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    World Journal of Surgery: Volume 43, Issue 4

    967-1184
    15 April 2019
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Original Scientific Report

Relative Value of Adapted Novel Bibliometrics in Evaluating Surgical Academic Impact and Reach

David B. T. Robinson,  Luke Hopkins,  Chris Brown,  Tarig Abdelrahman,  Arfon G. Powell,  Richard J. Egan,  Wyn G. Lewis, 
  • Pages: 967-972
  • First Published: 18 December 2018

Surgery in Low and Middle Income Countries

South African General Surgeon Preparedness for Humanitarian Disasters

Kathryn M. Chu,  Parveen Karjiker,  Priyanka Naidu,  Deirdre Kruger,  Allan Taylor,  Miguel Trelles,  Lynette Dominguez,  Sarah Rayne, 
  • Pages: 973-977
  • First Published: 06 December 2018

Optimal Resources for Children’s Surgical Care: Executive Summary

Global Initiative for Children’s Surgery ,  David Grabski,  Emmanuel Ameh,  Doruk Ozgediz,  Keith Oldham,  Francis A. Abantanga,  Mohamed Abdelmalak,  Nurudeen Abdulraheem,  Niyi Ade-Ajayi,  Edna Adan Ismail,  Adesoji Ademuyiwa,  Eltayeb Ahmed,  Sunday Ajike,  Olugbemi Benedict Akintububo,  Felix Alakaloko,  Brendan Allen,  Vanda Amado,  Shanthi Anbuselvan,  Jamie Anderson,  Theophilus Teddy Kojo Anyomih,  Leopold Asakpa,  Gudeta Assegie,  Jason Axt,  Ruben Ayala,  Frehun Ayele,  Harshjeet Singh Bal,  Rouma Bankole,  Tahmina Banu,  Tim Beacon,  Zaitun Bokhari,  Hiranya Kumar Borah,  Eric Borgstein,  Nick Boyd,  Jason Brill,  Britta Budde-Schwartzman,  Fred Bulamba,  Marilyn Butler,  Bruce Bvulani,  Sarah Cairo,  Juan Francisco Campos Rodezno,  Massimo Caputo,  Milind Chitnis,  Maija Cheung,  Bruno Cigliano,  Damian Clarke,  Michael Cooper,  Tessa Concepcion,  Scott Corlew,  David Cunningham,  Sergio D’Agostino,  Shukri Dahir,  Bailey Deal,  Miliard Derbew,  Sushil Dhungel,  David Drake,  Elizabeth Drum,  Bassey Edem,  Stella Eguma,  Olumide Elebute,  Beda R. Espineda,  Samuel Espinoza,  Faye Evans,  Omolara Faboya,  Jacques Fadhili Bake,  Tatiana Fazecas,  Mohammad Rafi Fazli,  Graham Fieggen,  Anthony Figaji,  Jean Louis Fils,  Tamara Fitzgerald,  Randall Flick,  Gacelle Fossi,  George Galiwango,  Lily Saldaña Gallo,  Mike Ganey,  Zipporah Gathuya,  Maryam Ghavami Adel,  Vafa Ghorban Sabagh,  Sridhar Gibikote,  Hetal Gohil,  Laura Goodman,  Sarah Greenberg,  Russell Gruen,  Lars Hagander,  Rahimullah Hamid,  Erik Hansen,  William Harkness,  Mauricio Herrera,  Intisar Hisham,  Andrew Hodges,  Sarah Hodges,  Ai Xuan Holterman,  Andrew Howard,  Romeo Ignacio,  Dawn Ireland,  Enas Ismail,  Rebecca Jacob,  Anette Jacobsen,  Zahra Jaffry,  Deeptiman James,  Ebor Jacob James,  Adiyasuren Jamiyanjav,  Kathy Jenkins,  Guy Jensen,  Maria Jimenez,  Tarun John K. Jacob,  Walter Johnson,  Anita Joselyn,  Nasser Kakembo,  Patrick Kamalo,  Neema Kaseje,  Bertille Ki,  Phyllis Kisa,  Peter Kim,  Krishna Kumar,  Rashmi Kumar,  Charlotte Kvasnovsky,  Ananda Lamahewage,  Monica Langer,  Christopher Lavy,  Taiwo Lawal,  Colin Lazarus,  Andrew Leather,  Chelsea Lee,  Basil Leodoro,  Allison Linden,  Katrine Lofberg,  Jonathan Lord,  Jerome Loveland,  Leecarlo Millano Lumban Gaol,  Vrisha Madhuri,  Pavrette Magdala,  Luc Kalisya Malemo,  Aeesha Malik,  John Mathai,  Marcia Matias,  Bothwell Mbuwayesango,  Merrill McHoney,  Liz McLeod,  Ashish Minocha,  Charles Mock,  Mubarak Mohamed,  Ivan Molina,  Ashika Morar,  Zahid Mukhtar,  Mulewa Mulenga,  Bhargava Mullapudi,  Jack Mulu,  Byambajav Munkhjargal,  Arlene Muzira,  Mary Nabukenya,  Mark Newton,  Jessica Ng,  Karissa Nguyen,  Laurence Isaaya Ntawunga,  Peter M. Nthumba,  Alp Numanoglu,  Benedict Nwomeh,  Kristin Ojomo,  Maryrose Osazuwa,  Emmanuel Owusu Abem,  Shazia Peer,  Norgrove Penny,  Dan Poenaru,  Robin Petroze,  Vithya Priya,  Ekta Rai,  Lola Raji,  Vinitha Paul Ravindran,  Desigen Reddy,  Henry Rice,  Yona Ringo,  Amezene Robelie,  Jose Roberto Baratella,  David Rothstein,  Coleen Sabatini,  Soumitra Saha,  Saurabh Saluja,  Lubna Samad,  John Sekabira,  Justina Seyi-Olajide,  Bello B. Shehu,  Sabina Siddiqui,  Ritesh Shrestha,  David Sigalet,  Martin Situma,  Emily Smith,  Adrienne Socci,  David Spiegel,  Peter Ssenyonga,  Jacob Stephenson,  Richard Stewart,  Erin Stieber,  Etienne St-Louis,  Vinayak Shukla,  Thomas Sims,  Faustin Felicien Mouafo Tambo,  Robert Tamburro,  Mansi Tara,  Ahmad Tariq,  Reju Thomas,  Leopold Torres Contreras,  Stephen Ttendo,  Benno Ure,  Luca Vricella,  Luis Vasquez,  Vijayakumar Raju,  Jorge Villacis,  Gustavo Villanova,  Catherine deVries,  Amira Waheeb,  Saber Waheeb,  Albert Wandaogo,  Anne Wesonga,  Omolara Williams,  Sigal Willner,  Nyo Nyo Win,  Hussein Wissanji,  Paul Mwindekuma Wondoh,  Garreth Wood,  Naomi Wright,  Benjamin Yapo,  George Youngson,  Yasmine Yousef,  Denléwendé Sylvain Zabsonre,  Luis Enrique Zea Salazar,  Adiyasuren Zevee,  Bistra Zheleva,  Kokila Lakhoo,  Diana Farmer,  Stephen Bickler, 
  • Pages: 978-980
  • First Published: 06 February 2019

Original Scientific Report

Understanding Disparities in Surgical Outcomes for Medicaid Beneficiaries

Jake Claflin,  Justin B. Dimick,  Darrell A. Campbell,  Michael J. Englesbe,  Kyle H. Sheetz, 
  • Pages: 981-987
  • First Published: 18 December 2018

Anastomotic Leakage After Stoma Reversal Combined with Incisional Hernia Repair

Niklas N. Baastrup,  Morten F. S. Hartwig,  Peter-Martin Krarup,  Lars N. Jorgensen,  Kristian K. Jensen, 
  • Pages: 988-997
  • First Published: 27 November 2018

Early Laparoscopic Washout may Resolve Persistent Intra-abdominal Infection Post-appendicectomy

Matthew G. R. Allaway,  Kristenne Clement,  Guy D. Eslick,  Michael R. Cox, 
  • Pages: 998-1006
  • First Published: 26 November 2018

Morbid Obesity’s Silver Lining: An Armor for Hollow Viscus in Blunt Abdominal Trauma

Chih-Yuan Fu,  Francesco Bajani,  Caroline Butler,  Stanley Welsh,  Thomas Messer,  Matthew Kaminsky,  Frederick Starr,  Andrew Dennis,  Victoria Schlanser,  Justin Mis,  Stathis Poulakidas,  Faran Bokhari, 
  • Pages: 1007-1013
  • First Published: 26 November 2018

The Hybrid Electronic Medical Registry Allows Benchmarking of Quality of Trauma Care: A Five-Year Temporal Overview of the Trauma Burden at a Major Trauma Centre in South Africa

M. M. Donovan,  V. Y. Kong,  J. L. Bruce,  G. L. Laing,  W. Bekker,  V. Manchev,  M. Smith,  D. L. Clarke, 
  • Pages: 1014-1021
  • First Published: 18 December 2018

Thyroidectomy Then and Now: A 50-Year Australian Perspective

Belinda Hii,  Dominic Maher,  Meei Yeung,  Eldho Paul,  Jonathan W. Serpell,  James C. Lee, 
  • Pages: 1022-1028
  • First Published: 07 December 2018

Percutaneous Microwave Ablation of Metastatic Lymph Nodes from Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Preliminary Results

Wei Zhou,  Yudong Chen,  Lu Zhang,  Xiaofeng Ni,  Shangyan Xu,  Weiwei Zhan, 
  • Pages: 1029-1037
  • First Published: 07 December 2018

Transoral Robotic Thyroidectomy for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Perioperative Outcomes of 100 Consecutive Patients

Hong Kyu Kim,  Young Jun Chai,  Gianlorenzo Dionigi,  Eren Berber,  Ralph P. Tufano,  Hoon Yub Kim, 
  • Pages: 1038-1046
  • First Published: 11 December 2018

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Surgical Management of the Axilla in Breast Cancer Patients with Negative Sentinel Lymph Node: A Method to Reduce False-Negative Rate

Qianqian Yuan,  Gaosong Wu,  Shu-Yuan Xiao,  Yukun He,  Kun Wang,  Dan Zhang, 
  • Pages: 1047-1053
  • First Published: 27 November 2018

Scientific Review

The Evolving Role of Vacuum Assisted Biopsy of the Breast: A Progression from Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy

Ian C. Bennett,  Apoorva Saboo, 
  • Pages: 1054-1061
  • First Published: 07 January 2019

Original Scientific Report

Preoperative High-Resolution Manometry Criteria are Associated with Dysphagia After Nissen Fundoplication

Steve R. Siegal,  Christy M. Dunst,  Ben Robinson,  Elizabeth N. Dewey,  Lee L. Swanstrom,  Steven R. DeMeester, 
  • Pages: 1062-1067
  • First Published: 06 December 2018

Postoperative Skeletal Muscle Loss Predicts Poor Prognosis of Adenocarcinoma of Upper Stomach and Esophagogastric Junction

Kensuke Kudou,  Hiroshi Saeki,  Yuichiro Nakashima,  Koichi Kimura,  Koji Ando,  Eiji Oki,  Tetsuo Ikeda,  Yoshihiko Maehara, 
  • Pages: 1068-1075
  • First Published: 26 November 2018

Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) Score Predicts Outcomes of Curative Resection for Gastric Cancer in the Elderly

Satoshi Suzuki,  Shingo Kanaji,  Masashi Yamamoto,  Taro Oshikiri,  Tetsu Nakamura,  Yoshihiro Kakeji, 
  • Pages: 1076-1084
  • First Published: 19 December 2018

Prognoses and Clinicopathological Characteristics for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Originating from the Caudate Lobe After Surgery

Shingo Shimada,  Toshiya Kamiyama,  Hideki Yokoo,  Tatsuya Orimo,  Akihisa Nagatsu,  Takanori Ohata,  Hirofumi Kamachi,  Akinobu Taketomi, 
  • Pages: 1085-1093
  • First Published: 26 November 2018

Our Rationale of Initiating Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma: A Proposal of Criteria for “Borderline Resectable” in the Field of Surgery for Hilar Cholangiocarcinoma

Ryusei Matsuyama,  Daisuke Morioka,  Ryutaro Mori,  Yasuhiro Yabushita,  Seigo Hiratani,  Yohei Ota,  Takafumi Kumamoto,  Itaru Endo, 
  • Pages: 1094-1104
  • First Published: 07 December 2018

Surgical Resection for Recurrent Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma

Fabian Bartsch,  Markus Paschold,  Janine Baumgart,  Maria Hoppe-Lotichius,  Stefan Heinrich,  Hauke Lang, 
  • Pages: 1105-1116
  • First Published: 06 December 2018

Innovative Surgical Techniques Around the World

Porto-Rex Shunt for Left Portal Vein Reconstruction During Right Extended Hepatectomy for Advanced Extrahepatic Biliary Cancer

Eylon Lahat,  Ahmad Jaber,  Chady Salloum,  Chetana Lim,  Gil Golan,  Ziv Ben-Ari,  Mordechai Gutman,  Daniel Azoulay, 
  • Pages: 1117-1120
  • First Published: 04 January 2019

Original Scientific Report with Video

Stent-Assisted Percutaneous Endoscopic Necrosectomy for Infected Pancreatic Necrosis: Technical Report and a Pilot Study

Lu Ke,  Wenjian Mao,  Jing Zhou,  Bo Ye,  Gang Li,  Jingzhu Zhang,  Peng Wang,  Zhihui Tong,  John Windsor,  Weiqin Li, 
  • Pages: 1121-1128
  • First Published: 19 December 2018

Standardize the Surgical Technique and Clarify the Relevant Anatomic Concept for Complete Mobilization of Colonic Splenic Flexure Using da Vinci Xi® Robotic System

Jin-Tung Liang,  John Huang,  Tzu-Chun Chen, 
  • Pages: 1129-1136
  • First Published: 12 December 2018

Original Scientific Report

Taeniectomy Versus Transverse Coloplasty as Neorectum After Low Rectal Resection

Ahmed Farag,  Abdrabou N. Mashhour,  Mohamed Yehia Elbarmelgi, 
  • Pages: 1137-1145
  • First Published: 18 December 2018

Scientific Review

Robotic Versus Conventional Laparoscopic Surgery for Colorectal Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis with Trial Sequential Analysis

Ka Ting Ng,  Azlan Kok Vui Tsia,  Vanessa Yu Ling Chong, 
  • Pages: 1146-1161
  • First Published: 04 January 2019

Original Scientific Report

Prognostic Factors of Pathological N1 Non-small Cell Lung Cancer After Curative Resection Without Adjuvant Chemotherapy

Youngkyu Moon,  Sook Whan Sung,  Jae Kil Park,  Kyo Young Lee,  Seha Ahn, 
  • Pages: 1162-1172
  • First Published: 07 December 2018
Open Access

Hurdles to Take for Adequate Treatment of Morbidly Obese Children and Adolescents: Attitudes of General Practitioners Towards Conservative and Surgical Treatment of Paediatric Morbid Obesity

Yvonne G. M. Roebroek,  Ali Talib,  Jean W. M. Muris,  Francois M. H. van Dielen,  Nicole D. Bouvy,  L. W. Ernest van Heurn, 
  • Pages: 1173-1181
  • First Published: 26 November 2018

Letter to the Editor

Letter to Editor: Routine Pathology and Postoperative Follow-Up are Not Cost-Effective in Cholecystectomy for Benign Gallbladder Disease

Pankaj Kumar Garg, 
  • Pages: 1182-1183
  • First Published: 24 January 2019

Reply, Letter to the Editor

Authors’ Reply: Routine Pathology and Postoperative Follow-Up are not Cost-Effective in Cholecystectomy for Benign Gallbladder Disease

Pim B. Olthof,  Madelon M. E. Metman,  Daphne Roos,  Jan Willem T. Dekker, 
  • Page: 1184
  • First Published: 13 February 2019