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BJS Open

BJS Open was first published in 2017 and has since established itself as a leading open access journal for surgical research. It includes a similar range of content to BJS, covering all aspects of general surgery. All submitted manuscripts undergo peer review, with the additional opportunity to publish research open access. BJS Open received an impact factor of 4.5 in 2024.

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Systematic Review
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Long-term effects of Hirschsprung disease in adults: meta-analysis and patient-level regression study

de Andres Crespo MartaByström CorneliaTyraskis AthanasiosMutanen AnnikaStenström PernillaHartman EstherDanielsson JohanEaton SimonDe Coppi PaoloLöf Granström AnnaWester TomasPakarinen MikkoCurry JoeLoukogeorgakis StavrosDavidson Joseph

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf107

Published date: 4 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 13

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Systematic Review
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Management of right-sided obstructing colon cancers: scoping review

Baker Daniel MAimar KelseyJacobs SamLee Matthew J

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf129

Published date: 4 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 11

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Systematic Review
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Use and management of routine prophylactic abdominal drainage in pancreatic surgery: meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials

Pietrogiovanna LauraProbst Pascalvan Bodegraven Eduard ABalduzzi AlbertoKaiser JörgHackert ThiloKalkum EvaMüller Philip CCanovi SaraAntony PiaStrothmann HendrikBesselink Marc GMarchegiani GiovanniStorni FedericoDullenkopf AlexanderHauswirth FabianMuller Markus KRenzulli Pietro

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf123

Published date: 12 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 12

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Systematic Review
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Transanal versus transabdominal total mesorectal excision for rectal cancer in minimally invasive surgery: meta-analysis

Liao Chun-KaiYu Yen-LinKuo Ya-TingHsu Yu-JenChern Yih-JongLin Yueh-ChenHsieh Pao-ShiuYou Jeng-FuChiang Jy-Ming

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf111

Published date: 24 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 16

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Systematic Review
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Evaluating safety and quality of robotic-assisted gastric cancer surgery: meta-analysis and meta-regression

Salem RiadhChou Wing KGiorgi LorenzoKamarajah Sivesh KMarkar Sheraz R

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf126

Published date: 24 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 18

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Systematic Review
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Colorectal polyp distribution in relation to age: meta-analysis

Yam Sai TimMcLauchlan JaredMcCombie AndrewPurcell RachelPearson JohnFrizelle Frank

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf132

Published date: 29 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Acute Care Surgery General Surgery Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 11

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Review Article
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Current pharmacological and procedural treatments for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease: comprehensive review

Youssef Mark MWatson Abigail CProfitt Sarah AAllaway MatthewOngso YuniSivakumar JonathanKamal Afrin NShimamura YutoThompson Sarah KWatson David IDuong Cuong PLiu David S

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf115

Published date: 29 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 General Surgery Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 20

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Randomized Clinical Trial
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Barbed suture versus preperitoneal ventral patch in medium-size ventral hernia repair: randomized clinical trial

Katawazai AsmatullahWallin GöranSandblom Gabriel

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf099

Published date: 31 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Hernia

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 7

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Randomized Clinical Trial
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Combined transversus abdominis plane and rectus sheath blocks with patient-controlled intravenous analgesia versus epidural analgesia for kidney transplantation: randomized, non-inferiority clinical trial

Ning MengWang KeyanWang XuanxuanHe YuhangDing HandongCao YuanyuanHu ShaohuaChen Lijian

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf124

Published date: 24 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Transplantation Urology

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 10

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Original Article
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Safe and transparent introduction and evaluation of targeted axillary dissection in patients with node-positive breast cancer undergoing primary surgery: international consensus process

Potter ShelleyMullan RuthCain HenrySt John Edward RBarry PeterMassanat YazanHarvey JamesFairhurst KatherineMorgan AdriennePerkins MargaretMann Gregory BruceLippey JocelynCowan KatherineBlencowe NatalieMcIntosh Stuart AAvery Kerry

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf121

Published date: 30 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 10

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Original Article
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Risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma rupture: multicentre retrospective study

Xia FengLiu YiyangHuang HongweiLiu XulinYan JingQiu ZhanchengZhang QiaoWu ZhenhengHuang ZhiyuanWei RenjieLin LiLiu LipingHan ShuangqinYuan YulinYin HuaxuanXia GuobingWan YunyanXiao ShuoZhou GuoxiangXia XiafeiSun HuapengWang ShuaiZheng JunGao HengyiZheng JiangRen LiMo AliYe LinRuan ShunChen XiaopingCheng QiZhang BixiangZhu Peng

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf105

Published date: 4 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 12

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Original Article
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Disparities in minimally invasive surgery for elective inguinal hernia repair across Europe: secondary analysis of an international cohort study

Picciochi MariaBarranquero Alberto G

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf122

Published date: 4 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 9

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Original Article
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One-stage versus two-stage surgery for initially unresectable colorectal cancer liver metastases: post hoc analysis of the CAIRO5 trial

Bond Marinde J GBolhuis Karenvan Amerongen Martinus JChapelle Thieryvan Dam Ronald MEngelbrecht Marc R WGerhards Michael FGrünhagen Dirk Jvan Gulik ThomasHermans John Jde Jong Koert PKazemier GeertKlaase Joost MKok Niels F MLeclercq Wouter K GLiem Mike S Lvan Lienden Krijn PMolenaar I QuintusPatijn Gijs ARijken Arjen MRuers Theo MVerhoef Cornelisde Wilt Johannes H WMay Anne MPunt Cornelis J ASwijnenburg Rutger-Jan

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf125

Published date: 4 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 8

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Original Article
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Effect of sarcopenia on treatment response and operative and oncological outcomes among patients undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer

Butler Thomas OElliott Jessie ADavey Matthew GCollins Patrick MMcNamara MeganO'Malley EoinBrennan Micheal JBarry KevinAbd Elwahab SamiSweeney KarlMalone CarmelMcLaughlin RayLowery AoifeKerin Michael J

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf128

Published date: 4 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 11

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Original Article
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Watch-and-wait approach in high-risk locally advanced rectal cancer: outcomes after complete response to total neoadjuvant therapy

Banken EviGeubels Barbara MVande Kerckhove Fleur E CCreemers Davy M JKetelaers Stijn H JNederend JoostPeulen Heike M Uvan Hellemond Irene E GRutten Harm J TBurger Jacobus W A

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf136

Published date: 6 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 11

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Original Article
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Mortality in patients with secondary peritonitis treated by primary closure or vacuum-assisted closure: nationwide register-based cohort study

Rajabaleyan PooyaKaalby LasseDeding Ulrikal-Najami IssamEllebæk Mark Bremholm

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf118

Published date: 12 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 9

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Original Article
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Long-term survival outcomes following fenestrated endovascular aortic repair: applying population-based life expectancies to contextualize postoperative survival

Leinweber Maria-ElisabethWalter CorinnaTaher FadiAssadian AfshinHofmann Amun Georg

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf117

Published date: 24 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Vascular Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 8

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Original Article
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Timing of antibacterial prophylaxis and surgical site infection rates in clean orthopaedic and cardiac surgery

Morris Arthur JRoberts Sally AGrae NikkiFrampton Chris M

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf120

Published date: 24 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Cardiothoracic Surgery Orthopaedics

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 8

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Original Article
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Management and outcome variability in hernia-related small bowel obstruction: insights from the SnapSBO study

Cimino Matteo MariaBass Gary AlanKurihara HayatoBellio GabrielePorta MatteoCayre LuigiMohseni ShahinLee Matthew JKaplan Lewis JMartinez-Casas IsidroCimino Matteo Maria

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf127

Published date: 24 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Hernia Acute Care Surgery General Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 10

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Original Article
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Quality indicators for breast reconstruction following cancer—an international Delphi consensus study supported by the European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Hansson EmmaMoellhoff NicholasAhlstedt Karlsson SusanneUusimäki AlexandraKaartinen IlkkaRosenkrantz Hölmich LisbetZic RadoWaters RuthHenley MarkGiunta Riccardo EElander AnnaOrellana Tanja Aaby

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf144

Published date: 24 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Breast Surgery General Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 10

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Original Article
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Laparoscopic versus open liver resection in patients aged at least 80 years: retrospective propensity score-matched cohort study

Gómez-Gavara ConcepciónMorise ZenichiLópez-López VictorKuemmerli ChristophEsono DanielIgarashi KazuharuMishima KoheiKanazawa AkishigeTanaka ShogoKubo ShojiNemoto SatoshiHonda GoroMonden KazuteruUeno MasakiIwao YasuhitoGotohda NaotoKudo MasashiNitta HiroyukiAmano SatoshiDíaz-Nieto RafaelGordon-Weeks AlexLangella SerenaFerrero AlessandroOtsuka YuichiroKaneko HironoriBoetto RiccardoCillo UmbertoD’Souza DanielSerrano Pablo EBerardi GiammauroAngrisani MarcoEttorre Giuseppe MariaTabrizian ParissaYu AllenGoh Brian K PMinagawa TakuyaItano OsamuAsano DaisukeTanabe MinoruDi Martino MarcelloMartín-Pérez ElenaFamularo SimonePaoluzzi Tomada ElisaTorzilli GuidoPirola Krüger Jaime ArthurHerman PauloGiuffrida MarioCharco RamonGastaca MikelHolowko WaclawTruant StephanieHo Kit-ManCheng Kai-ChiMaurette Rafael JoséBlatt Laura-AnnBelda TatianaAbe YutaUemura ShuichiroWakabayashi Go

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf102

Published date: 28 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 9

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Original Article
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Evaluation of the effect of tumour size on outcomes for patients undergoing adrenalectomy for phaeochromocytoma: international multicentre analysis

McLennan SteffaneVerhoeff KevinParente AlessandroRibano AlynneWang YanboWang ZhichengZhou JialeWu XiaorongChen YonghuiŚledziński MaciejHellmann AndrzejRaffaelli MarcoPennestrì FrancescoSywak MarkPapachristos Alexander JPalazzo Fausto FSung Tae-YonKim Byung-ChangLee Yu-miEatock FionaAnderson HannahIacobone MaurizioGray DarylChaulk Richard CKosmoliaptsis VasilisColucci NicolaSpiers Harry V MDaukša AlbertasMakay OzerTurk YigitAtalay Hafize BasutNieveen van Dijkum Els J MEngelsman Anton FHolscher IsabelleMaterazzi GabrieleRossi LeonardoBecucci ChiaraShore Susannah LWaghorn AlisonFung ClaireMihai RaduBalasubramanian Sabapathy PPannu ArslanTatarano ShuichiVelázquez-Fernández DavidMiller Julie ASerrao-Brown HazelChen YufeiDemarchi Marco StefanoDjafarrian RezaDoran HelenStechman Michael JPerry HelenHubbard JohnathanLamas CristinaMercer PhilippaMacPherson JanetLumbiganon SupanutCalatayud MaríaHanzu Felicia AlexandraVidal OscarAraujo-Castro MartaMinguez Ojeda CesarPapavramidis Theodosiosde Vera Gómez Pablo RodríguezAldrees AbdulazizAltwjry TariqValdés NuriaÁlvarez-Escola CristinaGarcía Sanz IñigoBlanco Carrera ConcepciónManjón-Miguélez LauraDe Miguel Novoa PazRecasens MónicaCenteno Rogelio GarcíaLázaro Cristina RoblesVan Den Heede KlaasVan Slycke SamMichalopoulou TheodoraAspinall SebastianMelvin RossLau Joel Wen LiangCheah Wei KeatTang Man HonOh Han BoonAyuk JohnSutcliffe Robert P

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf133

Published date: 1 December 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Endocrine General Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 10

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Original Article
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Abnormal gastric electrophysiology following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy and associations with symptoms and quality of life

Wang Tim Hsu-HanVarghese ChrisRobertson SamBeban GrantEvennett NicholasFoong DaphneHo VincentAndrews Christopher NCalder StefanGharibans ArmenSchamberg GabrielO'Grady Greg

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf140

Published date: 1 December 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery General Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 9

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Original Article
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Textbook outcome following surgery for pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours: retrospective study

Bechtiger Fabiola ACzigany ZoltanLewosinska MagdalenaKinny-Köster BenedictHeckler MaxRompen Ingmar FSiegel NielsPleines ViolaKryschi MaximilianKaiser JörgAl-Saeedi MohammedMichalski Christoph WBüchler Markus WLoos MartinHank Thomas

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf143

Published date: 1 December 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 8

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Original Article
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Impact of prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in patients with colorectal cancer with peritoneal metastasis during cytoreductive surgery: dual-center cohort analysis

Xue XiajuanHong ZhigangShen HuiqunZheng MuxuYang WanjunDing PeirongGuo YincongTang JinghuaLiao Leen

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf145

Published date: 1 December 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 General Surgery Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 8

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Original Article
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New quantitative blood flow assessment of gastric conduit with indocyanine green fluorescence in oesophagectomy: prospective cohort study

Kajiyama DaisukeKubo YutoShigeno TakashiSato KazumaFujiwara NaotoDaiko HiroyukiFujita Takeo

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf135

Published date: 1 December 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 8

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Original Article
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Classification of postoperative pancreatic fistula after left pancreatectomy: international multicentre cohort study

Bonsdorff AkseliYu WilliamKirkegård Jakobde Ponthaud CharlesKjeseth TrondGhorbani PoyaWennerblom JohannaWilliamsson CarolineAcher Alexandra WThillai ManojTarvainen TimoUutela AkiSirén JukkaKokkola ArtoKleive DyreSahakyan MusheghHagen Rolf ELund AndreaFugleberg Nielsen MetteFristedt RichardBiörserud ChristinaBratlie Svein OlavTingstedt BobbyLabori Knut JGaujoux SébastienWigmore Stephen JHallet JulieSparrelid ErnestoSallinen Ville

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf149

Published date: 3 December 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery General Surgery Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 8

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Protocol
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Impact of external drainage of the main pancreatic duct and common bile duct on postoperative pancreatic fistula following pancreatoduodenectomy: protocol for a multicentre randomized clinical trial

Wang Wen-QuanXu Yao-LinTang Lin-HuiHe Jun-YiLi YuLiang FeiZhang Yue-MingGan WeiXu Hua-XiangZhang LeiWu Wen-ChuanShi Chen-YeJin YunJiang Chong-YiWang ZhengHe MinWang Xu-AnQiu Yu-DongLiu Liang

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf130

Published date: 4 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 7

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Protocol
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Perioperative Medicine for Older People Undergoing Surgery Scale Up (POPS-SUp): study protocol

Dhesi Jugdeep KPartridge Judith S LStrasser Bridget CBearne LindsayHall NathanHealey AndrewHoughton John S MMagill LauraModarai BijanMoppett Iain KMudford LawrenceNorrie JohnPearse Rupert MPinkney ThomasSaratzis AthanasiosSayers RobertVindrola-Padros CeciliaWaring Justin

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf063

Published date: 19 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Acute Care Surgery Cardiothoracic Surgery General Surgery Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery Orthopaedics Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Vascular Surgery Urology

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 12

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Research Letter
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Long-term recurrence of cholesteatoma after surgery: pooled rates and determinants

Massoud SaqrFarhat RaedAbd Elhadi UdayAbed Bashir AbuMerchavy ShlomoSafia Alaa

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf131

Published date: 4 November 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 3

Research Letter
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Postoperative outcomes in academic versus non-academic hospitals: population-based cohort study

Riveros CarlosRanganathan SanjanaGeng MichaelTitus Renil SCoburn NatalieRavi BheeshmaTsugawa YusukeMundra VatsalaMelchiode ZacharyVelasquez Eusebio LunaJerath AngelaDetsky Allan SWallis Christopher J DSatkunasivam Raj

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf090

Published date: 1 December 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 General Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 2

Correction
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Correction to: Post-thyroid surgery adhesion prevention using oxidized regenerated cellulose and hyaluronic acid: prospective, single-blinded, randomized study

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf138

Published date: 1 December 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 6

Page count : 1

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Volume 9, Issue 6

October 2025

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  • Systematic Reviews
  • Review Article
  • Randomized Clinical Trials
  • Original Articles
  • Protocols
  • Research Letters
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