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General Surgery

• Designing HIPEC regimens for colon cancer: Is the available evidence being appropriately considered? - Surgery Open Digestive Advance (open access)

• Sleep disorders in traumatic brain injury - Neurocirugia (English Edition)

• The age of surgical operative video big data - My bicycle or our park? - The Surgeon

• An analysis of gender differences in treatment and outcome of periampullary tumours in Sweden – A national cohort stud - HPB

• The SCARE 2020 Guideline: Updating Consensus Surgical CAse REport (SCARE) Guidelines - International Journal of Surgery

• COVID 19 pandemic: Effect on management of patients with breast cancer; single center retrospective cohort study - International Journal of Surgery Open (open access)

• Creating a harmonious operating room: The role of music and other sounds - Surgery in Practice and Science (open access)

• Sino-orbital mucormycosis in a COVID-19 patient: A case report - International Journal of Surgery Case Reports (open access)

• Urology Residents Simulation Training Improves Clinical Outcomes in Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy - Journal of Surgical Education

• The immediate impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on burn-out, work-engagement, and surgical training in the Netherlands - Surgery

• Recognizing the Benefit of Telemedicine Before and After COVID-19: A Survey of Pediatric Surgery Providers - Journal of Surgical Research

• SARS-CoV-2–related outcomes after surgical procedures on SARS-CoV-2–positive patients in a large, urban, safety net medical center - Surgery of Open Science (open access)

• Prevalence of spine surgery navigation techniques and availability in Africa: A cross-sectional study - Annals of Medicine Surgery (open access)

• Knowledge about the effects of electrosurgery smoke among operating room nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-Sectional Study - Perioperative Care & Operating Room Management

• Cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgery versus community weight management to treat obesity-related idiopathic intracranial hypertension: evidence from a single-payer healthcare system - Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

• National survey on the treatment of acute appendicitis in Spain during the initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic - Cirugía

• Sinus laser closure (SiLaC) versus Limberg flap in management of pilonidal disease: A short term non-randomized comparative prospective study - Asian Journal of Surgery (open access)

• Small bowel obstruction - Current Problems in Surgery

• Positive margins after mastectomy in patients with invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast: Incidence and management strategies - The American Journal of Surgery

• Delayed stroke after hospitalization for coronavirus disease 2019 pneumonia from common and internal carotid artery thrombosis - Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases, Innovations and Techniques (open access)

• Development and implementation of an assessment tool to evaluate technical skills in the insertion of implantable venous access devices, a Prospective Cohort Study - Journal of Visceral Surgery

• So, you want to be a leader? - Seminars in Colon and Rectal Surgery

Vascular Surgery

• Arterial Thrombosis in Coronavirus Disease - Annals of Vascular Surgery

• Surgical Explantation of a Fenestrated Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Device Complicated by Aorto-Enteric Fistula - EJVES Vascular Forum (open access)

• Editor's Choice – European Society for Vascular Surgery (ESVS) 2021 Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Management of Venous Thrombosis - European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

• Ergotism with acute limb ischemia, provoked by HIV protease inhibitors interaction with ergotamine, rescued by multisite transluminal balloon angioplasty - JMV Journal de Médecine Vasculaire

• Telemedicine platforms and their use in the coronavirus disease-19 era to deliver comprehensive vascular care - Journal of Vascular Surgery

• Clinical characteristics of acute lower extremity deep venous thrombosis diagnosed by duplex in patients hospitalized for coronavirus disease 2019 - Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic Disorders

• Long-term recovery of survivors of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) treated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: The next imperative - JTCVS Open (open access)

• Controlled apneic tracheostomy in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) - JTCVS Techniques (open access)

• Review of imaging biomarkers for the vulnerable carotid plaque - JVS-Vascular Science (open access)

• Epidemiology of peripheral artery disease - Seminars in Vascular Surgery

Thoracic Surgery

• Toracostomía con colocación de tubo torácico en decúbito prono durante la pandemia de COVID-19 - Cirugía Cardiovascular (open access)

• DCD Lung Transplantation - Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: A Comparative Atlas

• Advanced Therapies for Severe Tracheobronchomalacia: A Review of the Use of 3D-Printed, Patient-Specific, Externally Implanted, Bioresorbable Airway Splints - Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual

• Does Tweeting Improve Citations? One-Year Results From the TSSMN Prospective Randomized Trial - The Annals of Thoracic Surgery

• 2020 ACC/AHA guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines - The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

• Enhancement the skin flap survival in mice applying topical and systemic atorvastatine:a randomized clinical trial study - Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (open access)

• Following the trend in maxillofacial surgery literature - British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

• Impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the epidemiology of maxillofacial trauma activity: a Frenchmulticentre comparative study - International Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

• Working in the era of COVID-19: An organization model for maxillofacial surgery based on telemedicine and video consultation - Journal of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery

• Odontogenic Infections: Disease Burden During COVID-19 at a Single Institution - Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

• Virucidal activity of oral care products against SARS-CoV-2 in vitro - Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Medicine, and Pathology

• Effectiveness of presurgical orthodontics in cleft lip and palate patients with alveolar bone grafting: A systematic review - Journal of Stomatology Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

• Clear cell odontogenic carcinoma: A case report and literature review - Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases (open access)

Plastic Surgery

• Postoperative complications of male to female sex reassignment surgery: A 10-year French retrospective study - Annales de chirurgie plastique esthétique

• Burn Unit admission and management protocol during COVID-19 pandemic - Burns

• The epidemiology of burns in Indonesia’s national referral burn center from 2013 to 2015 - Burns Open (open access)

• Prone position pressure sores in the COVID-19 pandemic: The Madrid experience - Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery

• Surgical planning using facial fracture 3D models: The role of cyanoacrylate glue and miniplating for anatomical reduction - JPRAS Open (open access)

Transplantation

• The potential of biomarkers of fibrosis in chronic lung allograft dysfunction - Transplantation Reviews

• Post–Covid-19 Cholangiopathy—A New Indication for Liver Transplantation: A Case Report - Transplantation Proceedings

• Risk assessment in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension in the era of COVID 19 pandemic and the telehealth revolution: State of the art review - Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

• Epidemiological profile of patients on a single waiting list and donors for a kidney transplant in a hospital in Quito, Ecuador - Transplantation Reports (open access)

Pediatric Surgery

• One-year impact of a bowel management program in treating fecal incontinence in patients with anorectal malformations - Journal of Pediatric Surgery

• Swallowing problems in children with a tracheostomy - Seminars in Pediatric Surgery

• Acute appendicitis in four children with SARS-CoV-2 infection - Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports (open access)