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OBJECTIVE To objectively and subjectively evaluate the functional result from before to after surgery among patients with a diagnosis of an isolated avulsion fracture of the posterior cruciate ligament who were treated surgically. METHOD Five patients were evaluated by means of reviewing the medical files, applying the Lysholm questionnaire, physical examination and radiological examination. ...

This study aims at identifying the prevalence of multiple variants in CT of paranasal sinuses(PNS) done in our institution and to find out correlation to sinusitis if any. A retrospective analysis of 200 cases (100 in sinusitis group and 100 in asymptomatic group) of CT PNS was done at our institution. The prevalence of variants including those with surgical importance were studied. Comparison ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between body mass index (BMI; calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) and 30-day mortality risk among patients in the participant use data file database of the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program. Obesity is a prevalent chronic disease in the United States, and general and vascular surgeo...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors of a positive surgical margin (PSM) and the significance of a PSM after radical prostatectomy (RP) on biochemical recurrence (BCR) in exclusively pathologically confirmed organ-confined (OC) prostate cancer, as despite an excellent prognosis after RP, some patients with pathologically confirmed OC disease have BCR, and the prognostic significance of a PSM in t...

Data on prognostic factors and treatment outcomes for chest wall soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are sparse. Wide resections with negative margins are the mainstay of therapy, but the prognostic impact of surgical margins remains controversial. The purpose of the present study was to determine the significance of microscopic margins through a long-term follow-up. The associations between local recur...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Surgical trials pose many methodological challenges often not present in trials of medical interventions. If not properly accounted for, these challenges may introduce significant biases and threaten the validity of the results. METHODS We systematically reviewed the significance of randomized controlled trials in the evaluation of surgical interventions, discussed t...

background depending on the cause, 40-90% of every deep dermis insult ends up in scar formation. several modalities have been suggested as a treatment but a high rate of recurrence is reported in most of those interventions. high dose radiotherapy has been shown to be effective in reducing the recurrence rate. this study tried to determine the effectiveness of low dose rate radiotherapy followi...

BACKGROUND To elucidate the significance of absorbable surgical sutures in the occurrence of stitch abscess after surgery in patients with oral squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). MATERIAL AND METHODS The subjects were 251 patients who underwent excision and/or reconstruction and/or neck dissection for oral SCC using absorbable surgical sutures. Detection rates and characteristics of patients with...