Publications by authors named "Adam C Niemann"
Background: Despite well-established criteria for identifying the critical view of safety (CVS) during laparoscopic cholecystectomy, its impact on intraoperative decision-making among trainees is unclear.
Methods: General surgery interns (n = 10) viewed a training module on the CVS criteria and then independently reviewed 20 cholecystectomy videos lasting 1 min each edited at various points of CVS dissection to include examples of both adequate and inadequate dissections. Participants were asked to identify the following CVS criteria for each video-(1) clearance of fat from the hepatocystic triangle; (2) exposure of the cystic plate; and (3) two and only two structures entering the gallbladder-and then decide if the structures were safe to divide.
Background: Certain patient demographics and histopathologic features are risk factors for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) recurrence after initial treatment. Our objective was to determine whether very young age is associated with aggressive pathologic features in patients with PTC.
Materials And Methods: A retrospective analysis was performed for PTC patients who underwent surgical treatment at the University of Michigan between 2006 and 2012.