Publications by authors named "Ali Yuce"

Purpose: The internet has become a primary source for patients seeking healthcare information, but the quality of online information, particularly in orthopaedics, often falls short. Orthopaedic surgeons now have the added responsibility of evaluating and guiding patients to credible online resources. This study aimed to assess ChatGPT's ability to identify deficiencies in patient information texts related to total hip arthroplasty websites and to evaluate its potential for enhancing the quality of these texts.

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  • - The study analyzed 42 video-reported cases of Achilles tendon ruptures in professional athletes, focusing on their injury mechanisms and body postures at the time of rupture, hypothesizing that these factors vary by sport.
  • - Most ruptures occurred non-contact during critical maneuvers, with athletes often in a position of forward bending and an ankle in dorsiflexion, highlighting that basketball and football players were particularly affected.
  • - The findings suggest that targeted physical therapy, including neuromuscular training and balance exercises, could help prevent these common injuries, especially during take-off and acceleration phases in sports.
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Developing a validated, standardized, and easily accessible pain assessment tool is the first step toward improving pain management. Since pain measurement is often used as a primary or secondary endpoint in daily clinical practice and clinical trials, accurate and precise pain measurement is of great importance. Therefore, there is a need for a valid, reliable, safe, and low-cost method to measure and assess pain levels more objectively.

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Introduction: The Proximal Tibiofibular Joint (PTFJ) is a synovial joint with anatomical variations located between the anteromedial surface of the fibula and the posterolateral facet of the tibia. These anatomical variations are believed to contribute to different biomechanical behaviors in both the knee and ankle joint and play a role in both physiological and pathological movements. Therefore, the morphology of the proximal tibiofibular joint may play a decisive role in the characteristics of ankle fractures and syndesmotic ligament injuries.

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Background: Patients and healthcare professionals extensively rely on the internet for medical information. Low-quality videos can significantly impact the patient-doctor relationship, potentially affecting consultation efficiency and decision-making process. Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) is an artificial intelligence application with the potential to improve medical reports, provide medical information, and supplement orthopedic knowledge acquisition.

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Background And Objective: Artificial intelligence (AI) advancements continue to have a profound impact on modern society, driving significant innovation and development across various fields. We sought to appraise the reliability of the information offered by Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) regarding diseases commonly associated with sports surgery. We hypothesized that ChatGPT could offer high-quality information on sports-related diseases and be used in patient education.

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Background: Proximal femur resection and prosthetic reconstruction are preferred in patients with extensive bone destruction, pathological fractures, tumours resistant to radiation therapy, and patients with more proximal metastatic lesions. There is increasing evidence that the CRP/albumin ratio (CAR) is an independent marker of inflammation in various primary organ cancers and maybe a more accurate prognostic factor. We aimed to evaluate whether preoperative and postoperative CAR values could be a factor in predicting mortality in these patients.

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 The advent of the Internet has provided new, easily accessible resources for patients seeking additional health information. Many doctors and healthcare organizations post informative videos on this platform, and nearly all patients are looking for videos online for a second opinion.  The phrases "frozen shoulder," "frozen shoulder treatment," "adhesive" capsulitis, and "adhesive capsulitis treatment" were entered into YouTube's search bar for a normal inquiry.

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Background: The fact that lateral malleolar fracture is accompanied by posterior malleolar fracture may adversely affect syndesmosis malreduction rates. We aimed to compare syndesmosis malreduction rates determined on postoperative radiographs between isolated lateral malleolar fractures and lateral malleolar fractures accompanied by posterior malleolar fractures.

Methods: We retrospectively examined 128 operative patients: 73 with isolated lateral malleolar fractures (group L) and 55 with lateral + posterior malleolar fractures (group LP).

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Background: Supination-adduction (SAD) type injuries are pylon variant injuries and lie between partial intra-articular pylon fractures and rotational ankle fractures. We aimed to evaluate functional outcomes of SAD type 2 bimalleolar fractures in comparison to supination-external rotation (SER) type 4 fractures.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed data of 42 cases with SER type 4 and 20 cases with SAD type 2 injuries.

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Background: The aim of the study was to examine the effect of the position of the plate and syndesmotic screw on postoperative tibiofibular joint malreductions in cases where the syndesmotic screw is inserted through the hole of the anatomically locked lateral distal fibula plate.

Methods: Thirty patients (13 female and 17 male patients) with postoperative computed tomographic scans were examined retrospectively. Patient information (eg, tibiofibular congruence measured from postoperative computed tomographic scans, the anterior and posterior tibiofibular distance at axial sections, the presence and orientation of fibular rotation, the presence of tibiofibular intraarticular piece, the angle between the syndesmotic screw and incisural line, the placement of the plate, and the localization of the screw on the fibula in axial images) was recorded.

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The bone anatomy of tibiofibular syndesmosis has been a topic of interest. Fibular incisura morphology has been analyzed on cadaver specimens, plain radiographs, or CT images. The aim of this study is to examine the effects of fibula incisura features and fibula morphology in ankle injuries, especially involving posterior malleolus and posteroinferior tibiofibular ligament injuries.

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Wrist kinematic indices and scapholunate distance play an essential role in diagnosing and treating injury and disease of the carpus. It can be challenging to measure and diagnose scapholunate ligament injury in the immature skeleton. The aim of this study was to measure the normal ranges of the carpal indices on radiographs in the Turkish population aged 5-14 years.

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Background: Patients frequently use YouTube to learn about their illness. For this reason, the educational and quality of YouTube videos about various diseases has been investigated. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the accuracy and quality of YouTube videos.

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In this study, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy of neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio values in preoperative blood tests of patients amputated due to diabetic foot in predicting 1-year mortality. We assumed that the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio predicted 1-year mortality in these patients. The inclusion criteria were as follows: to be diagnosed with diabetic foot, being >18 years of age, having a confirmed type 1 or type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosis, stage 3 to 5 Wagner ulcers, and having at least 1 year of follow-up.

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Background: Videos uploaded to YouTube do not go through a review process. The educational aspect of these videos may be insufficient for patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFP).

Objective: To examine the reliability and educational quality of PFP videos on YouTube.

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Background: Medical professionals and patients commonly use the YouTubeTM platform in their research on health information. The quality of videos about talus osteochondral defect (OCD) and arthroscopic surgery has not been evaluated previously. The aim of this study was to interpret the quality and sufficiency of YouTubeTM videos about talus OCD and arthroscopic surgery.

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Objective: Videos uploaded to YouTube do not go through a review process, and therefore, videos related to patellofemoral instability may have little educational value. The purpose of this study was to assess the educational quality of YouTube videos regarding patellofemoral instability.

Methods: A standard search was performed on the YouTube database using the following terms: "unstable kneecap," "patellar instability," "patellofemoral instability," "kneecap dislocation," and "patellar dislocation," and the top 50 videos based on the "relevance" assignment of the YouTube algorithm were included for analysis.

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Background: In Professional Athletes, quadriceps and patellar tendon ruptures are devastating injuries, often resulting in the loss of a season or a decreased return to the pre-injury level of sport. This study aimed to perform a comprehensive Video Analysis on extensor mechanism rupture (EMR) to describe the body postures and related mechanism in Professional Athletes.

Methods: Using publicly available data on quadriceps tendon and patellar tendon ruptures from between 2000 and 2020, 52 elite athletes were identified.

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Background: It is important for orthopedic surgeons to follow the union of the fracture after surgery. This becomes even more important after nonunion surgery. The radiological union scale is popular in the follow-up of unions.

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Background: The calcaneofibular ligament is cut to increase vision in surgical field in minimally invasive surgery of displaced intraarticular calcaneus fractures with subtalar incision. We aimed to investigate whether this causes talar tilt instability in ankle stress radiographs due to the calcaneofibular ligament deficiency in postoperative period.

Methods: The files of 38 patients who were operated with the diagnosis of displaced calcaneus fracture between 2013 and 2018 were examined retrospectively.

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Introduction: Sarcopenia is defined as a progressive loss of muscle mass and function with increased age. The measurement of muscle mass and attenuation on the axial computed tomography (CT) scan has been reported to be a good indicator for sarcopenia in previous literature. This study aimed to compare muscle mass between the intertrochanteric fracture and femoral neck fracture groups by accurately measuring muscle mass around the hip joint using a CT scan.

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Tibiofibular injury repair of ankle fractures may result in over-compression when performed via a partially threaded screw depending on its placed level. We aimed to examine the relationship between the screw level relative to the tibiotalar joint and syndesmosis malreduction in postoperative radiographs of ankle fractures treated with partially threaded screws. We retrospectively analyzed 129 patients who underwent surgery due to lateral malleolar fractures between 2011 and 2019.

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Objective: Pediatric proximal femur fracture is extremely rare trauma comparing to other fractures. The proximal femur fracture is 1% of all pediatric fractures. The aim of current study is to compare the incidence of early complications and outcomes of pediatric proximal femur fractures regarding fracture types retrospectively.

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