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Original Article
Development and Validation of a Race- and Ethnicity-Adjusted Index for Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease
Xinyuan He, Zhiluo Yang, Takanori Ito, Zhanpeng Yang, Hideyuki Hyogo, Masafumi Ono, Kentaro Oniki, Tetsuhito Kojima, Zixuan Xing, Yi Liu, Meijuan Han, Yuan Wang, Naoyoshi Kariya, Shinya Yokoyama, Xinrong Zhang, Jian Zu, Ming-Hua Zheng, Junji Saruwatari, Hirokazu Takahashi, Yee Hui Yeo, Lei Zhang, Takashi Honda, Mindie H. Nguyen, Fanpu Ji
Published online: 17 July 2026
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Artificial intelligence literacy, attitudes, and use among surgical educators in China: a nation wide, cross-sectional study
Chen Lin, Nasu Wang, Zhen Cao, Tianyu Li, Georgios Antonios Margonis, Jaeyun Jane Wang, Jiashu Han, Yixuan Sun, Ning Lu, Liangbo Dong, Yaozong Wang, Shuai Xiao, Bo Li, Zhigang Wei, Jinhong Chen, Dongming Zhang, Weidong Xiao, Tuerganaili Aji, Basangdunzhu, Feng Wang, Weibin Wang
Published online: 01 July 2026
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Assessing Synthetic and Cholestatic Function for Decompensation and Mortality in Compensated Cirrhosis. The CORE Consortium
David Shengyang Zhang, Margaret Li Peng Teng, Nicole Shu Ying Tang, Vincent L Chen, Jimmy Che-To Lai, Karn Wijarnpreecha, Rahul Kumar, Apichat Kaewdech, Thanawin Pramotedham, Anand V Kulkarni, Ming-Hua Zheng, Akash Roy, Ken Liu, Chitchai Rattananukrom, Mazen Noureddin, Mohammad Shadab Siddiqui, Mark D Muthiah, Cheng Han Ng, Hirokazu Takahashi; the CORE Consortium
Published online: 25 June 2026
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Expert Consensus
Chinese guidelines for perioperative whole-course nutrition management in pancreatic surgery (2025 edition)
Jingyong Xu, Rongrong Li, Hui Zhang, Jin Gu, Yongsu Ma, Yucheng Zhou, Lijuan Wang, Xianna Zhang, Yu Fang, Hao Wu, Jinhui Hou, Weijing Li, Ping Zeng, Bin Zhang, Xinying Wang, Wei Chen, Mingwei Zhu, Wenming Wu, Yinmo Yang, Hua Yang, Arved Weimann, Huanlong Qin, Yupei Zhao, Junmin Wei; The Pancreatic Surgery Group of the Chinese Society of Surgery
Published online: 11 June 2026
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Validation of the Institute Mutualiste Montsouris (IMM) system for the stratification of robotic liver resections: an international multicenter study
Qu Liu, Hwee-Leong Tan, Nicholas L. Syn, Gabriela Pilz da Cunha, Moritz Schmelzle, Jason Hawksworth, Umberto Cillo, Atsushi Sugioka, Yutaro Kato, David Fuks, Olivier Soubrane, Paulo Herman, Yonggang Wei, Marco V. Marino, Roland S. Croner, Olivier Scatton, Adrian K. H. Chiow, Sung-Hoon Choi, Jae Hoon Lee, Marco Vivarelli, Federico Mocchegiani, Felice Giuliante, Andrea Ruzzenente, Mengqiu Yin, Paolo Magistri, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, David Geller, Andrea Belli, Riccardo Memeo, Kristin Goodsell, James O. Park, Victor Lopez-Lopez, Ricardo Robles-Campos, Robert P. Sutcliffe, Felix Krenzien, Alesandro Ferrero, Giuseppe Maria Ettorre, Junhao Zheng, Xiao Liang, Go Wakabayashi, Roberto I. Troisi, Tan-To Cheung, Ho-Seong Han, Bjorn Edwin, Kuo-Hsin Chen, Mohammad Abu Hilal, Luca Aldrighetti, Mikhail Efanov, Wanguang Zhang, Emanuele F. Kauffmann, Ugo Boggi, Raffaele Brustia, Mathieu D’Hondt, Xiaoying Wang, Alejandro Mejia, Gi-Hong Choi, Charing C. N. Chong, Rutger-Jan Swijnenburg, T. Peter Kingham, Johann Pratschke, Eric C. H. Lai, Chung-Ngai Tang, Iswanto Sucandy, Rong Liu, Brian K. P. Goh; International Robotic and Laparoscopic Liver Resection Study Group Investigators
Published online: 02 June 2026
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Predictors of Textbook Outcomes in Liver Resection with Vascular Reconstruction: An International Multicenter Study
Victor Lopez-Lopez, Christoph Kuemmerli, Cecilia Maina, Francesca Ratti, Juan Gonzalez-Ferez, Sarah Daniels, Nikhil Suresh, Augustin Suffisseu, Safi Dokmak, Elias Karam, Yawen Dong, Zhihao Li, Rory L. Smoot, Muhammad Ahmad Nadeem, Federico Aucejo, Emilio Vicente, Enrico Gringeri, Eleonora Nieddu, Jordi Navinés-López, Lucia Hernandez-Ramos, Mohammad H Fard-Aghaie, Jens Rolinger, Leyre Serrablo, Dilmurodjon Eshmuminov, Sanjay Govil, William Archie, Dionisios Vrochides, Martin de Santibañes, Eduardo de Santibañes, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Silvio M P Balzan, Cristina Dopazo, Vicente Borrego-Estella, Giuseppe Kito Fusai, Fernando Rotellar-Sastre, Roberto I Troisi, Alejandro Serrablo, Silvio Nadalin, Karl J Oldhafer, Esteban Cugat, Umberto Cillo, Andrea Schlegel, Patrick Starlinger, Mickael Lesurtel, Pierre Alain Clavien, Daniel Azoulay, Jose Manuel Ramia, Peter Lodge, Ricardo Robles Campos
Published online: 19 May 2026
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Concurrent loco-regional therapy associated with improved survival in non-virus-related unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma who received systemic therapies: a multi-center retrospective cohort study (CLEAP-2502)
Yangxun Pan, Jianfeng Zhang, Hongzhi Liu, Xiaodong Zhu, Shunli Shen, Kui Wang, Huichuan Sun, Wei Zhang, Li Xu; China Liver Cancer Study Group Young Investigators (CLEAP)
Published online: 19 May 2026
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Genotype–Phenotype Associations Underlying Very Early Recurrence After Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma Resection
Kizuki Yuza, Jun Kawashima, Miho Akabane, Yutaka Endo, Odysseas P Chatzipanagiotou, Christian Hobeika, Federico Aucejo, Hugo P. Marques, Tom Hugh, Feng Shen, Shishir K. Maithel, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Irinel Popescu, Minoru Kitago, Matthew J. Weiss, Guillaume Martel, Carlo Pulitano, George Poultsides, Andrea Ruzzente, Todd W. Bauer, Ana Gleisner, Itaru Endo, Timothy M. Pawlik
Published online: 15 May 2026
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Clinical Practice Guideline
Chinese clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of sarcopenia in liver transplant recipients
Di Lu, Jianyong Zhuo, Zuyuan Lin, Hualian Hang, Zhikun Liu, Guanghan Fan, Li Zhuang, Tian Shen, Hengkai Zhu, Huigang Li, Yuhang Li, Xiao Xu; Liver Transplantation Group, Branch of Organ Transplantation of Chinese Medical Association; Branch of Organ Transplant Physicians of Chinese Medical Doctor Association
Published online: 29 April 2026
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An albumin-bilirubin-based multivariable model for fairly predicting perioperative mortality after liver transplantation in the modern era
Yixian Huang, Bi Pan, Xiaoyi Fan, Tao Lv, Jian Yang, Kunlin Xie, JiuLin Song, Lingxiang Kong, Jingsheng Yuan, Xi Xu, Chen Jin, Chengcheng Zhang, Yuancheng Li, Hongji Yang, Xingchao Liu, Zhu Li, Shaohua Song, Zhengxin Wang, Yifeng Tao, Yi Zhang, Leida Zhang, Gang Xu, Lvnan Yan, Hong Wu, Jiayin Yang
Published online: 26 April 2026
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Distinguishing microvascular invasion and satellite nodules: correlation with outcomes after hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma
Zhen-Qi Li, Ze-Tao Yu, Tian-Chen Zhang, Yu Cao, Ming-Gen Hu, Han Wang, Nian-Xin Xia, Wen-Chao Zhao, Xiong Chen, Shuai Xu, Guang Tan, Chao Lin, Tao Jiang, Yun-Fei Xu, Fan Zhang, Zhong-Hua Liu, Hong-Xing Jiang, Qing-Qiang Ni, Yu-Fu Tang, Yi-Lin Hu, Yi-Meng Lu, Yi-Ren Hu, Kai Wang, Zhi-Qiang Wang, Rui-Fang Fan, Jian-Hua Lin, Mao-Lin Yan, Xiao-Dong Tan, Shu-Qun Cheng, Xiu-Ping Zhang, Rong Liu
Published online: 25 April 2026
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Lenvatinib plus PD-1 inhibitors with transarterial embolization and hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a bias-adjusted survival and clinical trajectory analysis
Lixin Du, Yang Zhang, Weiwei Lv, Hui Zhang, Tiezhong Zhang, Kangshuai Li, Qiangbo Zhang, Ben Wang, Dong Sun, Chunxiao Hu, Runde Jiang, Chuanzong Zhao, Hao Chen, Yi Liu, Yunfei Xu, Guangzhen Li, Sen Guo, Zongli Zhang
Published online: 23 April 2026
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Adjuvant chemoimmunotherapy vs. capecitabine vs. observation in resected biliary tract cancer: a multi-center retrospective study
Chengjie Li, Mingjian Piao, Zibo Xu, Weixuan Pan, Shuman Kuang, Ziyue Huang, Nan Zhang, Jiongyuan Li, Shuofeng Li, Guanhua Yu, Shi Feng, Hu Li, Zhe Zhu, Binhe Tian, Xiaobo Yang, Chengpei Zhu, Daobing Zeng, Zhenyu Zhu, Yongliang Sun, Weidong Duan, Haitao Zhao
Published online: 23 April 2026
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Impact of expert centers annual case volume on outcomes of minimally-invasive liver resections: international multicenter study
Federica Cipriani, Francesca Ratti, Nicholas L. Syn, Ken-Min Chin, Qu Liu, Wanguang Zhang, Giuseppe Zimmitti, Davit L. Aghayan, Tiing-Foong Siow, Olivier Scatton, Paulo Herman, Safi Dokmak, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Adrian K. H. Chiow, Iswanto Sucandy, Arpad Ivanecz, Sung-Hoon Choi, Jae Hoon Lee, Mikel Prieto, Marco Vivarelli, Felice Giuliante, Andrea Ruzzenente, Chee-Chien Yong, Zewei Chen, Mengqiu Yin, Constantino Fondevila, Mikhail Efanov, Zenichi Morise, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Raffaele Brustia, Raffaele Dalla Valle, Ugo Boggi, David Geller, Andrea Belli, Riccardo Memeo, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Roland S. Croner, Salvatore Gruttadauria, Jason Hawksworth, James O. Park, Fernando Rotellar, Gi-Hong Choi, Ricardo Robles-Campos, Xiaoying Wang, Robert P. Sutcliffe, Johann Pratschke, Chung-Ngai Tang, Charing C. N. Chong, Mathieu D’Hondt, Kazuteru Monden, Santiago Lopez-Ben, T. Peter Kingham, Alessandro Ferrero, Giuseppe Maria Ettorre, Daniel Cherqui, Xiao Liang, Rutger-Jan Swijnenburg, Go Wakabayashi, Roberto I. Troisi, Tan-To Cheung, Atsushi Sugioka, Motokazu Sugimoto, Tran Cong Duy Long, Yufu Peng, Yonggang Wei, Kuo-Hsin Chen, Olivier Soubrane, David Fuks, Rong Liu, Ho-Seong Han, Mohammad Abu Hilal, Bjørn Edwin, Brian K. P. Goh; International Robotic and Laparoscopic Liver Resection Study Group Investigators
Published online: 16 April 2026
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Applicability and effectiveness of a formula-based low-carb diet in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease—a single-arm interventional study
Philipp Hruska, Georg Semmler, Manuela Teufelhart, Harald Hofer, Robert Winker, Benedikt Mehl, Christian Rabitsch, Bernadette Barta, Peter Ferenci, Helmuth Haslacher, Michael Trauner, Thomas-Matthias Scherzer
Published online: 27 March 2026
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Evolution of outcomes after hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma: an analysis of different periods
Chao Li, Ming-Da Wang, Yu-Ze Zhao, Wen-Long Zhai, Yong-Kang Diao, Ya-Hao Zhou, Jun Lu, Ting-Hao Chen, Bo Wu, Hong Wang, Wei-Min Gu, Yong-Yi Zeng, Zi-Jie Tang, Jie Li, Ying-Jian Liang, Hong-Wei Guo, Xin-Fei Xu, Li-Hui Gu, Jia-Hao Xu, Han Wu, Feng Shen, Eric C. H. Lai, Tian Yang; Eastern HepatoBiliary Alliance (EHBA) group
Published online: 26 February 2026
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Prognostic Nutritional Index helps stratify outcomes of patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma undergoing curative-intent resection
Takahide Ikeda, Jun Kawashima, Kota Sahara, Miho Akabane, François Cauchy, Federico Aucejo, Hugo P. Marques, Rita Lopes, Andreia Rodriguea, Tom Hugh, Feng Shen, Shishir K. Maithel, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Irinel Popescu, Minoru Kitago, Matthew J. Weiss, Guillaume Martel, Carlo Pulitano, Luca Aldrighetti, George Poultsides, Andrea Ruzzente, Todd W. Bauer, Ana Gleisner, Itaru Endo, Timothy M. Pawlik
Published online: 27 January 2026
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Associated factors identification and predictive model development for perioperative risk in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma receiving preoperative immunotherapy
Han Li, Peng-Fei Sun, Jun-Yu Long, Hong-Zhi Liu, Qi-Rui Zhang, Zhong-Chao Li, Yong-Yi Zeng, Xin-Yu Bi, Ya-Jin Chen, Zhong Chen, Zhi-Yong Huang, Ming Kuang, De-Yu Li, Xiang-Cheng Li, Xiao Liang, Fu-Bao Liu, Shi-Chun Lu, Tao Peng, Tian-Qiang Song, Hui-Chuan Sun, Kui Wang, Nan-Ya Wang, Tian-Fu Wen, Bao-Cai Xing, Li Xu, Tao Yin, Lei Zhang, Shui-Jun Zhang, Le-Du Zhou, Lei Zhao, Hai-Tao Zhao, Dong-Xu Wang, Tao Li; China Liver Cancer Study Group Young Investigators (CLEAP)
Published online: 21 January 2026
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Modified T category for early-staged intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: inclusion of perineural invasion
Tao Wei, Matthew Weiss, Mujtaba Khalil, Irinel Popescu, Hugo P. Marques, Luca Aldrighetti, Shishir K. Maithel, Carlo Pulitano, Todd W. Bauer, Feng Shen, George A. Poultsides, Oliver Soubrane, Guillaume Martel, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Endo Itaru, Yi Lyu, Xu-Feng Zhang, Timothy M. Pawlik
Published online: 14 January 2026
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Frailty assessed using the Liver Frailty IndexTM (LFI) is a risk factor for mortality in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with atezolizumab-bevacizumab
Philippe Sultanik, Claudia Campani, Sarah Mouri, Eleonore Spitzer, Mathilde Wagner, Lorraine Blaise, Marie Lequoy, Violaine Ozenne, Jean Charles Nault, Dominique Thabut, Nathalie Ganne-Carrié, Manon Allaire
Published online: 12 December 2025
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Influence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and metabolic risk factors on immunotherapy outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma with chronic hepatitis B
Xin-Tong Wu, Jun-Zhe Yi, Yi-Min Zhang, Jiong-Liang Wang, Lei Li, Jiang-Zheng Zeng, Ke Ding, Yu-Wen Fan, Xin Liu, Zhi-Jian Zhu, Dao-Zu Yuan, Shang-Fu Ning, Jian-Zhong Zhang, Yong-Fei You, Jie Xu, Rong-Ping Guo, Min-Shan Chen, Ming Zhao, Ning Lyu
Published online: 11 December 2025
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Clinical outcomes of hepatectomy after partial response to immune checkpoint inhibitor-based combination therapy in patients with extrahepatic hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis
Ziyue Huang, Shanshan Wang, Cong Ning, Kai Liu, Mingjian Piao, Xiangqi Chen, Nan Zhang, Yang Tan, Shuofeng Li, Jiongyuan Li, Chengjie Li, Ziyu Xun, Junwei Zhang, Jin Bian, Xiao Liu, Chengpei Zhu, Lei Zhang, Xiaobo Yang, Shunda Du, Haitao Zhao
Published online: 10 December 2025
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Does preoperative routine statin use reduce post-hepatectomy liver failure?—an international multicentre retrospective cohort study on 2,342 patients
Florian Primavesi, Nicholas Syn, Thomas Niederwieser, Kamil Pufal, Benedikt Rumpf, Ahmed Ghoneima, Eva Braunwarth, Benno Cardini, Mattias Mandorfer, Felix Julius Krendl, Florian Ponholzer, Sophie Schindler, Rupert Oberhuber, Manuel Maglione, Dietmar Öfner, Stefan Schneeberger, Keith Roberts, Magdy Attia, Patrick Starlinger, Bobby V. M. Dasari, Stefan Stättner
Published online: 26 August 2025
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Short- and long-term outcomes and cost-effectiveness of robotic-assisted versus laparoscopic liver resection for Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) 0/A hepatocellular carcinoma: a multicenter propensity score-matched analysis
Feng Xia, Xulin Liu, Jing Yan, Zhancheng Qiu, Qiao Zhang, Zhenheng Wu, Zhiyuan Huang, Renjie Wei, Li Lin, Liping Liu, Shuangqin Han, Huaxuan Yin, Guobing Xia, Yunyan Wan, Jian Li, Xiafei Xia, Huapeng Sun, Shuai Wang, Jun Zheng, Hengyi Gao, Li Ren, Ali Mo, Junquan Fu, Lin Ye, Wei Zhou, Xiaoping Chen, Peng Zhu, Bixiang Zhang, Zhiwei Zhang, Qi Cheng
Published online: 07 July 2025
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Dynamic changes of pathophysiological characteristics during liver regeneration induced by associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS)
Jiayan Yan, Zhifeng Jiang, Shiyu Zhang, Runze Miao, Na Yao, Feiyu Chen, Dezhen Guo, Rongkui Luo, Senquan Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Junfeng Huang, Zheng Wang, Zhaoyou Tang, Jia Fan, Ao Huang, Yuan Ji, Hans J. Schlitt, Xinrong Yang, Jian Zhou
Published online: 17 April 2025
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