Submissions from 2025
Skin Adnexal Tumor Pilomatrix Disease: A Transformation from Benign to Malignant, Salman Akthar, Mark Kranc, Matthew Mancao, and Hank Hill
Extended Discharge Timeline for Older Adult Trauma Patients: An Increasing Threat to the Efficiency of Trauma Centers, Michael W. Alchaer, Ricardo A Fonseca, Marco J Henriquez, Fabiana C Sanchez, Kelsey M Kempf, Jason A Snyder, Douglas Je Schuerer, Grant V Bochicchio, Grace M Niziolek, Marguerite W Spruce, and Lindsay M Kranker
Symptomatic Pericardial Cyst with a Mass Efect on the Right Heart, Nicholas A. Borden, Chadi Nahal, Eric Johnson, and Marcus Eby
Large language model-generated clinical practice guideline for appendicitis., Amy Boyle, Bright Huo, Patricia Sylla, Elisa Calabrese, Sunjay Kumar, Bethany J Slater, Danielle S Walsh, and R Wesley Vosburg
Fatal Neurological Deterioration After Minor Head Trauma in a Patient with Prior Neurosurgical Intervention: A Gap in the Brain Injury Guidelines?, Tamir E. Bresler, Ryan Meyer, Tyler Wilson, Amanda Brooks, and Timothy Deaconson
Reconsidering the Role of V-Y Fasciocutaneous Flaps in Abdominoperineal Resection Reconstruction With the Addition of a Pelvic Exclusion Mesh., Victor V. Byers, Samantha J. Przybelski, Evan J Childers, Garrett Friedman, and Joshua J Goldman
Sclerosing Mesenteritis: A Case Series Detailing Importance of Early Diagnosis, Jaclyn Campbell, Nasrin Ghalyaie, and Jamii St. Julien
Telestration With Augmented Reality in Surgery: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-analysis, Minaam Farooq, Umar Akram, Laiba Sarfraz, Zain Ali Nadeem, Hira Arshad Jawed, Shamas Ghazanfar, and Hannan A. Maqsood
Enhancing Arteriovenous (AV) Fistula Banding Accuracy with Intraoperative Ultrasound: A Case Report, Adel Hanandeh, Victor Cabrera, Fisher Frederick, and Gerard De Castro
Small Bowel Strangulation in an Adult From an Internal Hernia Caused by a Rare Congenital Mesenteric Defect., Tameem Jamal and Saptarshi Biswas
Sawtooth Delta of the Thalamus: A Physiological Variant and the Intracranial Generator of Rapid-Eye Movement Sleep Sawtooth Waves, Vasileios Kokkinos, Helweh T. Hussein, Joshua Rosenow, and Stephan U Schuele
Perforated Diverticulitis Presenting as Acute Leg Pain and Inability to Bear Weight: An Atypical Manifestation of a Common Pathology, Alizatu Koroma, Rachel A. Daley, Alyssa McMandon, and Saptarshi Biswas
SAGES guidelines update to laparoscopy in the era of COVID-19., Sunjay S Kumar, Elisa C Calabrese, Bethany J Slater, Chelsea Lin, Julie Hong, Jonathan Dort, Robert Lim, Shawn Tsuda, Ziad Awad, Wendy Babidge, Guy Maddern, Pramod Nepal, R Wesley Vosburg, Romeo Ignacio, Devi Bavishi, Ali Kchaou, Subhashini Ayloo, Nader M Hanna, and Geoffrey P Kohn
Skin Color Representation in Thyroid Textbooks: Lack of Imaging Diversity, Eddy Lincango-Naranjo, Cristina Arias Cortez, Mateo Montalvo, Jose Villamarin, Jessica Hidalgo, Kimberly M Ramonell, Andrea Gillis, Juan P Brito, and Sophie Dream
Prehospital versus Emergency Department Glasgow Coma Scale in Blunt Traumatic Brain Injury: A Retrospective Review of the National Trauma Data Bank, Taylor E. Messick-Ngo, Bhani K. Kondal, Gabriel L. Scally, Brittany R. Sadoma, Nicholas Sheets, David Plurad, and Emily D. Dubina
Symptomatic Anomalous Right Coronary Artery in Mother and Daughter, a Case Report, Chadi Nahal, Nicholas A. Borden, Eric Johnson, and Cristiano Faber
Role of Cholecystectomy in Hyperkinetic Biliary Dyskinesia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Duyen Quach, Kayla Nguyen, Gabriella Tavera, Rachel Wright, Zuhair Ali, and Mike Liang
Access to Care in the LGBTQIA+ Population, Charis Ripley-Hager and Andrew Schlussel
A Hidden Threat: Incidental Diagnosis of Goblet Cell Carcinoma of the Appendix, Marco A. Romo, Shivam Pandya, and Makrouhi A. Kademian
It's a Mesh in These Bowels: A Delayed Case of a Decade-Long Mesh Eroding Into the Small Bowel Causing Obstruction and Intraperitoneal Sepsis, Margaret Rose, Alyssa McMandon, Rachel A Daley, and Saptarshi Biswas
A SAGES guide to navigating a changing landscape and continuing to promote surgical excellence and opportunity for all., Jenny M Shao, Hope T Jackson, Andrew Schlussel, Jacob Owen, Courtney Collins, Patricia Sylla, SAGES DLPD Committee, and Jennifer Colvin
The Epidemiology of Alcohol Involved Facial Injuries, Arya Sherafat, Brian Sangalang, Nihal Punjabi, Ian Waldrop, Emily Dubina, Jared C Inman, and Nicholas Sheets
Outcomes Comparing 19,769 Patients Who Underwent Robotic, Laparoscopic, or Open Colorectal Surgery, Valerie K. Vazquez, Laura Mena Albors, Huazhi Liu, and Darwin Ang
Beyond the Scalpel: Tackling Challenges Faced by LGBTQ+ Surgical Trainees and Faculty, Steven Xie, Andrew Schlussel, and Jenny Shao
Submissions from 2024
Rare Intercostal Herniation of Aabdominal Organs in COPD Patient Managed Non-Operatively, Dalya Abdelmaged and Thomas Litton
Adult Mesenteric Lymphangioma Resulting in Small Bowel Obstruction., Timbre Backen, Matthew R. Hatch, and Ashwin Kurian
Operative Time and Relative Value Units for Total Shoulder Arthroplasty Based on Pathology in the United States, Jack Bayer, Robert Trenschel, Jacob Oster, Amr El-Talla, Daniel Dominguez, Waseem Wahood, and Menar Wahood
Spontaneous Pneumoperitoneum Presenting as an Acute Abdomen, Megan Bedard, Madison McInnis, and Kaysie Banton
From Bytes to Best Practices: Tracing ChatGPT-3.5's Evolution and Alignment With the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® Guidelines in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Management, Tamir E. Bresler, Shivam Pandya, Ryan Meyer, Zin Htway, and Manabu Fujita
Challenges Associated with Low Rectal Malignant Obstruction Stenting: a Case Report, Victor Cabrera Bou, Eddy P. Lincango, Alessandra E. Cabrera, Gabriel Diaz-Pagan, Nathan Kostick, Noah A. Sobel, Luis F. Serrano, and Philip Kondylis
Abdominal Endovascular Aneurysm Repair Using an Aorto-Uni-Iliac Device Resulting in Resting Lower Extremity Pain: A Case Report and Discussion on Patient Selection, John R. Ekblad and Colleen Hupp
Association of Sex and Aspirin Use with Postoperative Bleeding in Patients with Lower Extremity Long Bone Fractures, Michael Fisher, Kristin Salottolo, Matthew Carrick, Chad M Corrigan, Kaysie Banton, Robert Madayag, and David Bar-Or
Small Bowel Recurrent Intussusception Status Post Gastric Bypass., Yasmine Ghattas, Brittany L Perry, Danis Lester, Aidan Charles, and Darwin Ang
Analysis of Temporal Artery Biopsy by Provider Across a Large Multi-State Health Care Network, Karling Gravenstein, Mikalah Maury, Priya Arya, and Robert Liebman
Comment To: Obesity and Abdominal Hernia in Ambulatory Patients, 2018-2023, Julie Holihan, Karla Bernardi, Michele Loor, and Mike Liang
Orbital Trauma Epidemiologic Characteristics by Life Stage, Aayma Irfan, Nihal Punjabi, Aishwarya Suresh, Ian W. Waldrop, Jared C Inman, and Nicholas Sheets
Morbidity and Mortality of Trauma Patients 55 and Older: A Study of Nontrauma Risk Factors, Mariel A. Javier, Ilko Luque, Hector Mendez, Nicole Yordán López, Marcela C. Ramirez, Orlando Morejon, and Mark McKenney
Emergency Surgical Treatment and Triage: Targeting Optimal Outcomes for Emergency Surgical Patients From Index Encounter Through Definitive Care., Jaclyn T. Kliewer, Ilko Luque, Mariel A. Javier, Amanda Moorefield, Hector Mendez, Zulmari Martinez-Resto, Jacob Oster, Alexis Rangel, and Orlando Morejon
Incidental Neck Mass in a Young Adult: A Case Report, Eddy P. Lincango and Julio Calderin
Necrotizing Fasciitis Masquerading as Stroke: A Diagnostic Dilemma, Taylor Locklear, Alexander B Holland, and Saptarshi Biswas
Adequate Reporting Among Ventral Hernia Repair Operative Reports: A Cross-Sectional Study of Prevalence of Details and Association With Clinical Outcomes., Said Maldonado, Nicole B Lyons, Jonathan S Lall, J Scott Zimmerle, Brendan Rosamond, Ashlynn Mills, Yoolim Alex Seo, Angelica Calderon Rodriguez, Rainna Coelho, Natalia Cavagnaro, Zuhair Ali, and Mike K. Liang
Undetected metastatic melanoma in the colon., Sarah Pajek, Walter Cisneros Lopez, Juliet Ray, and Rennier A Martinez
Decoding the NCCN Guidelines With AI: A Comparative Evaluation of ChatGPT-4.0 and Llama 2 in the Management of Thyroid Carcinoma, Shivam Pandya, Tamir E. Bresler, Tyler Wilson, Zin Htway, and Manabu Fujita
How I Do It: Simplified Transcystic Antegrade-only Robotic Common Bile Duct Exploration (RCBDE)., Eleah Porter, Michael Carge, Heather O'Field, Mohamed Kelli, Sarah E. Johnson, Ralph Wesley Vosburg, and Byron Fernando Santos
Research prioritization in hernia surgery: a modified Delphi ACHQC and VHOC expert consensus., Daphne Remulla, Mazen R Al-Mansour, Christopher Schneider, Sharon Phillips, William W Hope, Joel F Bradley Iii, Richard A Pierce, Luis Arias-Espinosa, Karla Bernardi, Julie L Holihan, Michelle Loor, Mike Liang, and Benjamin T Miller
Severe Cutaneous Reaction Induced by Clindamycin: A Case Report of Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis., Gabriel Scally, Yohannes Haile, Allen Seylani, and Nicholas W. Sheets
Double Trouble: Exploring Bilateral Acetabular Fractures in a Trauma Patient., Elliott Smith, Anna C Deal, and Saptarshi Biswas
Impact of Trauma Verification Level on Management and Outcomes of Combined Traumatic Brain and Solid Organ Injuries: An NTDB Retrospective Review., Ayesha Tariq, Bhani Chawla-Kondal, Elliott Smith, Emily Dubina, Nicholas Sheets, and David Plurad
Submissions from 2023
Perforated Sigmoid Diverticulitis Within a Strangulated Inguinal Hernia, Christen E. Chaconas, Patrick D Melmer, and Aaron D. Pinnola
Complete Traumatic Transection of the Suprahepatic IVC: Full Recovery Without Bypass, Aidan Charles, Gregory McClain, Winston Richards, and Darwin Ang
Increased Complications of Emergent Surgical Procedures During the First Wave of COVID-19., Christina Colosimo, Bryce Ingram, John Weaver, Patrick Offner, and James Yon
Beneficial effects of prehospital use of statins in a large United States cohort of hospitalized coronavirus disease 2019 patients., Ettore Crimi, Umme Rumana, Darwin Ang, Cristobal Cintron, Katarina Kapisoda, William Zeleznak, Huazhi Liu, Massimiliano Galdiero, and Claudio Napoli
Investigational Medications in 9,638 Hospitalized Patients with Severe COVID-19: Lessons from the "Fail-and-learn" Strategy During the First Two Waves of the Pandemic in 2020, Adam C. Delgado, Brendon T. Cornett, Ye Ji Choi, Christina Colosimo, Vincent P Stahel, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, and Philip F Stahel
How Well Does Non-mass Enhancement Correlate with DCIS/invasive Cancer?, Kai Huang, Maria Dufresne, Mizba Baksh, Samuel Nussbaum, Ali Abbaszadeh Kasbi, Ashary Mohammed, Pooja Advani, Andrey Morozov, Sanjay Bagaria, and Sarah McLaughlin
Fascial Defect Closure During Ventral Hernia Repair: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials, Shin Jeong, Tunmi A. Anwoju, Oscar A. Olavarria, Natalia Cavagnaro, Naila H. Dhanani, Nicole B. Lyons, Zuhair Ali, and Mike K. Liang
Developing a Formal Curriculum on Basic Open and Laparoscopic Skills in a New Community Hospital General Surgery Residency Program with Limited Simulation Resources, Dylan Johnson, Tenzin S. Atruktsang, Dinesh Kumar, Cristiano Alpendre, Darshan Thakkar, and Thomas A. Abbruzzese
Hippocampal barques and their manifestation as 14&6 Hz positive spikes during sleep., Vasileios Kokkinos, Helweh T. Hussein, Danai Georgia Sakelliadou, R Mark Richardson, Anto Ι Bagić, and Alexandra Urban
Learning Curves of Robotic Extended Totally Extraperitoneal (eTEP) Hernia Repair Among Two Surgeons at a High-Volume Community Hospital: A Cumulative Sum Analysis, Katie Korneffel, Wendy Nuzzo, C Micha Belden, Lindsee McPhail, and Sean O'Connor
Increased Penetrating Trauma and Trauma Severity During the COVID-19 Lockdown, Adina M. McNair, Heather X. Rhodes, and Saptarshi Biswas
Grade V Liver Injury Presented With Peritonitis Treated With Stapler-Assisted Hepatic Segmentectomy: A Case Report, Laura Mena-Albors, Samantha Reiss, Adam Shen, and Darwin Ang
The Role of Biologic Mesh and Fundoplication in the Surgical Management of Hiatal Hernias: A Multicenter Evaluation., Cassandra Mohr, Hailie Ciomperlik, Naila Dhanani, Oscar A Olavarria, Craig Hannon, William Hope, Scott Roth, Mike K. Liang, and Julie L Holihan
Children Ages One to Four are Disproportionally Affected by Chemical Burns in a Cross-sectional Analysis of NEISS 2012-2021, Aislyn Oulee, Ian W. Waldrop, Roy Mendoza, Chiemelie Onyekonwu, David Plurad, and Nicholas W. Sheets
Traumatic Brain Injury Under Triage Risk: A Rural Trauma System Experience, Heather Rhodes, Stephanie Anderson, Taylor Locklear, Antonio Pepe, and Donald Courtney
Adult Traumatic Brain Injury and Likelihood of Routine Discharge: Do Comorbidities Matter?, Heather Rhodes, Stephanie Anderson, Yelena Pecheny, Antonio Pepe, and Donald Courtney
Can Pre-Hospital Medical Management Predict In-Hospital Mortality in Trauma?, Heather Rhodes, Taylor Locklear, and Antonio Pepe
Ambulance Response in Eight Minutes or Less: Are Comorbidities a Factor, Heather Rhodes, Blaine Rourke, and Antonio Pepe
Traumatic Amputations Treated in US Emergency Departments: A Review of the NEISS Database., Brittany R. Sadoma, Nicholas W. Sheets, David S. Plurad, and Emily Dubina
Pediatric Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A 3-year Retrospective Analysis, Gabriel Scally, Nicholas W. Sheets, Emily Dubina, Bhani K. Chawla-Kondal, and David S. Plurad
Gastric Outlet Obstruction and Iron Deficiency Anemia Secondary to Gastric Bezoar: A Case Report, Emily A Schofield, Valerie K. Vazquez, Jennifer Demuro, Daniel Lynch, and Darwin Ang
Mesh Type With Ventral Hernia Repair: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Trials, Ali Siddiqui, Nicole B Lyons, Oluwatunmininu Anwoju, Brianna L Cohen, Walter A Ramsey, Christopher F O'Neil, Zuhair Ali, and Mike K. Liang
Arterio-ureteral Fistula: Endovascular Management of Fistula Between Vascular Graft and Ureter, Roberto Torres-Aguiar and Julio Calderin
Gastric, Duodenal, and Small Bowel Emergencies, Brianna Williams, Teresa Huynh, and Ahmed Mahmoud
Submissions from 2022
Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody (ANCA)-Associated Aortitis Presenting With Acute Dissection: Case Report and Comprehensive Literature Review, Obteene Azimi-Ghomi and Jorge De La Portilla
High-Velocity Penetrating Abdominal Injury Secondary to a Motorized Wire Brush in the Workplace., Nicholas Bahl, Monica Sciturro, and David Lowery
Symptomatic Improvement in Cicatricial Pemphigoid of the Trachea Achieved with Laser Ablation Bronchoscopy, Elizabeth Benge, Vincent Tran, Nazanin Sheikhan, Sapna Bhatia, Yi McWhorter, John Collier, and Arnold Chung
Rare Polypoid Gastric Mucosa Induced Small Bowel Intussusception in a Toddler, Brianna Bowman, Suy sen Hung Fong, Joel Prince, Subhasis Misra, Thomas Abbruzzese, and Drew Rideout
Seven-Compartment Fascial Release of the Lower Extremity: A Case Report, Blake Callahan and Darwin Ang
Bumps and Bruises in the Trauma Bay: A Level One Trauma Center's Analysis of Dedicated Skeletal X-Ray Imaging., Evelyn Coile, Tatiana Eversley-Kelso, Eric K. Shaw, Sara Hamilton, Richard Pearce, Elin Hahn, Alexander Crowley, and James Dunne
Biphasic Peritoneal Mesothelioma: A Lethal Clinical Entity, Jill David, Abdul Waheed, Shahin Foroutan, Audrey McCloskey, Harmanprit Randhawa, and Frederick D Cason
Rare Case of Obturator Hernia: Surgical Anatomy, Planning, and Considerations, Adam Clementi Delgado, Sidra B. Bhuller, Peter Phan, and John Weaver
Gastric Necrosis and Perforation Following Treatment of Dieulafoy's Lesion with Embolization of Multiple Gastric Arteries: A Case Report, Adam Clementi Delgado, Yash Patel, Travis Israel, Naveed Ismail, and John Weaver
Comparison of Surgical Outcomes for Colostomy Closure Performed by Acute Care Surgeons Versus a Dedicated Colorectal Surgery Service., Marc O. Duverseau, Andrew M. O'Neill, Jesse K. Sulzer, Michael Darden, Geoff Parker, and Joseph Buell
A Rare Case of a Large Low-grade Appendicular Mucinous Neoplasm Causing Compressive Symptoms, John R. Ekblad, Sidra B. Bhuller, John Weaver, and Michael E. Bertocchi
The Public Health Burden of Geriatric Trauma: Analysis of 2,688,008 Hospitalizations from CMS Inpatient Claims, Samir Fakhry, Yan Shen, Saptarshi Biswas, Therese M Duane, Katherine M. McBride, Adel Elkbuli, Ransom J. Wyse, Nina Y Wilson, Jeneva M Garland, Stanley J. Kurek, David Plurad, Kaysie Banton, Chris Fisher, Alexis Gage, Diane LS Hunt, Mark Lieser, William C. Shillinglaw, and Dorraine D. Watts
A Prospective Double-Blinded Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Intraoperative Injection of Technetium Tc 99m Tilmanocept with Technetium Tc 99m Sulfur Colloid in Breast Cancer Lymphatic Mapping, Anyul Ferez-Pinzon, Samuel L. Corey, Haresh Rochani, Elena A. Rehl, and William Burak Jr.
Contrast Allergies for Neurologic Imaging: When to Proceed, Anna Fusco, Logan Pucci, Kevin Pierre, Adam Wolberg, Coulter Small, John Cerillo, Mohammad Reza Hosseini Siyanaki, and Brandon Lucke-Wold
Impact on Breast Cancer Survival by Surgical Facility Type Secondary to the ACOSOG Z0011 Trial., Alana Hofmann, Huazhi Liu, Edward Copeland, and Darwin Ang
A Case of Suspected Spontaneous Thigh Hematoma in a Patient with Neurofibromatosis 1, Kyle Mahoney, Valerie K. Vazquez, and Ravi Chandra
T-tube Duodenostomy for the Difficult Duodenum, Adina McNair, Patrick Melmer, and Aaron D. Pinnola
Cocaine Use and Incarceration: A Rare Cause of Bowel Ischemia, Perforation, and Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage, Pavan Naidu, Lexi Frankel, Summer Roorda, and Mark McKenney
Dysphagia Among Geriatric Trauma Patients: A Population-based study., Kenny Nieto, Darwin Ang, and Huazhi Liu
Management of Blunt Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernias: An Analysis of the National Trauma Data Bank, Manika Paul, Bhani K. Kondal, Ayutyanont Napatkamon, Nicholas Sheets, Ahmed Mahmoud, and David Plurad
Under-triage of Elderly Trauma Patients With Comorbid Conditions, Heather Rhodes, Taylor Locklear, and Antonio Pepe
Outcome of Trauma in Elderly Patients With Pre-existing Chronic Kidney Disease., Heather Rhodes, Christa M. Zino, and Antonio Pepe
Treatment of Superficial Second-degree Burns with a Nanofiber Tissue Matrix: A Case Report, Clay Rodriguez, Andy H. Chen, and David Carney
Outcomes After Definitive Surgery for Nonagenarians with Isolated Hip Fractures within 24 hours of Admission., Tyler Seckel, Kyle Mahoney, Cory Hewitt, Huazhi Liu, and Darwin Ang
The Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) 510(k) Process: A Systematic Review of 1000 Cases, Puja Shah, Oscar Olavarria, Naila Dhanani, Hailie Ciomperlik, Cassandra Mohr, Karla Bernardi, Niharika Neela, Rainna Coelho, Zuhair Ali, Ajita Prabhu, and Mike K. Liang
Practice Patterns of Transesophageal Echocardiography Use Among Trauma Patients: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Study., Tandis Soltani, Ettore Crimi, Carrie Watson, Huazhi Liu, Rebecca Zelmanovich, Aidan Charles, and Darwin Ang
Submissions from 2021
Understanding Preventable Deaths in the Geriatric Trauma Population: Analysis of 3,452,339 Patients From the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services Database, Darwin Ang, Kenny Nieto, Mason Sutherland, Megan O'Brien, Huazhi Liu, and Adel Elkbuli
Surgeons' Re-Operative Valve Replacement Practices in Patients with Endocarditis Due to Drug Use, Julie M. Aultman, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, Dianne McCallister, and Michael S Firstenberg