Feb 25, 2020

 While endoscopic management of benign biliary strictures (BBSs) is the standard of care, long-term treatment remains the issue in refractory cases, especially for anastomotic strictures after livin...

Feb 25, 2020

Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) is a severe complication after a total knee replacement that is primarily associated with soft tissue defects. Finding an appropriate therapy for PJI is a major ch...

Feb 25, 2020

Increasing in popularity, social media provides powerful marketing and networking tools for private practice plastic surgeons. The authors sought to examine social media utilization by academic plasti...

Feb 25, 2020

Unplanned resection of soft-tissue sarcomas (STS) predispose the patients to recurrences and metastases, secondary wide resection is usually warranted.To investigate the outcomes of re-excision of STS...

Feb 25, 2020

Injuries to the radial nerve can occur at any point along its anatomical route, and the etiology quite varies. A particular entity are war injuries of the extremities, which have high morbidity but lo...

Feb 25, 2020

Reconstructing segmental costal cartilage defects resulting from autologous cartilage grafts in plastic surgery remains a challenge. The present study focused on a biomimetic strategy for in situ cost...

Feb 25, 2020

Periprosthetic fractures around total knee arthroplasties (TKA) are well documented in the literature. Fractures of the tibial side occur least frequently and often pose reconstructive challenges to t...

Feb 25, 2020

Immunology, already a discipline in its own right, has become a major part of many different medical fields. However, its relationship to orthopedics and trauma surgery has unfortunately, and perhaps ...

Feb 25, 2020

Bone marrow edema (BME) is a descriptive term for a common finding in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Although pain is the major symptom, BME differs in terms of its causal mechanisms, underlying di...

Feb 25, 2020

Total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) with an anatomic or reverse prosthesis is a commonly used and successful treatment option for many degenerative shoulder conditions. There is an increasing trend towa...

Feb 25, 2020

Bioabsorbable polymeric fixation devices have been used as an alternative to metallic implants in orthopedics, preventing the stress shielding effect and avoiding a second surgery for implant removal....

Feb 25, 2020

Immersive virtual reality (IVR) is a form of distraction therapy that has shown potential as an analgesia and sedation sparing agent. This study assessed the effect of IVR on the self-administered sed...

Feb 25, 2020

Multiple surgical procedures and anesthesia increase the risk of the development in children. However, the influence of such exposures on the developing childhood immunity organs is rarely reported.Hi...

Feb 25, 2020

To investigate the effective analgesia for video-assisted thoracic surgery.In this prospective non-inferiority study, we evaluated the postoperative analgesic effect of preoperative ultrasound-guided ...

Feb 25, 2020

The aim of this study was to develop evidence-based recommendations for safe, effective and appropriate thyroidectomy.Surgical management of thyroid disease has evolved considerably over several decad...

Feb 25, 2020

To develop evidence-based recommendations for safe, effective, and appropriate thyroidectomy.Surgical management of thyroid disease has evolved considerably over several decades leading to variability...

Feb 25, 2020

To evaluate smoking history and change in smoking behavior, from 1 year before through 7 years after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery, and to identify risk factors for post-surgery smoking.Smok...

Feb 25, 2020

Although recent studies have suggested that the continuation of preoperative antiplatelet therapy with aspirin does not affect intraoperative or postoperative bleeding in patients undergoing digestive...

Feb 25, 2020

Because many patients are first exposed to opioids after general surgery procedures, surgical stewardship for the use of opioids is critical in addressing the opioid crisis. We developed a multi-compo...

Feb 25, 2020

Krüppel-like factor 7 (KLF7), which belongs to the KLF family of zinc finger transcription factors, plays a critical role in regulating gene expression. It was reported that KLF7 overexpression was c...