Characteristics of polytrauma p ...
Aims The aims of this study were to determine if the severity of injury is related to the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in poly ...
Uncommon acquired fistulae invo ...
Purpose Most gastrointestinal fistulae commonly occur following surgery. A minority is caused by a myriad of other etiologies and is termed by some ...
Enterocutaneous fistulas: an ov ...
Enterocutaneous fistulas remain a difficult management problem. The basis of management centers on the prevention and treatment of sepsis, control o ...
The value of clinical examinati ...
Purpose of the study To evaluate the value of a pelvic X-ray compared to clinical examination in diagnosing pelvic ring fractures, using computed to ...
Abdominal wall reconstruction i ...
Enterocutaneous fistulas (ECFs) remain a feared complication of surgery, particularly in acute care and trauma patients. Despite advances in medical ...
Surgical management of lower ga ...
Purpose Lower gastrointestinal bleeding (LGIB) is any form of bleeding distal to the Ligament of Treitz. In most cases, acute LGIB is self-limited a ...
Anatomy-based surgical strategy ...
Anatomic delineation of a gastrointestinal fistula is essential in assessing the likelihood of spontaneous closure or to plan the surgical managemen ...
Evaluation of admissions to the ...
unique facility strictly reserved to provide immediate largescale emergency care for victims of disasters and major incidents. We evaluated the impl ...
Anterior column reconstruction ...
Background Discectomy, corpectomy, and resection of isolated posterior wall fragments are technically demanding steps requiring maximum surgical pre ...
Radiographic techniques for the ...
Purpose/background Acute gastrointestinal bleeding (GIB) is an emergency with high mortality rates, which requires a quick localization and treatmen ...
Nutritional support in patients ...
Gastrointestinal fistulas (GIFs) arise as a complication of the surgical treatment of a number of malignant and non-malignant diseases. Fluid loss a ...
Accuracy of CT-assisted pedicle ...
Introduction The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of pedicle screw placement after computed tomography (CT)-assisted positioning of gu ...
Therapeutic and interventional ...
Introduction Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding remains a common clinical problem encountered by every emergency room and trauma physician. Endoscopy re ...
Metabolic consequences of patie ...
Methods and Materials The historical highlights of the management of fistulas of the gastrointestinal tract during the past century are presented br ...
3D-based navigation in posterio ...
Introduction Navigated procedures in spinal surgery have been established due to an increasing demand for precision. Especially, 3D C-arms connected ...
O-arm-based spinal navigation ...
Since the first use of instrument-tracking techniques in the early 1990s, image-guided technologies became a leading topic in all branches of spine ...
Resuscitation and monitoring in ...
Introduction Gastrointestinal bleeding is a common lifethreatening problem, causing significant mortality, costs and resource allocation. Its manage ...
The surgical anatomy and etiolo ...
Background Fistulas are abnormal communications between two epithelial surfaces, either between two portions of the intestine, between the intestine ...
Postoperative wound manipulatio ...
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a mental illness with a prevalence of 1.5% in Western countries. One of the major characteristics of patien ...
Evaluation of biocompatibility ...
Although a wide range of materials has been used as implants in reconstructive or cosmetic surgery, many implant materials proved to be of limited u ...
Antiseptic sutures: clinical ev ...
The use of antiseptic sutures may constitute an interesting way to prevent early contamination of surgical wounds by microorganisms found in the env ...
Use of fibula pedicle as a comp ...
We report a case of free fibula osteomyocutaneous flap whose skin paddle had a dominant blood supply from a soleus musculocutaneous perforator which ...
Mutaf procedure: expanding the ...
Depressed scars may be congenital or acquired. Different methods have been widely used for the correction of these deformities. The Mutaf procedure ...
Squamous cell carcinoma of the ...
In Nigeria, Tanzania and Togo, squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is the commonest skin malignancy. This is in contrast with the Caucasians in Europe, No ...
Deep sternal wound infection af ...
The aim of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the results of reconstructing infected poststernotomy wounds, with either sternal plating and/ ...