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  1. Anastomotic leakage (AL) is still a common and feared complication after low anterior resection (LAR) for rectal cancer. The multifactorial pathophysiology of AL and lack of standardised treatment options requ...

    Authors: M. D. Slooter, K. Talboom, S. Sharabiany, C. P. M. van Helsdingen, S. van Dieren, C. Y. Ponsioen, C. Y. Nio, E. C. J. Consten, J. H. Wijsman, M. A. Boermeester, J. P. M. Derikx, G. D. Musters, W. A. Bemelman, P. J. Tanis and R. Hompes
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:240
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  2. Pneumoperitoneum to maintain a constant gas flow to assist various surgeries is known to cause severe bradycardia and has been linked to heart failure;; however, a recent study demonstrated that it is not link...

    Authors: Fumito Yamabe, Yozo Mitsui, Orie Hoshino, Tomo Shimizu, Mizuki Kasahara, Hideyuki Kobayashi and Koichi Nakajima
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:238
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  4. Surgical fixation is recommended for type II and III odontoid fractures (OFx) with major translation of the odontoid fragment, regardless of the patient’s age, and for all type II OFx in patients aged ≥50 year...

    Authors: Syed Ali Mujtaba Rizvi, Eirik Helseth, Pål Rønning, Jalal Mirzamohammadi, Marianne Efskind Harr, Tor Brommeland, Mads Aarhus, Christina Teisner Høstmælingen, Håvard Ølstørn, Pål Nicolay Fougner Rydning, Magnus Mejlænder-Evjensvold, Nils Christian Utheim and Hege Linnerud
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:236
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  5. The rise in deaths attributed to opioid drugs has become a major public health problem in the United States and in the world. Minimally invasive surgery (MIS) is associated with a faster postoperative recovery...

    Authors: Marieke J. Krimphove, Xi Chen, Maya Marchese, David F. Friedlander, Adam C. Fields, Lina Roa, Daniel Pucheril, Adam S. Kibel, Nelya Melnitchouk, Richard D. Urman, Luis A. Kluth, Prokar Dasgupta and Quoc-Dien Trinh
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:235
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  6. The transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (vNOTES) applied in gynecology has been developed recent years and been evolving. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the feasibility and effect...

    Authors: Xiaojuan Wang, Junwei Li, Keqin Hua and Yisong Chen
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:234
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  7. For ventral hernia, endoscopic sublay repair (ESR) may overcome the disadvantages of open sublay and laparoscopic intraperitoneal onlay mesh repair. This retrospective study presents the preliminary multicente...

    Authors: Rui Tang, Huiyong Jiang, Weidong Wu, Tao Wang, Xiangzhen Meng, Guozhong Liu, Xiaoyan Cai, Jianwen Liu, Xijun Cui, Xianke Si, Nan Liu and Nina Wei
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:233
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  8. Bariatric surgery (BS) is considered as an effective solution to control morbid obesity. Food restrictions resulting from the operation may decrease dietary nutrient intakes, particularly during the first year...

    Authors: Maryam Ziadlou, Firoozeh Hosseini-Esfahani, Hassan Mozaffari Khosravi, Farhad Hosseinpanah, Maryam Barzin, Alireza Khalaj and Majid Valizadeh
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:232
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  9. The management for subacute or chronic fistula after bariatric surgery is very complicated and with no standard protocol yet. It is also an Achilles’ heel of all bariatric surgery. The aim of this case report ...

    Authors: Hung-Hsuan Yen, Yu-Ting Lin, Jin-Ming Wu, Kao-Lang Liu and Ming-Tsan Lin
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:231
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  10. There is a high probability of gastroesophageal reflux after laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy for adenocarcinoma of the oesophagogastric junction (AEG). Various anti-reflux anastomotic methods are emerging in...

    Authors: Baohua Wang, Yupeng Wu, Haijun Wang, Haiqiang Zhang, Liting Wang and Zhanxue Zhang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:230
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  12. Spontaneous gas-forming pyogenic liver abscess (GFPLA) is a rare complication with a high fatality rate in spite of aggressive management. Clinical spectrum of GFPLA can mimic hollow viscus perforation as it u...

    Authors: Thuong Pham Van, Son Vu Ngoc, Ngoc Anh Nguyen Hoang, Doan Hoang Huu and Tung Anh Dinh Duong
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:228
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  13. To evaluate the feasibility and safety of robot-assisted retroperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy (RARLA) for large pheochromocytomas (PHEOs; size≥6 cm) compared with retroperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalecto...

    Authors: Sheng-Qiang Fu, Chang-Shui Zhuang, Xiao-Rong Yang, Wen-Jie Xie, Bin-Bin Gong, Yi-Fu Liu, Ji Liu, Ting Sun and Ming Ma
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:227
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  14. The incidence of fractures around the femoral prosthesis among patients undergoing hip arthroplasty is increasing and has become the third leading cause of hip revision. While numerous methods for the surgical...

    Authors: Jian-Ning Sun, Yu Zhang, Ye Zhang, Jia-Ming Zhang, Xiang-Yang Chen and Shuo Feng
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:226
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  16. Immunosuppressed patients, including individuals with organ transplantation, have been among susceptible groups with regard to COVID-19, on the other hand pediatric patients more commonly undergo a mild clinic...

    Authors: Hamed Nikoupour, Kourosh Kazemi, Peyman Arasteh, Saba Ghazimoghadam, Hesameddin Eghlimi, Naghi Dara, Siavash Gholami and Saman Nikeghbalian
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:224
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  17. Pancreatic fistula is one of the serious complications for patients undergoing distal pancreatectomy, which leads to significant morbidity. The aim of our study is to compare linear stapling closure plus conti...

    Authors: Takeshi Aoki, Doaa A. Mansour, Tomotake Koizumi, Kazuhiro Matsuda, Tomokazu Kusano, Yusuke Wada, Tomoki Hakozaki, Kodai Tomioka, Takahito Hirai, Tatsuya Yamazaki, Makoto Watanabe, Koji Otsuka, Ahmed Elewa Abbas Gahin and Masahiko Murakami
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:223
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  18. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization. Patients with cancer are more likely to incur poor clinical outcomes. Due to the prevailing pandemi...

    Authors: Yu-xuan Li, Chang-zheng He, Yi-chen Liu, Peng-yue Zhao, Xiao-lei Xu, Yu-feng Wang, Shao-you Xia and Xiao-hui Du
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:222
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  19. Small bowel volvulus (SBV) is a benign gastrointestinal surgical condition in which there is a torsion of all or parts of a segment of small bowel on its mesenteric axis. It has been contributed significant bu...

    Authors: Atalel Fentahun Awedew, Woldemariam Beka Belay, Bedemariam Tadesse Amsalu and Dawit Zerihun Yalewu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:221
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  20. Splenic rupture is an emergency condition and a vast number of cases are secondary to trauma. Several underlying pathologies have also been associated with splenic rupture, such as hematological diseases, mali...

    Authors: Mohammadreza Mobayen, Saeed Yousefi, Mohammadsadegh Mousavi and Amin Shafighi Anbaran
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:220
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  21. The prognostic significance of peripheral blood-derived inflammation markers in patients with gastric cancer (GC) has not been elucidated. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between systemic infl...

    Authors: Lihu Gu, Mian Wang, Xuena Cui, Jiahang Mo, Lingling Yuan, Feiyan Mao, Kang Zhang, Derry Minyao Ng, Ping Chen and Dongjie Wang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:219
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  22. To observe cumulative morbidity of postoperative inguinal hernia (PIH) and identify risk factors associated with its development in patients who underwent retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP), laparoscopic p...

    Authors: Lijia Liu, Haoxiang Xu, Feng Qi, Shangqian Wang, Kamleshsingh Shadhu, Dadhija Ramlagun-Mungur and Shui Wang
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:218
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  23. Gastrointestinal injury following blunt abdominal trauma is uncommon; a combined stomach and duodenal perforating injury is even more rare. Because these two organs are located in different spaces in the abdom...

    Authors: Chun-Chi Lai, Hung-Chang Huang and Ray-Jade Chen
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:217
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  25. Several topical hemostats are available to help control surgical bleeding. Cutanplast is a highly absorbent and porous gelatin product that is available in Fast sponge and powder forms. This study investigated...

    Authors: Valerio Antonio Paternò, Alessandro Bisin and Alessandro Addis
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:215
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  26. The critical view of safety (CVS) method can be achieved by avoiding vasculo-biliary injury resulting from misidentification during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). Although achieving the CVS has become popu...

    Authors: Shuichi Fujioka, Keigo Nakashima, Hiroaki Kitamura, Yuki Takano, Takeyuki Misawa, Yu Kumagai, Taigo Hata, Tadashi Akiba, Toru Ikegami and Katsuhiko Yanaga
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:214
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  27. Acquired Hemophilia A (AHA) is a rare bleeding diathesis in patients with no previous personal or family bleeding history. The diagnosis of this disease often delays due to unfamiliarity of physicians with it,...

    Authors: Umar Zeb Khan, Xiangwu Yang, Matiullah Masroor, Abdul Aziz, Hui Yi and Hai Liu
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:213
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  28. Sacrococcygeal pilonidal sinus disease (PSD) is an infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissue at the upper part of the natal cleft of the buttocks. Excision and healing by granulation “lay-open” method is s...

    Authors: Mohamed M. Gohar, Reda F. Ali, Khaled A. Ismail, Taha A. Ismail and Nahla A. Nosair
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:212
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  29. Perioperative complications cause significant pediatric morbidity and mortality in low- and lower middle -income countries. This study investigates factors associated with prolonged length of stay, 90-day read...

    Authors: Sarah Peiffer, Anna E. Ssentongo, Laura Keeney, Forster Amponsah-Manu, Richard Yeboako, Richard Ofosu-Akromah, Temitope Ebenezer Arkorful, Eric Agyemang, Anthony Tsai, John Oh and Paddy Ssentongo
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:211
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  30. The continuously increasing survivorship of female breast cancer makes the monitoring and improvement of patients’ quality of life ever so important. While globally there is a growing body of research on healt...

    Authors: Aris Yfantis, Pavlos Sarafis, Ioannis Moisoglou, Maria Tolia, George Intas, Ioanna Tiniakou, Konstantinos Zografos, George Zografos, Marianna Constantinou, Athanasios Nikolentzos and Michalis Kontos
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:210
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  32. This report presents updated data and mid-term follow-up information to a former study introducing the novel technique of percutaneous-perventricular device closure of doubly committed subarterial ventricular ...

    Authors: Long Wang, Lin Xie, Weiqiang Ruan, Tao Li, Changping Gan and Ke Lin
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:208
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  34. We present a living donor case with an unexpected large-volume pneumothorax diagnosed using lung ultrasound during a laparoscopic hepatectomy for liver transplantation (LT).

    Authors: Min Suk Chae, Jueun Kwak, Kyungmoon Roh, Minhee Kim, Sungeun Park, Ho Joong Choi, Jaesik Park, Jung-Woo Shim, Hyung Mook Lee, Yong-Suk Kim, Young Eun Moon and Sang Hyun Hong
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:206
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  35. To reduce the risk of cerebrospinal fluid leak, clinicians utilize a filling material placed in the sella followed by floor reconstruction with various materials, including glue sealing. Cyano-acrylic glue Glu...

    Authors: Majid Bani-Ata, Firas Alzoubi, Bashar Abuzayed, Ala”a A. Alhowary and Abdelwahab J. Aleshawi
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:205
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  37. Intrapulmonary teratoma (IPT) is a rare type of extra gonadal teratoma which often presents with non-specific symptoms and can be misdiagnosed as other diseases. Here we report a patient with IPT which was ini...

    Authors: Parviz Mardani, Reyhaneh Naseri, Armin Amirian, Reza Shahriarirad, Mohammad Hossein Anbardar, Damoun Fouladi and Keivan Ranjbar
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:203
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  39. We have previously shown the value of next-generation des-r-carboxy prothrombin (NX-DCP) for predicting vascular invasion in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Since conventional DCP is inaccurate under some cond...

    Authors: Shintaro Yamazaki, Tadatoshi Takayama, Tomoharu Kurokawa, Naoaki Shimamoto, Yusuke Mitsuka, Nao Yoshida, Tokio Higaki and Masahiko Sugitani
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:201
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  40. Staphylococcus caprae (Sc) is an uncommon causative organism for human. Lumbar pyogenic spondylodiscitis (LPS) of Sc is extremely rare and only a few cases have been reported. As far as we know, there is no sp...

    Authors: Zihan Fan, Yong Yang, Dong Li and Qi Fei
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:200
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  41. Vaginal vault prolapse is the most frequent long-term complication in patients undergoing hysterectomy and sacralcolpopexy is considered the gold standard. We report our surgical strategy maintaining single-ar...

    Authors: Federico Romano, Andrea Sartore, Denise Mordeglia, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Guglielmo Stabile and Giuseppe Ricci
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:199
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  42. Intussusception is a form of intestinal obstruction in which a segment of the bowel prolapses into a more distal segment. It is an uncommon condition in children older than 2 years and causes intestinal obstru...

    Authors: Ahmad Sankari Tarabishi, Ziad Aljarad, Baraa Shebli, Ahmad Humam Masri, Rami Anadani, Muhammad Besher Shabouk and Mazen Trissi
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:198
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  43. Although considered complex and challenging, esophagectomy remains the best potentially curable treatment option for resectable esophageal and esophagogastric junction (AEG) carcinomas. The optimal surgical ap...

    Authors: Dino Kröll, Yves Michael Borbély, Bastian Dislich, Tobias Haltmeier, Thomas Malinka, Matthias Biebl, Rupert Langer, Daniel Candinas and Christian Seiler
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:197
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  44. Idiopathic chronic ulcerative enteritis (ICUE) is a very rare disease with high mortality. Because of clinical rarity, several small case reports have been published and there is a lack of large sample study. ...

    Authors: Chang-Yeon Jung and Jung-Min Bae
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:196
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  45. The windswept lower limb deformity describes valgus deformity in one leg with varus deformity in the other. It is mostly seen in young children with metabolic bone diseases (such as rickets) and may lead to le...

    Authors: Xi Yang, Qiang Zou, Yueming Song, Limin Liu and Chunguang Zhou
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:195
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  46. Studies have suggested differences in postoperative outcomes between patients with obesity and those without following adrenalectomy, but these remained to be ascertained with synthesis of available evidence. ...

    Authors: Celestin Danwang, Valirie Ndip Agbor and Jean Joel Bigna
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:194
    Content type: Research article Published on:

  47. Open surgical repair (OSR) for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms (TAA) is associated with a high pulmonary and renal morbidity rate. Ischemic preconditioning (IPC) is a mechanism of protection against the dele...

    Authors: Mickael Palmier, Mickael Bubenheim, Laurent Chiche, Xavier Chaufour, Fabien Koskas, Elie Fadel, Pierre Edouard Magnan, Eric Ducasse, Nabil Chakfe, Eric Steinmetz, Marie Melody Dusseaux, Jean Baptiste Ricco and Didier Plissonnier
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:193
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  48. Using the Latissimus dorsi (LD) muscle flap is one of the popular surgical technique for breast reconstruction. However, usually, long postoperative scar was remained on donor site which does not have disease....

    Authors: Jeeyeon Lee, Jin Hyang Jung, Wan Wook Kim, Chan Sub Park, Ryu Kyung Lee and Ho Yong Park
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:192
    Content type: Technical advance Published on:

  49. Gastric artery aneurysms are rarely caused by segmental arterial mediolysis (SAM), a condition that often involves multiple vessels. The clinical course of SAM after vessel rupture may vary depending on the in...

    Authors: Yuichiro Kohara, Koji Fujimoto, Hikotaro Katsura, Takashi Komatsubara, Kazuhito Ichikawa and Hiroshi Higashiyama
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:191
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  50. Novel coronavirus pneumonia (NCP) outbreak in Wuhan, China in early 2020, resulted in over 80 thousand infections in China. At present, NCP has an explosive growth in the world. Surgeons could refuse selective...

    Authors: Yuchen Liu, Minggang Wang, Yingmo Shen and Jie Chen
    Citation: BMC Surgery 2020 20:190
    Content type: Research article Published on:
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