Submissions from 2018
Effects of Body Mass Index on Clinical Outcomes in Female Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention With Drug-Eluting Stents: Results From a Patient-Level Pooled Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials., Michela Faggioni, Usman Baber, Arash Ehteshami Afshar, Gennaro Giustino, Samantha Sartori, Sabato Sorrentino, Philippe G Steg, Giulio G Stefanini, Stephan Windecker, Martin B Leon, Gregg W Stone, William Wijns, Patrick W Serruys, Marco Valgimigli, Edoardo Camenzind, Giora Weisz, Pieter C Smits, David E Kandzari, Soren Galatius, Clemens Von Birgelen, Raban V Jeger, Ghada W Mikhail, Dipti Itchhaporia, Laxmi Mehta, Rebecca Ortega, Hyo-Soo Kim, Adnan Kastrati, Alaide Chieffo, George D Dangas, Marie-Claude Morice, and Roxana Mehran
Endoscopic Resection in the Esophagus., Andrew F Feczko and Brian E Louie
Comparison of Chronic Dysphagia in Standalone versus Conventional Plate and Cage Fusion., Christian Fisahn, Cameron Schmidt, Tarush Rustagi, Marc Moisi, Joe Iwanaga, Daniel C Norvell, R Shane Tubbs, Thomas A Schildhauer, and Jens R Chapman
Endovascular Coil Migration Into the Intestinal Lumen: Two Cases of Successful Nonoperative Management., Bryce French and D Hayes
Diagnosis and Treatment of Invasive Aspergillus fumigatus Wound Infection Following Subtotal Colectomy for Perforated Toxic Megacolon in an Immunosuppressed Patient., Bryce French, Katherine Mandell, and Ryan Martinez
The decision to biopsy in a lung cancer screening program: Potential impact of risk calculators., Christopher R Gilbert, Alexander S Carlson, Candice L. Wilshire, Ralph W Aye, Alexander S Farivar, Adam J Bograd, and Jed A Gorden
Implantable biomaterials to provide local immunotherapy following surgical resection., Michael J Gough, Jason R Baird, and R Bryan Bell
The Minimal Clinically Important Difference of the Anterior Skull Base Nasal Inventory-12., Nicholas Gravbrot, Daniel F Kelly, John Milligan, Chester Griffiths, Garni Barkhoudarian, Heidi Jahnke, William L White, and Andrew S Little
A multi-institutional analysis of the untreated course of cerebral dural arteriovenous fistulas., Bradley A Gross, Felipe C Albuquerque, Cameron G McDougall, Brian T Jankowitz, Ashutosh P Jadhav, Tudor G Jovin, and Rose Du
A multi-institutional report of peri-operative and functional outcomes after robot-assisted partial nephrectomy in patients with a solitary kidney., Zeynep Gul, Kyle A Blum, David J Paulucci, Ronney Abaza, Daniel D Eun, Akshay Bhandari, Ashok K Hemal, James Porter, and Ketan K Badani
Regional Thoracic Surgery Quality Collaboration Formation: Providence Thoracic Surgery Initiative., John R Handy, Kimberly Costas, Robert McKenna, Steven Nisco, Raymond Schaerf, Kenton Stephens, Eric Vallières, Kasia Konieczny, Roshanthi Weerasinghe, Mansen Wang, Katherine Lothrop, and Cathy Betzer
Expert Consensus Document on Pulmonary Metastasectomy., J R Handy, R M Bremner, T S Crocenzi, F C Detterbeck, H C Fernando, P M Fidias, S Firestone, C A Johnstone, M Lanuti, V R Litle, K A Kesler, J D Mitchell, H I Pass, H J Ross, and T K Varghese
Disseminated Adenovirus Nephritis After Kidney Transplantation., Timothy Hatlen, Henry Mroch, Katherine Tuttle, Okechukwu Ojogho, Michele Rooney, Sara Desmond, and Samer Bani-Hani
Minimally Invasive Ultrasound-Guided Carpal Tunnel Release: Preliminary Clinical Results., P Troy Henning, Lynda Yang, Tariq Awan, Daniel Lueders, and Adam M Pourcho
Ultrasound-Guided Carpal Tunnel Release Using Dynamic Expansion of the Transverse Safe Zone in a Patient With Postpolio Syndrome: A Case Report., Troy Henning, Daniel Lueders, Kate Chang, and Lynda Yang
Cost-utility of revisions for cervical deformity correction warrants minimization of reoperations., Samantha R Horn, Peter G Passias, Aaron Hockley, Renaud Lafage, Virginie Lafage, Hamid Hassanzadeh, Jason A Horowitz, Cole A Bortz, Frank A Segreto, Avery E Brown, Justin S Smith, Daniel M Sciubba, Gregory M Mundis, Michael P Kelley, Alan H Daniels, Douglas C Burton, Robert A Hart, Frank J Schwab, Shay Bess, Christopher I Shaffrey, Richard A Hostin, and Christopher P Ames
Long-Term Impact of Endoscopic Thoracic Sympathectomy for Primary Palmar Hyperhidrosis., Leah C Horslen, Candice L. Wilshire, Brian E Louie, and Eric Vallières
Clinical Outcomes of Endovascular Thrombectomy in Tissue Plasminogen Activator versus Non-Tissue Plasminogen Activator Patients at Primary Stroke Care Centers., Gregory Imbarrato, Joshua Bentley, and Ajeet Gordhan
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement in women., Dipti Itchhaporia
Anatomical Study of the Extreme Lateral Transpsoas Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Application to Minimizing Injury to the Kidney., Joe Iwanaga, Emre Yilmaz, Tamir Tawfik, Amir Abdul-Jabbar, Marc Vetter, Marc Moisi, Koichi Watanabe, Koh-Ichi Yamaki, R Shane Tubbs, and Rod J Oskouian
Endoscopic Approaches to Cricopharyngeal Myotomy and Pyloromyotomy., Anee Sophia Jackson and Ralph W Aye
A novel technique for the fixation of inter-trochantieric hip fractures: A telescoping lag screw., Devin M Jagow, Shahan V Yacoubian, Edward J McCrink, and Stephan V Yacoubian
Late Clinical Presentation of Prosthesis-Patient Mismatch Following Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement., Yoko Kagemoto, Andrew Weintraub, Natesa G Pandian, Hassan Rastegar, Neil Halin, and Frederick C Cobey
Operative Treatment of the Cavovarus Foot., Jonathan R M Kaplan, Amiethab Aiyer, Rebecca A Cerrato, Clifford L Jeng, and John T Campbell
Functional Anatomic Computer Engineered Surgery Protocol for the Management of Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wounds to the Maxillofacial Skeleton., Baber Khatib, Karl Cuddy, Allen Cheng, Ashish Patel, Felix Sim, Melissa Amundson, Savannah Gelesko, Tuan Bui, Eric J Dierks, and Richard Bryan Bell
The Biaxial Double-Barrel Fibula Flap-A Simplified Technique for Fibula Maxillary Reconstruction., Baber Khatib, Ashish Patel, Eric J Dierks, R Bryan Bell, and Allen Cheng
The Radial Forearm Flap: A Technique Modification for Oral Cavity Composite Defects Involving a Marginal Mandibulectomy., Baber Khatib, Ashish Patel, Eric J Dierks, and Allen Cheng
Development and Validation of a Prediction Model for Pain and Functional Outcomes After Lumbar Spine Surgery., Sara Khor, Danielle Lavallee, Amy M Cizik, Carlo Bellabarba, Jens R. Chapman, Christopher R Howe, Dawei Lu, A Alex Mohit, Rod J. Oskouian, Jeffrey R Roh, Neal Shonnard, Armagan Dagal, and David R Flum
Comparison of the iAssist Handheld Guidance System to Conventional Instruments for Mechanical Axis Restoration in Total Knee Arthroplasty., Matthew C Kinney, Krishna R Cidambi, Dustyn L Severns, and Francis B Gonzales
In Reply: Microsurgical Clipping of an Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm Using a Novel Robotic Visualization Tool in Lieu of the Binocular Operating Microscope: Operative Video., Daniel R Klinger, Kevin A Reinard, Olaide O Ajayi, and Johnny B Delashaw
Microsurgical Clipping of an Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm Using a Novel Robotic Visualization Tool in Lieu of the Binocular Operating Microscope: Operative Video., Daniel R Klinger, Kevin A Reinard, Olaide O Ajayi, and Johnny B Delashaw
Injury of the Radial Nerve in the Arm: A Review., Taroob J Latef, Muhammad Bilal, Marc Vetter, Joe Iwanaga, Rod J Oskouian, and R Shane Tubbs
Outcomes of Early Liver Transplantation for Patients With Severe Alcoholic Hepatitis., Brian P Lee, Neil Mehta, Laura Platt, Ahmet Gurakar, John P Rice, Michael R Lucey, Gene Y Im, George Therapondos, Hyosun Han, David W Victor, Oren K Fix, Lisanne Dinges, Deepti Dronamraju, Christine Hsu, Michael D Voigt, Mary E Rinella, Haripriya Maddur, Sheila Eswaran, Jessica Hause, David Foley, R Mark Ghobrial, Jennifer L Dodge, Zhiping Li, and Norah A Terrault
Predicting Low-Risk for Sustained Alcohol Use After Early Liver Transplant for Acute Alcoholic Hepatitis: The SALT Score., Brian P Lee, Eric Vittinghoff, Christine Hsu, Hyosun Han, George Therapondos, Oren K Fix, David W Victor, Deepti Dronamraju, Gene Y Im, Michael D Voigt, John P Rice, Michael R Lucey, Sheila Eswaran, Po-Hung Chen, Zhiping Li, Haripriya Maddur, and Norah A Terrault
Transversus Abdominis Plane Block Improves Perioperative Outcome After Esophagectomy Versus Epidural., Gal Levy, Mark A Cordes, Alexander S Farivar, Ralph W Aye, and Brian E Louie
Reply., Gal Levy, Katherine Haeck, and Brian E Louie
Reply., Gal Levy, Katherine Haeck, and Brian E Louie
Cardiac MRI T2* in Liver Transplant Candidates: Application and Performance of a Novel Imaging Technique to Identify Patients at Risk for Poor Posttransplant Cardiac Outcomes., Sara M Lewin, Kimberly Kallianos, M Ilan Nevah, Susan Zhao, Oren K Fix, Gabriel C Brooks, Teresa De Marco, Atif N Qasim, Karen G Ordovas, and Neil Mehta
Young Neurosurgeons Committee of the AANS: Training Ground for Future Leaders in Organized Neurosurgery in the United States of America., Joseph R Linzey, Walavan Sivakumar, Jeremiah N Johnson, Michael E Ivan, Ali S Haider, Chris Ann Philips, Khoi D Than, Krystal L Tomei, Karin M Muraszko, and Edjah K Nduom
Evaluation of a novel cryoballoon swipe ablation system in bench, porcine, and human esophagus models., B E Louie, W Hofstetter, G Triadafilopoulos, and B L Weusten
Innovations in and Around the Foregut., Brian E Louie
The search for the holy grail of lobectomy., Brian E Louie
Does attending a Delphi consensus conference impact surgeon attitudes? Survey results from the Americas HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association consensus conference on small asymptomatic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors., Ajay V Maker, Thuy B Tran, Natalie Coburn, Zhi V Fong, Kenneth Cardona, Philippa Newell, Gareth Morris-Stiff, Kenneth Chavin, and John Mansour
Landmarks for Identifying the Suprascapular Foramen Anteriorly: Application to Anterior Neurotization and Decompressive Procedures., Olga V Manouvakhova, Veronica Macchi, Fabian N Fries, Marios Loukas, Raffaele De Caro, Rod J Oskouian, Robert J Spinner, and R Shane Tubbs
Arthroscopic Surgery or Physical Therapy for Patients With Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial With 2-Year Follow-up., Nancy S Mansell, Daniel I Rhon, John Meyer, John M Slevin, and Bryant G Marchant
Management of asymptomatic, well-differentiated PNETs: results of the Delphi consensus process of the Americas Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association., John C Mansour, Kenneth Chavin, Gareth Morris-Stiff, Susanne G Warner, Kenneth Cardona, Zhi V Fong, Ajay Maker, Steven K Libutti, Robert Warren, Charles St Hill, Scott Celinski, Philippa Newell, Quan P Ly, James Howe, and Natalie Coburn
A Nomogram to Predict Significant Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Reduction After Robotic Partial Nephrectomy., Alberto Martini, Shivaram Cumarasamy, Alp Tuna Beksac, Ronney Abaza, Daniel D Eun, Akshay Bhandari, Ashok K Hemal, James R Porter, and Ketan K Badani
Dynamics of postoperative serum cortisol after transsphenoidal surgery for Cushing's disease: implications for immediate reoperation and remission., Marc Mayberg, Stephen Reintjes, Anika Patel, Kelley Moloney, Kelley J Moloney, Alex Carlson, James M Scanlan, and Frances Broyles
Menopausal-Related Symptoms in Women One Year After Breast Cancer Surgery., Melissa Mazor, Kathryn Lee, Anand Dhruva, Janine K Cataldo, Steven M Paul, Michelle Melisko, Betty J Smoot, Jon D Levine, Charles Elboim, Yvette P Conley, and Christine Miaskowksi
Is There a Role for VATS Sleeve Lobectomy in Lung Cancer?, Natalie N Merchant, Robert McKenna, and Osita Onugha
Extra-Thoracic Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery Rib Plating and Intra-Thoracic VATS Decortication of Retained Hemothorax., Natalie N Merchant and Osita Onugha
Novel extra-thoracic VATS minimally invasive technique for management of multiple rib fractures., Natalie N Merchant and Osita Onugha
Real-world stent retriever thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke beyond 6 hours of onset: analysis of the NASA and TRACK registries., Maxim Mokin, Alex Abou-Chebl, Alicia C Castonguay, Raul G Nogueira, Joey D English, Hamed Farid, Rishi Gupta, Coleman Martin, William Edward Holloway, Diogo C Haussen, Nils Mueller-Kronast, and Osama O Zaidat
Internal Thoracic Artery to Middle Cerebral Artery Bypass Surgery: Cadaveric Feasibsility Study., Stephen Monteith, Oded Goren, Ragu Sampath, Eric Lehr, Akshal Patel, Paul J Choi, Joe Iwanaga, Marios Loukas, and R Shane Tubbs
Visual Field Outcome Reporting in Neurosurgery: Lessons Learned from a Prospective, Multicenter Study of Transsphenoidal Pituitary Surgery., Michael A Mooney, Angela M Herro, Robert E Fintelmann, Marc R Mayberg, Garni Barkhoudarian, Paul A Gardner, Daniel M Prevedello, Michael R Chicoine, Daniel F Kelly, James P Chandler, Heidi Jahnke, William L White, and Andrew S Little
Resectable Distal Pancreas Cancer: Time to Reconsider the Role of Upfront Surgery., Daniel W Nelson, Shu-Ching Chang, Gary Grunkemeier, Ahmed N Dehal, David Y Lee, Trevan D Fischer, L Andrew DiFronzo, and Victoria V O'Connor
ASO Author Reflections: Incorporating Adjuvant Radiation into the Treatment Planning for Select Adrenocortical Carcinomas., Daniel W Nelson and Melanie Goldfarb
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2018 Adult Cardiac Surgery Risk Models: Part 2-Statistical Methods and Results., Sean M O'Brien, Liqi Feng, Xia He, Ying Xian, Jeffrey P Jacobs, Vinay Badhwar, Paul A Kurlansky, Anthony P Furnary, Joseph C Cleveland, Kevin W Lobdell, Christina Vassileva, Moritz C Wyler von Ballmoos, Vinod H Thourani, J Scott Rankin, James R Edgerton, Richard S D'Agostino, Nimesh D Desai, Fred H Edwards, and David M Shahian
Imaging-Ambiguous Lesions of Meckel's Cave-Utility of Endoscopic Endonasal Transpterygoid Biopsy., Sheri K Palejwala, Fan Zhao, Kayla C Lanker, Walavan Sivakumar, Yuki Takasumi, Chester F Griffiths, Garni Barkhoudarian, and Daniel F Kelly
Laparoscopic Hill repair: 25-year follow-up., Yeseul Park, Ralph W Aye, Jeffrey R Watkins, Alexander S Farivar, and Brian Louie
Cost and Outcome of Minimally Invasive Techniques for Coronary Surgery Using Robotic Technology., Chetan Pasrija, Zachary N Kon, Mehrdad Ghoreishi, Eric J Lehr, James S Gammie, Bartley P Griffith, Johannes Bonatti, and Bradley S Taylor
Development of a Modified Cervical Deformity Frailty Index: A Streamlined Clinical Tool for Preoperative Risk Stratification., Peter G Passias, Cole A Bortz, Frank A Segreto, Samantha R Horn, Renaud Lafage, Virginie Lafage, Justin S Smith, Breton Line, Han Jo Kim, Robert Eastlack, D Kojo Hamilton, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Richard A Hostin, Eric O Klineberg, Douglas C Burton, Robert A Hart, Frank J Schwab, Shay Bess, Christopher I Shaffrey, and Christopher P Ames
Drivers of Cervical Deformity Have a Strong Influence on Achieving Optimal Radiographic and Clinical Outcomes at 1 Year After Cervical Deformity Surgery., Peter G Passias, Cole Bortz, Samantha Horn, Frank Segreto, Gregory Poorman, Cyrus Jalai, Alan Daniels, D Kojo Hamilton, Han Jo Kim, Daniel Sciubba, Justin S Smith, Brian Neuman, Christopher Shaffrey, Virginie Lafage, Renaud Lafage, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Christopher Ames, Robert Hart, Gregory Mundis, and Robert Eastlack
Cervical Versus Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformities: A Comparison of Baseline Quality-of-Life Burden., Peter G Passias, Gregory W Poorman, Virginie Lafage, Justin Smith, Christopher Ames, Frank Schwab, Chris Shaffrey, Frank A Segreto, Samantha R Horn, Cole A Bortz, Christopher G Varlotta, Aaron Hockley, Charles Wang, Alan Daniels, Brian Neuman, Robert A Hart, Douglas Burton, Yashar Javidan, Breton Line, Renaud LaFage, Shay Bess, and Daniel Sciubba
Variant Distal Ulnar Nerve Loop: A Previously Undescribed Anatomical Finding., Mayank Patel, Joe Iwanaga, Rod J Oskouian, and R Shane Tubbs
Trauma to the Superior Mesenteric Artery and Superior Mesenteric Vein: A Narrative Review of Rare but Lethal Injuries., B Phillips, S Reiter, E P Murray, D McDonald, L Turco, D L Cornell, and J A Asensio
Persistent sex disparities in clinical outcomes with percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from 6.6 million PCI procedures in the United States., Jessica Potts, Alex Sirker, Sara C Martinez, Martha Gulati, Mirvat Alasnag, Muhammad Rashid, Chun Shing Kwok, Joie Ensor, Danielle L Burke, Richard D Riley, Lene Holmvang, and Mamas A Mamas
ASMBS pediatric metabolic and bariatric surgery guidelines, 2018., Janey S A Pratt, Allen Browne, Nancy T Browne, Matias Bruzoni, Megan Cohen, Ashish Desai, Thomas Inge, Bradley C Linden, Samer G Mattar, Marc Michalsky, David Podkameni, Kirk W Reichard, Fatima Cody Stanford, Meg H Zeller, and Jeffrey Zitsman
Femoral Nerve Injury after Primary Total Hip Arthroplasty is More Common in Patients with Prior Femoral Artery Catheterization, James W. Pritchett
Treatment of Gunshot Wounds to Spine During Late 19th Century., Matthew Protas, Maia Schumacher, Joe Iwanaga, Emre Yilmaz, Rod J Oskouian, and R Shane Tubbs
Analysis of Successful Versus Failed Radiographic Outcomes After Cervical Deformity Surgery., Themistocles S Protopsaltis, Subaraman Ramchandran, D Kojo Hamilton, Daniel Sciubba, Peter G Passias, Virginie Lafage, Renaud Lafage, Justin S Smith, Robert A Hart, Munish Gupta, Douglas Burton, Shay Bess, Christopher Shaffrey, and Christopher P Ames
Cardiac surgery blues: The midterm impact of postoperative delirium and the association with mood disorders., Juan N Pulido
Noninvasive ventilation and recruitment maneuvers after cardiac surgery: Are we doing enough?, Juan N Pulido
The Translaminar Pressure Gradient: Papilledema after Trabeculectomy Treated with Optic Nerve Sheath Fenestration., Phillip M Radke, Tal Rubinstein, Steven Hamilton, Annisa Jamil, and Bryan S Sires
The Tentorium Cerebelli: A Comprehensive Review Including Its Anatomy, Embryology, and Surgical Techniques., Rabjot Rai, Joe Iwanaga, Gaffar Shokouhi, Rod J Oskouian, and R Shane Tubbs
A comprehensive review of the clivus: anatomy, embryology, variants, pathology, and surgical approaches., Rabjot Rai, Joe Iwanaga, Ghaffar Shokouhi, Marios Loukas, Martin M Mortazavi, Rod J Oskouian, and R Shane Tubbs
The initial report on 1-year outcomes of the feasibility study of the VENITI VICI VENOUS STENT in symptomatic iliofemoral venous obstruction., Mahmood Razavi, William Marston, Stephen Black, Dana Bentley, and Peter Neglén
Frailty and Health-Related Quality of Life Improvement Following Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery., Daniel B C Reid, Alan H Daniels, Tamir Ailon, Emily Miller, Daniel M Sciubba, Justin S Smith, Christopher I Shaffrey, Frank Schwab, Douglas Burton, Robert A Hart, Richard Hostin, Breton Line, Shay Bess, and Christopher P Ames
Hiatal hernia recurrence following magnetic sphincter augmentation and posterior cruroplasty: intermediate-term outcomes., Kais A Rona, James M Tatum, Joerg Zehetner, Katrin Schwameis, Carol Chow, Kamran Samakar, Adrian Dobrowolsky, Caitlin C Houghton, Nikolai Bildzukewicz, and John C Lipham
Reevaluating Warm Ischemia Time as a Predictor of Renal Function Outcomes After Robotic Partial Nephrectomy., Daniel C Rosen, Muthumeena Kannappan, David J Paulucci, Alp Tuna Beksac, Kyrollis Attalla, Ronney Abaza, Daniel D Eun, Akshay Bhandari, Ashok K Hemal, James Porter, and Ketan K Badani
Rapid Progression of Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament After Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion., Tarush Rustagi, Fernando Alonso, Cameron Schmidt, Rod J Oskouian, Jens R Chapman, R Shane Tubbs, and Christian Fisahn
Under Correction of Sagittal Deformities Based on Age-adjusted Alignment Thresholds Leads to Worse Health-related Quality of Life Whereas Over Correction Provides No Additional Benefit., Justin K Scheer, Renaud Lafage, Frank J Schwab, Barthelemy Liabaud, Justin S Smith, Gregory M Mundis, Richard Hostin, Christopher I Shaffrey, Douglas C Burton, Robert A Hart, Han J Kim, Shay Bess, Munish Gupta, Virginie Lafage, and Christopher P Ames
Development of a validated computer-based preoperative predictive model for pseudarthrosis with 91% accuracy in 336 adult spinal deformity patients., Justin K Scheer, Taemin Oh, Justin S Smith, Christopher I Shaffrey, Alan H Daniels, Daniel M Sciubba, D Kojo Hamilton, Themistocles S Protopsaltis, Peter G Passias, Robert A Hart, Douglas C Burton, Shay Bess, Renaud Lafage, Virginie Lafage, Frank Schwab, Eric O Klineberg, and Christopher P Ames
Takedown of Ankle Arthrodesis With Insufficient Fibula: Surgical Technique and Intermediate-Term Follow-Up., John M Schuberth, Jeffrey C Christensen, and Chad Seidenstricker
Improving mechanical thrombectomy time metrics in the angiography suite: Stroke cart, parallel workflows, and conscious sedation., Fabio Settecase, David B McCoy, Robert Darflinger, Matthew D Alexander, Daniel L Cooke, Christopher F Dowd, Steven W Hetts, Randall T Higashida, Van V Halbach, and Matthew R Amans
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 2018 Adult Cardiac Surgery Risk Models: Part 1-Background, Design Considerations, and Model Development., David M Shahian, Jeffrey P Jacobs, Vinay Badhwar, Paul A Kurlansky, Anthony P Furnary, Joseph C Cleveland, Kevin W Lobdell, Christina Vassileva, Moritz C Wyler von Ballmoos, Vinod H Thourani, J Scott Rankin, James R Edgerton, Richard S D'Agostino, Nimesh D Desai, Liqi Feng, Xia He, and Sean M O'Brien
Factors predicting opioid dependence in patients undergoing surgery for degenerative spondylolisthesis: analysis from the MarketScan databases., Mayur Sharma, Beatrice Ugiliweneza, Zaid Aljuboori, Miriam A Nuño, Doniel Drazin, and Maxwell Boakye
The role of laparoscopic Nissen, Hill, and Nissen-Hill hybrid repairs for uncomplicated gastroesophageal reflux disease., Ealaf Shemmeri and Ralph W Aye
Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT): A Series of 1000 Tumors., Melvin J Silverstein, Melinda Epstein, Brian Kim, Kevin Lin, Sadia Khan, Lincoln Snyder, Lisa Guerra, Colleen Coleman, and Peter Chen
Prospective Multicenter Assessment of All-Cause Mortality Following Surgery for Adult Cervical Deformity., Justin S Smith, Christopher I Shaffrey, Han Jo Kim, Peter Passias, Themistocles Protopsaltis, Renaud Lafage, Gregory M Mundis, Eric Klineberg, Virginie Lafage, Frank J Schwab, Justin K Scheer, Emily Miller, Michael Kelly, D Kojo Hamilton, Munish Gupta, Vedat Deviren, Richard Hostin, Todd Albert, K Daniel Riew, Robert Hart, Doug Burton, Shay Bess, and Christopher P Ames
Multimodality Therapy for N2 Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: An Evolving Paradigm., Jonathan D Spicer, Jitesh B Shewale, David B Nelson, Kyle G Mitchell, Matthew J Bott, Eric Vallieres, Candice L. Wilshire, Ara A Vaporciyan, Stephen G Swisher, David R Jones, Gail E Darling, and Boris Sepesi
Disparities in fertility-sparing surgery in adolescent and young women with stage I ovarian dysgerminoma., Laura L Stafman, Ilan I Maizlin, Matthew Dellinger, Kenneth W Gow, Melanie Goldfarb, Jed G Nuchtern, Monica Langer, Sanjeev A Vasudevan, John J Doski, Adam B Goldin, Mehul Raval, and Elizabeth A Beierle
Patient-Specific Printed Plates Improve Surgical Accuracy In Vitro., Kasper Stokbro, R Bryan Bell, and Torben Thygesen
Cardiopulmonary-induced deformations of the thoracic aorta following thoracic endovascular aortic repair., Ga-Young Suh, Brant W Ullery, Jason T Lee, Michael D Dake, Dominik Fleischmann, and Christopher Cheng
Selected Case From the Arkadi M. Rywlin International Pathology Slide Seminar: Atypical Thymoma With Rhabdomyomatous Differentiation., David Suster, Howard D Epstein, Daryl Pearlstein, and Saul Suster
Surgical Resection of a Cervical Dumbbell Tumor: 2-Dimensional Operative Video., Lee A Tan, Carter S Gerard, Ricardo B V Fontes, Manish K Kasliwal, and Vincent C Traynelis
Clinical outcomes five years after POEM for treatment of primary esophageal motility disorders., Ezra N Teitelbaum, Christy M Dunst, Kevin M Reavis, Ahmed M Sharata, Marc A Ward, Steven R DeMeester, and Lee L Swanström
Variability in invasive mediastinal staging for lung cancer: A multicenter regional study., Lucas W Thornblade, Douglas E Wood, Michael S Mulligan, Alexander S Farivar, Michal Hubka, Kimberly E Costas, Bahirathan Krishnadasan, and Farhood Farjah
A novel method of lengthening the accessory nerve for direct coaptation during nerve repair and nerve transfer procedures., R Shane Tubbs, Andrés A Maldonado, Yolanda Stoves, Fabian N Fries, Rong Li, Marios Loukas, Rod J Oskouian, and Robert J Spinner
