AudioScholar Surgery Weekly

About AudioScholar Surgery Weekly

Surgery — a weekly podcast briefing of the most significant peer-reviewed surgery literature, synthesized from PubMed and delivered as ~10-minute audio. For practicing physicians. Generated by AudioScholar at audioscholar.cc.

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AudioScholar

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health & fitness

Language

en

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No

First episode

14 May 2026

Latest episode

17 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

10 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Jul 2026

   This Week in Surgery — Jul 17, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning advancements in minimally invasive and robotic surgery, optimization of colorectal cancer and pelvic pathology management, and critical updates in oncologic staging… This week's papers: 1. A Prospective, Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of the da Vinci SPSurgical System versus Open Surgery in Nipple-Sparing Mastectomy (NSM) Procedure… — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 2. Three-Year Follow-Up of the Randomized Trial Comparing Open Versus Laparoscopic Surgery for Primary Tumor Resection in Patients With Non-Curable Stage IV Colon… — Diseases of the colon and rectum 2026 3. Integrated Evaluation of Survival, Surgical Conversion, and Toxicity for Induction Therapy in Initially Unresectable Colorectal Liver Metastases: An Individual… — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 4. Thermal ablation versus liver resection for small colorectal liver metastases (≤ 3 cm): a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized and propensity scor… — Surgical endoscopy 2026 5. Risk of Ovarian Metastasis in Colorectal Cancer-Related Carcinomatosis. — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 6. Patterns and Outcomes of Elective versus Non-Elective Rectal Prolapse Repair: an ACS-NSQIP Analysis. — Diseases of the colon and rectum 2026 7. Is It Time to Redefine Clinical Nodal Staging for Breast Cancer? — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 8. Anatomic-Biologic Borderline Resectability Criteria Improve Recurrence Risk Stratification in Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma. — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 9. Robotic versus laparoscopic common bile duct exploration: outcomes from a high-volume specialist pancreaticobiliary unit within a structured minimally invasive… — Surgical endoscopy 2026 10. Adults undergoing robotic hiatal hernia repair: do surgical and patient factors predict 5-year revision? A systematic review. — Surgical endoscopy 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/e69f3hs8qx

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   10 Jul 2026

   This Week in Surgery — Jul 10, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning three broad themes: patient selection and optimization in abdominal wall reconstruction, the clinical and cognitive impacts of advanced robotic platforms, and crit… This week's papers: 1. Five-year outcomes of the PROVE-IT randomized controlled trial: Patient-Reported Outcomes of Robotic vs. Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair with Intraperitonea… — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 2. Longitudinal assessment of recurrence after open versus laparoscopic versus robotic inguinal hernia repair in 272,475 patients. — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 3. Effect of two-week perioperative glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonist interruption on retained gastric contents during esophagogastroduodenoscopy: a retros… — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 4. Effect of improved preoperative activity levels and smoking cessation on ventral hernia repair outcomes. — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 5. A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Surgical Feasibility and Outcomes Following Neoadjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Resectable Stage III and IV Me… — Annals of Surgical Oncology 2026 6. Preoperative difficulty assessment of laparoscopic cholecystectomy after treatment for choledocholithiasis. — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 7. Robotic intracorporeal anastomosis enhances technical precision while reducing surgeon cognitive load: a prospective multicentre study. — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 8. Comparing venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis and bleeding risks: low molecular weight heparin vs. unfractionated heparin in open repairs of large hernias. — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 9. How frail is too frail? Impact of frailty on complex abdominal wall reconstruction. — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 10. Conversion to open surgery during robotic pancreatoduodenectomy in surgical high-risk groups: patterns, risk factors, and outcomes in elderly and/or obese pati… — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/yhf6ukkuas

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   3 Jul 2026

   This Week in Surgery — Jul 3, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we are covering ten notable papers spanning three major clinical themes: advances in minimally invasive abdominal and colorectal surgery, the continued de-escalation of axillary management in breast surgical… This week's papers: 1. Comparing access routes and anastomotic techniques for right-sided colonic resections: meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials. — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 2. Minimally invasive versus open surgery for adhesive small bowel obstruction: a systematic review and meta-analysis. — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 3. Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Resectable Colon Cancer: Evidence, Controversies, and an Implementation Roadmap for 2026. — Annals of Surgical Oncology 2026 4. Trends in Breast and Axillary Operations in Young Patients with Operable Breast Cancer from the National Cancer Database (NCDB): De-escalation of Axillary Surg… — Annals of Surgical Oncology 2026 5. Multi-modal Prehabilitation and Outcomes after Gastroesophageal Cancer Surgery: A Cohort Study of Pulmonary Complications and Resilience to Major Postoperative… — Annals of Surgical Oncology 2026 6. Pregnancy-Associated Breast Cancer: A Trimester and Subtype Based Clinical Decision Framework for the Surgeon and Surgical Trainee. — Annals of Surgical Oncology 2026 7. Timing of Surgical Axillary Staging and Impact on Technical Success of Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction Following Axillary Lymph Node Dissection. — Annals of Surgical Oncology 2026 8. Enhanced view/extended totally extraperitoneal plasty (eTEP) Rives-Stoppa repair versus open Rives-Stoppa repair: a single-center retrospective propensity scor… — Surgical Endoscopy 2026 9. Baseline Liver Function Predicts Long-Term Survival Beyond Perioperative Outcomes After Liver Resection for Biliary Tract Cancer. — Annals of Surgical Oncology 2026 10. Prediction Models for Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis in Clinically Node-Negative Breast Cancer: Validation of Existing Nomograms, Model Development, and Ensemb… — World Journal of Surgery 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/krjjx679ab

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   25 Jun 2026

   This Week in Surgery — Jun 25, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we're covering ten notable papers spanning major advancements in reconstructive and transplant surgery, refined techniques in general and oncological abdominal operations, and long-term comparative data that… This week's papers: 1. Dietary cholesterol activates a Ral-dependent pathway driving LDLR turnover — Nature 2026 2. Ten-Year Outcomes after CAR T-Cell Therapy for B-Cell Lymphomas — The New England Journal of Medicine 2026 3. Human donor liver viability evaluation with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography — Science Translational Medicine 2026 4. Cholecystectomy vs Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography or No Intervention After Gallstone-Related Acute Pancreatitis — JAMA Surgery 2026 5. Inferior Mesenteric Artery Ligation Level and Anastomotic Leakage in Low Anterior Resection: A Randomized Clinical Trial — JAMA Surgery 2026 6. Sacrospinous Hysteropexy With Mesh vs Vaginal Hysterectomy for Treatment of Uterovaginal Prolapse: 10-Year Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial — JAMA Surgery 2026 7. Radial Margin Distance in Perihilar Cholangiocarcinoma: Defining Dual Cutoff Values of 0 and 1 mm — Annals of Surgery 2026 8. Robotic-Assisted vs Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgery and 30-Day Serious Adverse Events: A National MBSAQIP Analysis — Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2026 9. Non-invasive removal of the Smart tracheal occlusion device for fetal congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a single-arm, open-label, phase 1 study — Lancet 2026 10. Combined bladder-kidney transplantation: first-in-human feasibility trial — Lancet 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/8j2sfqfvyu

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   18 Jun 2026

   This Week in Surgery — Jun 18, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning the integration of artificial intelligence into clinical practice, key refinements in oncologic surgery, and a look at long-term trial data and the future of surgical… This week's papers: 1. Towards autonomous medical artificial intelligence agents. — Nature 2026 2. Two-Year Outcomes after Direct-to-Surgery in Good Prognosis Margin-Clear Stage II or III Rectal Cancer: The QuickSilver Study. — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 3. Multi-label dynamic diagnosis of pancreatic diseases using AI-enhanced endoscopic ultrasound: a multi-cohort real-world study. — Surgical endoscopy 2026 4. Patellar resurfacing in total knee replacement: 20-year clinical and economic results of a large multicentre, randomised controlled trial in the UK. — Lancet (London, England) 2026 5. Prehospital Whole Blood for Traumatic Hemorrhage - Consistent Evidence from Two Randomized Trials. — The New England journal of medicine 2026 6. Clinicogenomic analysis of-mutant lung tumors identifies Rb pathway inactivation as a hallmark of squamous transformation. — Science translational medicine 2026 7. Deep learning-enabled discovery of antibiotics effective against. — Science translational medicine 2026 8. Donor bone marrow together with recipient regulatory T cells induces chimerism without irradiation in kidney transplantation. — Science translational medicine 2026 9. Specimen PET-CT Imaging for Intraoperative Margin Assessment in Early-Stage Breast Cancer: The BrIMA Nonrandomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA surgery 2026 10. Demand Shock Exposes Surgical Training Problem: What Bariatric Volume Collapse Reveals About the Future of Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellowship Training. — Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/usrxn42dht

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   11 Jun 2026

   This Week in Surgery — Jun 11, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we're covering 9 notable papers spanning perioperative optimization and quality improvement, challenges in critical care, and the evolving landscape of surgical technology and diagnostics. Let's dive in. Fi… This week's papers: 1. Hospital Policy of Tranexamic Acid to Reduce Transfusion in Major Noncardiac Surgery. — The New England journal of medicine 2026 2. Carbocisteine or Hypertonic Saline for Acute Respiratory Failure. — The New England journal of medicine 2026 3. High-Dose Intravenous Vitamin C and Mortality and Organ Dysfunction in Severe Burn Injury: The VICTORY Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 4. Impact of the Quebec Provincial Enhanced Recovery After Surgery Program on Postoperative Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Colorectal Operation. — Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2026 5. Combining Commercial Cancer Protein Biomarkers and Benign Fungal Antibodies Improves Diagnostic Accuracy in Pulmonary Nodules. — Annals of surgery 2026 6. Peritoneal Metastases in Stage II-III Colon Cancer Represent a Blind Spot for Circulating Tumor DNA Surveillance. — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 7. Risk and liability in the deployment of AI systems for surgery: a SAGES white paper. — Surgical endoscopy 2026 8. Prehabilitation and Postoperative Outcomes in Major Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Study Using MarketScan Claims Data. — World journal of surgery 2026 9. Da VinciX, Versius, and HugoRAS in minimally invasive robotic-assisted hysterectomy: the COMPAR-HYST prospective study. — Surgical endoscopy 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/srpc9fn3uc

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   6 Jun 2026

   This Week in Surgery — Jun 5, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we're covering 8 notable papers spanning advances in surgical oncology, the impact of new drugs on surgical practice, and cutting-edge innovations in xenotransplantation and neurostimulation. Let's dive in.… This week's papers: 1. Transanal endoscopic microsurgery was associated with higher recurrence rate in both low- and high-risk T1 rectal cancer compared to surgical resection. — Surgical endoscopy 2026 2. Metabolic Bariatric Surgery Declines as GLP-1 Drug Use Increases. — JAMA 2026 3. Swine Leukocyte Antigen DR Deletion is a Viable Option for Donor Pigs Used in Renal Xenotransplantation. — Annals of surgery 2026 4. Spinal cord stimulation for upper limb motor function in people with chronic post-stroke hemiparesis: a feasibility trial. — Nature medicine 2026 5. Bilateral Wilms Tumor: Looking for the Best Surgical Strategy. — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 6. Plasma signals of lung tumor promotion for molecular cancer prevention. — Cell 2026 7. Impact of Smoking Cessation Duration on Postoperative Complications in Lung Cancer Surgery. — The Journal of surgical research 2026 8. Predicting Treatment Response After Total Neoadjuvant Therapy for Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer. — Annals of surgery 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/trujf8fv8s

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   29 May 2026

   This Week in Surgery — May 28, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning innovations in abdominal surgery, new techniques from neurosurgery to cardiac surgery, and refining how we manage patients with systemic therapy and post-operative c… This week's papers: 1. A prospective cohort study evaluating disease-specific mortality in patients with early-stage Barrett's esophagus-related neoplasia following endoscopic therap… — Surgical endoscopy 2026 2. Association of Postoperative Fever and Antibiotic Use with Surgical Site Infection in Children with Complicated Appendicitis: A Retrospective Cohort Study. — Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2026 3. Deriving Clavien-Dindo Classification from Administrative Data: Development and External Validation in Hepatobiliary Surgery. — Annals of surgery 2026 4. Decompression with or without Duraplasty for Chiari I and Syringomyelia. — The New England journal of medicine 2026 5. Stem-Cell-Derived Biologic Ventricular Assist Tissue in Heart Failure. — The New England journal of medicine 2026 6. Glycemic Control and Diabetes Outcomes After Surgical Therapy for Diabetic Gastroparesis. — JAMA surgery 2026 7. Mesh Placement and Risk of Recurrence and Bowel Obstruction After Primary Ventral Hernia Repair. — JAMA surgery 2026 8. Portal-Venous Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion for Liver Transplant: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA surgery 2026 9. Early Tumor Shrinkage and Clinical Outcomes for Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Real-World Observational… — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 10. Complete Segmental Parenchymal Vascular Occlusion for Robotic Enucleation of Distal Pancreatic Tumors (with video). — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/a2fhsxzxe4

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   21 May 2026

   This Week in Surgery — May 21, 2026

   Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning optimizing surgical outcomes, new insights into cancer biology, the future of neuromodulation and genetics, and the culture of surgical training. Let's dive in. We… This week's papers: 1. Tinnitus. — Nature reviews. Disease primers 2026 2. Pathogenic germline variations and cancer risks in pediatric patients referred for genetic testing. — Nature medicine 2026 3. Nociceptive innervation limits tertiary lymphoid structures to promote lung cancer. — Cell 2026 4. Transcranial ultrasound stimulation of motor networks in Parkinson's disease informed by local field potential dynamics. — Science translational medicine 2026 5. Activity and Physiological Stress Within 90 Days After Minimally Invasive and Open Pancreatoduodenectomy: A Predefined Analysis of the DIPLOMA-2 Randomized Cli… — JAMA surgery 2026 6. Nationwide Implementation of Multimodal Prehabilitation and Complications After Colorectal Cancer Surgery. — JAMA surgery 2026 7. Surgical repair of paraesophageal hernia resolves unexplained iron deficiency anemia in the vast majority of patients: a propensity-matched multicenter study. — Surgical endoscopy 2026 8. Clinical Practice Guideline for the Surgical Management of Ulcerative Colitis. — Diseases of the colon and rectum 2026 9. Flexibility Stigma and the Double Bind of Family Formation in Medical and Surgical Residency. — Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2026 10. Economic evaluation of lymphaticovenous anastomosis versus conservative therapy for breast-cancer related lymphoedema: secondary outcome analysis of a randomiz… — The British journal of surgery 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/3vbyx6w4c8

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    14 May 2026

    This Week in Surgery — May 14, 2026

    Welcome to This Week in Surgery. This week we're covering 10 notable papers spanning nuances in surgical oncology, outcomes in complex pancreatic surgery, and the evolving role of artificial intelligence in our field. We'll also touch on some foundat… This week's papers: 1. The relationship between microscopic margin positivity and disease recurrence in differentiated thyroid cancer. — Surgery 2026 2. When algorithms triage trauma: Diagnostic accuracy, undertriage risk, and prompt fragility in frontier large language models. — Surgery 2026 3. From Clinical Trial Awareness to Practice: Factors Associated with Intent to Omit Axillary Surgery Based on the SOUND Clinical Trial. — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 4. Artificial Intelligence-Driven Three-Dimensional Reconstruction System Reduced Unexpected Procedural Changes in Thoracic Surgery. — Annals of surgical oncology 2026 5. Survival outcomes after neoadjuvant chemotherapy in hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients with nodal metastases: A National Cancer Database analysis. — Surgery 2026 6. Teriparatide Plus Zoledronic Acid for Osteogenesis Imperfecta: A Randomized Clinical Trial. — JAMA 2026 7. Comparing Open and Laparoscopic Left-Sided Pancreatic Resection at a National Level: An IDEAL IV Study on Implementation, Population-Adjusted Resection Rate, a… — Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2026 8. Robotic Pancreatoduodenectomy Carries Greater Risk of Morbidity after Conversion than Laparoscopy: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis in the E-MIPS Registry. — Annals of surgery 2026 9. White matter micro- and macrostructure brain charts for the human lifespan. — Nature 2026 10. Sleep chart of biological ageing clocks in middle and late life. — Nature 2026 Listen at https://audioscholar.cc/episode/cx6ukmrkd3

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