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PLoS ONE, 2014 BackgroundThoracic surgeries including thoracotomy and VATS are some of the highest risk procedures that often lead to CPSP, with or without a neuropathic component.
Zhiyou Peng +5 more
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Case Reports in Orthopedics, 2020 Although adjacent segmental disease after posterior thoracic fusion surgery is rare, thoracic myelopathy due to ossification of the yellow ligament in the lower thoracic spine could develop because of mechanical stress when the lower instrumented ...
Toru Funayama +10 more
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The Growing Popularity of MISS: A Focus on Endoscopic Surgery for the Cervical and Thoracic Spine [PDF]
Journal of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery and Technique, 2023 This editorial article explores advances in the field of spinal surgery, focusing on minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS) and its applications in treating cervical and thoracic spine conditions.
Junseok W Hur +3 more
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Limitations of ROC on Imbalanced Data: Evaluation of LVAD Mortality Risk Scores [PDF]
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2021 Jul 30, 2020 Objective: This study illustrates the ambiguity of ROC in evaluating two classifiers of 90-day LVAD mortality. This paper also introduces the precision recall curve (PRC) as a supplemental metric that is more representative of LVAD classifiers performance in predicting the minority class.
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Open thoracic or thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair after previous abdominal aortic aneurysm surgery [PDF]
, 2008 ObjectiveThe purpose of this study was to provide insight into the incidence of thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair following previous infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) surgery and to determine whether thoracic or ...
Mojibian, Hamid +4 more
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The path of the first female surgeon to open-heart surgery - Nina Starr Braunwald
Heart Vessels and Transplantation, 2021 Nina Starr Braunwald - first female heart surgeon, a pioneer in cardio-thoracic surgery, certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the first elected to the American Thoracic Surgery Association, a wonderful wife and mother of three ...
Zairbek A. Syrgaev
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Extraction of Pulmonary Airway in CT Scans Using Deep Fully Convolutional Networks [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Accurate, automatic and complete extraction of pulmonary airway in medical images plays an important role in analyzing thoracic CT volumes such as lung cancer detection, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and bronchoscopic-assisted surgery navigation.
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Adverse Events in Robotic Surgery: A Retrospective Study of 14 Years of FDA Data [PDF]
PLOS ONE 11(4) (2016) e0151470, 2015 Understanding the causes and patient impacts of surgical adverse events will help improve systems and operational practices to avoid incidents in the future. We analyzed the adverse events data related to robotic systems and instruments used in minimally invasive surgery, reported to the U.S. FDA MAUDE database from January 2000 to December 2013.
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Long term compensatory sweating results after sympathectomy for palmar and axillary hyperhidrosis [PDF]
, 2016 Endoscopic thoracic sympathectomy is currently the best treatment for primary upper extremity hyperhidrosis, but the potential for adverse effects, particularly the development of compensatory sweating, is a concern and often precludes surgery as a ...
ANDREETTI, Claudio +7 more
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Regional anesthesia and pain medicine, 2020 Background The long-term incidence of chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) after thoracic surgery has not yet been reported. Methods We retrospectively reviewed the electronic medical records of 4218 consecutive patients who underwent thoracic surgery for ...
Susie Yoon +6 more
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