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Best Papers in General Surgery
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Advanced tumor stage, location, and rare histological types predict poor disease-free survival in surgically treated esophageal cancer patients. Multimodal therapy significantly enhances survival in stage III cases. Notably, squamous cell carcinoma poses a higher locoregional recurrence risk while offering protection against distant metastases. These findings…
Bariatric surgery has significantly enhanced safety, evidenced by a 40% reduction in 90-day mortality over 15 years and declining severe complications. Among 486,161 procedures, sleeve gastrectomy and gastric bypass remain prevalent. However, improvements have plateaued since 2018, signaling a need for fresh optimization strategies. Notably,…
A fully robotic, ultrasound-guided technique for organ-sparing resection of gastric gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) yields impressive results. In a cohort of 46 patients, the procedure demonstrated no intraoperative complications and a postoperative morbidity rate below 5%. All surgeries achieved R0 resection with a median follow-up…
Infected necrotizing pancreatitis treatment benefits from endoscopic strategies, outperforming traditional surgical methods. The systematic review revealed that upfront endoscopic necrosectomy (uen) ranked highest, showing significantly lower mortality rates, fewer complications, and shorter hospital stays. Endoscopic step-up (esu) approaches also displayed favorable results. A cost-effectiveness analysis…
Enhanced instructions (EIs) significantly improve bowel preparation (BP) for hospitalized patients undergoing colonoscopy, achieving a Boston Bowel Preparation Scale (BBPS) ≥6 in 76% of cases compared to 60.5% with regular instructions (RIs). This systematic review and meta-analysis of 1,070 patients across six trials demonstrated that…
The HiEndo framework revolutionizes gastrointestinal laparoscopy video generation, producing high-resolution, high-fidelity visuals essential for robotic surgery. It leverages a two-stage architecture, first creating low-resolution videos via a diffusion transformer, then enhancing clarity with a super-resolution module. Training on a comprehensive dataset of 61,270 clips, HiEndo…
Outpatient stoma closure proves safe and efficient for 130 patients, with 90% discharged the same day. The procedure, primarily for loop ileostomies, demonstrates a median operative time of 48 minutes and a low severe morbidity rate of just 3%. Postoperative complications led to a 16%…
Surgical microwave ablation (MWA) proves to be a robust treatment for diverse liver tumors, with a low readmission rate of 6.5%. Analyzing 3,035 tumors across 1,416 patients over 16 years, median overall survival reached 3.9 years, varying by tumor type, while median recurrence-free survival stood…
A novel deep learning model significantly enhances the preoperative diagnosis of follicular-patterned thyroid neoplasms (FNs) using routine ultrasound images. In extensive multicenter validation, the model achieved an impressive AUC of 0.937 for internal and 0.853 for external cohorts. Moreover, it demonstrated high accuracy (90.9% and…
The synchroseal device outperformed conventional ultrasonic shears in robotic gastrectomy for gastric cancer, significantly reducing postoperative C-reactive protein (CRP) levels and serum amylase, alongside shorter operation times. In a study of 25 patients using synchroseal, these markers indicated reduced inflammation. While fewer lymph nodes (LNs)…
