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...

Mar 18, 2021

The categorization of delayed endolymphatic hydrops (DEH) based on the ear which produces vertigo may sometimes cause misdiagnosis.The aim of this study was investigating the vestibular-evoked myogeni...

Mar 18, 2021

Background The factors influencing medical student clinical specialty choice have important implications for the future composition of the US physician workforce. The objective of this study was to de...

Mar 18, 2021

The FACE-Q Rhinoplasty module is a patient-reported outcome instrument developed for the assessment of primarily aesthetic outcomes of rhinoplasty. The aim of our study was to produce a Finnish versio...

Mar 18, 2021

Injury-related morbidity and mortality have been one of the most common causes of loss in productivity across all geographic distributions. It remains to be a global concern despite a continual improv...

Mar 18, 2021

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) has become a novel treatment in various aspects of medicine including orthopedics, cardiothoracic surgery, plastic surgery, dermatology, dentistry, and diabetic wound healin...

Mar 18, 2021

Few studies have investigated the reliability of Reimers' hip migration percentage (RMP) in children with cerebral palsy (CP). Most studies on the topic reflected rating results of physician with a si...

Mar 18, 2021

Eleven months into the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the country faces accelerating rates of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Little is known about the experiences of critical care physi...

Mar 18, 2021

The neural substrates of consciousness remain elusive. Competing theories that attempt to explain consciousness disagree on the contribution of frontal versus posterior cortex and omit subcortical inf...

Mar 18, 2021

The coronavirus disease 2019 outbreak has spread worldwide and has resulted in hospital restrictions. The perceived impact of these practices on patients undergoing essential surgeries is less underst...