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Seatbelt use and risk of major injuries sustained by vehicle occupants during motor-vehicle crashes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies [PDF]
BackgroundIn 2004, a World Health Report on road safety called for enforcement of measures such as seatbelt use, effective at minimizing morbidity and mortality caused by road traffic accidents.
A Akobeng +53 more
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Background: The treatment of pectus excavatum can be conservative or surgical. The aim of this study was to determine the factors influencing the outcomes of treatment after a minimally invasive Nuss corrective surgery procedure in pediatric patients ...
Miro Jukić +3 more
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Surgery of chest wall deformities [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the medium-term results of 77 surgical corrections in patients with chest wall deformities, 53 (68.8%) with pectus excavatum and 24 with pectus carinatum, operated upon from 1985 to 1994.
Antunes, MJ +3 more
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Objectives: In this study, we evaluated the correlation between severity of deformity and cardiopulmonary function with regards to echocardiographic and spirometric findings.
Alper Hazım Gürsu +4 more
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: Background: A misbalance in forces is proposed for causing adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS). AIS is therefore correlated to adjacent musculoskeletal pathologies. Its concomitance with idiopathic pectus deformities (PD) is underexposed.
Laurian J.M. van Es +2 more
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Background Pectus excavatum is less common in females than in males, and it often aggravates a coexistent breast asymmetry. We conducted a study comparing female patients’ versus medical professionals’ evaluation of pectus excavatum repair to assess ...
Tanja Wachter +10 more
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The Use of Bone Morphogenetic Protein in the Intervertebral Disk Space in Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion [PDF]
Study Design: Retrospective Cohort. Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize one surgeon’s experience over a 10-year period using rhBMP-2 in the disk space for minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (MIS TLIF ...
Anderson +28 more
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Surgical treatment of funnel chest in children using titanium nickelide materials
Reflects stages of funnel chest treatment in the Tomsk Region from 1977 to 2009 has been presented. The work provides analysis of surgical treatment of 78 patients, including 42 patients were operated by means of thoracoplasty with the following fixation
G. V. Slizovsky
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Meta-analysis and systematic review of skin graft donor-site dressings with future guidelines. [PDF]
Background: Many types of split-thickness skin graft (STSG) donor-site dressings are available with little consensus from the literature on the optimal dressing type. The purpose of this systematic review was to analyze the most recent outcomes regarding
Alwaal +58 more
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ObjectiveTo retrospectively analyze the effect of applying an ultrasound-guided bilateral erector spine plane block (ESPB) after the Nuss procedure for surgical repair of pectus excavatum (PE) in children.MethodsThe subjects of the study were patients ...
Shihuan Wu, Jing Wu, Xifeng Zhang
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