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The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Electrical Status Epilepticus During Slow-Wave Sleep in Self-Limited Epilepsy With Centrotemporal Spikes.

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...

Breast Conservation Surgery and Mastectomy have Similar Locoregional Recurrence Following Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: Results from 1,462 Patients on the Prospective, Randomized I-SPY2 Trial.

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 ...

Can triclosan-coated sutures reduce the postoperative rate of wound infection? Data from a systematic review and meta-analysis.

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...

Hyperthermia-triggered NO release based on Cu-doped polypyrrole for synergistic catalytic/gas cancer therapy.

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...

The Association Between Interview Day and Rank Order in Plastic Surgery Match: Is Recency Effect to Blame?

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...

How to stratify the risk of thrombosis for esthetic plastic surgery? The proposal of a new scale.

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...

[Evaluation of the Usefulness of Variable-speed Injection Method in Neck to Lower-extremity Three-dimensional Computed Tomography Angiography].

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 ...

County characteristics associated with refusing breast cancer surgery: Evidence from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program.

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...

Idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of the mesenteric veins: A systematic review of surgical management.

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...

Outcomes of Lung Transplant Candidates Aged ≥70 Years During the Lung Allocation Score Era.

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 ...

Stenting of inferior right hepatic vein in a patient with Budd-Chiari syndrome: a case report.

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 ...

What factors will influence patients when choosing plastic surgeons? A behaviour analysis of Chinese patients.

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....

Intra- and inter-observer reliability of Dias-Tachdjian classification in pediatric ankle fractures: do clinical experience and expertise matter?

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...

The John Hopkins classification system used in pediatric supracondylar humerus fractures requires more experience than the Gartland system.

Jun 05, 2023

The Gartland classification is used to decide on surgery. In contrast, the John Hopkins classification system predicts clinical outcomes for patients undergoing surgery and determines the risk of redu...

Management and Outcomes of Wilms Tumor with Suprarenal Intravascular Extension: A Pediatric Surgical Oncology Research Collaborative Study.

Jun 05, 2023

The purpose of this study was to describe management and outcomes from a contemporary cohort of children with Wilms Tumor (WT) complicated by inferior vena caval thrombus.The largest series of these p...

Soft Tissue Grafting Procedures before Restorations in the Esthetic Zone: A Minimally Invasive Interdisciplinary Case Report.

May 29, 2023

An esthetically pleasing smile is a valuable aspect of physical appearance and plays a significant role in social interaction. Achieving the perfect balance between extraoral and intraoral tissues is ...

IL-4 modified expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (e-PTFE) surgical patch promotes angiogenesis in transplanted flap and inhibits inflammatory response.

May 29, 2023

Skin flap transplantation is one of the most common tissue transplantation methods for wound repair and organ reconstruction in plastic surgery. During the transplantation process, the inflammatory re...

Melorheostosis: A Review of the Literature and a Case Report.

May 29, 2023

: Melorheostosis, also referred to in the literature as Leri's disease, is an unusual mesenchymal dysplasia with the clinical appearance of benign sclerosing bone dysplasia; it frequently occurs in la...

Novel Topical Anandamide Formulation for Alleviating Peripheral Neuropathic Pain.

May 29, 2023

Peripheral neuropathy (PN) is a condition of peripheral nerve damage leading to severe pain. The first line therapies are associated with adverse psychotropic effects (PSE) and second line therapies a...

Factors influencing USgHIFU ablation for adenomyosis with NPVR ≥ 50.

May 22, 2023

To investigate the influencing factors of ultrasound-guided HIFU (USgHIFU) ablation for adenomyosis with a non-perfused volume ratio (NPVR)≥50%.A total of 299 patients with adenomyosis who underwent...

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