Thapa, Bikas Sutanto, Edward Bhandari, Raju
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BMC Surgery
BackgroundIncisional surgical site infection (SSI) is a significant source of postoperative morbidity resulting in increased length of stay and cost. In this study, our aim was to evaluate the association between thickness of subcutaneous fat (TSF) and incisional SSI among patients undergoing open appendectomy in low-resource settings.Methods90 pat...
Vasconcelos, Mateus Meira Pontes, João Paulo Jordão Rodrigues, Alexandre de Menezes Brito Neto, Demócrito Ribeiro de Alves, Rodrigo Rodrigues Silva, Fernando Cássio do Prado Souza, Denis Fabiano de
Abstract Background and objectives: In shoulder arthroscopy, on an outpatient basis, the patient needs a good control of the postoperative pain that can be achieved through regional blocks. Perineural dexamethasone may prolong the effect of these blocks. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of perineural dexamethasone on the prolongatio...
Shin, YiRang Yang, Jaemoon Lee, Young Han Kim, Sungjun
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Ultrasonography (Seoul, Korea)
Ultrasonography (US) is noninvasive and offers real-time, low-cost, and portable imaging that facilitates the rapid and dynamic assessment of musculoskeletal components. Significant technological improvements have contributed to the increasing adoption of US for musculoskeletal assessments, as artificial intelligence (AI)-based computer-aided detec...
Harkey, Matthew S. Little, Erin Thompson, Mikaela Zhang, Ming Driban, Jeffrey B. Salzler, Matthew J.
This study compared quantitative cartilage ultrasound metrics between people with (n=12) and without (n=12) arthroscopic cartilage damage after anterior cruciate ligament injury (age, 24.9 +/- 3.7 y; sex, 33% female, 67% male; days since injury=50 +/- 52). A transverse suprapatellar ultrasound assessment imaged the femoral cartilage in participants...
Sponbeck, Joshua K Hunter, Iain Neves, Katy A Swanson, Dallin C Swanson, Derek A Johnson, A Wayne
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Physical therapy in sport : official journal of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Sports Medicine
To examine single bout and season long Achilles tendon cross-sectional area (CSA) changes before and after running during the early and late cross-country season. OBSERVATIONAL: repeated measures design study. Controlled laboratory setting. This study consisted of 35 participants. The running group included 11 males and 9 females, the control group...
Porter, Kirsten Tapley, Scott Pascoe, Deborah Blanch, Peter Walker, Helen Shield, Anthony
Objectives: To compare the change in supraspinatus tendon thickness (STT) following a high volume (HV) and high intensity (HI) swimming practice in shoulders of elite swimmers. Design: Cohort Study. Setting: Non-clinical, state swim team training facility. Participants: A convenience sample of eight non-injured state and national level swimmers fro...
Sridharan, Anush Lawrence, Kendall M Martin-Saavedra, Juan S Davey, Marcus G Flake, Alan W Didier, Ryne A
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Pediatric radiology
With the development of an artificial environment to support the extremely premature infant, advanced imaging techniques tested in this extrauterine system might be beneficial to evaluate the fetal brain. We evaluated the feasibility of (a) performing contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) and (b) quantifying normal and decreased brain perfusion in fe...
Jia, WanRu Luo, Ting Dong, YiJie Zhang, XiaoXiao Zhan, WeiWei Zhou, JianQiao
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Ultrasound in medicine & biology
Our purpose was to compare the diagnostic performances of strain elastography (SE) and shear-wave elastography (SWE) in differentiating breast lesions by combining with conventional ultrasound (US). A total of 198 patients with 203 breast lesions underwent conventional US, SE and SWE examination using MyLab 90 and Aixplorer US systems. The SE param...
Manoharan, Dinesh Sudhakaran, Dipin Goyal, Ankur Srivastava, Deep Narayan Ansari, Mohd Tahir
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European journal of radiology
This review discusses the relevant anatomy, etiopathogenesis, current notions in clinical and imaging features as well as management outline of lower limb entrapment neuropathies. The review is based on critical analysis of the current literature as well as our experience in dealing with entrapment neuropathies of the lower limb. The complex anatom...
Zheng, Bo-Wen Zhang, Hong-Jun Gu, Shi-Jie Wu, Tao Wu, Li-Li Lian, Yu-Fan Tong, Ge Yi, Shu-Hong Ren, Jie
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European journal of radiology
To evaluate whether Doppler ultrasonography (DUS) and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography (CEUS) can identify liver donation after brain death (DBD) and cardiac death (DCD) with the risk of developing short-term primary graft dysfunction (PGD) or arterial and biliary complications within 1 year. Consecutive DBD and DCD donors who underwent DUS/CEUS e...
