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  1. 3D-Printed Model for Surgical Planning in Diverticular Disease: A Case Report
  2. Is the Use of Tourniquets More Advantageous than Other Bleeding Control Techniques in Patients with Limb Hemorrhage? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
  3. Robotic versus laparoscopic cholecystectomy: Can they be compared? A narrative review and personal considerations disproving low-level evidence
  4. Sutureless FOCUS harmonic scalpel versus clamp-and-tie techniques for thyroidectomy: A meta-analysis of 43 randomized controlled trials
  5. Turning points in the practice of liver surgery: A historical review
  6. Oral Antibiotics Alone versus Oral Antibiotics Combined with Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Elective Colorectal Surgery: A Propensity Score-Matching Re-Analysis of the iCral 2 and 3 Prospective Cohorts
  7. Oral Antibiotics Alone versus Oral Antibiotics Combined with Mechanical Bowel Preparation for Elective Colorectal Surgery: A Propensity Score-Matching Re-analysis of the iCral2 and iCral3 Prospective Cohorts.
  8. Prognostic factors and predictive models in hot gallbladder surgery: A prospective observational study in a high-volume center
  9. The duodenal window approach to pancreatoduodenectomy
  10. A Systematic Review of Varying Definitions and the Clinical Significance of Fredet’s Fascia in the Era of Complete Mesocolic Excision
  11. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Variants of the Obturatory Artery
  12. Preliminary Study of Axillary Lymphatic Drainage in Cutaneous Melanoma Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study
  13. Primary Tumour Treatment in Stage 4 Colorectal Cancer with Unresectable Liver and Lung Metastases and No Peritoneal Carcinomatosis—Current Trends and Attitudes in the Absence of Clear Guidelines
  14. Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Variants of the Obturatory Artery
  15. Ethical Issues in Emergency Surgery
  16. Internal and Congenital Hernias
  17. Miscellaneous Rare Malignancies: Intra-abdominal Lymphomas
  18. Correction: Minimally invasive surgery in emergency surgery: a WSES survey
  19. Diversity and ethics in trauma and acute care surgery teams: results from an international survey
  20. Correction to: Two years later: Is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic still having an impact on emergency surgery? An international cross-sectional survey among WSES members
  21. coMpliAnce with evideNce-based cliniCal guidelines in the managemenT of acute biliaRy pancreAtitis): The MANCTRA-1 international audit
  22. Two years later: Is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic still having an impact on emergency surgery? An international cross-sectional survey among WSES members
  23. Pushing the boundaries of TAMIS
  24. Oncological disease during the pandemic COVID-19: the solution is the "net"
  25. The weekend effect on the provision of Emergency Surgery before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: case–control analysis of a retrospective multicentre database
  26. The acute phase management of spinal cord injury affecting polytrauma patients: the ASAP study
  27. The impact of surgical delay on resectability of colorectal cancer: An international prospective cohort study
  28. Asymptomatic inguinal hernia: does it need surgical repair? A systematic review and meta‐analysis
  29. Minimally invasive surgery in emergency surgery: a WSES survey
  30. It’s time for a minimum synoptic operation template in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy: a systematic review
  31. Prognostic factors in the decision-making process for sigmoid volvulus: results of a single-centre retrospective cohort study
  32. WSES guidelines on blunt and penetrating bowel injury: diagnosis, investigations, and treatment
  33. The Dilemma of the Level of the Inferior Mesenteric Artery Ligation in the Treatment of Diverticular Disease: A Systematic Review of the Literature
  34. Emergency surgery admissions and the COVID-19 pandemic: did the first wave really change our practice? Results of an ACOI/WSES international retrospective cohort audit on 6263 patients
  35. Professional responsibility between guidelines and customary practice. A conflict of interest?
  36. Minimally Invasive Surgery in Emergency Surgery: A WSES Survey
  37. Emergency Surgery Admissions and The COVID-19 Pandemic: Did The First Wave Really Change Our Practice? Results of An ACOI/WSES International Audit On 6263 Patients.
  38. Death following pulmonary complications of surgery before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
  39. Injuries during Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy: A Scoping Review of the Claims and Civil Action Judgements
  40. Outcomes after perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients with proximal femoral fractures: an international cohort study
  41. Effect of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns on planned cancer surgery for 15 tumour types in 61 countries: an international, prospective, cohort study
  42. State-of-the-art surgery for sigmoid diverticulitis
  43. Team dynamics in emergency surgery teams: results from a first international survey
  44. De Garengeot’s Hernia Treated With a Hybrid Approach: A Case Report
  45. Inequalities in screening policies and perioperative protection for patients with acute appendicitis during the pandemic: Subanalysis of the ACIE Appy study
  46. Long splenic flexure carcinoma requiring laparoscopic extended left hemicolectomy with CME and transverse-rectal anastomosis: technique for a modified partial Deloyers in 5 steps to achieve enough reach and preserving middle colic vessels
  47. Machine learning risk prediction of mortality for patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2: the COVIDSurg mortality score
  48. Proposal and Validation of a New Classification of Surgical Outcomes after Colorectal Resections within an Enhanced Recovery Programme
  49. Calculation and internal validation of a new synthetic and autocorrelate index to combine the determinants of health of a population
  50. Prognostic Factors in the Decision-Making Process for Sigmoid Volvulus. Results of a Single-Centre Retrospective Cohort Study.
  51. COVID-19 Infection risk by open and laparoscopic surgical smoke: a systematic review of the literature
  52. Surgical Risk and Pathological Results of Emergency Resection in the Treatment of Acutely Obstructing Colorectal Cancers: A Retrospective Cohort Study
  53. Platelet-Rich Fibrin-Mesh Technique for Inguinal Hernia Repair: Results of a Feasibility Pilot Study
  54. Elective Cancer Surgery in COVID-19–Free Surgical Pathways During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: An International, Multicenter, Comparative Cohort Study
  55. Iatrogenic Biliary Injury during Cholecystectomy: Critical Review of a Historical Case and Its Political Consequences
  56. Calculation and Internal Validation of a New Synthetic and Autocorrelate Index to Measure the Health Status of a Population
  57. Outcomes from elective colorectal cancer surgery during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic
  58. Preoperative nasopharyngeal swab testing and postoperative pulmonary complications in patients undergoing elective surgery during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
  59. Is there a standard reaction of surgeons to surgical complications? Study on an interesting historical case
  60. Global attitudes in the management of acute appendicitis during COVID‐19 pandemic: ACIE Appy Study
  61. Laparoscopic repair of a large rectal injury during colonoscopy: challenging an old‐fashioned paradigm – a video vignette
  62. Delaying surgery for patients with a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection
  63. Laparoscopic tubularized gastrostomy: a valid alternative to percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy
  64. Mortality and pulmonary complications in patients undergoing surgery with perioperative SARS-CoV-2 infection: an international cohort study
  65. In response to: Laparoscopic surgery and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: A word from a different hymn sheet
  66. Calculation and Validation of a New Synthetic and Autocorrelate Index to Measure the Health Status of a Population
  67. Guidelines and recommendations during the COVID-19 pandemic: A word of caution
  68. Correction to: War trauma in Homer’s Iliad: a trauma registry perspective
  69. Multidisciplinary treatment of cancer
  70. War trauma in Homer’s Iliad: a trauma registry perspective
  71. Making an IMPACT: A priority setting consultation exercise to improve outcomes in patients with locally advanced, recurrent and metastatic colorectal cancer
  72. Spontaneous splenic rupture: a rare first presentation of diffuse large B cell lymphoma
  73. Appendicovesical fistula presenting as hypokalaemic hyperchloraemic metabolic acidosis: a case report
  74. Laparohernioscopic right colectomy for bowel ischaemia within a strangulated inguinal hernia
  75. Hernioscopy: a reliable method to explore the abdominal cavity in incarcerated or strangulated inguinal hernias spontaneously reduced after general anaesthesia
  76. Evaluation of Italian radiotherapy research from 1985 to 2005: preliminary analysis
  77. The impact of complications on a programme of enhanced recovery in colorectal surgery
  78. Esomeprazole and aspirin in Barrett's oesophagus (AspECT): a randomised factorial trial
  79. Small bowel diverticular perforation : An uncommon surgical emergency
  80. Emergency treatment of complicated colorectal cancer
  81. The Emperor's New Clothes: a Critical Appraisal of Evidence-based Medicine
  82. Day-case laparoscopic cholecystectomy: analysis of the factors allowing early discharge
  83. Early Discharge After Colorectal Resection
  84. The “Left Ureteral Triangle” as an Anatomic Landmark for the Identification of the Left Ureter in Laparoscopic Distal Colectomies
  85. Use of a Cheap Bag for Specimen Retrieval during Diagnostic Laparoscopy
  86. Guidelines. A Word of Caution
  87. Multifocal Nodular Fatty Infiltration of the Liver: A Case Report of a Challenging Diagnostic Problem
  88. Major Pelvic Bleeding Following a Stapled Transanal Rectal Resection: Use of Laparoscopy as a Diagnostic Tool
  89. Colorectal surgery in a rural setting
  90. What is the future of biomedical research?
  91. Cyanoacrylate Glue versus Suture Fixation of Mesh in Inguinal Hernia Open Repair: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial
  92. History of colorectal surgery
  93. Self resolving non-parasitic splenic cyst: A case report
  94. Laparoscopic Treatment of a Huge Mesenteric Chylous Cyst
  95. Surgical risk and technical notes of laparoscopic anterior resection in the elderly: lessons from an early experience
  96. The anionic peptide fraction is present on the gallbladder apical epithelium and favours biliary cholesterol absorption
  97. Laryngotracheal Trauma: Up-to-date Report of Two Cases of a Challenging Problem
  98. Three-port laparoscopic cholecystectomy by harmonic dissection without cystic duct and artery clipping
  99. Laparoscopic Harvest of an Omental Flap to Reconstruct an Infected Sternotomy Wound
  100. The human gallbladder increases cholesterol solubility in bile by differential lipid absorption: A study using a newin vitro model of isolated intra-arterially perfused gallbladder
  101. Laparoscopic Management of Cholecystogastric Fistula
  102. Hepatic resections in normothermic ischemia
  103. The use of cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive in high-risk intestinal anastomoses