Surgery General
Sep 20, 2021
Distal femur replacement (DFR) has become a preferred reconstruction for tumors involving the femur but is associated with known complications. The ACS-NSQIP surgical risk calculator is an online tool...
Sep 20, 2021
Laryngeal transoral surgery classically requires a neuromuscular block (NMB) to facilitate tracheal intubation and to improve surgical conditions. However, the short duration of most procedures and th...
Sep 20, 2021
Sustainment of comprehensive procedural skills in trauma surgery is a particular problem for surgeons in rural, global, and combat settings. Trauma care often requires open surgical procedures for low...
Sep 20, 2021
We sought to better understand what defines a critical incident experience for the surgical trainee.Critical incidents are formative moments stamped indelibly on one's memory that shape professional i...
Sep 15, 2021
“According to current estimates, approximately 9% of patients with uterine cancer have metastatic disease at the time of their initial presentation,” says Yuefeng Wang, MD, PhD. “In addition to ...
Sep 14, 2021
This study states that Lower extremity bypass surgery remains an important treatment option for patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), but is resource intensive. We sought to evaluate the cost an...
Sep 14, 2021
This study analysed diagnostic features, surgical therapy, and clinical outcomes in individuals with Cushing disease to compare corticotroph hyperplasia with histopathologically confirmed adenomas. Pa...
Sep 14, 2021
The authors showed that even in the presence of mild structural constriction of the optic chiasm and adequate pituitary function, idiopathic pituitary hyperplasia (PH) can cause complete bitemporal he...
Sep 14, 2021
The extradural neural axis compartment (EDNAC) is an adipovenous zone between the meningeal (ML) and endosteal (EL) layers of the dura mater that has received little attention in the jugular foramen (...
Sep 14, 2021
The goal of this research was to see how cochlear implantation (CI) performed after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for vestibular schwannoma fared (VS). Adult patients with VS treated with SRS who un...
Sep 13, 2021
Aggregating the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) Class I antigens on the endothelial membrane has been known to elicit an activation, an underlying mechanism of chronic rejection in organ transplant reci...
Sep 13, 2021
Rejection is the most important problem for renal graft function and survival. Complement system plays a key role in immune responses from host to graft. It was demonstrated that complement system act...
Sep 13, 2021
We examined the hemodynamic profile of bioprosthetic aortic valves in patients on hemodialysis (HD), longitudinally, and assess the incidence of adverse changes detected by echocardiography. Of 1,146 ...
Sep 13, 2021
Switching bipolar radiofrequency ablation (bRFA) is a thermal treatment modality used for liver cancer treatment that is capable of producing larger, more confluent and more regular thermal coagulatio...
Sep 13, 2021
In the wake of the death toll resulting from coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), in addition to the economic turmoil and strain on our health care systems, plastic surgeons are taking a hard look ...
Sep 13, 2021
We present the management of a severe case of recurrent periocular basal cell carcinoma, orbital invasion and exenteration.The present case is of a recurrent basal cell carcinoma in a 84-year-old m...
Sep 13, 2021
Europe consists of 51 independent countries. Variation in healthcare regulations results in differing challenges faced by patients and professionals. This study aimed to gain more insight into the acc...
Sep 13, 2021
Implant removal surgery is one of the common surgical procedures done in orthopedics. Studies report that a major portion of orthopedic surgeries carried out in different institutions comprises implan...
Sep 13, 2021
Martin Gruber anastomosis is a common anomaly in forearm between median and ulnar nerve. It may lead to technical pitfall or misinterpretation of nerve conduction studies of these nerves.The aim of th...
Sep 13, 2021
Osteoporosis and resulting fracture is a major public health concern worldwide. With increase in life expectancy, osteoporosis and fragility fracture is expected to be more prevalent. It is associated...