Volume 171, Issue 4, 2022-4-1, Pages OFC-1139

Articles in this issue:

1. Cover 1(with editorial board)

2. Information for readers

3. Contents

4. Information for authors

5. “To meet or not to meet? That is not the question”

6. Clinical and economic validation of grade B postoperative pancreatic fistula subclassification

7. Invited commentary on “Clinical and economic validation of grade B postoperative pancreatic fistula subclassification” by Andreasi et al.

8. Gallbladder cancer in Africa: A higher than expected rate in a “low-risk” population

9. Factors associated with failure to rescue after major hepatectomy for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma: A 15-year single-center experience

10. The application of regenerative medicine in colorectal surgery

11. Racial disparities in colon cancer survival: A propensity score matched analysis in the United States

12. Adjuvant chemoradiotherapy versus radical surgery after transanal endoscopic microsurgery for intermediate pathological risk early rectal cancer: A single-center experience with long-term surveillance

13. Statin therapy and its association with long-term survival after colon cancer surgery

14. Development of a laparoscopic surgical skills simulation curriculum: Enhancing resident training through directed coaching and closed-loop feedback

15. Interprofessional veno-veno bypass simulation improved team confidence

16. Teaching strategies and outcomes in 3 different times of the COVID-19 pandemic through a dynamic assessment of medical skills and wellness of surgical trainees

17. Road to automating robotic suturing skills assessment: Battling mislabeling of the ground truth

18. A comprehensive review of interventional ablation techniques for the management of thyroid nodules and metastatic lymph nodes

19. What happens to the bone structure after normocalcemic primary hyperparathyroidism surgery?

20. Three-field versus two-field lymphadenectomy for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: A long-term survival meta-analysis

21. Survival impact of compliance in extra-perigastric lymphadenectomy for gastric cancer: 20 years of real-world data from a single institution

22. Application of an artificial neural network for predicting the potential chemotherapy benefit of patients with gastric cancer after radical surgery

23. Surgical quality assurance at expanding health networks: A qualitative study

24. Gut-Barrier Disruption After Laparoscopic Versus Open Major Liver Resection in the Rat

25. The laparoscopic approach to major liver resection: There’s more than meets the eye

26. Long-term outcomes of laparoscopic liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: A propensity score matched analysis of a high-volume North American center

27. Commentary on “Long-term outcomes of laparoscopic liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma: A propensity score matched analysis of a high-volume North American center”

28. Patient perspectives on mesh-related complications after hernia repair

29. Association of serum and fat tissue antibiotic concentrations with surgical site infections in lower gastrointestinal surgery

30. Intraoperative holography navigation using a mixed-reality wearable computer during laparoscopic cholecystectomy

31. The prediction of surgical complications using artificial intelligence in patients undergoing major abdominal surgery: A systematic review

32. Controversy in the classification of appendicitis and utilization of postoperative antibiotics

33. Preoperative serum alpha-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase level as a predictor of postoperative mortality and morbidity after noncardiac surgery: A propensity-adjusted analysis

34. New machine learning scoring system for predicting postoperative mortality in gastroduodenal ulcer perforation: A study using a Japanese nationwide inpatient database

35. Social vulnerability and fragmentation of postoperative surgical care among patients undergoing hepatopancreatic surgery

36. Clinical validation of the risk scoring systems of postoperative pancreatic fistula after laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy in Chinese cohorts: A single-center retrospective study

37. A risk-adjusted analysis of drain use in pancreaticoduodenectomy: Some is good, but more may not be better

38. Pediatric surgical quality improvement in low- and middle-income countries: What data to collect?

39. Utilization and effectiveness of the organ procurement and transplantation network “safety-net” policy

40. Invited commentary on: “Utilization and effectiveness of the organ procurement and transplantation network ‘safety-net’ policy”

41. Risk of acute kidney injury requiring hemodialysis after contrast-enhanced imaging after traumatic injury: A National Trauma Databank analysis

42. Rotational thromboelastometry in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome owing to coronavirus disease 2019: Is there a viscoelastic fingerprint and a role for predicting thrombosis?

43. A retrievable, dual-chamber stent protects against warm ischemia of donor organs in a model of donation after circulatory death

44. Invited commentary on “a retrievable, dual chamber stent protects against warm ischemia of donor organs in a model of donation after circulatory death”

45. Permanent postoperative hypoparathyroidism: Underappreciated impact on long-term quality of life

46. UCLA Health: Bridging academic surgery with a health system community expansion

47. MD Anderson’s 10-year experience with regional surgical oncology in the Houston area locations

48. Disability and uncertainty: How to proceed when we do not know

49. A critique of the curative imperative

50. The continuing need to combat disability discrimination in organ transplantation

51. Professionalism must prevail: A call to stop cyberbullying

52. Statistical peer review of surgical articles from the joint viewpoint of a medical biostatistician and a surgeon scientist

53. Promoting surgical research in the Global South: Perspectives from surgical trainee researchers

54. Gastric outlet obstruction secondary to paraumbilical hernia

55. Appendicitis with superior mesenteric vein thrombosis

56. Perihepatic parasitic leiomyoma

57. Transoral thyroidectomy on the way back to Babylon

58. Reply to “Prevention of transoral thyroidectomy complications: An analysis of surgical outcomes in 423 consecutive series.”

59. Addressing novelty in manuscripts is not so easy

60. To reimagine the surgeon archetype, we need an arche-system: In response to Bakke et al’s “Surgical archetype”

61. Adding internal medicine perspectives to the management of postoperative pneumonia

62. Lung recurrence after resection for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is confirmed to be the site with the best survival

63. Corrigendum to Radiofrequency ablation of regional recurrence from well-differentiated thyroid malignancy, by Dupuy DE et al. Surgery 2001 Dec;130(6):971-7

64. Corrigendum to Prevention of transoral thyroidectomy complications: An analysis of surgical outcomes in 423 consecutive series