Advertisement

Surgery General

Evaluating Crowdsourced Surgical Skills

Dec 15, 2022

The following is a summary of "Crowdsourced assessment of surgical skills: A systematic review" published in the November 2022 issue of Surgery by Olsen et al. The procedure's success significantly...

Clinical Management and Outcomes of Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction in Octogenarians

Dec 15, 2022

The following is a summary of "Adhesive small bowel obstruction in octogenarians: A 6-year retrospective single-center analysis of clinical management and outcomes" published in the November 2022 issu...

Engineering Platelets with PDL1 Antibodies and Iron Oxide Nanoparticles for Postsurgical Cancer Immunotherapy.

Dec 12, 2022

Recently, immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy has achieved great success in inhibition of the recurrence and metastasis of tumor. However, this therapy is challenged by the poor delivery efficien...

Defining Internal Tissue Closure: High-Resolution Ultrasound Evaluation of Interi-A Novel Internal Tissue Closure System.

Dec 12, 2022

Seroma remains a leading postsurgical complication in plastic surgery. Conventional drains are ineffective in clearing blood and fluid and closing down surgical spaces. The Interi (Internal Closure Sy...

Buttock necrosis following uterine artery embolization: A case report.

Dec 12, 2022

Fibroid is a very common benign tumor of the uterus for which uterine artery embolization is one of the treatment modalities of choice. Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a minimally invasive proced...

Test-Retest Reliability of Acoustic Emission Sensing of the Knee during Physical Tasks.

Dec 12, 2022

Acoustic emission (AE) sensing is an increasingly researched topic in the context of orthopedics and has a potentially high diagnostic value in the non-invasive assessment of joint disorders, such as ...

Musculoskeletal education in undergraduate medical curricula-A systematic review.

Dec 12, 2022

Rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases encompass a vast spectrum of up to 200 conditions that are increasingly prevalent, with significant associated disability and socioeconomic burden. Their impact ...

The role of transanal tube after low anterior resection in patients with rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy: A propensity score-matched study.

Dec 12, 2022

The protective efficacy of transanal tube for anastomosis was compared with that of diverting stoma in patients with rectal cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy.We included consecutive pa...

Prognostic implications of Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition-defined malnutrition in older patients who underwent cardiac surgery in China.

Dec 12, 2022

The proportion of older patients who are candidates for cardiac surgery is increasing. Growing evidence has shown that malnutrition is associated with a poor prognosis after cardiac surgery. The prese...

Covid-19 Pandemic: Evaluating the Surgical Workforce Experience

Dec 09, 2022

There was a need for an updated analysis of the surgeon's experience during the Covid-19 epidemic. For a study, researchers set out to explain how the pandemic's effects on surgeon stress levels and s...

Analysis of Parathyroidectomy and Thyroidectomy Outcomes Among CESQIP Surgeons

Dec 09, 2022

Few studies have compared the endocrine-specific results of parathyroidectomy (PTx) with those of concurrent parathyroidectomy and thyroidectomy (PTx + Tx). Collaborative Endocrine Surgery Quality ...

Comparison of Robotic Vs. Laparoscopic Living Donor Hepatectomy Surgical Results and Learning Curve

Dec 09, 2022

To perform a minimally invasive donor hepatectomy (MIDH), both laparoscopic living donor right hemihepatectomy (LLDRH) and robotic living donor right hemihepatectomy (RLDRH) have been developed. Howev...

Evaluation of a novel restorative protocol to treat non-carious cervical lesion associated with gingival recession: a 2-year follow-up randomized clinical trial.

Dec 05, 2022

To compare 2 different resin composites and 2 adhesive systems used in a new restorative protocol (partial restoration) to treat non-carious cervical lesions associated with gingival recession type 1 ...

USMLE Step 1 Pass/Fail is Here: Are Plastic Surgery Applicants Really Better Off?

Dec 05, 2022

As of January 26, 2022, the United States Medical Licensing Examination(USMLE) Step 1 score reporting will be changed from a numeric scoring system to pass/fail. Although the new scoring policy is exp...

Do task and item difficulty affect overestimation of one's hand hygiene compliance? A cross-sectional survey of physicians and nurses in surgical clinics of six hospitals in Germany.

Dec 05, 2022

One barrier to hand hygiene compliance is overestimation of one's own performance. Overconfidence research shows that overestimation tends to be higher for difficult tasks, which suggests that the mag...

Automatic lower limb bone segmentation in radiographs with different orientations and fields of view based on a contextual network.

Dec 05, 2022

Bone identification and segmentation in X-ray images are crucial in orthopedics for the automation of clinical procedures, but it often involves some manual operations. In this work, using a modified ...

Automatic lower limb bone segmentation in radiographs with different orientations and fields of view based on a contextual network.

Dec 05, 2022

Bone identification and segmentation in X-ray images are crucial in orthopedics for the automation of clinical procedures, but it often involves some manual operations. In this work, using a modified ...

Particulate matter exposure and chronic cerebral hypoperfusion promote oxidative stress and induce neuronal and oligodendrocyte apoptosis in male mice.

Dec 05, 2022

Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) may amplify the neurotoxicity of nanoscale particulate matter (nPM), resulting in white matter injury. This study characterized the joint effects of nPM (diameterâ...

Particulate matter exposure and chronic cerebral hypoperfusion promote oxidative stress and induce neuronal and oligodendrocyte apoptosis in male mice.

Dec 05, 2022

Chronic cerebral hypoperfusion (CCH) may amplify the neurotoxicity of nanoscale particulate matter (nPM), resulting in white matter injury. This study characterized the joint effects of nPM (diameterâ...

Demystifying BRAF Mutation Status in Colorectal Liver Metastases: A Multi-institutional, Collaborative Approach to 6 Open Clinical Questions.

Dec 05, 2022

To investigate the clinical implications of BRAF mutated (mutBRAF) colorectal liver metastases (CRLM).The clinical implications of mutBRAF status in CRLM are largely unknown.Patients undergoing resect...

SUBSPECIALTIES

Advertisement