| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Estimating the global incidence of traumatic brain injury | Journal of Neurosurgery | 2019 | 1,291 |
| 2 | Guidelines for the management of inflammatory bowel disease in adults | Gut | 2011 | 1,127 |
| 3 | Common variants on chromosome 5p12 confer susceptibility to estrogen receptor–positive breast cancer | Nature Genetics | 2008 | 412 |
| 4 | Randomised comparison of combined spinal-epidural and standard epidural analgesia in labour | Lancet, The | 1995 | 300 |
| 5 | High school dietary dairy intake and teenage acne | Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology | 2005 | 248 |
| 6 | Nutrition and management of enterocutaneous fistula | British Journal of Surgery | 2006 | 179 |
| 7 | Long term survival and local control outcomes from single dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy during lumpectomy (TARGIT-IORT) for early breast cancer: TARGIT-A randomised clinical trial | BMJ, The | 2020 | 165 |
| 8 | Keloids in the African | Clinics in Plastic Surgery | 1974 | 154 |
| 9 | Diagnostic accuracy of magnetic resonance enterography and small bowel ultrasound for the extent and activity of newly diagnosed and relapsed Crohn's disease (METRIC): a multicentre trial | The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 2018 | 143 |
| 10 | The ambulant treatment of spinal tuberculosis | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 140 |
| 11 | Non-Communicable Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case for Cohort Studies | PLoS Medicine | 2010 | 122 |
| 12 | Emerging breast cancer epidemic: evidence from Africa | Breast Cancer Research | 2010 | 117 |
| 13 | A prospective randomized trial of intraoperative bupivacaine irrigation for management of shoulder-tip pain following laparoscopy | American Journal of Surgery | 1998 | 114 |
| 14 | Immunohistochemical and molecular subtypes of breast cancer in Nigeria | Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | 2008 | 99 |
| 15 | Endoscopic laser palliation for advanced malignant dysphagia. | Gut | 1987 | 95 |
| 16 | Breast cancer in Nigeria | West African Journal of Medicine | 2000 | 95 |
| 17 | Case-controlled study of the epidemiological risk factors for breast cancer in Nigeria | British Journal of Surgery | 2002 | 91 |
| 18 | Polymorphic Variation at the BAT-25 and BAT-26 Loci in Individuals of African Origin | American Journal of Pathology | 1999 | 89 |
| 19 | Schistosomiasis of the appendix | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 89 |
| 20 | Low HDL-cholesterol with normal triglyceride levels is the most common lipid pattern in West Africans and African Americans with Metabolic Syndrome: Implications for cardiovascular disease prevention | CVD Prevention and Control | 2010 | 83 |
| 21 | Effect of Delayed Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy vs Whole-Breast Radiotherapy on Local Recurrence and Survival | JAMA Oncology | 2020 | 83 |
| 22 | Ancestry-Shift Refinement Mapping of the C6orf97-ESR1 Breast Cancer Susceptibility Locus | PLoS Genetics | 2010 | 82 |
| 23 | The Effect of Palate Repair on Otitis Media with Effusion | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | 1992 | 73 |
| 24 | Breast cancer in Nigerian women | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 70 |
| 25 | Characterization of prostatic carcinoma among blacks: A comparison between a low-incidence area, Ibadan, Nigeria, and a high-incidence area, Washington, DC | Prostate | 1980 | 64 |
| 26 | Waist-hip ratio and breast cancer risk in urbanized Nigerian women | Breast Cancer Research | 2003 | 61 |
| 27 | Optimum duration of surgical scrub-time | British Journal of Surgery | 2005 | 61 |
| 28 | Primary tumour resection and survival in the palliative management of metastatic colorectal cancer | European Journal of Surgical Oncology | 2009 | 60 |
| 29 | Factors influencing medical students and junior doctors in choosing a career in surgery | Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh | 2010 | 60 |
| 30 | Factors contributing to failure of laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication and the predictive value of preoperative assessment | American Journal of Surgery | 2004 | 58 |
| 31 | The Practice of Traditional Bonesetting: Training Algorithm | Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research | 2008 | 55 |
| 32 | A pilot evaluation of a neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) based methodology for the prevention of venous stasis during bed rest | Medical Engineering and Physics | 2010 | 54 |
| 33 | Immunocytochemical Characterisation of the Inflammatory Cell Infiltrate of Varicose Veins | European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery | 2004 | 51 |
| 34 | Obesity and Height in Urban Nigerian Women with Breast Cancer | Annals of Epidemiology | 2003 | 49 |
| 35 | Identifying predictors of ventral hernia recurrence: systematic review and meta-analysis | BJS Open | 2021 | 49 |
| 36 | An evaluation of preoperative CA 15-3 measurement in primary breast carcinoma | British Journal of Cancer | 1995 | 47 |
| 37 | Colorectal adenocarcinoma: risks, prevention and diagnosis | BMJ, The | 2016 | 47 |
| 38 | The Morphological and Functional Changes in Rat Bladder Following Photodynamic Therapy with Phthalocyanine Photosensitization | Journal of Urology | 1991 | 46 |
| 39 | Cranioplasty Following Decompressive Craniectomy | Frontiers in Neurology | 2019 | 44 |
| 40 | Imaging complex ventral hernias, their surgical repair, and their complications | European Radiology | 2018 | 42 |
| 41 | A preliminary report on the usefulness of monoclonal antibodies to CA 15-3 and MCA in the detection of micrometastases in axillary lymph nodes draining primary breast carcinoma | European Journal of Cancer | 1992 | 40 |
| 42 | Use of the ultrasonic dissecting scalpel in laparoscopic cholecystectomy | Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques | 2000 | 40 |
| 43 | Diagnostic and therapeutic impact of MR enterography in Crohn’s disease | Clinical Radiology | 2011 | 40 |
| 44 | Analgesia in day case breast biopsy — The value of pre-emptive tenoxicam | Canadian Journal of Anaesthesia | 1998 | 38 |
| 45 | What size of vegetation is an indication for surgery in endocarditis? | Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery | 2012 | 38 |
| 46 | Low penetrance breast cancer predisposition SNPs are site specific | Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | 2009 | 37 |
| 47 | Reflections on randomised controlled trials in surgery | Lancet, The | 1999 | 36 |
| 48 | Determinants of folic acid intake during preconception and in early pregnancy by mothers in Ibadan, Nigeria | Pan African Medical Journal | 2014 | 36 |
| 49 | An Objective Characterization of Atherosclerotic Lesion | Stroke | 2000 | 35 |
| 50 | The Impact of Hormone Receptor Status on the Clinical Efficacy of the New-Generation Aromatase Inhibitors: A Review of Data from First-Line Metastatic Disease Trials in Postmenopausal Women | Breast Journal | 2004 | 35 |
