1. SAGES Video-Based Assessment (VBA) program: a vision for life-long learning for surgeons

   • Liane S. Feldman
   • Aurora D. Pryor
   • E. Matthew Ritter

   SAGES Position Statement 15 May 2020 Pages: 3285 - 3288

   

2. Commentary on Lineberry et al., The Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) skills test: factors associated with first-attempt scores and pass rate

   • John D. Mellinger
   • Liane S. Feldman
   • Jeffrey M. Marks

   Commentary 01 June 2020 Pages: 3289 - 3291

3. ELSA recommendations for minimally invasive surgery during a community spread pandemic: a centered approach in Asia from widespread to recovery phases

   • Asim Shabbir
   • Raj K. Menon
   • Davide Lomanto

   Guidelines Open access 11 May 2020 Pages: 3292 - 3297

4. The risk of COVID-19 transmission by laparoscopic smoke may be lower than for laparotomy: a narrative review

   • Yoav Mintz
   • Alberto Arezzo
   • Abe Fingerhut

   Review Article 26 May 2020 Pages: 3298 - 3305

   

5. Closure versus non-closure of mesenteric defects in laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: a systematic review and meta-analysis

   • Shahab Hajibandeh
   • Shahin Hajibandeh
   • Richard Morgan

   Review Article 08 April 2020 Pages: 3306 - 3320

   

6. Efficacy of digital single-operator cholangioscopy in the visual interpretation of indeterminate biliary strictures: a systematic review and meta-analysis

   • Pedro Victor Aniz Gomes de Oliveira
   • Diogo Turiani Hourneaux de Moura
   • Eduardo Guimarães Hourneaux de Moura

   Review Article 27 April 2020 Pages: 3321 - 3329

   

7. The effect of anticoagulants on delayed bleeding after colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection

   • Hideaki Harada
   • Ryotaro Nakahara
   • Yuji Amano

   OriginalPaper 03 September 2019 Pages: 3330 - 3337

   

8. A direct endoscopic approach for left-sided infrarenal para-aortic lymphadenectomy immediately after hysterectomy for endometrial cancer treatment: left dome formation (LDF)

   • Yasunari Mizumoto
   • Junpei Iwadare
   • Hiroshi Fujiwara

   OriginalPaper Open access 05 September 2019 Pages: 3338 - 3343

   

9. Real-world learning curve analysis of colorectal endoscopic submucosal dissection: a large multicenter study

   • Kazuki Boda
   • Shiro Oka
   • Kazuaki Chayama

   OriginalPaper 03 September 2019 Pages: 3344 - 3351

   

10. Clinical efficacy of gastric per-oral endoscopic myotomy (G-POEM) in the treatment of refractory gastroparesis and predictors of outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis using surgical pyloroplasty as a comparator group

    • Babu P. Mohan
    • Saurabh Chandan
    • Douglas G. Adler

    OriginalPaper 03 October 2019 Pages: 3352 - 3367

    

11. The MicroHand S robotic-assisted versus Da Vinci robotic-assisted radical resection for patients with sigmoid colon cancer: a single-center retrospective study

    • Dong Luo
    • Yunfei Liu
    • Xiao Yu

    OriginalPaper 03 September 2019 Pages: 3368 - 3374

    

12. Laparoscopic Kasai portoenterostomy is advantageous over open Kasai portoenterostomy in subsequent liver transplantation

    • Chiyoe Shirota
    • Naruhiko Murase
    • Hiroo Uchida

    OriginalPaper 04 September 2019 Pages: 3375 - 3381

    

13. Predicting the level of difficulty of the double-stapling technique in laparoscopic total mesorectal excision

    • Chi Chung Foo
    • Hing Tsun Hung
    • Wai Lun Law

    OriginalPaper 10 September 2019 Pages: 3382 - 3387

    

14. Comparison of postoperative cosmesis in transaxillary, postauricular facelift, and conventional transcervical thyroidectomy

    • Dong Won Lee
    • Seok Hwa Ko
    • Kyung Tae

    OriginalPaper 12 September 2019 Pages: 3388 - 3397

    

15. Predictors of rectal adenoma recurrence following transanal endoscopic surgery: a retrospective cohort study

    • Tiffany Chan
    • Ahmer A. Karimuddin
    • Carl J. Brown

    OriginalPaper 11 September 2019 Pages: 3398 - 3407

    

16. Retroileal anastomosis in hand-assisted laparoscopic left colectomy: experience at a single institution

    • Jacqueline J. Blank
    • Emma K. Gibson
    • Kirk A. Ludwig

    OriginalPaper 10 September 2019 Pages: 3408 - 3413

    

17. Anatomical study of gasless transoral thyroidectomy and clinical application

    • Hun-Mu Yang
    • Kang-Jae Shin
    • Seung Hoon Woo

    OriginalPaper 17 September 2019 Pages: 3414 - 3423

    

18. A comparison of laparoendoscopic single-site surgery versus conventional procedures for laparoscopic donor nephrectomy: a Japanese multi-institutional retrospective study

    • Takamitsu Inoue
    • Masayoshi Miura
    • LESS and RPS Research Group in Japanese Society of Endourology

    OriginalPaper 23 September 2019 Pages: 3424 - 3434

    

19. Superior pathologic and clinical outcomes after minimally invasive rectal cancer resection, compared to open resection

    • Grace C. Lee
    • Liliana G. Bordeianou
    • Motaz Qadan

    OriginalPaper 16 December 2019 Pages: 3435 - 3448

    

20. Real-time navigation for laparoscopic hepatectomy using image fusion of preoperative 3D surgical plan and intraoperative indocyanine green fluorescence imaging

    • Peng Zhang
    • Huoling Luo
    • Chihua Fang

    OriginalPaper 08 November 2019 Pages: 3449 - 3459

    

21. Early prediction of complex benign anastomotic stricture after esophagectomy using early postoperative endoscopic findings

    • Katsunori Nishikawa
    • Tetsuji Fujita
    • Katsuhiko Yanaga

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2019 Pages: 3460 - 3469

    

22. Conversion to open surgery during minimally invasive esophagectomy portends worse short-term outcomes: an analysis of the National Cancer Database

    • Alison L. Halpern
    • Chloe Friedman
    • Ana L. Gleisner

    OriginalPaper 07 October 2019 Pages: 3470 - 3478

    

23. Utility of thoracic cage width in assessing surgical difficulty of minimally invasive esophagectomy in left lateral decubitus position

    • Shinsuke Takeno
    • Yukinori Tanoue
    • Kunihide Nakamura

    OriginalPaper 01 October 2019 Pages: 3479 - 3486

    

24. Transanal hybrid colon resection: techniques and outcomes for benign colorectal diseases

    • Karl-Hermann Fuchs
    • Thomas Schulz
    • Santiago Horgan

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2019 Pages: 3487 - 3495

    

25. Perioperative outcomes and cost of robotic-assisted versus laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair

    • Jad Khoraki
    • Pedro P. Gomez
    • Guilherme M. Campos

    OriginalPaper 30 September 2019 Pages: 3496 - 3507

26. Prevalence of anatomic landmarks for orientation during elective laparoscopic cholecystectomies

    • Jennifer Schendel
    • Chad Ball
    • Francis Sutherland

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2019 Pages: 3508 - 3512

    

27. Learning curve of robot-assisted middle pancreatectomy (RMP): experience of the first 100 cases from a high-volume pancreatic center in China

    • Yusheng Shi
    • Yue Wang
    • Chenghong Peng

    OriginalPaper 04 November 2019 Pages: 3513 - 3520

    

28. Venous thromboembolism risk for the contemporary bariatric surgeon

    • Sahil Gambhir
    • Colette S. Inaba
    • Shaun Daly

    OriginalPaper 26 September 2019 Pages: 3521 - 3526

29. Epidural anesthesia for post-operative pain is associated with a higher incidence of complications following open ventral hernia repair

    • Steven L. Zhou
    • Melissa C. Helm
    • Matthew I. Goldblatt

    OriginalPaper 25 September 2019 Pages: 3527 - 3532

30. Virtual pointer for gaze guidance in laparoscopic surgery

    • Yuanyuan Feng
    • Hannah McGowan
    • Helena Mentis

    OriginalPaper 04 October 2019 Pages: 3533 - 3539

    

31. Robotic ventral hernia repair in morbidly obese patients: perioperative and mid-term outcomes

    • Fahri Gokcal
    • Sara Morrison
    • Omar Yusef Kudsi

    OriginalPaper 03 October 2019 Pages: 3540 - 3549

    

32. Transabdominal (TA) versus totally extraperitoneal (TEP) robotic retromuscular ventral hernia repair: a propensity score matching analysis

    • Omar Yusef Kudsi
    • Karen Chang
    • Fahri Gokcal

    OriginalPaper 04 June 2020 Pages: 3550 - 3559

    

33. Comparison of general anesthesia and conscious sedation in procedure-related complications during esophageal endoscopic submucosal dissection

    • Seung Hyun Kim
    • Yong Seon Choi
    • Seung Ho Choi

    OriginalPaper 28 May 2020 Pages: 3560 - 3566

    

34. Male sex and anterior wall tumor location as risk factors for urinary dysfunction after laparoscopic rectal surgery

    • Hiroki Hamamoto
    • Masashi Yamamoto
    • Kazuhisa Uchiyama

    OriginalPaper 11 October 2019 Pages: 3567 - 3573

    

35. Male gender is an independent risk factor for patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: an MBSAQIP® database analysis

    • Nicholas Dugan
    • Kyle J. Thompson
    • Abdelrahman Nimeri

    2019 SAGES Oral 18 February 2020 Pages: 3574 - 3583

    

36. Updated outcomes of laparoscopic versus open umbilical hernia repair in patients with obesity based on a National Surgical Quality Improvement Program review

    • Kristen N. Williams
    • Lala Hussain
    • Katherine M. Meister

    2019 SAGES Oral 01 October 2019 Pages: 3584 - 3589

37. Prediction of thirty-day morbidity and mortality after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: data from an artificial neural network

    • Eric S. Wise
    • Stuart K. Amateau
    • Daniel B. Leslie

    2019 SAGES Oral 30 September 2019 Pages: 3590 - 3596

    

38. Comparative review of outcomes: laparoscopic and robotic enhanced-view totally extraperitoneal (eTEP) access retrorectus repairs

    • Richard Lu
    • Alex Addo
    • Igor Belyansky

    2019 SAGES Oral 11 October 2019 Pages: 3597 - 3605

    

39. Reduction of invasive interventions in severely obese with osteoarthritis after bariatric surgery

    • Maria C. Fonseca Mora
    • Cristian A. Milla Matute
    • Raúl J. Rosenthal

    2019 SAGES Oral 26 September 2019 Pages: 3606 - 3613

40. Same-day discharge on laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass patients: an outcomes review

    • Maykong C. Leepalao
    • Daniela Arredondo
    • Titus D. Duncan

    2019 SAGES Oral 24 September 2019 Pages: 3614 - 3617

41. Mass spectrometry transanal minimally invasive surgery (MS-TAMIS) to promote organ preservation in rectal cancer

    • Sam Mason
    • Eftychios Manoli
    • James Kinross

    2019 SAGES Oral Open access 15 October 2019 Pages: 3618 - 3625

    

42. Short-term outcomes of endoscopic gastro-jejunal revisions for treatment of dumping syndrome after Roux-En-Y gastric bypass

    • Catherine Tsai
    • Rudolf Steffen
    • Joerg Zehetner

    2019 SAGES Oral Dynamic 24 September 2019 Pages: 3626 - 3632

    

43. The Fundamentals of Endoscopic Surgery (FES) skills test: factors associated with first-attempt scores and pass rate

    • Matthew Lineberry
    • Yoon Soo Park
    • E. Matthew Ritter

    2020 SAGES Oral 09 June 2020 Pages: 3633 - 3643

    

44. Robotic pancreaticoduodenectomy may offer improved oncologic outcomes over open surgery: a propensity-matched single-institution study

    • Maria Baimas-George
    • Michael Watson
    • John B. Martinie

    2020 SAGES Oral 23 April 2020 Pages: 3644 - 3649

45. Educational value of telementoring for a simulation-based fundamental use of surgical energy™ (FUSE) curriculum: a randomized controlled trial in surgical trainees

    • Maria S. Altieri
    • Heather Carmichael
    • Amin Madani

    2020 SAGES Oral 04 May 2020 Pages: 3650 - 3655

    

46. A randomized controlled trial comparing right and left lateral decubitus starting position on outcomes in colonoscopy

    • Alison Greene
    • Mark Borgoankar
    • David Pace

    2020 SAGES Oral 26 May 2020 Pages: 3656 - 3662

    

47. The role of preoperative workup in predicting dysphagia, dilation, or explantation after magnetic sphincter augmentation

    • Steven G. Leeds
    • Ahmed Ebrahim
    • Marc A. Ward

    2020 SAGES Oral 27 May 2020 Pages: 3663 - 3668

    

48. Real-time ureteral identification with novel, versatile, and inexpensive catheter

    • Yuki Ushimaru
    • Atsushi Ohigawa
    • Kiyokazu Nakajima

    2019 EAES Oral 06 January 2020 Pages: 3669 - 3678

    

49. Robot assisted versus laparoscopic suturing learning curve in a simulated setting

    • Erik Leijte
    • Ivo de Blaauw
    • Sanne Botden

    2019 EAES Oral Open access 21 November 2019 Pages: 3679 - 3689

    

50. Risk factors for open conversion of lateral transperitoneal laparoscopic adrenalectomy: retrospective cohort study of the Spanish Adrenal Surgery Group (SASG)

    • Oscar Vidal
    • David Saavedra-Perez
    • Laureano Fernandez-Cruz

    2019 EAES Oral 21 November 2019 Pages: 3690 - 3695