Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Surgery

Surgery is the branch of medicine that treats disease, injury, and deformity through operative manual and instrumental intervention, encompassing the incision, excision, repair, reconstruction, transplantation, or manipulation of tissues and organs. Its aims are to remove or correct pathology, restore function and s…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 12× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Surgery is the branch of medicine that treats disease, injury, and deformity through operative manual and instrumental intervention, encompassing the incision, excision, repair, reconstruction, transplantation, or manipulation of tissues and organs. Its aims are to remove or correct pathology, restore function and structure, relieve symptoms, and prevent complications, guided by preoperative assessment, intraoperative technique, and perioperative care. The discipline spans numerous specialties, including general, cardiac, orthopaedic, ophthalmic, otolaryngological, and fetal surgery, and increasingly integrates technological advances such as laser-assisted and femtosecond techniques, image guidance, and minimally invasive approaches. Effective surgical practice requires management of operative risk, including thromboembolism, blood conservation, and the physiological consequences of anaesthesia and tissue handling, together with attention to outcomes across diverse patient populations. Surgery also intersects with oncology, where resection is combined with adjuvant therapies, and with reconstructive and functional goals across organ systems. The peer-reviewed research collected under this topic addresses cataract and other ophthalmic surgery, fetal surgery, otolaryngological and sinus procedures, cardiac surgery and haemodilution, orthopaedic thromboprophylaxis, nutritional consequences of surgery, and the surgical and radioiodine management of thyroid cancer, reflecting the field's breadth from technique and instrumentation to perioperative risk and long-term outcome across multiple surgical specialties.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 12 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Surgery, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Surgical Techniques.

Journal editorial board
Marcos Gomez Ruiz · Spain Simone Mocellin · Italy Kandiah Chandrakumaran · United Kingdom

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