Articles

1. Incidence of low anterior resection syndrome and its association with the quality of life in patients with lower rectal tumors

   • Yuko Homma
   • Toshiki Mimura
   • Naohiro Sata

   Original Article 12 March 2024

   

2. Impact of the neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio on patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer who suffer radiation pneumonitis during the course of induction chemoradiotherapy followed by surgery

   • Yujiro Kubo
   • Hiromasa Yamamoto
   • Shinichi Toyooka

   Original Article 07 March 2024

   

3. Novel concept of “sequential particle radiotherapy” with atezolizumab plus bevacizumab for hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumor thrombus

   • Shohei Komatsu
   • Kazuki Terashima
   • Takumi Fukumoto

   Short Communication 04 March 2024

   

4. Impact of frailty and prefrailty on the mid-term outcomes and rehabilitation course after cardiac surgery

   • Tasuku Honda
   • Hirohisa Murakami
   • Naomi Yagi

   Original Article Open access 04 March 2024

   

5. Long-term outcomes of 5-year survivors without recurrence after the complete resection of non-small cell lung cancer after lobectomy: a landmark analysis in consideration of competing risks

   • Yutaro Koike
   • Keiju Aokage
   • Masahiro Tsuboi

   Original Article 02 March 2024

   

6. ChatGPT in surgery: a revolutionary innovation?

   • Mustafa Bektaş
   • Jaime Ken Pereira
   • Donald L. van der Peet

   Short Communication Open access 29 February 2024

   

7. Risk factors for anastomotic leakage after low anterior resection for obese patients with rectal cancer

   • Ai Sadatomo
   • Hisanaga Horie
   • Takeshi Naitoh

   Original Article 28 February 2024

8. Clinicopathological predictors of postoperative long-term myasthenic status in resected thymoma with myasthenia gravis

   • Takahiro Suzuki
   • Tomoyuki Hishida
   • Hisao Asamura

   Original Article 28 February 2024

   

9. Practical methods to differentiate thymic malignancies by positron-emission tomography and tumor markers

   • Takahiro Yanagihara
   • Tomoyuki Kawamura
   • Yukio Sato

   Original Article 27 February 2024

   

10. Impact of treatment guidelines and pivotal clinical trial results on a surgeon’s decision regarding treatment for gastric cancer: a retrospective cohort study using the National Clinical Database

    • Souya Nunobe
    • Hideki Endo
    • Yuko Kitagawa

    Original Article 24 February 2024

    

11. Incidence of atrial fibrillation after esophageal cancer surgery with L-carnitine use: a preliminary single-group interventional study

    • Yasushige Shingu
    • Isao Yokota
    • Satoru Wakasa

    Original Article 23 February 2024

    

12. Safety and efficacy of new staple-line reinforcement in lung resection: a prospective study of 48 patients

    • Suguru Mitsui
    • Yugo Tanaka
    • Yoshimasa Maniwa

    Original Article Open access 21 February 2024

    

13. Salivary metabolites as potential predictive biomarkers for lung surgery complications: a retrospective cross-sectional study

    • Satoshi Takamori
    • Shigeo Ishikawa
    • Masahiro Sugimoto

    Original Article 15 February 2024

    

14. Impact of the novel coronavirus infection on pediatric surgery: an analysis of data from the National Clinical Database

    • Kazuya Ise
    • Hisateru Tachimori
    • Yasushi Fuchimoto

    Original Article Open access 13 February 2024

    

15. Factors affecting the short-term outcomes of robotic-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for lung cancer

    • Yugo Tanaka
    • Shinya Tane
    • Yoshimasa Maniwa

    Original Article 09 February 2024

    

16. Venous reconstruction using a round ligament-covered prosthetic vascular graft in right‑lobe living‑donor liver transplantation: a technical report

    • Takahiro Tomino
    • Shinji Itoh
    • Tomoharu Yoshizumi

    Original Article 02 February 2024

    

17. The effect of a low preoperative albumin level on the long-term mortality: a meta-regression analysis

    • I.-Wen Chen
    • Wei-Ting Wang
    • Kuo-Chuan Hung

    Letter to the Editor 23 January 2024 Pages: 506 - 507

    

18. Percent vital capacity predicts postoperative sarcopenia after esophagectomy in initially nonsarcopenic esophageal cancer patients: a retrospective cohort study

    • Shinichiro Shiomi
    • Yasuhiro Okumura
    • Yasuyuki Seto

    Original Article 16 January 2024

    

19. Exacerbated prognostic impact of multiple intramural metastasis versus single intramural metastasis of thoracic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma: evidence from an Uzbekistan cohort

    • Abrorjon Yusupbekov
    • Takahiro Shinozuka
    • Otabek Tuychiev

    Original Article 09 January 2024

    

20. The association of perioperative blood transfusion with survival outcomes after major cancer surgery: a population-based cohort study in South Korea

    • Saeyeon Kim
    • In-Ae Song
    • Tak Kyu Oh

    Original Article 04 January 2024

    

21. Incidence and risk factors of bowel dysfunction after minimally invasive rectal cancer surgery and discrepancies between the Wexner score and the low anterior resection syndrome (LARS) score

    • Emi Ota
    • Toshiya Nagasaki
    • Yosuke Fukunaga

    Original Article 03 January 2024

    

22. Feasibility of venous cuff using an open round ligament or inferior mesenteric vein around the hepatic vein for a left lobe graft in living-donor liver transplantation

    • Takeo Toshima
    • Shinji Itoh
    • Tomoharu Yoshizumi

    How To Do It 03 January 2024

    

23. Effectiveness of long-term tube feeding intervention in preventing skeletal muscle loss after minimally invasive esophagectomy

    • Takashi Kato
    • Taro Oshikiri
    • Yoshihiro Kakeji

    Original Article 27 December 2023

    

24. Impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on 20 representative surgical procedures in Japan based on the National Clinical Database: annual surveillance of 2021 by the Japan Surgical Society

    • Taizo Hibi
    • Hiroyuki Yamamoto
    • Masaki Mori

    Original Article 22 December 2023

    

25. The survival in octogenarians undergoing surgery for pancreatic cancer and its association with the nutritional status

    • Suguru Yamada
    • Kenji Oshima
    • Akimasa Nakao

    Original Article 19 December 2023

    

26. Appropriate concentration setting for the intraoperative administration of indocyanine green for fluorescence imaging to identify the sentinel lymph node in early gastric cancer: a clinical pilot study

    • Masami Yuda
    • Naoto Takahashi
    • Ken Eto

    Original Article 18 December 2023

    

27. Clinical utility of the carcinoembryonic antigen level in patients with stage III colon cancer after surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy

    • Shohei Udagawa
    • Hiroki Osumi
    • Eiji Shinozaki

    Original Article 16 December 2023

    

28. Exploring phenotype-based ventilator parameter optimization to mitigate postoperative pulmonary complications: a retrospective observational cohort study

    • Hideyo Tsumura
    • Debra Brandon
    • Wei Pan

    Original Article 14 December 2023

    

29. Prognostic significance of Ishii’s sarcopenia screening score for patients undergoing curative surgery for obstructive colorectal cancer after intraluminal decompression

    • Ryuichiro Sato
    • Masaya Oikawa
    • Takashi Tsuchiya

    Original Article 13 December 2023

    

30. Diagnosis and management of adrenal incidentaloma: use of clinical judgment and evidence in dialog with the patient

    • Yusaku Yoshida
    • Kiyomi Horiuchi
    • Takahiro Okamoto

    Review Article Open access 13 December 2023

    

31. Occult bacteremia in living donor liver transplantation: a prospective observational study of recipients and donors

    • Siyuan Yao
    • Shintaro Yagi
    • Etsuro Hatano

    Original Article 10 December 2023

    

32. Effects of communication delay in the dual cockpit remote robotic surgery system

    • Yoshiya Takahashi
    • Kenichi Hakamada
    • Masaki Mori

    Original Article Open access 09 December 2023 Pages: 496 - 501

    

33. The impact of lymphangiograpy on chyle leakage treatment duration after pancreatic surgery

    • Norihiro Ishii
    • Norifumi Harimoto
    • Ken Shirabe

    Original Article 08 December 2023

    

34. Thoracoscopic precision excision technique for small lung lesions using radiofrequency identification marking

    • Yojiro Yutaka
    • Masatsugu Hamaji
    • Hiroshi Date

    How To Do It 07 December 2023 Pages: 502 - 505

    

35. Hand-assisted laparoscopic splenectomy and gastropancreatic fold division: a less-invasive simplified technique of Hassab’s procedure for refractory esophagogastric varices

    • Hitoshi Iwasaki
    • Mizuki Ninomiya
    • Tomoharu Yoshizumi

    How To Do It 06 December 2023

    

36. Three-dimensional analysis reveals a high incidence of lung adenocarcinoma in the upper region

    • Tomoyuki Kawamura
    • Yasuharu Sekine
    • Yukio Sato

    Original Article 06 December 2023

    

37. Early-onset hepatic veno-occlusive disease after liver transplantation: an institutional experience and analysis of a literature-based cohort

    • Yutaka Endo
    • Masahiro Shinoda
    • Yuko Kitagawa

    Original Article 06 December 2023

    

38. Usefulness of preoperative ice cream consumption and novel postoperative drainage management in patients undergoing left-sided neck dissection for thyroid cancer: a nonrandomized prospective study

    • Yusuke Mori
    • Hiroyuki Yamashita
    • Koichi Yoshimoto

    Original Article Open access 05 December 2023

    

39. Current status of vaccine immunotherapy for gastrointestinal cancers

    • Nobuaki Suzuki
    • Yoshitaro Shindo
    • Hiroaki Nagano

    Review Article 03 December 2023

    

40. Acknowledgment to reviewers

    Acknowledgment 29 November 2023 Pages: 90 - 93

41. Effectiveness of Lidocaine nasal drops versus placebo drops for reducing the discomfort of nasogastric tube insertion: a randomized controlled trial study

    • Assanee Tongyoo
    • Tuadpong Thangthong
    • Chatchai Mingmalairak

    Original Article 22 November 2023

    

42. Clinical features and risk factors for appendiceal diverticulitis: a comparative study with acute appendicitis

    • Kota Sugiura
    • Hideo Miyake
    • Masahiko Fujino

    Original Article 21 November 2023

    

43. Association of the psoas muscle index with the survival of patients on a waiting list for lung transplantation: a Japanese single-institution study

    • Yuuki Matsui
    • Takashi Kanou
    • Yasushi Shintani

    Original Article 20 November 2023

    

44. Impact of a board certification system and adherence to the clinical practice guidelines for gastric cancer on risk-adjusted surgical mortality after distal and total gastrectomy in Japan: a questionnaire survey of departments registered in the National Clinical Database

    • Hiroyuki Yamamoto
    • Atsushi Nashimoto
    • Yasuyuki Seto

    Original Article 18 November 2023 Pages: 459 - 470

    

45. Relationship between the changes in hepatokine levels and metabolic effects after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in severely obese patients

    • Akira Umemura
    • Akira Sasaki
    • Yasushi Ishigaki

    Original Article Open access 13 November 2023

    

46. Development and validation of a novel endovascular thrombectomy device to treat deep vein thrombosis: a preclinical study in a swine model

    • Dai Yamanouchi

    Short Communication 08 November 2023 Pages: 382 - 386

    

47. Long-term cosmetic outcomes of the slit-slide procedure for umbilical hernia repair in children

    • Shun Onishi
    • Genshiro Esumi
    • Noritoshi Handa

    Original Article 07 November 2023

    

48. The consecutive impact of COVID-19 on thoracic surgical procedures in Japan: an analysis of data from the National Clinical Database

    • Yukio Sato
    • Hiroyuki Yamamoto
    • Ichiro Yoshino

    Original Article 07 November 2023

    

49. Risk factors for bronchopleural fistula based on surgical procedure and sex in 4794 consecutive patients undergoing anatomical pulmonary resection

    • Takeshi Matsunaga
    • Kenji Suzuki
    • Kazuya Takamochi

    Original Article 04 November 2023

    

50. Technical outcomes of robotic-assisted surgery versus laparoscopic surgery for rectal tumors: a single-center safety and feasibility study

    • Jesse Y. Tajima
    • Ryoma Yokoi
    • Nobuhisa Matsuhashi

    Original Article Open access 01 November 2023 Pages: 478 - 486