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This Week in Surgery we will be discussing recently published articles :

 Annals of Surgery

Discordance Between Conventional and Detailed Lymph Node Analysis in Resected, Node-negative Pancreatic or Ampullary Adenocarcinomas and Association With Adverse Survival Outcomes: A Single-institution Analysis

Distal Pancreatectomy With En Bloc Celiac Axis Resection (DP-CAR) for Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: A Safe and Effective Procedure

Pathological Nodal and Vascular Involvement Significantly Impacts the Recurrence Risk in Different Time Frames in Patients With Resectable and Borderline Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: Long-term Conditional Recurrence-free Survival Analysis in the Setting of a Neoadjuvant Treatment Strategy

Biliary Adverse Events During Neoadjuvant Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer

The Feasibility, Proficiency, and Mastery Learning Curves in 635 Robotic Pancreatoduodenectomies Following a Multicenter Training Program: “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants”

Either High or Low Risk: The Acinar Score at the Resection Margin Dichotomizes the Risk Spectrum of Pancreas-specific Complications After Pancreatoduodenectomy

Impact of Community Privilege on Access to Care Among Patients Following Complex Cancer Surgery

Operative Time is Associated With Postoperative Complications After Pulmonary Lobectomy

Single-nuclei RNA Profiling Reveals Disruption of Adipokine and Inflammatory Signaling in Adipose Tissue of Burn Patients

  British Journal of Surgery

 Thyroid surgery in children and adolescents: results from a multi-institutional German and Austrian database

Angiosarcoma in the breast: a population-based cohort from Sweden

  Journal of Vascular Surgery

Clinical presentation, outcomes, and threshold for repair by sex in degenerative saccular vs fusiform aneurysms in the descending thoracic aorta

Using machine learning to predict outcomes following open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair

Obesity drives secondary procedures to achieve access maturation in end-stage renal disease

 Annals of Surgical Oncology

Factors Associated with 1-Year Mortality in Elderly Patients (Age ≥ 80 Years) with Cancer Undergoing Major Abdominal Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Characteristics Predicting Short-Term and Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Esophageal Cancer After Neoadjuvant Chemoradiotherapy and Esophagectomy

  International Journal of Surgery

Social Vulnerability and Firearm Violence: Geospatial Analysis of 5 US Cities

  Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Health care utilization outcomes in patients with blunt chest wall trauma following discharge from the emergency department: A retrospective, observational data-linkage study

  The American Journal of Surgery

The proteomic and metabolomic signatures of isolated and polytrauma traumatic brain injury

The in-vitro influence of urea concentration on thromboelastrography in patients with and without end stage renal disease

First steps toward a BIG change: A pilot study to implement the Brain Injury Guidelines across a 24-hospital system

Characteristics of pathologic complete response for locally advanced rectal cancer

Outcomes of subsequent abdominal operations after an initial ventral hernia repair

Rectus to defect ratio for estimating the complexity of ventral hernia repair: Is it reliable for robotic surgery?