Exogenous application of platelet-leukocyte gel during open subacromial decompression contributes to improved patient outcome [PDF]
, 2007 Background: Platelet-leukocyte gel (PLG) is being used during various surgical procedures in an attempt to enhance the healing process. We studied the effects of PLG on postoperative recovery of patients undergoing open subacromial decompression (OSD ...
Devilee, R. +7 more
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Evolutionary roots of the risk of hip fracture in humans
Communications Biology, 2023 The transition to bipedal locomotion was a fundamental milestone in human evolution. Consequently, the human skeleton underwent substantial morphological adaptations.
Hadas Leah Levine +8 more
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Intracapsular total thyroidectomy experience and outcome for benign thyroid diseases
Medical Journal of Babylon, 2022 Background: The total intracapsular thyroidectomy is a new procedure that removes all the thyroid tissue for benign thyroid diseases and two third of thyroid capsule with better intraoperative and post-operative consequences and less operative time than ...
Mohammad Abbas Safi +1 more
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Overnight Monitoring After T&A for Children Ages 24-36 Months: Is It Always Necessary? [PDF]
LaryngoscopeThis study aims to identify whether all children < 3 years of age require overnight admission after tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy. We found that 98.7% of children who were off oxygen within 3 h after surgery never went back on oxygen during the entire monitoring period.
Van Heest T +4 more
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BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction The standard surgical treatment for recurrent or chronic tonsillitis is extracapsular tonsillectomy. Recent studies show that intracapsular tonsillectomy has the potential to reduce the postoperative morbidity of patients undergoing tonsil ...
Tommi Kauko +10 more
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Structural and inflammatory sonographic findings in erosive and non-erosive osteoarthritis of the interphalangeal finger joints [PDF]
, 2010 Objective The objectives were: (1) to determine if ultrasound (US) can detect more erosions in erosive osteoarthritis (EOA) of the interphalangeal (IP) joints than conventional radiography (CR); and (2) to explore the frequency of structural and ...
Carron, Philippe +2 more
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Behavior of patients chosen for emergency surgery due to hip fracture
Revista Cubana de Anestesiología y Reanimación, 2016 Introduction: caring for the elderly patient with hip fracture requires an analysis of systematic sequences and adds value to each of the actions, with the aim at reducing the variability of clinical practice and improving the quality of caring for these
Zaily Fuentes Díaz +2 more
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Fractures of the proximal femur and hip osteoarthrosis – coincidence or coherence?
SICOT-JPurpose: The current study aimed to investigate the correlation between the grade of radiographic hip osteoarthritis (OA) and the fracture pattern observed in fragility fractures of the proximal femur.
Latz David +5 more
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Sterile acellular dermal collagen as a treatment for rippling deformity of breast. [PDF]
, 2014 Prosthetic implants are frequently used for breast augmentation and breast reconstruction following mastectomy. Unfortunately, long-term aesthetic results of prosthetic breast restoration may be hindered by complications such as rippling, capsular ...
Busse, Brittany +2 more
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Gullstrand Intracapsular Accommodation Mechanism Revised
Photonics, 2022 More than a century has passed since Allvar Gullstrand proposed his so called “mechanism of intracapsular accommodation” based on the concept that the change in lens power during accommodation can be larger if the lens is modeled by two different ...
Norberto López-Gil
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