Surgery General
Apr 12, 2020
The true cost of liver and pancreatic surgery may not be completely ascertained by examining costs associated solely with the index hospitalization. We sought to assess post-discharge costs related to...
Apr 12, 2020
The World Health Organization has highlighted the need for improved surveillance and understanding of the health burden imposed by non-influenza RNA respiratory viruses. Human coronaviruses (CoVs) are...
Apr 12, 2020
Elements of the physical environment have been shown to influence health behaviors including drug use and overdose mortality. Throughout the opioid epidemic in the United States, rural regions have be...
Apr 12, 2020
This paper includes the voices of people who are members of a peer-led drug user group (SNAP) in Canada who are receiving heroin-assisted treatment (HAT) outside of a clinical trial. Drawing from crit...
Apr 03, 2020
Softness and firmness are seemingly incompatible traits that synergize to create the unique soft-yet-firm tactility of living tissues pursued in soft robotics, wearable electronics, and plastic surger...
Apr 03, 2020
Neurotoxins initially were used to treat hyperfunctional rhytids of the face, but now have been expanded to improve facial shaping, correct facial asymmetry and even improve skin texture and tone.The ...
Apr 03, 2020
To assess the quality and duration of trauma and orthopedics (T&O) training in medical schools in United Kingdom (UK), and to evaluate final-year students' self-perceived level of competence in essent...
Apr 03, 2020
Currently, there is an increasing focus on mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) as therapeutic option in bone pathologies as well as in general regenerative medicine. Although human MSCs have been extensiv...
Apr 03, 2020
To analyze the association between postoperative hypoalbuminemia and poor wound healing, and to evaluate whether postoperative supplementation of human serum albumin can improve postoperative wound h...
Apr 03, 2020
Southwestern Virginia demonstrates the highest regional mortality rate from prescription opioid overdoses. Nationally, 65% of patients misusing opioid medications received them from friends and family...
Apr 03, 2020
WARNING SIGNS. Dental malocclusions are common, and can be dental, skeletal and/or functional. Detecting these pathologies earlier is a signal to remove these causing factors, and act in favor of an h...
Apr 03, 2020
The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is an urgent public health crisis, with epidemiologic models predicting severe consequences, including high death rates, if the virus is permitte...
Apr 03, 2020
This study aimed to analyse the effects of clotrimazole (CTZ) on estrogen production pathway in endometriosis progression. Experimental endometriosis was induced by autologous transplantation in femal...
Apr 03, 2020
Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) are important for assessing respiratory function in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. However, weakness of oral and glottal closure, due to concomitant bulb...
Apr 03, 2020
Electrical neuromodulation is a clinically effective therapeutic instrument, currently expanding into newer indications and larger patient populations. Neuromodulation technologies are also moving tow...
Apr 03, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine clinical/pathological characteristics, prognosis and tendency to metastasis of mixed germ cell tumours (MGCTs) that contain a seminoma component.A total of 111 MGC...
Apr 03, 2020
The classical anatomical representation of the lingual relief of the mental region of the mandible reflects the presence of geniohyoid as well as genioglossus attachment areas, which are divided into ...
Apr 03, 2020
The aim of this study was to evaluate oncological outcome for patients with and without anastomotic leakage after colon or rectal cancer surgery.The role of anastomotic leakage in oncological outcome ...
Apr 03, 2020
This meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis aims to provide an update on the available randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and recommendations on using lightweight mesh (LWM) or heavyweight mesh ...
Apr 03, 2020
Complete excision of sarcomas to maximize function without compromising the oncological outcome can be challenging. The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and potential drawbacks of ...