OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Visceral Surgery is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Radiation enteritis: Diagnostic and therapeutic issues	44
OR black box and surgical control tower: Recording and streaming data and analytics to improve surgical care	28
Recommendations for nutritional care after bariatric surgery: Recommendations for best practice and SOFFCO-MM/AFERO/SFNCM/expert consensus	26
Management of abdominal compartment syndrome in acute pancreatitis	18
Trans oral endoscopic thyroidectomy (TOETVA): First French experience in 90 patients	18
What results can be expected one year after complex incisional hernia repair with biosynthetic mesh?	17
Bariatric revisional surgery: What are the challenges for the patient and the practitioner?	17
Post-surgical recurrence of Crohn's disease: Situational analysis and future prospects	15
Obesity surgery: Which procedure should we choose and why?	15
Management of postoperative pancreatic fistula after pancreaticoduodenectomy	15
Umbrella reviews: A new tool to synthesize scientific evidence in surgery	14
Management and consequences of obstetrical anal sphincter injuries: Review	14
Epidemiology of the surgical management of obesity	14
Alterations of digestive motility after bariatric surgery	13
Augmented reality in liver surgery	12
Evaluation of severe caustic gastritis by computed tomography and its impact on management	12
Long-term complications after gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy: What information to give to patients and practitioners, and why?	11
Conceptual innovation: 4P Medicine and 4P surgery	11
Enhanced recovery after elective surgery. A revolution that reduces post-operative morbidity and mortality	11
Preoperative inflammation is an independent factor of worse prognosis after colorectal cancer surgery	9
Beyond green surgery, green surgical innovation and research	9
Eligibility criteria for ambulatory colectomy	8
Excision of deep endometriosis nodules of the sciatic nerve using robotic assistance, with video	8
Prehabilitation in hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis. A necessary step forward evidence-based sample size calculation for future trials	8
Quality of life in colostomy patients practicing colonic irrigation: An observational study	8

Management of abdominal emergencies in adults using telemedicine and artificial intelligence	8
Should preprints and peer-reviewed papers be assigned equal status?	8
Social deprivation aggravates post-operative morbidity in carcinologic colorectal surgery: Results of the COINCIDE multicenter study	8
Gastrointestinal motility has more of an impact on postoperative recovery than you might expect	7
Adult appendicitis: Clinical practice guidelines from the French Society of Digestive Surgery and the Society of Abdominal and Digestive Imaging	7
Cost-effectiveness analysis of resorbable biosynthetic mesh in contaminated ventral hernia repair	7
Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis: Diagnosis and management	7
Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction	7
Long-term endoscopic follow-up after sleeve gastrectomy	7
Small intestine motility disorders: Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction	7
Non-medical caregivers and the use of intraperitoneal chemotherapy in the operating theatre: A survey on the perception of safety	7
What the surgeons need to know about meta-analyses in 2023, beyond the simple Odds ratio	7
Comparison between retroperitoneal and transperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy: Are both equally safe?	6
Surgical management of the rectocele – An update	6
Use of Malone antegrade continence enemas in neurologic bowel dysfunction	6
The first year of Junior Doctors in visceral and digestive surgery in France: For what position and with which function?	5
Readmissions at 30 days after inguinal hernia repair: A series of 5126 patients	5
Evidence-based evaluation of abdominal drainage in pancreatic surgery	5
Liver resection safety in a developing country: Analysis of a collective learning curve	5
Surgical tracheotomy	5
Therapeutic implications of B-RAF mutations in colorectal cancer	5
Endoscopic management of obesity: Impact of endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty on weight loss and co-morbidities at six months and one year	5
PIPAC nebulizer: How to test the new devices in the market, expert recommendations	5
Is all that is feasible recommendable? The example of robotic right colectomy	5
Equipment failures in laparoscopic surgery: Causes and consequences	4
Analysis of the learning process for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: CUSUM-curve of 110 consecutive patients with 1-year follow-up	4
Open archive preprints: The challenge ahead	4
Kraske approach to retrorectal tumors: Surgical technique	4
European multicenter propensity score match study of laparoscopic vs. open colectomy for splenic flexure carcinomas: Results from the Splenic Flexure Cancer (SFC) Study Group	4
How to manage lower gastrointestinal bleeding in 2022?	4
Cytoreductive surgery in peritoneal carcinomatosis	4
Combined treatment of refractory ascites with an alfapump® plus hernia repair in the same surgical session: A retrospective, multicentre, European pilot study in cirrhotic patients	4
Future of bariatric surgery beyond simple weight loss: Metabolic surgery	4
Evaluation of the efficacy and morbidity of radiofrequency thermocoagulation in the treatment of hemorrhoidal disease	4
Social inequalities in health: How do they influence the natural history of colorectal cancer?	4
Celiac axis stenosis and digestive disease: Diagnosis, consequences and management	4
Two-step pull-through colo-anal anastomosis aiming to avoid stoma in rectal cancer surgery: A “real life” study in a developing country	4
Transversus abdominis plane block in adult open liver surgery patients: A systematic review with meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	4
Combined vaginal-laparoscopic approach vs. laparoscopy alone for prevention of bladder voiding dysfunction after removal of large rectovaginal endometriosis	4
Anatomic and functional results of ventral biological mesh rectopexy for posterior pelvic floor disorders	4
Laparoscopic jejunostomy (with video)	4
Psychiatric, psychological and addiction management in obesity surgery: Early identification for better support	4
How to reduce failure to rescue after visceral surgery?	4
Gastric motility disorders and their endoscopic and surgical treatments other than bariatric surgery	4
Direct trocar insertion vs. Veress needle technique in laparoscopic surgeries. A systematic review and meta-analysis	3
Hanging and modified liver hanging maneuver	3
Duodenal perforation in giant inguinal hernia	3
Prevention and management of post-thyroidectomy cervical haematoma. Recommendations of the AFCE (Association francophone de chirurgie endocrinienne) with the SFE (Société française d’endocrinologie) a	3
Video assisted thoracoscopy or laparoscopy for enucleation of esophageal leiomyoma: A seven-year single center experience of 75 cases	3
Why and how to implement an electronic resident's surgical logbook to improve operating-room training? First 5-year feedback from a French center	3

Management of splenic trauma in hemodynamically stable patients: Lessons to be drawn from the French SPLASH trial (Splenic Arterial Embolization to Avoid Splenectomy (SPLASH) Study Group)	3
Gastroduodenal intussusception. An insidious complication following gastric plication	3
Spondylodiscitis on recto-rachidian fistula after non-restored sigmoid resection	3
Thoracoscopy guided by intraoperative indocyanine green fluorescence lymphography for post-oesophagectomy chylothorax (with video)	3
Migration of an intragastric balloon may necessitate enterotomy for extraction	3
Robotic-assisted right colectomy. Official expert recommendations delivered under the aegis of the French Association of Surgery (AFC)	3
Hepatic compartment syndrome complicating a right laparoscopic nephrectomy and treated by surgical decompression	3
The surgery and surgeons of tomorrow in the treatment of cancer	3
Endoscopic pilonidal sinus disease treatment (EPSiT)	3
Factors influencing bariatric surgery outcomes	3
Laparoscopic spleen-preserving distal pancreatectomy with splenic vessels resection (laparoscopic Warshaw procedure)	3
The role of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on inflammatory parameters in morbidly obese patients	3
Decline in general surgery emergencies during COVID-19 pandemic. Has its severity increased? Analysis in a large volume hospital in Europe	3
Development and implementation of an assessment tool to evaluate technical skills in the insertion of implantable venous access devices, a Prospective Cohort Study	3
Comparative study of biological versus synthetic prostheses in the treatment of ventral hernias classified as grade II/III by the Ventral Hernia Working Group	3
Disorders of anorectal motility: Functional defecation disorders and fecal incontinence	3
Knowledge of surgeons and practical stances of healthcare institutions in the Ile-de-France region toward sustainable development: A cross-sectional study	3
Digital tools for ambulatory surgery patient surveillance and beyond…	3
Laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy for leiomyosarcoma of the stomach (with video)	3
Laparoscopic peritoneal dialysis catheter insertion	3
Postoperative morbidity and mortality in patients with diabetes after colorectal surgery with an enhanced recovery program: A monocentric retrospective study	2
Peritoneal recurrence of colorectal cancer with microsatellite instability: Is immunotherapy alone more effective than surgery?	2
Double origin of an occlusion after gastric bypass: Intestinal intussusception contained in a Petersen hernia	2
Omentoplasty decreases deep organ space surgical site infection compared with external tube drainage after conservative surgery for hepatic cystic echinococcosis: Meta-analysis with a meta-regression	2
Impact of number of previous surgeries on the continence state and healing after repeat surgery for recurrent anal fistula	2
Botulinum toxin injection before giant incisional hernia repair: Surgical technique	2
Isolated lymph node recurrence in epithelial ovarian cancer – management and outcome	2
Supporting innovation in health care: A short experience in a dedicated unit of the French Ministry of Public Health	2
Centalized oncologic surgery: Yes? No? Why? Where do we stand?	2
Novel strategies in liver graft preservation – The French perspective	2
Teaching surgery in 2021: what role for simulation?	2
Neurogenic appendicopathy: A rare differential diagnosis of acute appendicitis	2
Surgical management of adhesive small bowel obstruction: Is it still mandatory to wait? – An update	2
Sigmoid strangulation inside a voluminous elytrocele, a rare complication	2
A rare asymptomatic retroperitoneal endometriotic cyst with mass effect on the inferior vena cava	2
Even minor alteration of plasma creatinine after open abdominal surgery is associated with 30-day mortality: A single-centre cohort study	2
Artificial intelligence-assisted decision making: Prediction of optimal level of distal mesorectal margin during transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME) using deep neural network modeling	2
Minimally invasive laparo-thoracoscopic Ivor-Lewis esophagectomy with semi-mechanical triangular anastomosis: Short-term outcomes of 114 consecutive patients	2
Axillary lymph node dissection	2
Predictive factors for utilization of a low-volume center in pancreatic surgery: A nationwide study	2
Technique for treatment of parastomal hernia with sublay mesh repair and transprosthetic stomal relocation	2
Colectomy in outpatient care or in an enhanced recovery setting: Is there truly any difference?	2
Re: Operating room hygiene: clinical practice recommendations	2
The TPA score (total psoas muscle area) is the best marker for preoperative measurement of pre-sarcopenia in pancreatic surgery	2
Following terrorist attacks, war, natural disasters and other exceptional health emergencies, French surgeons are on the field	2
Long-term results of sacral neuromodulation for the treatment of anorectal diseases	2
Validation of a Nomogram to Predict Long Term Outcomes After Curative Surgery for Gastric Cancer in an Italian Cohort of Patients	2
Total thyroidectomy with central and lateral neck dissection for poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma (with video)	2
Obesity, sleeve gastrectomy and gastro-esophageal reflux disease	2
Challenging laparoscopic cholecystectomy for acute cholecystitis: When and how to convert	2
Results of laparoscopic intragastric surgery	2
Clinical pathways in the management of the obese: Pre- and postoperative aspects	2
Re: Moszkowicz D, et al. “Operating room hygiene: Clinical practice recommendations SFCD-ACHBT”	2
Microbiological epidemiology and antibiotic susceptibility of infected meshes after prosthetic abdominal wall repair	2
Hybrid Sugarbaker technique for parastomal hernia repair (with video)	2
Ways of preventing surgeon burnout	2
New treatment strategies for non-metastatic rectal cancer	2
The endorectal incision level of transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME): An emphasis on the distance from the anterior vs. posterior mesorectal ends to the anal verge	2
Modified Stapled Mesh Stoma Reinforcement Technique (SMART) for parastomal hernias, with video	2
Crude complication rate is not an accurate marker of a surgeon's skill: A single surgeon retrospective series of 1060 procedures for colorectal endometriosis	2
RE: RE: Strategy for the practice of digestive and oncologic surgery in the COVID-19 epidemic situation	2
Does increased patient comprehension decrease preoperative anxiety before digestive surgery?	2
Management of post-traumatic lumbar hernia in Grynfeltt and Petit triangles (with video)	2
Inflammatory markers for the early detection of post-operative infection: The same threshold for rectal and colic surgery?	2