Surgery General
Jan 24, 2020
Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant (PBMT) patients experience significant symptom distress. Mobile health (mHealth) technologies can be leveraged to improve understanding of the patient's symptom e...
Jan 24, 2020
Analyzing occlusion, complications rate and clinical results in unruptured saccular middle cerebral artery aneurysms comparing clipping to the most advance and newer endovascular techniques.We conduc...
Jan 24, 2020
Remote ischaemic conditioning (RIC) has been shown to prevent platelet activation during ablation for atrial fibrillation. RIC has also been associated with more postoperative transfusion in the off-p...
Jan 24, 2020
Esophagectomy is a technically challenging procedure, associated with significant morbidity. The introduction of minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) has reduced postoperative morbidity.Although the...
Jan 24, 2020
Currently, no surveillance guidelines for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence after liver transplantation (LT) exist. In this retrospective, multicenter study, we have investigated the role of s...
Jan 24, 2020
Lymphangiomas are relatively uncommon head and neck region lymphatic malformations. Although surgery can be still considered the mainstay of treatment, sclerotherapy by OK-432 is becoming a widespread...
Jan 24, 2020
To report the incidences of secondary lip and nose operations, otolaryngology procedures, speech-language therapy, neurodevelopmental concerns, and dental and orthodontic issues in children with isola...
Jan 24, 2020
As the demand for cosmetic surgery continues to rise, plastic surgery programs and the training core curriculum have evolved to reflect these changes. This study aims to evaluate the perceived quality...
Jan 24, 2020
Opioid use can cause significant adverse side effects with increased propensity toward both short- and long-term complications in the pediatric population. We present a multifaceted opioid reduction p...
Jan 24, 2020
Prior studies have shown that roadblocks exist for women to achieve higher career levels in plastic surgery. The authors evaluate female representation as lecturers, panelists, and moderators at natio...
Jan 24, 2020
Many orthodontists working on patients with cleft lip and palate (CLP) have shown great enthusiasm for presurgical infant orthopedics (PSIO) to improve surgical outcomes with minimal intervention. Eve...
Jan 24, 2020
: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of deep dry needling (DN) with and without needle manipulation on pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) and electromyographic (EMG) amplitude of the lu...
Jan 24, 2020
Magnesium-based biodegradable metals (BMs) as bone implants have better mechanical properties than biodegradable polymers, yet their strength is roughly less than 350 MPa. In this work, binary Zn al...
Jan 24, 2020
The aim of this study was to compare and evaluate clinical results before and after vertebroplasty in the treatment of myeloma-induced vertebral fractures. Success of the surgery was defined by increa...
Jan 24, 2020
Bone-like viable tissue can be generated by utilizing a combination of inorganic matrix, osteoblasts, osteogenic media and application of adequate mechanical stimulation of the cells. To pursue the p...
Jan 24, 2020
Microelectrode recording (MER) for target refinement is widely used in deep brain stimulator insertion for Parkinson disease. Signals may be influenced by anesthetics when patients receive general ane...
Jan 24, 2020
This study aimed to determine local recurrence (LR) rate and pattern after transanal total mesorectal excision (TaTME) for rectal cancer.TaTME for mid- and low rectal cancer has known a rapid and worl...
Jan 24, 2020
The aim of this study was to develop and validate a risk prediction tool for trauma-induced coagulopathy (TIC), to support early therapeutic decision-making.TIC exacerbates hemorrhage and is associate...
Jan 24, 2020
Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC) occurs frequently in anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-rearranged non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and develops acquired resistance to ALK tyrosine kinase inhibito...
Jan 23, 2020
Research supports use of prehabilitation to optimize physical status before and after colorectal cancer resection, but its effect on postoperative complications remains unclear. Frail patients are a t...