April 2024, VOLUME 230 FEATURED ARTICLE

16 Safety & feasibility of targeted mesenteric

EDITORIAL
approaches with Kono-S anastomosis and
1 From the Editor – In – Chief: Top papers from extended mesenteric excision in ileocolic
the Midwest Surgical Association resection and anastomosis in Crohn's disease
Herbert Chen Stefan D. Holubar, Jeremy Lipman,
Scott R. Steele, Tairin Uchino, Eddy P. Lincango,
MIDWEST SURGICAL ASSOCIATION David Liska, Kristen Ban, David Rosen,
Joshua Sommovilla, Emre Gorgun,
MIDWEST SURGICAL ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTIAL Hermann Kessler, Michael Valente, and Tracy Hull
ADDRESS
ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLES FROM THE MIDWEST
2 Address to the Midwestern SURGICAL ASSOCIATION
Surgical Association “On the shoulders
of giants” 21 Revisiting femoral hernia diagnosis rates by
M Ashraf Mansour patient sex in inguinal hernia repairs
Sara M. Maskal, Ryan C. Ellis,
INVITED COMMENTARY Megan Melland‑Smith, Nir Messer,
Sharon Phillips, Benjamin T. Miller,
7 Thyrotoxicosis, not hyperthyroidism, Lucas R.A. Beffa, Clayton C. Petro,
is a frequent sequelae of Michael J. Rosen, and Ajita S. Prabhu
parathyroidectomy
Christopher R. McHenry 26 Cribari, does it apply in real time? An analysis
of a community level 1 trauma center
FEATURED ARTICLE Katrina Thede, Courtney Jensen, Luke Bettag,
Christopher Buck, and Jonathan Saxe
9 Retracting the thyroid matters: Who develops
asymptomatic transient thyrotoxicosis after 30 Epidural analgesia and post-operative ileus
parathyroidectomy after incisional hernia repair with transversus
Rongzhi Wang, Gabe Stidham, Kelly Lovell, abdominis release: Results of a 5-year quality
Jessica Liu McMullin, Andrea Gillis, improvement initiative
Jessica Fazendin, Brenessa Lindeman, and Megan Melland‑Smith, Xinyan Zheng, Nir Messer,
Herbert Chen Lucas Beffa, Clayton Petro, Ajita Prabhu,
David Krpata, Michael Rosen, and Benjamin Miller
INVITED COMMENTARY
35 Protect the neck: Devastating outcomes of
14 Targeted mesenteric approaches to cervical spine fractures in the elderly
ileocolic Crohn's disease: A promising Jeremy Mormol, Laura Krech, Steffen Pounders,
operative approach Chelsea Fisk, Alistair Chapman, Matthew Karek,
Cristina B. Sanger and Kailyn Kwong Hing
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39 Negative workup? Laparoscopic
cholecystectomy Still alleviates symptoms
Aryana Sharrak, Jason Aubrey, Tien Hua,
Susanna Wang, Giuseppe Zambito, and
Amy Banks‑Venegoni
43 Association between COVID-19 diagnosis
and postoperative outcomes in sleeve
gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: A
national cohort study
James Swanson, Marshall S. Baker,
Mitchel Fernando, Fred A. Luchette, and
Tyler Cohn
47 Factors associated with stoma closure after
cytoreductive surgery
Marianna Maspero, Sumeyye Yilmaz,
Daniel Joyce, Robert DeBernardo, David Liska,
Emre Gorgun, Scott R. Steele, and
Michael A. Valente
52 Peer review journal publication rates of
award-winning presentations from a multi-
disciplinary multi-institutional medical
education consortium annual research forum:
40-year experience
Peter Ali, Binit Katuwal, Jeffrey C. Flynn, and
Vijay K. Mittal
57 Nipple necrosis rate with submuscular versus
prepectoral implant-based reconstruction in
nipple sparing mastectomy: Does it differ?
Ayat ElSherif, Steven Bernard, Risal Djohan,
Amani Atallah, Chao Tu, and Stephanie A. Valente
63 Does commission on cancer (CoC)
accreditation mitigate the effect of care
fragmentation on clinical outcome in localized
rectal cancer?
Simon S. Park, Raymond A. Verm,
Zaid M. Abdelsattar, Sarah Kramer,
James Swanson, Mitchel Fernando, Tyler Cohn,
Frederick A. Luchette, and Marshall S. Baker
68 Optimizing throughput of babies with infantile
hypertrophic pyloric stenosis
Spencer Wilhelm, Diane Studzinski,
Hossam Alslaim, Matthew Major,
Brianna Stadsvold, Kaitlin Kehoe, Anthony Iacco,
Christian Walters, and Nathan M Novotny
73 Locally advanced pancreatic cancer:
Is surgical palliation associated with
improved clinical outcome relative to
medical palliation?
Sarah P. Kramer, Celsa Tonelli, Fred A. Luchette,
James Swanson, Zaid Abdelsattar, Tyler Cohn,
and Marshall S. Baker
78 Outcomes following cytoreductive surgery
(CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal
chemotherapy (HIPEC) for peritoneal
malignancies: 10 ​Year experience
Isabella Graham, Anna Boston, Richard Hayward,
and Richard Berri
REVIEW ARTICLES
82 Artificial Intelligence in Surgical Research:
Accomplishments and Future Directions
Michael P. Rogers, Haroon M. Janjua,
Steven Walczak, Marshall Baker, Meagan Read,
Konrad Cios, Vic Velanovich, Ricardo Pietrobon,
and Paul C. Kuo
91 Robotic colorectal surgery and future
directions
Kamil Erozkan and Emre Gorgun
MY THOUGHTS/MY SURGICAL PRACTICE
99 The importance of faculty mentorship:
Evaluation of a departmental junior faculty
mentorship program
Lauren Curwick, Polina Zmijewski,
Elizabeth Beierle, and Herbert Chen
101 A renewed call to expand coverage for gender-
affirming facial surgeries
Tarika Srinivasan, Matthew Q. Parsons,
Amitai S. Miller, Elliana Kirsch DeVore, and
Sean R. Cahill
103 The sterile cockpit: Reducing distractions in
the operating room
Adam K. Mesa and Sam M. Wiseman
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105 A of analytics and B of big data in healthcare
research: Telling the tale of health outcomes
research from the eyes of data
Haroon M. Janjua, Michael Rogers, Meagan Read,
Emily A. Grimsley, and Paul C. Kuo
108 Inclusivity at surgical meetings: Can we do
better through food?
Rania Mansour and Osaid Alser
111 Gaps in literature on enhanced recovery
after thoracic surgery: Considering social
determinants of health
Dave M. Mathew, Elizabeth Khusid, Briana Lui,
Marissa Weber, Richard Boyer, Robert S. White,
and Spencer Walsh