Jun 26, 2023

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the most common laparoscopic procedure performed in the US and a key component of general surgery training. Surgical trainees frequently access YouTube for educational ...

Jun 19, 2023

Partly because of a lack of governmental commitment in educational work, tissue donation is largely unknown in the German population, although it has an increasing relevance for patient care. Due to t...

Jun 19, 2023

Transcatheter aspiration is utilized for removal of thrombi and vegetations in inoperable patients and high-risk surgical candidates where medical therapy alone is unlikely to achieve desired outcome....

Jun 19, 2023

Microtia is a congenital anomaly of the outer ear. Although genetic and environmental factors could play a role, no consensus has been established on the pathogenesis and cause of this condition. In t...

Jun 19, 2023

The facial artery (FA) is the main blood vessel supplying blood to the face. It is essential to understand the anatomy of FA around the nasolabial fold (NLF). This study aimed to provide the detailed ...

Jun 19, 2023

Turner Syndrome (TS) is caused by the complete or partial loss of one of the X chromosomes in all or some female cell lines. The variable genotypes are responsible for a large phenotypic diversity, ne...

Jun 19, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently integrated into many medical services. AI is utilized in many aspects of orthopedic surgery. The scope ranges from diagnosis to complex surgery. To evaluate t...

Jun 19, 2023

To investigate the prevalence and risk factors for electrical status epilepticus during slow-wave sleep (ESES) in patients with self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS). The clinic...

Jun 19, 2023

Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) increases rates of successful breast conserving surgery (BCS) in patients with breast cancer. However, some studies suggest that BCS after NAC may confer increased risk ...

Jun 19, 2023

Wound infections are typical postoperative complications with considerable therapeutic consequences and high personnel and financial costs. Previous meta-analyses have shown that triclosan-coated sutu...

Jun 12, 2023

Nitric oxide (NO) is a crucial gaseous medium for tumor growth and progression, but it may also cause mitochondrial disorder and DNA damage by drastically increasing its concentration in tumor. Due to...

Jun 12, 2023

Plastic and reconstructive surgery is among the most competitive specialties in the National Resident Matching Program match. Though efforts to institute unbiased and equitable measures of an applican...

Jun 12, 2023

Scales to qualify the risk of thrombosis do not include all thrombogenic factors that are generated in esthetic plastic surgery. Methods: We performed a systematic review to assess the risk of thrombo...

Jun 12, 2023

The purpose of this study was to investigate the contrast effect of arteries and the distribution of contrast medium along the z-axis in three-dimensional computed tomography angiography from neck to ...

Jun 12, 2023

Individuals' communities impact cancer disparities and are intimately related to social determinants of health. Studies show that personal factors affect treatment refusals for a potentially curable c...

Jun 12, 2023

Idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of the mesenteric veins is an extremely rare non-thrombotic mesenteric veno-occlusive disease. The management of idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of the mesenteric v...

Jun 05, 2023

With the increasing age of lung transplant candidates, we studied waitlist and post-transplant outcomes of candidates ≥70 years during the Lung Allocation Score era.Adult lung transplant candidates ...

Jun 05, 2023

A Japanese man in his 20s was referred to our hospital with a two-month history of abdominal fullness and leg edema. Abdominal computed tomography revealing massive ascites and ostial blockage of the ...

Jun 05, 2023

To analyze the factors that patients consider when choosing plastic surgeons and investigate patients' attitudes toward physicians' aesthetic ability and their adherence toward same-gender physicians....

Jun 05, 2023

The Dias-Tachdjian classification is the most commonly used system for the classification of pediatric ankle fractures, but its inter- and intra-observer reliability has not been studied in detail. Al...