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Christina Mouratidou, Efstathios T Pavlidis, Georgios Katsanos, Serafeim-Chrysovalantis Kotoulas, Athanasios Kofinas, Alexandra G Marneri, Eleni Massa, Georgios Tsoulfas, Ioannis N Galanis, Theodoros E Pavlidis 
World J Gastrointest Surg 18(2):114997. Published online Feb 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i2.114997
Minireviews
Lydia Lazaridou, Alexandra Dimaki, Kalliopi Vakalou, Vasilios Zervas, Panagiotis Papadopoulos, Konstantinos E Koumarelas, Grigorios Christodoulidis 
World J Gastrointest Surg 18(2):115417. Published online Feb 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i2.115417
Retrospective Cohort Study
Maryam Hassanesfahani, Dimitrios Giannis, Nana Marfo, Manpreet Kaur, Camille Mai-Phuong Tran Quang, Andrew Miele, Martine A Louis, Nageswara Rao Mandava 
World J Gastrointest Surg 18(2):115744. Published online Feb 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i2.115744
Retrospective Study
Fei-Fei Kong, Xuan Geng, Ru-Ming Liu, Wen-Tao Zhang, Bin Quan, Yong Zhong, You-Long Zhu 
World J Gastrointest Surg 18(2):112924. Published online Feb 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i2.112924
Lei Xu, Si-Jia Chen, Pin Wang, Liang Mao, Xiao-Ping Zou, Lei Wang, Yi Wang 
World J Gastrointest Surg 18(2):113698. Published online Feb 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i2.113698
Shahin Hajibandeh, Shahab Hajibandeh, Hamish Mckittrick, Usman Imrani, Abin Varghese, Ravivarma Balasubramaniam, Damien Durkin, Tejinderjit S Athwal 
World J Gastrointest Surg 18(2):114743. Published online Feb 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i2.114743
Clinical Trials Study
Xiao-Gang Xu, Yan-Qing Liu, Meng-Long Lan, Fei Liu, Hui-Min Xia, Ji-Xiao Zeng 
World J Gastrointest Surg 18(2):114724. Published online Feb 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i2.114724
Observational Study
Prospective Study
Basic Study
Fu-Lin Lin, Li-Min Zhou, Yun-Jie Ye, Xiao-Long Luo, Xue-Lin Ji, Si-Qi Chen, Ji-Guang Xie, Bing-Feng Jin, Zhen-Dong Liu 
World J Gastrointest Surg 18(2):114286. Published online Feb 27, 2026. doi: 10.4240/wjgs.v18.i2.114286
Meta-Analysis
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