Jul 16, 2020

Clavicle non-unions often result after nonoperative treatment for the acute fracture. Those that require >1 surgical procedure in order for a nonunion to heal are termed recalcitrant. The aims of t...

Jul 16, 2020

The incidence of hardware removal (HWR) after operative fixation of clavicle fractures varies widely. Risk factors related to HWR remain incompletely understood. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...

Jul 16, 2020

Although neural visual processes play a crucial role in sport, experiments have been restricted to laboratory conditions lacking ecological validity. Therefore, this study examined the feasibility of ...

Jul 16, 2020

Mini dental implants can be used to support crowns and partial and complete dentures in compromised edentulous sites. Lack of bone width or site length may be treated with mini implants. Mini implants...

Jul 16, 2020

There is a critical unmet need in the clinical implementation of valid preventative and therapeutic strategies for patients with articular cartilage pathology based on the significant gap in understan...

Jul 16, 2020

 Patients with advanced prostate cancer are suitable candidates for [Lu]PSMA-617 therapy. Integrated SPECT/CT systems have the potential to improve the accuracy of patient-specific tumor dosimetry. ...

Jul 13, 2020

Musculoskeletal diseases (MSDs) are the leading cause of disability and facing them demands updated reports on their burden for efficient policymaking. We showed Iran had the highest female-to-male ra...

Jul 13, 2020

The effect of botulinum toxin type A (BTX-A) on fracture healing of the long bones is controversial, and no controlled clinical or experimental study has investigated the effect of BTX-A on mandibular...

Jul 13, 2020

To quantify preferences for attributes of potential analgesic treatments for moderate-to-severe pain associated with osteoarthritis (OA) and/or chronic low back pain (CLBP) as relevant to injectable n...

Jul 13, 2020

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common degenerative disease that affects the musculoskeletal structure of the whole joint, which is characterized by progressive destruction of both articular cartilage and su...

Jul 13, 2020

Collagen membranes and bone substitute are popular biomaterials in guided tissue regeneration for treatment of traumatized or diseased periodontal tissue. Development of these biomaterials starts in m...

Jul 13, 2020

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have been investigated as a potential injectable therapy for the treatment of knee osteoarthritis, with some evidence of success in preliminary human trials. However, opt...

Jul 09, 2020

Intramedullary spine dermoid cysts are rare and benign tumors that occur mainly due to the defective closure of the neural tube during the development process. They are slow-growing tumor that manifes...

Jul 09, 2020

Steroid-related spinal epidural lipomatosis (SEL) is a well-known condition most commonly encountered in patients taking chronic steroid medications. Endogenous Cushing's syndrome is a rare cause of S...

Jul 09, 2020

Local cultivars of comfrey (Symphytum spp.) have been used to cover protein and mineral requirements of farm animals in low-input systems. Due to its known health-promoting (e.g. allantoin), but also ...

Jul 09, 2020

Metastatic breast cancer cells on arriving at bone site interact with the bone cells to influence their growth, proliferation, and chemoresistance. There are currently no effective therapeutics availa...

Jul 09, 2020

Due to their ability in self-renewing and differentiation into a wide variety of tissues, mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) exhibit outstanding potential for regenerative medicine. This study was aimed at...

Jul 09, 2020

To evaluate the long-term clinical efficacy of the Tigris © stent (Gore ©) in femoropopliteal chronic total occlusions (CTOs).This single centre retrospective study included 29 patients treated with...

Jul 06, 2020

Study whether male adult judokas with and without low back pain (LBP) have different hip-spine flexibility.Cross-sectional.Judo training centres.Judokas with (n = 29) and without (n = 33) LBP.Rang...

Jul 06, 2020

To study the clinical and radiologic factors predicting the need for surgical intervention after blunt abdominal trauma (BAT) in children with equivocal computed tomography (CT) scan findings.We perfo...