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Author response: Role of Lugol solution before total thyroidectomy for Graves’ disease: randomized clinical trial Dear Editor We thank Wei-Zhen Tang et al. for their interest in our paper on the role of preoperative Lugol’s Solution (LS) in Graves’ disease1. They claim the absence in the paper of details about...

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Although the preperitoneal patch group experienced fewer recurrences, the difference was not statistically significant, and both methods demonstrated acceptable safety profiles.

👏👏👏Asmatullah Katawazai, Göran Wallin, Gabriel Sandblom

This randomized clinical trial compared the safety and effectiveness of a preperitoneal ventral hernia patch with a non-absorbable barbed suture repair (without mesh) in patients with medium-sized primary ventral hernias.

Barbed suture versus preperitoneal ventral patch in medium-size ventral hernia repair: randomized clinical trial
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👏👏👏Christopher Dawoud, José Manuel Devesa, Mathias Löhnert, Rosana Vicente, Sherif Akram Metwalli, Stefan Riss

Significant functional improvement was observed at 12 months after implantation, with significant reductions in the St. Mark's incontinence score and improvements in the Faecal Incontinence Quality of Life Scale. The device demonstrated a favourable safety profile over the short term of 12 months.

This prospective multicentre study evaluated the effectiveness of the SimplyFI anal band, a novel artificial bowel sphincter, for treating faecal incontinence in 18 patients unresponsive to conservative treatment.

Artificial sphincter with a new silicone band for treating faecal incontinence: IDEAL 2b prospective multicentre trial This prospective multicentre study evaluated the effectiveness of the SimplyFI anal band, a novel artificial bowel sphincter, for treating faecal incontine

Artificial sphincter with a new silicone band for treating faecal incontinence: IDEAL 2b prospective multicentre trial
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🩷 In focus this Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

🔬 Breast Satisfaction and Quality of Life After Different Surgical Strategies in Japanese Patients

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🩷 In focus this Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

🔬 Impact of Surgical Method on Capsular Contracture After Risk-Reducing Mastectomy

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🆕 Comment on: Management of bilioenteric anastomosis leakage after major liver resection
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🩷 In focus this Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

🔬 Predicting Axillary Macrometastases to Guide Radiotherapy in Breast Cancer

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🆕 Assessing reinforced tension line sutures for hernia prevention: methodological considerations from the Rein4CeTo1 trial
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🩷 In focus this Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

🔬 Oncoplastic Breast-Conserving Surgery Yields Superior Survival Compared to Mastectomy

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🩷 In focus this Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

🔬 High-Impact Complications After Breast Cancer Surgery: Do We Need Case-Mix Adjustment?

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👏👏👏Xi Wang, Xiubi Yin, Shaohua Song, Di Jiang, Yuancheng Li, Zeliang Xu, Xingchao Liu, Zhu Li, Xiaofang Zhang, Chengcheng Zhang

The scoring system had good predictive ability, and can be used to optimize the allocation of medical resources, especially with regard to recipients withdrawing from liver transplantation, and ensure the survival chances of certain patients.

This study redefined patients at persistent high risk as the truly futile liver transplantation group, and constructed a futile scoring system that combined recipient and donor factors.

Novel scoring system to predict futile liver transplantation by multiterm outcomes to optimize recipient selection: retrospective cohort study This study redefined patients at persistent high risk as the truly futile liver transplantation group, and constructed a futile scoring system that combine

Novel scoring system to predict futile liver transplantation by multiterm outcomes to optimize recipient selection: retrospective cohort study
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👏👏👏Chu Luan Nguyen, Jianing Kwok, Michael Zhou, Neshanth Easwaralingam, Jue Li Seah, Belinda Chan, Susannah Graham, Farhad Azimi, Cindy Mak, Carlo Pulitano, Sanjay Warrier

This prospective trial demonstrated that indocyanine green fluorescence performed similarly to technetium-99m lymphoscintigraphy and was potentially less costly in the long term for axillary sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer.

Indocyanine green versus technetium-99m for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: the FLUORO trial This prospective trial demonstrated that indocyanine green fluorescence performed similarly to technetium-99m lymphoscintigraphy and was potentially less c

Indocyanine green versus technetium-99m for sentinel lymph node biopsy in breast cancer: the FLUORO trial
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🩷 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

Check out 8️⃣ of the most important breast cancer papers published in BJS and BJS Open this year.
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👏👏👏Adam D Gerrard, Roberta Garau, Yasuko Maeda, Alastair Thomson, Evropi Theodoratou, Malcolm G Dunlop, Farhat V N Din

Almost half of these interval CRCs had a detectable FIT level at screening but below the threshold (10–79 µg haemoglobin per g). All-cause mortality was significantly greater for interval CRCs compared with screen-detected lesions.

For people with negative bowel screening who were diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC) within 2 years (interval CRC), the median wait was 13 months for diagnosis. Women, older patients, and those from greater socioeconomic backgrounds had a higher interval CRC rate.

Bowel cancer screening uses an initial faecal immunochemical test (FIT) with a positivity threshold set so that the colonoscopy workload generated is manageable.

Risk factors and clinical consequences of interval cancers arising within faecal immunochemical testing-based colorectal cancer screening programme Bowel cancer screening uses an initial faecal immunochemical test (FIT) with a positivity threshold set so that the colonoscopy workload generated is manag

Risk factors and clinical consequences of interval cancers arising within faecal immunochemical testing-based colorectal cancer screening programme
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👏👏👏Adam D Gerrard, Yasuko Maeda, Colin Noble, Frances Gunn, Lorna Porteous, Rebecca Cheesbrough, Alastair Thomson, Malcolm G Dunlop, Farhat V N Din, Edinburgh Colorectal Group

There were very good return rates of tests, and the workload of colorectal investigations fell as a result of reassurance and watch and wait for double-negative tests. The use of a second test identifies colorectal cancers that would be missed with a single test.