• Acute Cholecystitis: Early Versus Delayed Cholecystectomy
  
• Five-Year Follow-up of Antibiotic Therapy for Uncomplicated Acute Appendicitis in the APPAC Randomized Clinical Trial
  
  

• Transcatheter vs Total Aortic-Valve Replacement and Partner1 Trial
• Long Term Outcomes in PCI vs CABG and Syntax Trial
  
  

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• Minimally Invasive vs Abdominal Total Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer

• Effects of tranexamic acid on death, vascular occlusive events, and blood transfusion in trauma patients with significant haemorrhage (CRASH-2): a randomised, placebo-controlled trial
• Nationwide Analysis of Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta in Civilian Trauma

• Surgical vs nonsurgical treatment of adults with displaced fractures of the proximal humerus: the PROFHER randomized clinical trial

• The effect of burn rehabilitation massage therapy on hypertrophic scar after burn: A randomized controlled trial
• Topical Aloe Vera Gel for Accelerated Wound Healing of Split-Thickness Skin Graft Donor Sites: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial and Systematic Review

Take advantage of the ACOS Journal Channels on Cureus!

Scholarly activity is critical in your medical career journey and ACOS has partnered with the Cureus Journal of Medical Science to offer our members the opportunity to publish their work in a peer-reviewed, Pub Med® indexed journal. By partnering with Cureus, ACOS is able to offer our members a robust peer-review process, fully supported by experienced staff to ensure quick turnaround time for publishing, as well as worldwide article access via a PubMed® number.

ACOS hosts online journal channels for CARDIOTHORACIC and VASCULAR SURGERY, GENERAL SURGERY, NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY, PLASTIC & RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY, and UROLOGICAL SURGERY. We invite you to submit original, previously unpublished work/research for review and publication.  The editorial staffs in each division are positioned to receive, review and publish your research on the applicable ACOS Journal Channel.

You may submit your previously unpublished submissions (articles, case studies, and/or poster presentations) directly to your discipline's channel as noted above. There is no cost to ACOS members to have their research reviewed and/or published through this open access journal. To submit articles free of charge, you MUST submit your article directly to an ACOS Journal Channel by clicking on the applicable discipline surgery link above or by navigating to the desired ACOS surgical discipline channel from the Cureus. Simply go to WWW.CUREUS.COM, click on Channels, from the drop-down menu click Professional Societies, and from this second drop-down menu, navigate to your desired ACOS Surgical Discipline Channel and click on that channel to begin the FREE article submission process.

We look forward to receiving and reviewing your research!