Feb 12, 2024

The objective of this study was to understand professional norms regarding the value of surgery.Agreed-upon professional norms may improve surgical decision making by contextualizing the nature of sur...

Feb 05, 2024

The adjunctive use of healing gels following periodontal plastic surgery is not common in clinical practice, and no definitive benefits have yet been demonstrated. . A 33-year-old male patient with a ...

Feb 05, 2024

Soft tissue defects over the dorsal finger are common and may result from trauma, burns, or surgical management of infections and tumors. We present a case where a bilobed flap was used for the recons...

Feb 05, 2024

This study aimed to develop a modified frailty index (MFI) to predict the risks of revision total hip arthroplasty (THA).Data from the American College of Surgeons - National Surgical Quality Improvem...

Feb 05, 2024

Vascular dementia (VaD) represents a severe cognitive dysfunction syndrome closed linked to cardiovascular function. In the present study, we assessed the potential of Xinshubao tablet (XSB), a tradit...

Feb 05, 2024

Lidocaine microspheres can prolong the analgesic time to 24-48 h, which still cannot meet the need of postoperative analgesia lasting more than 3 days. Therefore, we added FeO to the lidocaine micros...

Feb 05, 2024

The aim of this international multicentric study is to characterize postoperative hyperamylasemia (POH) after distal pancreatectomy (DP), with particular focus on its relationship with postoperative p...

Feb 05, 2024

Within the past decade, minimally invasive pancreaticoduodenectomy has been increasingly adopted in high-volume cancer centers. Amid broader trends of a growing older population, the numbers of frail ...

Jan 29, 2024

Abnormally expressed circular RNAs (circRNAs) are associated with many diseases and have important biological effects on the regulation of gene expression. However, the circRNA expression profile in i...

Jan 29, 2024

This study aimed to identify and describe indicators of depression, anxiety, body dissatisfaction, and risk of an eating disorder in patients who undergo plastic surgery.The sample was made up of 90 p...

Jan 29, 2024

There is limited information about minority representation throughout the plastic and reconstructive surgery (PRS) pipeline. The aim of this study was to examine trends in representation among minorit...

Jan 29, 2024

Orthopedic injuries are commonly managed in the emergency department (ED) setting. Fractures and dislocations may require reduction for proper management. There are a variety of analgesic and sedative...

Jan 29, 2024

The opioid epidemic has changed practice, though there remains a paucity of data regarding prescribing habits and pain control following outpatient hand surgery. We sought to evaluate patient-related ...

Jan 29, 2024

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is the most severe type of neuropathic pain. The trigeminal ganglion (TG) is a crucial target for the pathogenesis and treatment of TN. The colony-stimulating factor 1 (CSF1)...

Jan 29, 2024

This study aimed to compare laparoscopic standard gastrectomy (LSG) and laparoscopic sentinel node navigation surgery (LSNNS) for EGC in terms of 5-year long-term oncologic outcomes.The oncological sa...

Jan 29, 2024

Recent retrospective studies suggest a role for distinct microbiota in the perioperative morbidity and mortality of pancreatic head resections.We aimed to prospectively investigate the microbial colon...

Jan 22, 2024

Solid organ transplant surgeries including liver transplants constitute a substantial risk of bleeding complications and given frequent national blood shortages, supporting D-negative transplant recip...

Jan 22, 2024

In order to make the postoperative effect of open double eyelid more close to the physiological and anatomical structure of double eyelid, we improved the traditional open double eyelid operation acco...

Jan 22, 2024

Periodontal plastic surgery aims to restore recessions and dehiscence around teeth and implants. Several techniques, such as subepithelial connective tissue graft (CTG), were proposed with the main ou...

Jan 22, 2024

Large language model (LLM) chatbots possess a remarkable capacity to synthesize complex information into concise, digestible summaries across a wide range of orthopedic subject matter. As LLM chatbots...