Jari Mällinen, MD; Tero Rautio, MD, PhD; Juha Grönroos, MD, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Surg. 2019;154(3):200-207. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.4373
This randomized clinical trial assesses the safest procedures after initial successful nonoperative treatment of periappendicular abscess by comparing treatment success and morbidity in patients receiving interval appendectomy with patients receiving nonsurgical follow-up with magnetic resonance imaging.
Xin-Fei Xu, MD; Hao Xing, MD; Jun Han, MD; et al.
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JAMA Surg. 2019;154(3):209-217. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.4334
This multicenter study investigates the risk factors, patterns, and outcomes of late recurrence after curative liver resection for hepatocellular carcinoma.
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Benjamin J. Resio, MD; Raymond Jean, MD; Alexander S. Chiu, MD; et al.
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JAMA Surg. 2019;154(3):218-224. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.4359
This study investigates the association of timing of colostomy reversal after diverticulitis with operative outcomes and patient characteristics using data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project State Inpatient Databases.
Jae Heon Kim, MD, PhD; Shufeng Li, MS; Yash Khandwala, MD; et al.
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JAMA Surg. 2019;154(3):225-231. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.4602
This cohort study examines the prevalence of benign pathologic findings among adults after partial nephrectomy and potential risk factors associated with this prevelence.
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Krish C. Dewan, BS; Karan S. Dewan, BS; Jay J. Idrees, MD, MPH; et al.
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JAMA Surg. 2019;154(3):232-240. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.4608
This cohort study characterizes the national population of cardiac surgery patients with opioid use disorder and compares outcomes with cardiac surgery patients without opioid use disorder.
Jaime Gallegos Salazar, MD; William O’Brien, MS; Judith M. Strymish, MD; et al.
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JAMA Surg. 2019;154(3):241-248. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.4759
This study evaluates the association between the presence of asymptomatic bacteriuria before a surgical procedure and the risk of developing infections after the procedure among adults who undergo nonurologic operations.
Yvonne L. Eaglehouse, PhD, MPH; Matthew W. Georg, MPH; Craig D. Shriver, MD; et al.
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JAMA Surg. 2019;154(3):e185113. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.5113
This cohort study uses data from the US Department of Defense Central Cancer Registry and Military Health System Data Repository to compare time to surgery with overall survival of non-Hispanic black and non-Hispanic white women diagnosed and treated for breast cancer.
Dexin Chen, MD; Gang Chen, MD; Wei Jiang, MD, PhD; et al.
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JAMA Surg. 2019;154(3):e185249. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2018.5249
This study examines the role of collagen in detecting the risk for lymph node metastasis among patients with early gastric cancer.