Bone defects following curettage do not necessarily need augmentation

Bone defects following curettage do not necessarily need augmentation

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The natural pattern of bone healing in large bony defects following curettage alone as treatment of benign bone tumors around the knee is not well reported. We analyzed the outcome in 146 patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS 146 patients with over 18 months of follow-up who underwent curettage without bone substitute filling or bone grafting for a benign tumor in the distal f...

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The effects of physical attractiveness, warmth, and sex of an adult model on imitation behavior of adult males and females were investigated. Subject-were randomly paired with confederates of low or high facial k..,tractiveness who interacted with the subject in a cold-unfriendly or warm-friendly manner. The imitation task involvei the confederate lighting a specified colored light on the subje...

Increased bone alkaline phosphatase levels do not necessarily cause hypermineralization per se.

Big secrets do not necessarily cause hills to appear steeper.

Slepian, Masicampo, Toosi, and Ambady (Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 619-624, 2012, Study 1) found that individuals recalling and writing about a big, meaningful secret judged a pictured hill as steeper than did those who recalled and wrote about a small, inconsequential secret (with estimates unrelated to physical effort unaffected). From an embodied cognition perspective, ...

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