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Surgery General

Agenesis of vermiform appendix; a case report with literature review.

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...

Tumor downstaging after neoadjuvant chemotherapy determines survival after surgery for gastric adenocarcinoma.

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...

"The Story I will Never Forget": Critical Incident Narratives in Surgical Residency.

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...

How Does Geographic Region Affect the Total and Individual Costs for Medical Students Applying to the Competitive Surgical Residencies?

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...

The ACS-NSQIP surgical risk calculator is a poor predictor of postoperative complications in patients undergoing oncologic distal femoral replacement.

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...

Evaluation of the impact of deep neuromuscular blockade on surgical conditions for laryngeal microsurgery with High Frequency Jet Ventilation. A comparison with no block during intravenous general anesthesia with topical lidocaine.

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...

A Novel Paradigm for Surgical Skills Training and Assessment of Competency.

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...

"The Story I will Never Forget": Critical Incident Narratives in Surgical Residency.

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...

Uterine Cancer: Comparing Treatment Approaches in Women With Distant Organ Metastases

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 ...

Medicare Reimbursement

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...

Corticotroph hyperplasia and Cushing disease

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...

PH Case Report

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...

EDNAC

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 (...

CI - SRS - V

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...

Effects of serum from mismatched patients with solid organ transplantation on the activation of microvascular cultures isolated from adipose tissues.

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...

Clinical impact of complement deposition findings on biopsies in acute rejection episodes of pediatric renal transplant patients.

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...

Longitudinal Hemodynamics of Aortic Bioprosthetic Valve in Hemodialysis Patients.

Sep 13, 2021

We examined the hemodynamic profile of bioprosthetic aortic valves in patients on hemodialysis (HD), longitudinally, and assess the incidence of adverse changes detected by echocardiography. Of 1,146 ...

Unidirectional ablation minimizes unwanted thermal damage and promotes better thermal ablation efficacy in time-based switching bipolar radiofrequency ablation.

Sep 13, 2021

Switching bipolar radiofrequency ablation (bRFA) is a thermal treatment modality used for liver cancer treatment that is capable of producing larger, more confluent and more regular thermal coagulatio...

Leadership in Times of Crisis.

Sep 13, 2021

In the wake of the death toll resulting from coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19), in addition to the economic turmoil and strain on our health care systems, plastic surgeons are taking a hard look ...

RECURRENT PERIOCULAR BASAL CELL CARCINOMA. CASE REPORT.

Sep 13, 2021

We present the management of a severe case of recurrent periocular basal cell carcinoma, orbital invasion and exenteration.The present case is of a recurrent basal cell carcinoma in a 84-year-old m...

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