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| Posthepatectomy liver failure: a definition and grading by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery (ISGLS) | Surgery | 2011 | 1.2K |
| Bile leakage after hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery: a definition and grading of severity by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery | Surgery | 2011 | 1.1K |
| A critical review of recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 trials in spinal surgery: emerging safety concerns and lessons learned | Spine Journal | 2011 | 1.1K |
| An extent of resection threshold for newly diagnosed glioblastomas | Journal of Neurosurgery | 2011 | 1K |
| Management of abdominal aortic aneurysms clinical practice guidelines of the European society for vascular surgery | European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery | 2011 | 992 |
| The biology of fracture healing | Injury | 2011 | 921 |
| Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | 2011 | 902 |
| Design properties of hydrogel tissue-engineering scaffolds | Expert Review of Medical Devices | 2011 | 898 |
| The care of patients with varicose veins and associated chronic venous diseases: clinical practice guidelines of the Society for Vascular Surgery and the American Venous Forum | Journal of Vascular Surgery | 2011 | 890 |
| The levels of evidence and their role in evidence-based medicine | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery | 2011 | 853 |
| Sepsis and major abdominal surgery lead to flaking of the endothelial glycocalix | Journal of Surgical Research | 2011 | 693 |
| Clinical practice guideline: tonsillectomy in children | Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery | 2011 | 652 |
| Increasing incidence of shoulder arthroplasty in the United States | Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series A | 2011 | 652 |
| Effect of body mass index on outcomes after cardiac surgery: is there an obesity paradox? | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 2011 | 643 |
| Overexpression of long non-coding RNA HOTAIR predicts tumor recurrence in hepatocellular carcinoma patients following liver transplantation | Annals of Surgical Oncology | 2011 | 612 |
| Acute kidney injury: a relevant complication after cardiac surgery | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 2011 | 604 |
| Efficient generation of jets from magnetically arrested accretion on a rapidly spinning black hole | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters | 2011 | 599 |
| Increased local recurrence and reduced survival from colorectal cancer following anastomotic leak: systematic review and meta-analysis | Annals of Surgery | 2011 | 572 |
| Laparoscopy in combination with fast track multimodal management is the best perioperative strategy in patients undergoing colonic surgery: a randomized clinical trial (LAFA-study) | Annals of Surgery | 2011 | 572 |
| The electrocardiographic method for positioning the tip of central venous catheters | Journal of Vascular Access | 2011 | 567 |
| CONSORT 2010 statement: updated guidelines for reporting parallel group randomised trials | International Journal of Surgery | 2011 | 561 |
| Epidemiology of burns throughout the world. Part I: Distribution and risk factors | Burns | 2011 | 551 |
| Problems, complications, reoperations, and revisions in reverse total shoulder arthroplasty: a systematic review | Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery | 2011 | 550 |
| The clinical use of indocyanine green as a near-infrared fluorescent contrast agent for image-guided oncologic surgery | Journal of Surgical Oncology | 2011 | 539 |
