Perioperative clinical factors ...
Postoperative volume changes in reconstructed Xaps are known to inXuence the functional restoration of resected areas of the upper aerodigestive tra ...
Electroconvulsive therapy for t ...
To examine disease and treatment characteristics of patients with schizophrenia treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). We examined charts fro ...
Atlantoaxial rotational disloca ...
We present a case of a young woman with multilevel spinal injuries. The injury includes a rotational atlantoaxial dislocation associated with concom ...
Educational paper Imaging chil ...
Fractures are reported to be the second most common findings in child abuse, after skin lesions such as bruises and contusions. This makes careful i ...
Health-related quality of life ...
Purpose This study aimed to assess the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in trauma patients 2 years after discharge from an intensive care unit ...
Diagnostic accuracy and clinica ...
Objective To review our method of perform needle biopsies of renal masses. Methods We analysed 150 consecutive imaging-guided percutaneous biopsies ...
Does gentamycin affect long ter ...
Background: The influence of topical intraoperative gentamycin on long term recurrence rate in primary pilonidal sinus surgery has not yet been inv ...
Simultaneous double thymic carc ...
A 53-year-old man was referred to our hospital for treatment of two anterior mediastinal tumors. The anterior mediastinal tumors were resected by th ...
Bowel cancer and previous mesh ...
We report two cases of large bowel cancer adjacent to mesh following previous abdominal sacrocolpopexy. As far as we are aware, there have been no ...
Inflammatory activation: cardia ...
Although inflammation is a physiologic response designed to protect us from infection, when unchecked and ongoing it may cause substantial harm. Bot ...
Tendon-grasping strength of var ...
Purpose The purpose of the present study is to evaluate the mechanical performance and initial strength of the arthroscopic Mason-Allen, double matt ...
Influence of low-level laser th ...
Low-level laser therapy (LLLT) has been shown to have several biological effects that favor the healing process, and nicotine has been shown to dela ...
Vasopressor Use and Effect on B ...
Background We describe institutional vasopressor usage, and examine the effect of vasopressors on hemodynamics: heart rate (HR), mean arterial blood ...
Neurological complications in h ...
Hyperemesis gravidarum can impair correct absorption of an adequate amount of thiamine and can cause electrolyte imbalance. This study investigated ...
Failed Restrictive Surgery: Is ...
The aim of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of converting failed restrictive procedures such as laparoscopic adjustable gastric ban ...
Veress Needle: A Simple Liver R ...
A key problem in the application of SILS to gastric banding (and other gastric surgeries) is how to achieve adequate retraction of the liver, withou ...
Fitting of bone mineral density ...
Summary A new model describing normal values of bone mineral density in children has been evaluated, which includes not only the traditional paramet ...
Diagnostic capabilities of frac ...
Summary Dental panoramic radiographs could be used to screen for osteopenia. We found the fractal dimension to be a good discriminator of osteopenia ...
Fetal Demise Secondary to Massi ...
Rhabdomyoma is the most common cardiac tumor in fetuses, often associated with tuberous sclerosis complex and usually diagnosed in the third trimest ...
Recurrence of membranoprolifera ...
Denys–Drash syndrome (DDS) consists of the triad of nephropathy, male pseudohermaphroditism, and Wilms tumor caused by mutations within exons 8 or 9 ...
Clinical and radiological disti ...
In 1938, Saul Jarcho and Paul Levin from Johns Hopkins Hospital reported cases of thoracic insufficiency due to vertebral and rib anomalies. Nearly ...
A theoretical analysis of the t ...
Although the denaturing of adsorbed proteins on biomaterials surfaces is believed to lead to adverse tissue reactions to implanted materials, very li ...
MicroRNA-21: From Cancer to Car ...
MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) expression is activated in multiple types of cancers, such as breast, liver, brain, prostate, myometrial cancers but also in car ...
Design and Production of Specif ...
Background: A partially random target selection method was developed to design and produce affinity reagents (target) to any protein query. It is bas ...
Proteomics: translating genomic ...
By cataloging the entire protein content of a cell, proteomics should not only provide insight into the molecular basis of life, but also accelerate ...