Jan 10, 2022

Drain use in pancreatic surgery remains controversial. This survey sought to evaluate habits, experiences, and opinions of experts in the field on the use of drains to provide interesting insights for...

Jan 05, 2022

Overall survival (OS) for advanced-stage non–small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (IIIA-IV) is highly variable, and retrospective data reveal that patients who get therapeutic intent pulmonary resection h...

Jan 04, 2022

Researchers wanted to see if the vasoactive-ventilation-renal score might be used to predict prognosis in individuals recovering from congenital heart surgery. They also wanted to determine when the b...

Jan 04, 2022

The pre-and minimally invasive types of lung cancer are adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) and minimally invasive adenocarcinoma (MIA). The purpose of the study was to look into the safety and survival outc...

Jan 04, 2022

This study used the Japan Cardiovascular Database to describe the clinical results of open surgery for acute aortic dissection. The Japan Cardiovascular Database recorded 29,486 patients with acute ao...

Jan 04, 2022

Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumors (ATRTs) are aggressive juvenile brain tumors with no current treatment options and a 12- to 18-month median survival rate. Previously, cyclin D1 and enhancer of zeste...

Jan 03, 2022

The researchers wanted to look into the benefits and drawbacks of employing the semi-sitting posture in pediatric neurosurgery, with a particular focus on morbidity and surgical feasibility. They cond...

Jan 03, 2022

Children with many prematurely fused cranial sutures and those who receive surgical correction later in life appear to have poorer neurocognitive outcomes. Still, it’s unclear if increased intracran...

Jan 03, 2022

Most neurologists and neurosurgeons encounter Dandy-Walker malformation (DWM) at some point during their employment. The cerebellar vermis is characterized by partial or full dysgenesis. The range of ...

Jan 03, 2022

Children whose ventricles do not change due to shunt failure pose a diagnostic challenge. For this study, researchers wanted to find risk variables for unaltered ventricular size when a shunt fails. F...

Jan 03, 2022

For preterm newborns with hydrocephalus, decompression of ventricles using a temporary device is frequently the first neurosurgical surgery. After observing a subgroup of infants who had intraparenchy...

Jan 03, 2022

Heart valve has extraordinary fatigue resistance which beats ∼3 billion times in a lifetime. Bioprosthetic heart valves (BHVs) made from fixed heteroplasm that are incrementally used in heart valve ...

Jan 03, 2022

Plastic surgery is a competitive specialty that values research productivity among members of the field. The Hirsch index has been shown to measure a researcher's scientific impact. This study sought ...

Jan 03, 2022

This study aimed to assess the impact of the pharmacist-led intervention on perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis by standardizing the cephalosporin intradermal skin test in the orthopedic department.A...

Jan 03, 2022

To quantify the absolute risks of adverse fetal outcomes and maternal mortality following non-obstetric abdominopelvic surgery in pregnancy.Surgery is often necessary in pregnancy, but absolute measur...

Jan 03, 2022

We sought to understand the effect of gender on compensation among colorectal surgeons and to determine which factors contribute to gender-based differences in compensation.The gender-based wage gap i...

Dec 28, 2021

Currently, the role of spine surgeons in causing and mediating long-term prescription opioid use is debatable. A study aimed to determine whether or not prescription opioids were used after lumbar dis...

Dec 28, 2021

The failure rate of ventriculoperitoneal shunts (VPSs) for hydrocephalus in patients with achondroplasia is greater than in other hydrocephalus populations. However, the cause of hydrocephalus in this...

Dec 28, 2021

PVDO (posterior vault distraction osteogenesis) is a technique for expanding the posterior cranial fossa and increasing intracranial volume. To fully widen the posterior cerebral fossa, the authors ex...

Dec 27, 2021

Artificial disc replacement (ADR) is a therapy option that preserves motion and protects against adjacent-segment pathology (ASP). This 10-year follow-up study of 153 people who had anterior decompres...