Ayan Biswas, Savita Khanna, Sashwati Roy, Xueliang Pan, Chandan K. Sen, and Gayle M. Gordillo Department of Plastic Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio; Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio; Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio; and Center fo...

Endosonography and Confocal Endomicroscopy of Primary Keratinizing Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Pancreas Rohan M. Modi, MD, Amrit K. Kamboj, MD, Rulong Shen, MD, and Somashekar G. Krishna, MD, MPH Department of Internal Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH Department of Pathology, The Ohio State Uni...

1 Department of Anesthesiology, Wexner Medical Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 2 Department of Neurological Surgery, Wexner Medical Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 3 Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA 4 Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA 5 Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA 6 C...

Li Zuo, Chia-Chen Chuang, Benjamin T. Hemmelgarn, and Thomas M. Best Radiologic Sciences and Respiratory Therapy Division, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio; and Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Sports Health & Performance Institute, The Ohio Stat...

ROS and NO 2 3 Li Zuo, Chia-Chen Chuang, Benjamin T. Hemmelgarn, and Thomas M. Best 4 5 Radiologic Sciences and Respiratory Therapy Division, School of Health and Rehabilitation 6 Sciences, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner 7 Medical Center, Columbus, OH 43210, USA 8 Division of Sports Medicine, Department of Family Medicine, Sports Health & Perform...

Objective: to analyze short-term outcomes and complications for our first fifty patients with fecal incontinence undergoing sacral root stimulation. Patients: fifty patients with fecal incontinence receiving sacral neuromodulation in 4 hospitals are reviewed. Discussed variables include: age, sex, incontinence duration, incontinence cause, prior surgery for incontinence, Wexner scale score, ano...

PURPOSE For measuring symptoms of fecal incontinence, summary scoring systems are widely used, but rigorous psychometric validation or assessment of such systems in terms of patients' subjective perception has rarely been done to date. This study was designed to assess the correlation between each severity measure and patients' subjective perception or clinicians' clinical assessment. We attemp...

From the Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Disclosures: Author has nothing to disclose with regard to commercial support. Received for publication June 30, 2015; revisions received Aug 3, 2015; accepted for publication Sept 4, 2015; available ahead of print Oct 15, 2015. Address for reprints: Ahmet Kilic, MD, Di...

OBJECTIVE To describe the effect of vaginal delivery with no clinically recognized sphincter tear on endosonographic anal sphincter morphology and sphincter pressure and to relate endosonographic results to anal sphincter pressure and anal incontinence score. STUDY DESIGN Thirty-two nullipara underwent anal endosonography and anal manometry in the third trimester of pregnancy, 2 weeks and 6 m...

AIM The aim of the present study was to conduct a psychometric validation of the Japanese version of the FIQL (JFIQL). METHOD A retrospective analysis of data from the JFIQL was conducted. Wexner scores and Faecal Incontinence Severity Index (FISI) scores were collected prospectively in patients with faecal incontinence who visited our centre between 2008 and 2009. For convergent validity, th...