Submissions from 2024
Adult Mesenteric Lymphangioma Resulting in Small Bowel Obstruction., Timbre Backen, Matthew R. Hatch, and Ashwin Kurian
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
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
Double Trouble: Exploring Bilateral Acetabular Fractures in a Trauma Patient., Elliott Smith, Anna C Deal, and Saptarshi Biswas
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
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
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
Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernia Caused by a Low Fall, Obteene Azimi-Ghomi, John D. Ehrhardt Jr, and Shaikh Hai
HELLP! The Novel Use of Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy and Nitric Oxide in the Treatment of Acute Respiratory Failure in HELLP Syndrome., Obteene Azimi-Ghomi, Glenn Miller, Carlos Guida, Adrian Marimon, Dessislava Boneva, and Mark McKenney
A Case of Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection Secondary to Perforated Colon Cancer., Nicholas Bahl, Ashley S Long, Adithi Vemuri, and Tiffany Jessee
Systematic Review of Mesodiverticular Band: A Rare Cause of Small Bowel Strangulation and Hemoperitoneum in Adults, Sahand Bamarni, SuySen HungFong, Jeffrey Mino, and Subhasis Misra
Dysphagia Lusoria After Weight Loss Surgery, Jeremy D. Bryner, Erica Ibendahl, and Nicole Fearing
An Adenoneuroendocrine Collision Tumor of the Pancreas: A Case Report, Christine Chung, Muhammad B. Darwish, Patrick J. McLaren, Annie L. Benzie, Wareef Kabbani, Edward Cho, Houssam Osman, and Dhiresh R. Jeyarajah
Characterization of Blood-Based Molecular Profiling in Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma., Christine Chung, Rachael Galvin, Ella Achenbach, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, and Shiraj Sen
Increased Mortality in Hip Fracture Patients With Aortic Stenosis and Pulmonary Hypertension Compared to Aortic Stenosis Alone., Christian B. Cignoni, Steven K M Vuu, Huazhi Liu, Jason M. Clark, Carrie D. Watson, Larwrence R. Ferber, Winston T. Richards, and Darwin N. Ang
The Statewide Epidemiology of Mucormycosis Among Trauma Patients in Florida., Jason M. Clark, Huazhi Liu, Susan Collins, Carrie Watson, Lawrence Feber, Winston T. Richards, Dana Taylor, and Darwin Ang
Perioperative mortality in SARS-CoV-2-positive surgical patients during the first wave of the novel coronavirus pandemic., Christina Colosimo, Sidra Bhuller, Brendon T. Cornett, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, James Yon, John Weaver, and Philip F. Stahel
A Rare Dual Diagnosis of Duodenal and Biliary Atresia in a Premature Infant, Andrew Hess, Christa Zino, and Juan Camps
Clinicopathologic Characteristics and Prognosis of Invasive Papillary Carcinoma of the Breast., Kai Huang, Lara F. Appiah, Ankita Mishra, Sanjay P Bagaria, M Emmanuel Gabriel, and Subhasis Misra
Outcomes of Patients with Invasive Mucinous and Tubular Carcinomas of the Breast, Kai Huang, Subhasis Misra, Sanjay P Bagaria, and Emmanuel M Gabriel
A Rare Isolated Cutaneous Metastatic Mass After Colon Cancer Resection, SuySen Hung Fong, Neethi Narasimha, Rishabh Thakkar, Subhasis Misra, and Darshan Thakkar
Complex Clinical Course of Unsuccessfully Revascularized Right Coronary Artery, Ana Inashvili, Ruifang Yang, Benjamin Kilpatrick, David Goldgrab, Hector Garza, Mauricio Gomez, Christian Perzanowski, Tehreen Khan, William Bugni, and Stephen Mester
Robotic Versus Laparoscopic Colorectal Resection: Are We There Yet?, Salah Jalil, Ala' Abdel Jalil, Rachel Groening, and Saptarshi Biswas
Techniques for Overcoming a Missing Clip During Pre-Operative Needle Localization for Lumpectomy, Dylan Johnson, Michael Higginbotham, Lara Appiah, Ji Fan, and Subhasis Misra
Rare Papillary Breast Carcinoma Incidentally Discovered After Trauma-Induced Hematoma, Becky Li, Jackie Nguyen, Caitlin Williams, Karina Cardenas, and Ihor Pidhorecky
National Institutes of Health Career Development (K) Awards to Young Surgeons: An Academic Milestone or One-hit Wonder?, Jose Wilson Mesquita-Neto, William Dailey, Donald Weaver, Jashodeep Datta, Francisco I. Macedo, and Nipun B Merchant
American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma Verification Level II Vs Level I Outcomes: Similar but Without all the Hype., David Plurad, Bhani Chawla-Kondal, Nicholas Sheets, and Ahmed Mahmoud
A Contemporary Analysis of the Effect of Trauma Center Verification Level on Mortality in Severe Injury., David S. Plurad, Glenn Geesman, Nicholas Sheets, Bhani K. Chawla-Kondal, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and Ahmed Mahmoud
Obesity, Race, and COVID-19 Mortality: Results from a Large Cohort Early in the Pandemic, Eric K. Shaw, Anyul Ferez-Pinzon, Micah Mabe, Mike Flynn, and Christopher K. Senkowski
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trauma Encounters, Nicholas W. Sheets, Tosin Fawibe, Ahmed Mahmoud, Bhani K. Kondal, Napatkamon Ayutyanont, and David Plurad
The Morbidity & Mortality Assessment Tool (MMAT): Design and Proof of Concept., Tandis Soltani, Key Yan Tsoi, Aidan Charles, Alex Csortan, Jessica Lindsay, Huazhi Liu, Tyler Loftus, and Darwin Ang
Submissions from 2020
A Multicenter Study on Definitive Surgery for Isolated Hip Fracture within 24 Hours., Darwin Ang, Jeffrey Anglen, Michele Ziglar, John Armstrong, Patrick Offner, Mark McKenney, David Plurad MD, Stephen Flaherty, Ernest Gonzalez, Huazhi Liu, Mary Danish, Gregory McCormack, Julie Nash, Roger Nagy, and Matthew Carrick
Spinal Cord Ischemia Following Endovascular Repair of Infrarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Rare Complication, Abdelrahman Attili MD and Alberto Gonzalez
Surgeons’ Re-Operative Valve Replacement Practices with Patients with Endocarditis Due to Drug Use, Julie M. Aultman, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, Dianne McCallister, and Michael S. Firstenberg
Incarcerated Bladder Diverticulum in a Femoral Hernia Presenting as Recurrent Hematuria, Saptarshi Biswas, Emma Morel MS3, Kirklen Petersen, and Austin McCrea
A Rare Case of Extramedullary Plasmacytoma Presenting as Large Abdominal Mass, Dieter Brummund and Benjamin Sinyor
A Handoff Protocol For Pediatric Trauma Patients at a Rural Level One Trauma Center Reduces Length of Stay, Evelyn Coile MD; Kathryn Bailey; Eric J. Clayton MS, MPH; Tatiana Eversley-Kelso; and Heather MacNew MD
Unscreened: Urgent and Emergent Surgical Outcomes in the Early COVID-19 Pandemic, Christina Colosimo, Jason L. Kelly, James Coker, Sidra B Bhuller, Eric Ballman, Christina Baker-Sparr, James Yon, Brendon Cornett, Oliwier Dziadkowiec, and John Weaver
Management of Acute Pain Due to Traumatic Injury in Patients with Chronic Pain and Pre-injury Opioid Use, Danielle Fontaine and Melissa Red Hoffman
Metastatic Breast Cancer Presenting as Acute Cholecystitis and Hyperbilirubinemia, Vika Guloyan, Manika Paul, and Aaron Lee
Early Comfort Care Following Operative Intervention for Traumatic Injury, Melissa Hoffman, Michaal Schurr, Rachel Morris, Terrie Smith, and Sheri Denslow
Acral Lentiginous Melanoma: Incidence and Survival in the United States, 2006-2015, an Analysis of SEER Registry., Kai Huang, Ji Fan, and Subhasis Misra
Completion Lymph Node Dissection in Patients with Sentinel Lymph Node Positive Cutaneous Head and Neck Melanoma, Kai Huang, Subhasis Misra, Riccardo Lemini, Yong Chen, Leigh L. Speicher, Nancy L. Dawson, Leila M. Tolaymat, Sanjay P. Bagaria, and Emmanuel M. Gabriel
Malignant Duodenal Obstruction Caused by Urothelial Carcinoma, Dylan Johnson, Ankita Mishra, Kai Huang, Chukwuyem Obia, and Subhasis Misra
Patterns of National Institutes of Health Grant Funding to Surgical Research and Scholarly Productivity in the United States., Jose Wilson Mesquita-Neto, William Dailey, Francisco I. Macedo, and Nipun B Merchant
Evolving Role of Liver Resection in Selected Patients With Metastatic Breast Cancer., Janelle-Cheri Millen, Alana Hofmann, Jose Wilson Mesquita-Neto, Jeffrey Rose MD, and Francisco I. Macedo
Role of Liver Resection in Selected Patients with Metastatic Breast Cancer: A Paradigm Shift Underway?, Janelle-Cheri Millen MD, Alana Hofmann MD, Jose Wilson Mesquita-Neto MD, Jeffrey Rose MD, and Francisco I. Macedo MD
An Early Case of Fat Embolism Syndrome Occurring Following Polytrauma., Janelle-Cheri Millen, Carrie Watson, John M Cain, Joshua Hagan, Winston Richards, Dana Taylor, Darwin Ang, and Jason M. Clark
Case Report: An Isolated Dematologic Reaction to Isosulfan Blue Dye After Lumpectomy, Micaela Moen MD, Aaron Pinnola, and M Pahlkotter
A Rare Case of Perforated Jejunal Diverticulitis, Mohamed Nagi MD, Stanley DeTurris MD, and Ang Darwin
The Overall Poor Specificity of MRCP in the Preoperative Evaluation of the Jaundiced Patient will Increase the Incidence of Non-Therapeutic ERCP, Andrew M. O'Neill MD, Keith Anderson MD, Lorinda K. Baker, and Michaal Schurr MD
Novel Approach to Component Separation in Complicated Chevron Hernias, Andrew M. O'Neill, Adam Hauch, Jesse K. Sulzer MD, Michael Darden PhD, Geoffrey G. Parker PhD, and Joseph Buell MD
Benign Ectopic Thyroid Tissue in the Neck: A Case Report of a Rare Finding, Chrispin O. Otondi, Frederick D. Cason, Abdul Waheed, and Mark Kranc