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