BACKGROUND Proximal humerus fractures are one of the most common fractures. Intramedullary locked nailing is becoming a popular alternative treatment, especially for easier fracture patterns. Although axillary nerve injury has been reported, no study has compared the safety of the proximal locking options relative to the axillary nerve and the ascending branch of the anterior circumflex artery....

the distally based sural fasciocutaneous flap has become a main part of the reconstruction of the lower leg, heel and foot. however, perfusion problems and venous congestion have been reported. over the past decade, several flap modifications have been reported to improve flap viability and to solve a myriad of reconstructive needs. the purpose of this paper is to describe our experience in har...

Stress-related psychopathology is on the rise, and there a pressing need for improved prevention strategies. Positive appraisal style, tendency to appraise potentially threatening situations in positive way, has been proposed act as key resilience mechanism therefore offers potential target preventive approaches. In this article, we review n = 99 studies investigating associations of cognitive ...

We consider the problem of minimizing a convex objective which is the sum of a smooth part, with Lipschitz continuous gradient, and a nonsmooth part. Inspired by various applications, we focus on the case when the nonsmooth part is a composition of a proper closed convex function P and a nonzero affine map, with the proximal mappings of τP , τ > 0, easy to compute. In this case, a direct applic...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Endoprosthetic replacements of the proximal femur are commonly required to treat destructive metastases with either impending or actual pathological fractures at this site. Modular prostheses provide an off the shelf availability and can be adapted to most reconstructive situations for proximal femoral replacements. The aim of this study was to assess the clinical and functi...

Proximal and semi-proximal spaces are defined with the help of a game played on uniform spaces. Proximal spaces are where the entourage-picker has a winning strategy, and semi-proximal spaces are where the opponent, the point-picker, does not have a winning strategy. The class of proximal spaces is closed under Σ-products and closed subspaces. In this paper it is shown that product of two semi-...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we generalize the proximal point algorithm to complete CAT(0) spaces and show‎ ‎that the sequence generated by the proximal point algorithm‎ $w$-converges to a zero of the maximal‎ ‎monotone operator‎. ‎Also‎, ‎we prove that if $f‎: ‎Xrightarrow‎ ‎]-infty‎, +‎infty]$ is a proper‎, ‎convex and lower semicontinuous‎ ‎function on the complete CAT(0) space $X$‎, ‎then the proximal...