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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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Effect of prehabilitation on postoperative outcomes in patients with upper gastrointestinal tract cancer: meta-analysis

Li QiLiu JianhongLi LiqingLuo Yeli

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf091

Published date: 22 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 13

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Randomized Clinical Trial
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Postoperative complications in Hartmann’s procedure versus intersphincteric abdominoperineal excision in rectal cancer: randomized clinical trial (HAPIrect)

Nikberg MaziarÅkerlund ViktorSwartling TorbjörnBuchwald PamelaSmedh KennethAngenete Eva

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf093

Published date: 30 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 7

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Original Article
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Tolerability, toxicity, and outcomes following surgical and non-surgical approaches to the management of patients with locally advanced oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma: multicentre retrospective cohort study

Cockbain A

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf078

Published date: 8 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 11

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Original Article
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Prognosis of lymph node metastasis confined to lateral pelvic or mesenteric nodes in mid–low rectal cancer: multicentre retrospective cohort study

Huang FeiXiao TixianZhou SichengZhao FuqiangWei FangzeZou ShuangmeiLiu Qian

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf097

Published date: 9 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 9

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Original Article
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Effect of intraoperative autotransfusion use during liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma on recurrence-free survival: comparative study with propensity score matching

Boulard PaulMaulat CharlotteCavillon AnaRobin FabienDondero FredericaSalloum ChadyTurco CeliaBreheret FlavyParadis ValérieLim ChetanaHeyd BrunoCuellar EmmanuelSuc BertrandAzoulay DanielMigueres IsabelleCauchy FrançoisMuscari Fabrice

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf101

Published date: 9 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Transplantation Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 10

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Original Article
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Incidence, treatment, and survival of patients with appendiceal adenocarcinomas and low-grade appendiceal mucinous neoplasms: linked Swedish national registry study

Johansson JoelAndersson Roland ELoftås PerRedéen Stefan

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf109

Published date: 9 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 8

Abstract
Original Article
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Hiatal hernia after open versus minimally invasive transthoracic oesophagectomy for cancer

Giulini LucaAvramovska IrinaKemeter MelissaBernhardt LisaThumfart LucasHüttner Felix JHeger PatrickHitzl WolfgangDiener Markus KDubecz Attila

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf095

Published date: 11 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Hernia

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 6

Abstract
Original Article
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Anastomotic leakage after ileoanal pouch surgery: risk factors and salvage rate

Moojen Tycho BVlug Malaika SVisser EvaReijntjes Maud ALange Johan F MBislenghi GabrieleCarvello MicheleWarusavitarne JanindraHompes RoelStassen Laurents P SFaiz Omar DSpinelli AntoninoD’Hoore AndréBemelman Willem A

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf110

Published date: 11 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 7

Abstract
Original Article
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Breast satisfaction and health-related quality of life following total mastectomy, breast-conserving surgery, or immediate breast reconstruction in Japanese patients with breast cancer: multicentre cross-sectional controlled study (Reborn)

Seki HirohitoKomiya TakakoSowa YoshihiroKato MahoNishida YutakaIsaka HirotsuguTakano JyunjiImoto ShigeruSaiga Miho

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf094

Published date: 11 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Breast Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 8

Abstract
Original Article
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Management and risk factors for colonic volvulus: retrospective national cohort study

Rasilainen SuviAden MohamudKivelä Antti JPakarinen SakariRintala JukkaNiemeläinen SusannaHelavirta IlonaMoilanen SallaMattila AnnePinta TarjaSaukkonen KapoVento PälviTurkka NikoPengermä PasiHäggblom JennyScheinin Tom

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf113

Published date: 25 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 12

Abstract
Original Article
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Definition of failure to rescue in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary cancer surgery: national cohort study

Wells Cameron IXu WilliamVarghese ChrisBhat SameerBaraza WalHarmston ChrisO’Grady GregBissett Ian P

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf116

Published date: 30 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 9

Abstract
Original Article
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Evaluating normothermic artery bypass and visceral-anastomosis-first strategy in thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair: propensity-weighted analysis

Zhang ShuaiGuo HongweiYu CuntaoSun XiaogangSun JingQian Xiangyang

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf114

Published date: 3 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 9

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Original Article
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Oncological impact of unexpected horizontal tumour spread in oesophagogastric junction cancer

Hu QingjiangOhashi ManabuRi MotonariMakuuchi RieIrino TomoyukiHayami MasaruSano TakeshiNunobe Souya

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf119

Published date: 7 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 9

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Original Article
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Risk factors and clinical consequences of interval cancers arising within faecal immunochemical testing-based colorectal cancer screening programme

Gerrard Adam DGarau RobertaMaeda YasukoThomson AlastairTheodoratou EvropiDunlop Malcolm GDin Farhat V N

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf096

Published date: 8 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 7

Abstract
Original Article
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Clinical impact of double-faecal immunochemical testing following implementation into standard triage and investigation of primary care referrals in patients with lower gastrointestinal symptoms

Gerrard Adam DMaeda YasukoNoble ColinGunn FrancesPorteous LornaCheesbrough RebeccaThomson AlastairDunlop Malcolm GDin Farhat V NClark A

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf098

Published date: 8 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery General Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 8

Abstract
Original Article
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Single and double faecal immunochemical test strategies are effective in risk stratification for patients with symptoms of per rectal bleeding suggestive of colorectal cancer

Shah FatimaGunn FrancesDunlop Malcolm GClark ADin Farhat V NGerrard Adam D

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf100

Published date: 8 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 General Surgery Lower Gastrointestinal Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 5

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Original Article
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Novel scoring system to predict futile liver transplantation by multiterm outcomes to optimize recipient selection: retrospective cohort study

Wang XiYin XiubiSong ShaohuaJiang DiLi YuanchengXu ZeliangLiu XingchaoLi ZhuZhang XiaofangZhang Chengcheng

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf108

Published date: 15 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 12

Abstract
Original Article
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Indocyanine green versus technetium-99m for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: the FLUORO trial

Nguyen Chu LuanKwok JianingZhou MichaelEaswaralingam NeshanthSeah Jue LiChan BelindaGraham SusannahAzimi FarhadMak CindyPulitano CarloWarrier Sanjay

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf104

Published date: 15 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 9

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Original Article
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Artificial sphincter with a new silicone band for treating faecal incontinence: IDEAL 2b prospective multicentre trial

Dawoud ChristopherDevesa José ManuelLöhnert MathiasVicente RosanaMetwalli Sherif AkramRiss Stefan

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf112

Published date: 22 October 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 6

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Research Letter
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Reporting of major complications in randomized clinical trials in pancreatic surgery according to Clavien–Dindo classification

Cizmic AmilaHampe LaetitiaWise Philipp AProbst PascalMuller Markus KKuemmerli ChristophMüller Philip CBardenhagen JanNießen AnnaUzunoglu Faik GIzbicki JakobHackert ThiloNickel Felix

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf103

Published date: 9 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910 Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 2

Research Letter
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Implementation of guideline recommendations in coloanal anastomosis: results from the Tender Loving Care in Coloanal Anastomosis survey

Krstic DanielSparn MoritzChatziisaak DimitriosBurri PascalWarschkow ReneSchmied BrunoHahnloser DieterMarti LukasBrunner WalterBischofberger StephanAbebe S B

DOI : 10.1093/bjsopen/zraf106

Published date: 22 September 2025

AcademicSubjects/MED00910

BJS Open

Volume : 9

Issue : 5

Page count : 4

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Volume 9, Issue 5

September 2025

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EISSN 2474-9842

  • Systematic Review
  • Randomized Clinical Trial
  • Original Articles
  • Research Letters