Surgery General
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 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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...