Cirugía Española (English Edition)

ISSN: 2173-5077

Cirugía Española, an official body of the Asociación Española de Cirugía (Spanish Association of Surgeons), will consider original articles, reviews, editorials, special articles, scientific letters, letters to the editor, and medical images for publication; all of these will be submitted to an anonymous external peer review process. There is also the possibility of accepting book reviews of recent publications related to General and Digestive Surgery. The articles published in Cirugía Española can be found summarised and indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, Journal Citation Reports, Index Medicus/MEDLINE, Scopus, EMCare, Scirus, IBECS and IME.

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Impact factor 2024

1.3

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Citescore 2024

1.0

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SJR 2024

0.233

SNIP

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SNIP 2024

0.377

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Consensus-based validation of key quality indicators in pancreatic cancer surgery in Catalonia: A modified Delphi study

L. Guarga, P. Sánchez-Velázquez, JM. Badia, M. Ballesteros, L. Esteban, J. Busquets, F. Espín-Álvarez, S. Sánchez-Cabus, ... P Manchon-Walsh

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Dexketoprofen-mediated attenuation of ischemia-reperfusion injury in a rat model of lower limb ischemia

Pablo Martínez-Rubio, Ignacio García-Alonso, Amador García Ruiz de Gordejuela, Daniel Alonso-Alconada, Sira Iturrizaga, Iñigo Cearra, Inmaculada Ruiz-Montesinos, Borja Herrero de la Parte

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Omic analysis of the protein profile in digestive tumours, from proteomics to clinical practice

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‘Siewert type IV’: A 21st-century disease with a 20th-century surgical treatment

David Ruiz de Angulo, Vicente Munitiz Ruiz

Cir Esp. 2026;104:

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A modified Federle score is superior to injury grade in predicting the need for splenectomy in patients with isolated blunt splenic trauma

Corrado P. Marini, Patrizio Petrone, Francesca Izzo, David A. Lieb, Srinivas H. Reddy, John McNelis

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Prevalence and clinical significance of appendiceal diverticulosis: An 11-year retrospective study

Ramazan Serdar Arslan, Resad Beyoglu, Yavuz Savas Koca, Ahmet Emre Yenipazar

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The impact of microsatellite instability and tumor characteristics on survival of patients with right-sided colon cancer

Ozgur Ekinci, Ataturk Nurullayev, Muhammet Ali Aydemir, Aysegul Ergun, Tunc Eren, Orhan Alimoglu

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Consensus-based validation of key quality indicators in pancreatic cancer surgery in Catalonia: A modified Delphi study

L. Guarga, P. Sánchez-Velázquez, JM. Badia, M. Ballesteros, L. Esteban, J. Busquets, F. Espín-Álvarez, S. Sánchez-Cabus, F. Ausania, E. Pando, RM. Jorba, M. García-Domingo, S. Lopez-Ben, A. Escartín, F. Burdio, F. García-Borobia, JM. Borràs, P Manchon-Walsh

10.1016/j.cireng.2026.800304

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Manuel Lopez Cano

Vall d Hebron Hospital, Department of General and Digestive Surgery, Barcelona, Spain

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‘Siewert type IV’: A 21st-century disease with a 20th-century surgical treatment

David Ruiz de Angulo, Vicente Munitiz Ruiz

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