Mar 10, 2020

With the increasing demand for body contouring procedures in the US over the past two decades, more surgeons with diverse specialty training are performing these procedures. However, little is known r...

Mar 10, 2020

Tangential excision in burn patients results in blood loss, with an average of 100 ml per 1% total body surface area (TBSA) excised. This substantial blood loss will be accompanied by decreasing seru...

Mar 10, 2020

We describe the effectiveness of the Jigsaw method in the instruction of residents in difficulty airway management.The residents were given a pre-Jigsaw instruction test and a self-assessment of their...

Mar 10, 2020

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) has established guidelines for the treatment of keratinocyte carcinomas (KCs). Complete circumferential peripheral and deep margin assessment (CCPDMA) ...

Mar 10, 2020

Freeman-Burian syndrome (FBS) is a rare congenital myopathic craniofacial syndrome. Since publication of the genotype-correlated clinical diagnostic criteria, no complete survey of the literature has ...

Mar 10, 2020

No standard treatment for Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG)-associated osteomyelitis, a rare but serious complication of the BCG vaccine, has been established. This study explored the short- and long-ter...

Mar 10, 2020

This study aimed to explore the experiences of the patients that underwent orthopedic surgery under spinal anesthesia and to report their feelings and thoughts. The study was carried out using a quali...

Mar 10, 2020

The aim of this study was to compare how two innovative laser titanium surfaces and sandblasted and acid-etched surfaces influence human osteoblast behavior during osteogenesis and the initial phases ...

Mar 10, 2020

The objectives of this study were to understand how cadaveric simulation impacts learning in orthopedic residents, why it is a useful training tool, and how skills learnt in the simulated environment ...

Mar 10, 2020

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is characterized by accumulation of excessive triglycerides (TGs) in hepatocytes. Obesity is a major risk factor for developing fatty liver, although the intr...

Mar 10, 2020

ENSURE-AF (NCT02072434) assessed therapy with edoxaban versus enoxaparin-warfarin in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing elective electrical cardioversion (ECV).To evaluate c...

Mar 10, 2020

Periodontal disease results from the pathogenic interactions between the tissue, immune system, and microbiota; however, standard therapy fails to address the cellular mechanism underlying the chronic...

Mar 10, 2020

The aim of this nation-wide study was to evaluate the characteristics of bacterial (BI), invasive fungal disease (IFD) and viral infections (VI) in pediatric patients with PID after allogeneic hematop...

Mar 10, 2020

Upfront surgery is the standard treatment for resectable invasive intraductal papillary mucinous carcinoma; however, recurrence is common. Therefore, we investigated the recurrence, surgical outcome, ...

Mar 10, 2020

Establish whether POCD is associated with new disability after surgery, which would inform whether POCD impacts patient-centered outcomes.POCD is a decline in neuropsychiatric tests scores from presur...

Mar 10, 2020

To examine the association between Textbook Outcome (TO)-a new composite quality measurement-and long-term survival in gastric cancer surgery.Single-quality indicators do not sufficiently reflect the ...

Mar 10, 2020

To investigate the long-term effect of flexible duty-hour policies on resident outcomes BACKGROUND:: The Flexibility in Duty Hour Requirements for Surgical Trainees trial showed no significant differe...

Mar 10, 2020

Identification of gene mutations that are indicative of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and a noninflammatory immune phenotype may be important for predicting response to immune checkpoint inhibitor...

Mar 10, 2020

In KEYNOTE-189, first-line pembrolizumab plus pemetrexed-platinum significantly improved overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) compared with placebo plus pemetrexed-platinum in pat...

Mar 10, 2020

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) induced by anti-programmed-cell death-1 (PD-1) and anti-PD-ligand 1 (PD-L1) is potentially life-threatening and is a common reason of the discontinuation of therapy. In...