Sep 27, 2021

The lack of underrepresented in medicine (UIM) physicians in academic plastic surgery is emerging as a critical issue. Lack of diversity has a negative effect on patient care and on the culture of our...

Sep 27, 2021

Breast augmentation is the most commonly performed aesthetic procedure. Transaxillary approach is one of the widely accepted techniques for breast augmentation. It has an advantage of the remote natur...

Sep 27, 2021

Bilateral cleft lip and palate (BCLP) remains a difficult surgical problem due to the severely protruding premaxillary segment, with no consensus of optimal treatment sequence in older patients. A sys...

Sep 27, 2021

Agenesis of the vermiform appendix (AVA) is a very rare finding. The report aims to present a case of suspected acute appendicitis who lacked vermiform appendix during surgical exploration.A 25-year-o...

Sep 27, 2021

Since 2006, surgery combined with perioperative chemotherapy is the standard of care for resectable gastric adenocarcinoma in Europe. Specific effects of neoadjuvant chemotherapy remain unknown. The a...

Sep 25, 2021

We recently spoke with William Tettelbach, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FUHM, FAPWCA, CWS, co-author of study published in the Journal of Wound Care that assessed outcomes in patients receiving advanced treatment...

Sep 20, 2021

We sought to better understand what defines a critical incident experience for the surgical trainee.Critical incidents are formative moments stamped indelibly on one's memory that shape professional i...

Sep 20, 2021

Studies have individually assessed the expenses for medical students desiring a surgical residency in neurosurgery, orthopaedic surgery, otolaryngology, plastic surgery, and urology. A detailed compar...

Sep 20, 2021

Distal femur replacement (DFR) has become a preferred reconstruction for tumors involving the femur but is associated with known complications. The ACS-NSQIP surgical risk calculator is an online tool...

Sep 20, 2021

Laryngeal transoral surgery classically requires a neuromuscular block (NMB) to facilitate tracheal intubation and to improve surgical conditions. However, the short duration of most procedures and th...

Sep 20, 2021

Sustainment of comprehensive procedural skills in trauma surgery is a particular problem for surgeons in rural, global, and combat settings. Trauma care often requires open surgical procedures for low...

Sep 20, 2021

We sought to better understand what defines a critical incident experience for the surgical trainee.Critical incidents are formative moments stamped indelibly on one's memory that shape professional i...

Sep 15, 2021

“According to current estimates, approximately 9% of patients with uterine cancer have metastatic disease at the time of their initial presentation,” says Yuefeng Wang, MD, PhD. “In addition to ...

Sep 14, 2021

This study states that Lower extremity bypass surgery remains an important treatment option for patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI), but is resource intensive. We sought to evaluate the cost an...

Sep 14, 2021

This study analysed diagnostic features, surgical therapy, and clinical outcomes in individuals with Cushing disease to compare corticotroph hyperplasia with histopathologically confirmed adenomas. Pa...

Sep 14, 2021

The authors showed that even in the presence of mild structural constriction of the optic chiasm and adequate pituitary function, idiopathic pituitary hyperplasia (PH) can cause complete bitemporal he...

Sep 14, 2021

The extradural neural axis compartment (EDNAC) is an adipovenous zone between the meningeal (ML) and endosteal (EL) layers of the dura mater that has received little attention in the jugular foramen (...

Sep 14, 2021

The goal of this research was to see how cochlear implantation (CI) performed after stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for vestibular schwannoma fared (VS). Adult patients with VS treated with SRS who un...

Sep 13, 2021

Aggregating the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) Class I antigens on the endothelial membrane has been known to elicit an activation, an underlying mechanism of chronic rejection in organ transplant reci...

Sep 13, 2021

Rejection is the most important problem for renal graft function and survival. Complement system plays a key role in immune responses from host to graft. It was demonstrated that complement system act...