphi survey	21

Clinical utility of a microRNA classifier in cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules with RAS mutations: A multi-institutional study	20
Assessing the pathway and timing for ileostomy reversal in rectal cancer: A retrospective cohort study	20
Comment on “Emergency general surgery in older adult patients: Factors associated with fragmented care”	20
Discussion	20
A new operation for gallstones: Choledochoscopic gallbladder-preserving cholecystolithotomy, a retrospective study of 3,511 cases	20
Cover 1(with editorial board)	20
Letter to the editor regarding “Racial and ethnic disparities in access to total neoadjuvant therapy for rectal cancer”	20
Prognostic factors for critically ill surgical patients with unplanned intensive care unit readmission: Developing a novel predictive scoring model for predicting readmission	20
Discussion	20
Critical appraisal of artificial intelligence in robotic surgery	20
Reply to “Reverse-approach in colorectal cancer liver metastases: patient selection is key.”	19
Response to the editor: “Perioperative oral care can prevent surgical site infection after colorectal cancer surgery: a multicenter, retrospective study of 1,926 cases analyzed by propensity score mat	19
Localized hepatocellular carcinoma: Is liver-directed therapy alone as efficacious as surgical resection?	19
Response to Letter to Editor	19
Repeat hepatic resection for recurrent colorectal liver metastases: If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again?	19
Prophylactic use of incisional negative pressure wound therapy for the prevention of surgical site occurrences in general surgery: Consensus document	19
Information for readers	19
Invited commentary on: Variation in the volume-outcome relationship after rectal cancer surgery in the United States: Retrospective study with implications for regionalization	19
Colorectal cancer (CRC) with isolated disseminated carcinomatosis of the bone marrow (DCBM): A highly aggressive and poor prognostic entity	19
Effect of albumin solutions on endothelial oxidant injury: A microfluidic study	19
National Surgical Quality Improvement Project and acute kidney injury: Getting with the times	19
Discussion	19
Reverse-approach in colorectal cancer liver metastases: Patient selection is key	19
Discussion	19
How to diagnose a grade A anastomotic leakage in rectal cancer surgery	19
Discussion	19
Identification of tumor-antigen signatures and immune subtypes for mRNA vaccine selection in muscle-invasive bladder cancer	19
Discussion	18
Collaborative model between breast surgery and genetic counseling reduces wait times and increases pretesting genetic counseling volume	18
Risk factors, patterns, and outcome predictors of late recurrence in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma after curative resection: A large cohort study with long-term follow-up results	18
Incisional surgical site infections by subcutaneous soaking of wound with aqueous 0.05% chlorhexidine gluconate in gastroenterological surgery: A randomized controlled trial	18
Information for readers	18
Tick-tock: Prehospital intubation is associated with longer field time without any survival benefit	18
Discussion	18
Gastrointestinal complications requiring operative intervention after cardiovascular surgery: Predictors of in-hospital mortality	18
Prehospital tourniquet application in extremity vascular trauma: Improved functional outcomes	18
Association of social vulnerability with a risk of readmission following cardiac surgery in a statewide collaborative	18
Gastrointestinal surgery, malabsorptive conditions, and postoperative hypocalcemia after neck surgery	18
Invited Commentary for “Postoperative prophylactic antibiotic therapy after pancreaticoduodenectomy in bile duct–stented patients reduces postoperative major complications”	18
Discussion	18
Lost in transition: Impact of interhospital transfer on outcomes after emergency general surgery in the older adult population	18
Reply to letter to the editor titled “Recurrence and prognostic predictors in pathologic T1N0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma treated with surgery alone”	18
Response to the comment on our manuscript “Effect of systemic FOLFOXIRI plus bevacizumab treatment of colorectal peritoneal metastasis on local and systemic immune cells”	18
Does defect size matter in abdominal wall reconstruction with successful fascial closure?	18
Postoperative outcomes of Morel-Lavallee injuries and predictive factors for wound complications: A Pacific Coast Surgical Association multicenter study	17
Violence prevention advocacy in surgery: Strategies across the socioecological spectrum	17
International Society for Fluorescence Guided Surgery (ISFGS)	17
A trainee's perspective on the current state of diversity, equity, and inclusion	17
Carcinoma sequence inferred from increasing age at choledochal cyst excision	17
Use of a Best Practice Advisory to increase the detection rate of hyperparathyroidism	17
Long-term outcomes after the mesenteric artery growth improves circulation (MAGIC) procedure for midaortic syndrome	17
Response to letter to the editor: “Clinicopathologic features and surgery-related outcomes of duodenal adenocarcinoma: A multicenter retrospective study”	17
Feasibility and safety of a modified “twin U-stitch” pancreaticogastrostomy in minimally invasive pancreaticoduodenectomy	17
Authors' reply regarding “Hyperlipasemia in the immediate postoperative period predicts postoperative pancreatic fistula after pancreatic resections”	17
Risk assessment of lymph node metastasis in early gastric cancer patients with vagus nerve–preserving gastrectomy: A multiple centers potential analysis in China	17
Association of mental health assessment with postoperative outcomes following major surgery in older individuals	17
Postoperative hyperlipasemia and pancreatic fistula risk: A critical reappraisal of diagnostic criteria and cohort heterogeneity	17
Impact of neoadjuvant therapy on short-term outcomes after left pancreatectomy: A propensity score–matched international multicenter study	17
Optimizing the future liver remnant: Portal vein embolization, hepatic venous deprivation, and associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy	17
Balanced blood component resuscitation in trauma: Does it matter equally at different transfusion volumes?	17
Development and validation of a machine learning–based model for predicting intraoperative blood loss during burn surgery	16
Improvement of mood and sleep quality in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism after parathyroidectomy: A prospective case-control study	16
Association of psychosocial risk factors on outcomes of patients undergoing emergency general surgery Accepted at Academic Surgical Congress	16
Novel patient-level social determinants of health measure predicts colon cancer outcomes within an integrated health network	16
Pressure-Enabled Drug Delivery (PEDD) of a class C TLR9 agonist in combination with checkpoint inhibitor therapy in a murine pancreatic cancer model	16
How appropriate are answers of online chat-based artificial intelligence (ChatGPT) to common questions on colon cancer?	16
Utilizing large language models to evaluate medical research abstracts	16
Long-term retreatment outcomes after definitive management of Graves’ disease with radioactive iodine versus surgery	16
Extent of surgery in localized, sporadic medullary thyroid carcinoma: Can we avoid central compartment lymph node dissection?	16
A national qualitative study of surgical coaching: Opportunities and barriers for colorectal surgeons	16
Short-term outcomes of robotic versus laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection for rectal cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Advantages of laparoscopic distal pancreatectomy: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and matched studies	16
Donor liver weight in normothermic machine perfusion: Does size really matter?	16
Global surgical simulation education, current practices, and future directions	16
Cancer-specific mortality ratio: A new survival metric to assess the survival impact of colorectal cancer	16
Discussion	16
Development and validation of risk stratification tool for prediction of increased dependence using preoperative frailty after hepatopancreatic surgery	16
Patient characteristics and procedural and safety outcomes of percutaneous transesophageal gastro-tubing: A nationwide database study in Japan	16
A novel tool to predict nodal metastasis in small pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: A multicenter study	16
Prediction of the need for surgery in infants with necrotizing enterocolitis: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16

Is it possible to predict functional recovery of vocal folds palsy? Role of intraoperative neuromonitoring and laryngostroboscopy findings	16
Intraoperative hemodynamic instability during laparoscopic adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma without preoperative medical preparation compared with nonsecreting tumor	15
What do patients want to know about surgery for low-risk thyroid cancer? A qualitative study	15
The use of artificial intelligence to detect parathyroid tissue on ex vivo specimens during thyroidectomy and parathyroidectomy procedures using near-infrared autofluorescence signals	15
Moving beyond frailty: Obesity paradox persists in lung resection	15
Postoperative morbidity after simultaneous versus staged resection of synchronous colorectal liver metastases: Impact of hepatic tumor burden	15
The impact of cirrhosis on short and long postoperative outcomes after distal pancreatectomy	15
Development of medical devices driven by academia-industry collaboration: An internal audit	15
Organizational change using a novel, structured plan for justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) in an academic surgical department	15
Vascular injury during cholecystectomy: A multicenter critical analysis behind the drama	15
Adrenal imaging features and associated pathologic diagnoses: A contemporary, longitudinal analysis	15
Open versus laparoscopic versus robotic inguinal hernia repair: A propensity-matched outcome analysis	15
Surgery Continues to Evolve	15
Comment on: “Hospitals with decreasing cost-to-charge ratios bill greater surgical charges for similar outcomes”	15
Tipping the scale in abdominal wall reconstruction: An analysis of short- and long-term outcomes by body mass index	15
Time delay and evidence profiles forming clinical recommendations of US surgical society guidelines	15
Indocyanine green fluorescent cholangiography in laparoscopic cholecystectomy: A systematic review and meta-analysis with trial sequential analysis of randomized controlled trials	15
Fluorescence imaging with indocyanine green during breast cancer surgery and postmastectomy breast reconstruction: A double systematic review and cost analysis	15
On-demand robotics—The best of both worlds for robotic-assisted laparoscopic surgery	15
Contents	15
Implementation of a Device Briefing Tool reduces interruptions in surgery: A nonrandomized controlled pilot trial	15
Acknowledgments of Peer Reviewers	14
Discussion	14
What it takes to be great: ChatGPT's top 5 descriptors of great surgeons by race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation	14
Survival outcomes associated with Lynch syndrome colorectal cancer and metachronous rate after subtotal/total versus segmental colectomy: Meta-analysis	14
The benefit of liver transplant beyond Milan criteria: An analysis using the National Cancer Database	14
Nationwide validation of the ISGPS risk classification for postoperative pancreatic fistula after pancreatoduodenectomy: “Less is more”	14
Invited commentary: Selected endocrine surgery billing codes and procedures that should be accepted nationally for institutional billing as standard of care practice	14
Discussion	14
Letter to the editor regarding: “Impact of chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis on the diagnostic and intraoperative management of papillary thyroid cancer”	14
Predictive value of C-reactive protein for postoperative liver-specific surgical site infections	14
Prevalence and correlates of spiritual distress in adult patients facing elective surgery: A cross-sectional analysis	14
Greater community vulnerability is associated with poor living donor navigator program fidelity	14
Postoperative pulmonary complications with high versus standard FiO2 in adult patients undergoing major abdominal surgery: A noninferiority trial	14
Clinical implications of 68Ga-pentixafor PET/CT in surgically treated primary aldosteronism	14
Borders within US trauma care: Disparities in mortality and resource utilization among patients with precarious legal status	14
Surgeon-performed transcutaneous laryngeal ultrasonography after thyroidectomy: Diagnostic accuracy and learning curve	14
Contents	14
Discussion	14
Prognostic value of immune infiltration in colorectal cancer: Development of a histopathology-related immunoscore via multiplexed immunohistochemistry	14
The evolving surgery social network	14
Discussion	14
Role of inflammatory and nutritional markers in predicting complications after pancreaticoduodenectomy	14
Failure to rescue after reoperation for major complications of elective and emergency colorectal surgery: A population-based multicenter cohort study	14
First Insights into the Microbiome of Leaks Following Foregut Surgery	14
Association of operative time and approach on postoperative complications for esophagectomy	14
Development and evaluation of neighborhood social risk indices for surgery using outcome-specific machine-learning models	14
Communication in your department and beyond	14
Sac invagination versus sac ligation in open Lichtenstein repair of indirect inguinal hernia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	14
The future of combat trauma anesthesia in an austere environment (CTA in AE)	13
Cover 1(with editorial board)	13
Inequalities in quality metrics for colorectal cancer surgery in older adults: A retrospective cohort study using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program registr	13
The variation of opioid prescription after injury and its association with long-term chronic pain: A multicenter cohort study	13
Depth of mediastinal extension can predict sternotomy need for substernal thyroid goiters	13
Determinants and barriers to junior faculty well-being at a large quaternary academic medical center: A qualitative survey	13
Exacerbated ischemia-reperfusion injury in fatty livers is mediated by lipid peroxidation stress and ferroptosis	13
Invited commentary: Machine learning versus logistic regression for the prediction of complications after pancreatoduodenectomy	13
Does preoperative prophylactic pancreatic duct stenting prior to enucleation mitigate the risk of postoperative fistula: A meta-analysis	13
Reply to the Editor regarding “Neoadjuvant chemotherapy improves overall survival in stage III but not in stage II colon cancer: A propensity score–matched analysis of the National Cancer Database”	13
Predictors of return to work after traumatic injury: Associations of employment with long-term patient-reported outcomes	13
Harnessing the power of nature in surgery: A systematic scoping review of nature prescribing and measures of benefit	13
Telemedicine implementation trends in surgical specialties before and after COVID-19 shelter in place: Adjusting to a changing landscape	13
Fluorescence-guided pancreatic surgery: A scoping review	13
Information for readers	13
General anesthesia combined with bilateral 2-level erector spinae plane block may accelerate postoperative gastrointestinal function recovery and rehabilitation process in patients undergoing posterio	13
A population-based analysis of primary colonic lymphoma: Patterns of care and outcomes	13
International differences in the selection and outcome of minimally invasive and open distal pancreatectomy: A transatlantic analysis	13
Impaired contractile response of human peripheral arterioles to angiotensin II after cardiopulmonary bypass	13
Enhancing surgical skills through telesimulation: A multicenter randomized controlled trial on laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair	13
Factors associated with coronary artery bypass grafting excess readmission ratios	13
A luminescent sensor for investigating serotonin metabolism in neuroendocrine cancer	13
The impact of portal vein reconstruction on portal vein complications after pediatric living-donor liver transplantation with left lobe graft	13
The microbiome of the appendix differs in patients with and without appendicitis: A prospective cohort study	13
Trends in infectious complications after partial colectomy for colon cancer over a decade: A national cohort study	13
Multi-institutional review of adverse events associated with irreversible electroporation in the treatment of locally advanced pancreatic cancer	13
Beyond research dissemination: The unrealized power of visual abstracts to improve health care delivery	13
Performance of trauma-trained large language models on surgical assessment questions: A new approach in resource identification	13
Resigned to history? Exploring the decline of American Board of Surgery core procedures	13
Enhancing minimally invasive surgery utilization: Addressing training gaps among senior surgeons	12
Discussion	12
National trends and outcomes of robotic emergency general surgery in the United States	12
“Thanks, but no thanks”: Factors associated with patients who decline surgical intervention for thyroid cancer	12
No thanks and not for me: A qualitative study of barriers to prehabilitation participation	12
Portal vein resection in pancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms	12
Management of symptomatic gallstones: To preserve or resect the gallbladder?	12
Practice makes perfect: Immersion endoscopy training in colorectal surgery focuses on quantity and quality	12
Care fragmentation in hepatopancreatic surgery and postoperative outcomes	12
Splenic vein tumor thrombosis is a major prognostic factor in distal pancreatic adenocarcinoma	12
Normocalcemic hyperparathyroidism: Intervention to differentiate primary from secondary hyperparathyroidism	12
Reply to the letter to the editor: Predicting suicide risk in patients with digestive system tumors: A retrospective cohort study	12
Discussion	12
Intraoperative code status: Moving from misinformation to respect for patient autonomy	12
The risks of inflammation and metabolism in distinct phenotypes of bicuspid aortic valve–associated aortopathy and aortic dissection: A population-based cohort study	12
Step cadence as a novel objective postoperative recovery metric in children who undergo laparoscopic appendectomy	12
Milk fat globule-epidermal growth factor-VIII–derived oligopeptide 3 (MOP3) attenuates inflammation and improves survival in hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury	12