| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Comprehensive Complication Index | Annals of Surgery | 2013 | 1,127 |
| 2 | Recommendations for liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma: an international consensus conference report | Lancet Oncology, The | 2012 | 872 |
| 3 | Guidelines for Perioperative Care for Liver Surgery: Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) Society Recommendations | World Journal of Surgery | 2016 | 459 |
| 4 | Downregulation of proinflammatory cytokine release in whole blood from septic patients | Blood | 1995 | 434 |
| 5 | The Impact of Complications on Costs of Major Surgical Procedures | Annals of Surgery | 2011 | 389 |
| 6 | A Lymphotoxin-Driven Pathway to Hepatocellular Carcinoma | Cancer Cell | 2009 | 345 |
| 7 | Pathway Based Analysis of Mutation Data Is Efficient for Scoring Target Cancer Drugs | Frontiers in Pharmacology | 2019 | 303 |
| 8 | IL-10 levels in cerebrospinal fluid and serum of patients with severe traumatic brain injury: relationship to IL-6, TNF-α, TGF-β1 and blood–brain barrier function | Journal of Neuroimmunology | 1999 | 300 |
| 9 | A Multicenter Randomized Clinical Trial of Primary Anastomosis or Hartmann's Procedure for Perforated Left Colonic Diverticulitis With Purulent or Fecal Peritonitis | Annals of Surgery | 2012 | 296 |
| 10 | Shaping the Future of Probiotics and Prebiotics | Trends in Microbiology | 2021 | 270 |
| 11 | Liver transplantation for “very early” intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: International retrospective study supporting a prospective assessment | Hepatology | 2016 | 262 |
| 12 | Production of cytokines following brain injury: beneficial and deleterious for the damaged tissue | Molecular Psychiatry | 1997 | 257 |
| 13 | New staging system and a registry for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma | Hepatology | 2011 | 252 |
| 14 | Liver transplantation using fatty livers: Always feasible? | Journal of Hepatology | 2011 | 242 |
| 15 | Protective mechanisms of end-ischemic cold machine perfusion in DCD liver grafts | Journal of Hepatology | 2013 | 237 |
| 16 | Hereditary diffuse gastric cancer: updated clinical practice guidelines | Lancet Oncology, The | 2020 | 237 |
| 17 | Interleukin-6 released in human cerebrospinal fluid following traumatic brain injury may trigger nerve growth factor production in astrocytes | Brain Research | 1996 | 228 |
| 18 | Use of Severely Steatotic Grafts in Liver Transplantation | Annals of Surgery | 2007 | 216 |
| 19 | What Is a Surgical Complication? | World Journal of Surgery | 2008 | 212 |
| 20 | NONO couples the circadian clock to the cell cycle | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 207 |
| 21 | The correlation of nutrition risk index, nutrition risk score, and bioimpedance analysis with postoperative complications in patients undergoing gastrointestinal surgery | Surgery | 2009 | 187 |
| 22 | Danger Signals Activating the Immune Response after Trauma | Mediators of Inflammation | 2012 | 183 |
| 23 | Serotonin promotes tumor growth in human hepatocellular cancer | Hepatology | 2010 | 182 |
| 24 | Prone Positioning and Low-Volume Pressure-Limited Ventilation Improve Survival in Patients With Severe ARDS | Chest | 1997 | 165 |
| 25 | Elevated Intracranial IL-18 in Humans and Mice after Traumatic Brain Injury and Evidence of Neuroprotective Effects of IL-18—Binding Protein after Experimental Closed Head Injury | Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism | 2002 | 163 |
| 26 | Cytokines and neuropathology | Trends in Pharmacological Sciences | 1992 | 162 |
| 27 | One Hour Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion (HOPE) Protects Nonviable Liver Allografts Donated After Cardiac Death | Annals of Surgery | 2009 | 154 |
| 28 | Hypothermic oxygenated perfusion (HOPE) protects from biliary injury in a rodent model of DCD liver transplantation | Journal of Hepatology | 2013 | 151 |
| 29 | Metallic artefact reduction with monoenergetic dual-energy CT: systematic ex vivo evaluation of posterior spinal fusion implants from various vendors and different spine levels | European Radiology | 2012 | 146 |
| 30 | Warm vs. cold perfusion techniques to rescue rodent liver grafts | Journal of Hepatology | 2014 | 143 |
| 31 | Meta-analysis of associating liver partition with portal vein ligation and portal vein occlusion for two-stage hepatectomy | British Journal of Surgery | 2016 | 139 |
| 32 | The Use of Fatty Liver Grafts in Modern Allocation Systems | Annals of Surgery | 2012 | 137 |
| 33 | Receptor for the C3a anaphylatoxin is expressed by neurons and glial cells | | 1999 | 134 |
| 34 | Severity Grading of Surgical Complications | Annals of Surgery | 2009 | 134 |
| 35 | Breathing pattern and additional work of breathing in spontaneously breathing patients with different ventilatory demands during inspiratory pressure support and automatic tube compensation | Intensive Care Medicine | 1997 | 130 |
| 36 | Downregulation of proinflammatory cytokine release in whole blood from septic patients | Blood | 1995 | 130 |
| 37 | Predictive validity of preoperative CT scans and the risk of pedicle screw loosening in spinal surgery | Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery | 2016 | 129 |
| 38 | Spider Silk Constructs Enhance Axonal Regeneration and Remyelination in Long Nerve Defects in Sheep | PLoS ONE | 2011 | 129 |
| 39 | Vacuum-Assisted Closure Therapy Increases Local Interleukin-8 and Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels in Traumatic Wounds | Journal of Trauma | 2009 | 128 |
| 40 | Liver Failure After Extended Hepatectomy in Mice Is Mediated by a p21-Dependent Barrier to Liver Regeneration | Gastroenterology | 2012 | 124 |
| 41 | Serotonin Regulates Macrophage-Mediated Angiogenesis in a Mouse Model of Colon Cancer Allografts | Cancer Research | 2008 | 119 |
| 42 | Preconditioning, organ preservation, and postconditioning to prevent ischemia-reperfusion injury to the liver | Liver Transplantation | 2009 | 118 |
| 43 | Prospective, randomized comparison of extrapleural versus epidural analgesia for postthoracotomy pain | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 1998 | 117 |
| 44 | Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Feasibility, Safety, and Efficacy of a Novel Procedure: Associating Liver Partition and Portal Vein Ligation for Staged Hepatectomy | Annals of Surgical Oncology | 2015 | 114 |
| 45 | Stress-activatedmiR-21/miR-21*in hepatocytes promotes lipid and glucose metabolic disorders associated with high-fat diet consumption | Gut | 2016 | 114 |
| 46 | Definition and Classification of Intraoperative Complications (CLASSIC): Delphi Study and Pilot Evaluation | World Journal of Surgery | 2015 | 113 |
| 47 | Chemotherapy Before Liver Resection of Colorectal Metastases | Annals of Surgery | 2012 | 110 |
| 48 | Characteristics of Early-Onset vs Late-Onset Colorectal Cancer | JAMA Surgery | 2021 | 110 |
| 49 | Morbidity and Recurrence After Completion Lymph Node Dissection Following Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma | Annals of Surgery | 2008 | 107 |
| 50 | Long-term Assessment of Lung Function in Survivors of Severe ARDSa | Chest | 2003 | 105 |
