Mar 25, 2021

Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a devastating complication in orthopedics and trauma surgery. A potential increase in PJI diagnoses, especially in combination with psychological comorbiditie...

Mar 25, 2021

A bibliometric review of the literature.To identify the most frequently cited articles relating to the repair of intervertebral disc (IVD) and to summarize the key points and findings of these highly ...

Mar 25, 2021

In this study, the reproducibility and validity of an automated artificial finger for evaluating properties of vaginal wall tissue was assessed. The effect of angle and rate of indentation on displaci...

Mar 25, 2021

The aim of this prospective randomized-controlled trial was to evaluate the risks/benefits of prophylactic central neck dissection (pCND) in patients with clinically node negative (cN0) papillary thyr...

Mar 25, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) has numerous applications in surgical quality assurance. We assessed AI accuracy in evaluating the critical view of safety (CVS) and intraoperative events during laparosco...

Mar 25, 2021

The sociopolitical and cultural context of graduate surgical education has changed considerably over the past 2 decades. Although new structures of graduate surgical training programs have been develo...

Mar 24, 2021

When deciding between two or more treatment options, gaining a better understanding of how patients and caregivers value the specific risks and benefits of each choice can facilitate shared decision m...

Mar 22, 2021

Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS) is a rare, life-threatening disease characterized by hepatic venous outflow obstruction. Liver transplantation (LT) is widely accepted as an effective therapeutic measure fo...

Mar 22, 2021

ABO-incompatible heart transplantation increases donor availability in young children and is evolving into standard of care in children younger than 2 years. Previous smaller studies suggest similar o...

Mar 22, 2021

Racial and socioeconomic disparities in access and quality of surgical care are well documented in many surgical subspecialties, including plastic surgery.Here, we aim to determine if demographic disp...

Mar 22, 2021

 As a cross-section discipline within the hospital infrastructure, radiological departments might be able to provide important information regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare...

Mar 22, 2021

Background and purpose - The frequency of primary anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is increasing resulting in more ACL revision surgeries. Therefore, we assessed survival rates of 2 dif...

Mar 22, 2021

Infections of bone occur in a variety of clinical settings, ranging from spontaneous isolated infections arising from presumed hematogenous spread to those associated with skin and soft tissue wounds ...

Mar 22, 2021

To examine whether anesthesia exposure is associated with neurocognitive decline in pediatric medulloblastoma.Patients were treated at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and completed ≥2 protocol...

Mar 22, 2021

Regional anesthesia might moderate the risk of persistent post-surgical pain, but its effect compared to systemic analgesia is still conflicting. This meta-analysis study was performed to assess the r...

Mar 22, 2021

Recent practice guidelines recommend venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for 28 days after cancer surgery. We sought to characterize and compare awareness, agreement, adoption, and adherence to these g...

Mar 22, 2021

Gender-affirmation surgery is a rapidly growing field in plastic surgery, urologic surgery, and gynecologic surgery. These procedures offer significant benefit to patients in reducing gender dysphoria...

Mar 18, 2021

Obesity might be associated with mortality and clinical outcomes following transplantation; however, the direction of this relationship has not been well-recognized in youth. The aim of this systemati...

Mar 18, 2021

Brazil has the most extensive public program for organ transplantation in the world, and the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) provides full coverage of all costs involved in organ donation, tran...

Mar 18, 2021

Multiple plastic stent (MPS) use for biliary anastomotic stricture (AS) after liver transplantation requires multiple procedures with consequent costs.To compare the success, adverse events and treatm...