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Latest news and updates about Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust including MTW Hospitals Charity and research news.
Research: publications by our staff
Research supports the discovery of new and improved ways of treating diseases and their symptoms, and takes place across a range of specialties, supported by a large number of staff.
Our research programme is a balance of commercial (industry), NIHR portfolio and own account research projects. Projects include observational and interventional.
The publications listed are those authored by members of staff (highlighted in bold) published in October.
This list does not include publications where staff members or teams have been acknowledged or listed as collaborators, or the organisation has been listed as a trial site.
Our publications in October
Aspiration of wrist ganglion cysts: a scoping review of aspiration alone versus aspiration with intralesional corticosteroid injection and implications for contemporary ultrasound-guided practice
Authors: Ahmadi, Faisal; Husain, Syed (Internal Medicine); Belhadj, Batou Ahmed; Sadiqi, Masehullah; Gordon, Douglas and Amiras, Dimitri
Publication date: 10 Oct 2026
Vascular Surgery Training and Practice in West Africa: A Narrative Review of Current Capacity and Challenges
Authors: Ajah, Jonathan;S anni, Quadri A.; Tiamiyu, Taye M.; Okezie, Adaobi S.; Opeyem, Olabode; Oyekan, Oluwaseun A. and Ikwu, Chiedozie K. A.
Publication date: 4 May 2026
The Impact of Hospital Volume on Bariatric Surgery Safety: A Population-Based Study using Data from the National Bariatric Surgery Registry of the United Kingdom
Authors: Bobotis, Stergios (Surgery); Das, Bibek; Robb, Henry; Parmar, Chetan; Abdul Aal, Yasser; El Ghazal, Nour; Ashrafian, Hutan; M Ghanem, Omar; Rose McGlonne, Emma; Khan, Omar and Fehervari, Matyas (Surgery)
Publication date: Oct 2026
Tissue-Free vs Tumor-Informed ctDNA Assays for Molecular Residual Disease Detection in Early Triple Negative Breast Cancer
Authors: Cunningham, Niamh; Cutts, Rosalind J.; Swift, Claire; Coakley, Maria; Sritharan, Prithika; Dunne, Kathryn; Dewan, Monisha; Kilburn, Lucy; Goddard, Katie; Hall, Peter; Harper-Wynne, Catherine (Oncology); Macpherson, Iain R.; Okines, Alicia; Wardley, Andrew; Waters, Simon; Palmieri, Carlo; Winter, Matthew; Bliss, Judith; Garcia-Murillas, Isaac and Turner, Nicholas C.
Publication date: 1 Oct 2026
Journal: JAMA Oncology 12(10), pp. 1098–1106
Medical tourism in plastic surgery: A European survey on professional practices, perspectives, and challenges
Authors: Demirdöver, Cenk; Henley, Mark; Schaefer, Dirk J.; Nugent, Nora; Plock, Jan A.; Reid, Adam J.; Giunta, Riccardo; Olariu, Radu; Daigeler, Adrien; Fradinho, Nuno; Jecan, Cristian Radu; Kaartinen, Ilkka; Karabeg, Reuf; Wolfram, Dolores; Saboye, Jacques; Tiengo, Cesare and Zic, Rado
Publication date: Oct 2026
The Impact of Diabetes on Risk of Revision Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Real-World Data Study
Authors: Eleftheriadou, Aikaterini; Anson, Matthew; Fozo, Zien; Khan, Shehzaad; Al-Hourani, Khalid and Alam, Uazman
Publication date: 16 Oct 2026
Journal: Advances in Therapy
Postoperative vocal fold mobility impairment after thoracic aortic surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of incidence, anatomy, and ascertainment
Item Type: Systematic Review & Meta Analysis
Authors: Farooq, Omar; Jamileh, Eyad; Muhammad, Fahad; Nawaz, Alishba; Abbas, Zaheer; Layton, Georgia; Zakkar, Mustafa and Antoun, Ibrahim
Publication date: 29 Oct 2026
Corrigendum to "Thrombospondin-4 correlates with MRI measures of structural damage and pain sensitisation: a new biomarker in knee osteoarthritis" [The Knee 59 (2026) 1-12, 104305
Authors: Howe, Franklyn Arron; Koushesh, Soraya; Blundell, Anna; Law, Amber (General Internal Medicine); Harrison, Abiola; Ejindu, Vivian; Taylor-Kuti, Seyi; Niakan, Andisheh; Sheppard, Mary; Ljuhar, Richard and Sofat, Nidhi
Publication date: Oct 2026
Journal: The Knee 62, pp. 104577
BREAST-Q outcomes after chest wall perforator flap reconstruction versus mastectomy: A single-centre retrospective cross-sectional study
Authors: Iqbal, Sara; Jaskani, Sadia; Shetty, Spoorthi and Obeid, Noor
Publication date: 14 Oct 2026
Using collaborative leadership and interdisciplinary pathways towards achieving national recommendations. Excellent results from 1884 rapid MRI scans for 'suspected scaphoid fracture'
Authors: McNally, Scarlett; Kapoor, Smriti (Trauma and Orthopaedics); Sambrook, Martin Gerard and Bocchetta, Natasha
Publication date: 6 Oct 2026
Journal: BMJ Leader
One- to two-year outcomes after surgery for cervical myelopathy: a systematic review of symptom duration and baseline severity
Authors: Najjar, Elie; Akil, Ali; Akil, Hussein; Nematiniaye Masooleh, Negin; Badhe, Neel; Mangal, Harris; Egu, Chinedu; Masarwa, Rawan; Salem, Khalid and Quraishi, Nasir A.
Publication date: 7 Oct 2026
Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of 3-monthly whole-body positron emission tomography-computed tomography surveillance scans for the identification of melanoma recurrence
Item Type: Journal Article
Authors: Rajput, Jaikishan; Ogieva, Eniye and Parkar, Rosemeen (Kent Oncology Centre)
Publication date: 27 Oct 2026
Evaluation of Dose to Medium and Dose to Water with the Acuros XB Algorithm for SABR: Clinical and Phantom-Based Observations
Authors: Tassell, Nicholas Michael; Vashistha, Apoorv and Mendoza Torres-Quevedo, Paz
Publication date: 29 Oct 2026
Protocol for the Therapy Personalisation Using Multiomic Analyses in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (THAMES-IBD) Study
Authors: Thomas, J. P., Saifuddin, Aamir. (Gastroenterology), Malas, S., Guzman, M. M., Poto, C. D., Dixit, D., et al.
Publication date: 13 Oct 2026
Journal: JCC Plus (2026): e70090