Surgery General
Feb 28, 2020
To assess the reproducibility of the renal resistive index (RRI) in a routine clinical setting. 22 patients with a kidney allograft and 19 physicians participated in our prospective study. Within...
Feb 28, 2020
The objective of this study was to investigate and discuss the effect of direct angioplasty therapy on acute middle cerebral artery occlusion (MCAO) patients with good leptomeningeal collateral circul...
Feb 28, 2020
The long-term effects of postoperative complications following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) are unknown.Medicare-linked records from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Da...
Feb 28, 2020
Black-white gaps in high-quality hospital use are documented, but the relative contributions of various factors are unclear. The objective of this study was to quantify the contributions of difference...
Feb 28, 2020
The year 2017 marked the first year women comprised a majority of U.S. medical school matriculants. While more women are pursuing surgical training, within plastic surgery, there is a steady attrition...
Feb 28, 2020
Chondrolaryngoplasty or reduction of laryngeal prominence is a gender affirmation surgery for transgender women, or for male patients desiring an aesthetic surgery. Several variations of the procedur...
Feb 28, 2020
Many aging women with upper lid dermatochalasis pluck their lower lateral eyebrows to combat lateral drooping. The authors present and evaluate outcomes of a modified excision blepharoplasty method pe...
Feb 28, 2020
Deformities in human soft tissue caused by trauma or burn present a difficult problem in plastic surgery. In this study, we encapsulated troglitazone and angiotensin 1-7 mimetic AVE0991 in gelation mi...
Feb 28, 2020
The deep inferior epigastric perforator (DIEP) flap is the most common perforator flap for microsurgical breast reconstruction. Contrary to the conventional open approach, robotic-assisted DIEP fla...
Feb 28, 2020
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) are associated with concern of adverse drug reactions (ADRS) including gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, renal, and musculoskeletal. Non-selective and sel...
Feb 28, 2020
To evaluate the effectiveness of single-dose focal shockwave therapy in plantar fasciitis treatment.a primary, prospective study of a series of cases, conducted in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, by t...
Feb 28, 2020
The use of images in 3D reconstruction is an instrument that facilitates the interpretation of the fracture, observations of deviations, rotations and articular surface.To evaluate the inter-observer ...
Feb 28, 2020
A 50-year-old man presented to the clinic with severe neck pain, fever, and difficulty breathing and was subsequently admitted to the local orthopedics department with possible retropharyngeal abscess...
Feb 28, 2020
Periodontal disease (PD) is a chronic inflammatory disease that affects the gum tissue and bone supporting the teeth. Although tooth-site level PD progression is believed to be spatio-temporally refer...
Feb 28, 2020
Neoplastic transformation is a rare but serious complication of Paget's disease of bone (PDB), occurring in fewer than 1% of individuals with polyostotic disease. Their prognosis is poor, with less th...
Feb 28, 2020
Radiation-induced brain injury (RBI) usually occurs six months to three years after irradiation, often shows cognitive dysfunction, epilepsy, and other neurological dysfunction. In severe cases, it ca...
Feb 28, 2020
Infantile spasm syndrome (ISS) is an epileptic encephalopathy without established treatment after the failure to standard of care based on steroids and vigabatrin. Converging lines of evidence indicat...
Feb 28, 2020
INTRODUCTİON: Currently, the management of cholelithiasis in combination with choledocholithiasis involves endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) followed by cholecystectomy. However, ...
Feb 28, 2020
In this study, we quantified the global macroeconomic burden of breast cancer to underscore the critical importance of improving access to oncologic surgical care internationally.Breast cancer mortali...
Feb 28, 2020
Hidradenitis suppurativa is a complex disorder, the pathogenesis of which is still unsolved. The known association between hidradenitis suppurativa and Crohn's disease, an autoimmune disease diagnosed...