Surgery General
Jan 16, 2023
The pre-Descemet's layer/Dua's layer, also termed the Dua-Fine layer and the pre-posterior limiting lamina layer, lies anterior to the Descemet's membrane in the cornea, is 10 μm (range 6-16) thick, ...
Jan 16, 2023
Plantar heloma is a keratotic disorder that can be described as a circumscribed area of thickening with a central core that may penetrate the dermis. Although often considered a minor complaint, longs...
Jan 16, 2023
Bell's palsy is the most common cause of acute facial nerve paresis and paralysis with devastating disability yet high rate of spontaneous recovery. Patients who do not fully recover have functional d...
Jan 16, 2023
Competency-based veterinary education focuses on the knowledge and clinical skills required to generate a productive and confident practitioner. Accurate identification of clinically relevant core com...
Jan 16, 2023
Pain management is a key issue in health care. Providers adopt promising technological developments, like Acute Pain Service, at differing speeds, with countries, such as the USA and Germany taking th...
Jan 16, 2023
Indocyanine green (ICG) is a cyanine dye useful for visualizing blood vessels; it has been developed for endoscopy and is used in skull base surgery. Endoscopy is widely used for hematoma removal afte...
Jan 16, 2023
Since the introduction of ultrasonography (US) in the operating theatre in the early 1970s, intraoperative ultrasound (IOUS) has become a very useful tool for real-time neurosurgical procedures. The m...
Jan 13, 2023
The following is a summary of "American Thyroid Association Guidelines and National Trends in Management of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma" published in the November 2022 issue of Otolaryngol Head Neck S...
Jan 13, 2023
The following is a summary of "Hospital Markup in Head and Neck Cancer Surgery in the US" published in the October 2022 issue of Otolaryngol Head Neck Surgery by Miller et al. Healthcare reform...
Jan 11, 2023
The following is a summary of "Quantitative Evaluation of Aerosol Generation During In-Office Flexible Laryngoscopy" published in the October 2022 issue of Otolaryngol Head Neck Surgery by Bastien et ...
Jan 11, 2023
The following is a summary of "Development and Psychometric Validation of the Olfactory Dysfunction Outcomes Rating" published in the October 2022 issue of Otolaryngol Head Neck Surgery by Lee et al. ...
Jan 11, 2023
The following is a summary of "Association of Pretreatment Circulating Tumor Tissue–Modified Viral HPV DNA With Clinicopathologic Factors in HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Cancer" published in the Octob...
Jan 09, 2023
The following is a summary of the “Crossing the Cervicothoracic Junction" published in the December 2022 issue of Clinical Spine Surgery by Vickery et al. The cervicothoracic junction is a re...
Jan 09, 2023
(1) Background: The role of the umbilical scar and its repositioning remains one of the most important surgical steps in the execution of any type of abdominoplasty, including those involving "inverte...
Jan 09, 2023
Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is a group of disorders caused by the reduced or absent activity of enzymes involved in the glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) degradation; the consequence is the progressive accumu...
Jan 09, 2023
To fix the bone in orthopedics, it is almost always necessary to use implants. Metals provide the needed physical and mechanical properties for load-bearing applications. Although widely used as biome...
Jan 09, 2023
In recent years, many reports have indicated that propofol is safe to administer to patients with egg/soybean allergy in Western countries. Egg allergy is more frequent in Asia, but there are limited ...
Jan 09, 2023
Excessive bleeding requiring fibrinogen replacement is a serious complication of cardiac surgery. However, the relative cost-effectiveness of the 2 available therapies-fibrinogen concentrate and cryop...
Jan 09, 2023
The National Surgical Quality Improvement Project is the preeminent surgical quality database, but it undercaptures acute kidney injury. Recently, the National Surgical Quality Improvement Project low...
Jan 08, 2023
The following is a summary of "Quantifying Total and Out-of-Pocket Costs Associated With Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship" published in the October 2022 issue of Otolaryngol Head Neck Surgery by Mass...