Postnatal parental smoking: an ...
Background Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexpected death of an infant that remains unexplained after a thorough investigation of the c ...
A disappearing neonatal skin le ...
A preterm baby girl was noted at birth to have a firm, raised, non-tender skin lesion located over her right hip. She developed three similar smalle ...
Thrombus obstructing the right ...
At her first day of life, a neonate presented with severe cyanosis and a mass obstructing the right ventricle outflow tract. Prostagladin E1 was nec ...
Single-stage functional reconst ...
Burn scar contracture of the lower face and neck is one of the most difficult subjects to solve because it produces problems with function and appea ...
A fifteen-year experience of bu ...
Buttock augmentation is one of the most popular procedures to shape and augment the gluteal region. The major literature regarding this topic accent ...
Teaching in daily clinical prac ...
Teaching is an important part of our medical role as physicians. Though all doctors are usually well prepared for their clinical roles, few are trai ...
Pediatric fractures: temporal t ...
Purpose Pediatric fractures are common and are often managed by manipulation under general anesthesia (MUA). This study’s aim was to assess the chan ...
The proof for new oral anticoag ...
Introduction Patients undergoing elective total hip or total knee replacement surgery are at increased risk of venous thromboembolism in the post-op ...
Interactive magnetic resonance ...
Objectives The current reference standard for diagnosing vesicoureteric reflux is the X-ray-based Micturating CystoUrethroGram (MCUG). The aim of th ...
The association of incidentally ...
Objectives This study aims to investigate the prognostic value of incidental aortic valve calcification (AVC), mitral valve calcification (MVC) and ...
Pilot multi-reader study demons ...
Objective To determine the potential for radiation dose reduction using sigmoidally-blended mixed-kV images from dual energy (DE) hepatic CT. Metho ...
An unusual case of pancreatic a ...
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract and are believed to originate from the neopl ...
Computed tomography angiography ...
Objective To assess radiation dose and diagnostic image quality of a low-dose (80 kV) versus a standard-dose (120 kV) protocol for computed tomograp ...
CT Colonography to exclude colo ...
Objectives CT Colonography (CTC) is being increasingly used for the radiological evaluation of colorectal symptoms. Aim of this study was to assess ...
Falls recall—limitations of the ...
The demographic changes in the industrialized countries place new and important challenges to health care providers, politicians, and modern society ...
Cost effectiveness of disc pros ...
This randomized controlled health economic study assesses the cost-effectiveness of the concept of total disc replacement (TDR) (Charite´/Prodisc/Ma ...
Posterior spinal instrumentatio ...
Posterior spinal instrumentation is frequently used for the treatment of spine disorders. Importantly, different requirements have to be considered ...
Right adolescent idiopathic tho ...
In adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) there has been a shift towards increasing the number of implants and pedicle screws, which has not been pro ...
Capillary hemangioma of the cer ...
An anterior cervical decompression and fusion operation was complicated by extensive bleeding from the disc space. Histopathological evaluation of t ...
Pelvic packing: a rescue treatm ...
Background: Management of presacral hemorrhage has always been a challenge for surgeons because such bleeding can rapidly destabilize the patient. T ...
Clinical acupuncture research i ...
In recent years, acupuncture has rapidly become part of mainstream medicine in the West, where new developments in acupuncture clinical research show ...
Stem cell niches and endogenous ...
Adult stem cells are responsible for homeostasis and repair of many tissues. Endogenous adult stem cells reside in certain regions of organs, known ...
A novel procedure for Roux-en-Y ...
We describe herein our procedures for Rouxen- Y reconstruction using a transoral anvil following laparoscopy- assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG). Th ...
Ascending aortic aneurysm assoc ...
We report here a rare case of ascending aortic aneurysm associated with a tricuspitalized quadricuspid aortic valve. A 45-year-old man had a fusifor ...
Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma ...
We report a case of dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma of the chest wall. After resection, the chest wall defect was reconstructed using polypropylene ...