Small signals guide LGBTQ+ surgery applicants
LGBTQ+ general surgery residents judged programs for safety by small cues and by the region they lived in.
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Out in the Match: LGBTQ+ Applicants Read Programs Closely
LGBTQ+ general surgery applicants use small signals to judge whether a residency program is psychologically safe, and some hide their identity to avoid being filtered out.
Cancer Surgery Research Needs Global Action
Cancer surgery research is harder to run in low-resource settings, and a second Lancet Oncology Commission lays out how to change that.
Eight Actions for Global Cancer Surgery Research
A global commission proposes resource-stratified steps to build cancer surgical research capacity, especially in low-resource settings.
Rectal Prolapse Emergencies Carry Worse Outcomes
Emergency admissions made up over a fifth of rectal prolapse hospital stays nationally, and those patients fared worse.
Emergent Rectal Prolapse Admissions Carry Higher Risk
Nearly one in four rectal prolapse admissions in the US is emergent, and these patients fare worse.
A new cut for robotic liver surgery
A close-to-open cutting method was used for robotic liver resection, with no bile leaks and shorter hospital stays than after laparoscopy.
Robotic liver resection with short-pitch dividing shortens hospital stay
Robotic liver resection using a close-to-open forceps technique was associated with no bile leakage and a shorter hospital stay than laparoscopic resection, even though more complex resections were performed in the robotic group.
Robotic bile duct stone surgery: fewer complications
Removing large common bile duct stones with a robot rather than laparoscopically was linked to fewer complications and shorter hospital stays, at a higher cost, in a study from one Chinese hospital.
Robotic Bile Duct Exploration Beats Laparoscopy for Stones
Robot-assisted bile duct exploration gave fewer complications and shorter hospital stays than laparoscopy, even in patients with hilar adhesions, in a Chinese retrospective study of 212 matched patients.