European military surgical teams in combat theater: A survey study on deployment preparation and experience.

Introduction: Adequate (predeployment) training of the nowadays highly specialized Western military surgical teams is vital to ensure a broad range of surgical skills to treat combat casualties. This survey study aimed to assess the self-perceived preparedness, training needs, deployment experience, and post-deployment impact of surgical teams deployed with the Danish, Dutch, or Finnish Armed Forces. Study findings may facilitate a customized predeployment training.

Development of pancreatic diseases during long-term follow-up after acute pancreatitis: a post-hoc analysis of a prospective multicenter cohort.

Background And Aim: More insight into the incidence of and factors associated with progression following a first episode of acute pancreatitis (AP) would offer opportunities for improvements in disease management and patient counseling.

Methods: A long-term post hoc analysis of a prospective cohort of patients with AP (2008-2015) was performed. Primary endpoints were recurrent acute pancreatitis (RAP), chronic pancreatitis (CP), and pancreatic cancer.

The correlation between back posture and sagittal jaw position in adult orthodontic patients.

Objective: A debate remains in evidence-based medicine about the reciprocal interchange between dental occlusion and body postural therapy. Back posture deformity has been found to be related to trunk asymmetry as one characteristic of scoliosis that is commonly reported in occlusal development issue. This study aims to determine the correlation between back posture and sagittal jaw position in adult orthodontic patients treated at the dental hospital of Universitas Sumatera Utara.

Differences in dental arch characteristics between genders in patients with suspected condylar hyperplasia in a North Sumatra subpopulation: a cross-sectional study.

Condylar Hyperplasia (CH) is a self-limiting mandibular condyle disorder that shows asymmetry progress in conjunction with associated occlusal changes as long as condylar growth is still active and leads to facial asymmetry. This study aimed to analysis the difference of dental arch characteristics  based on genders in orthodontic patients with suspected CH in a North Sumatra subpopulation. This is a retrospective study of suspected CH patient's clinical records who sought for the initial orthodontic treatment between January 2015 to March 2019.

TMD symptoms and vertical mandibular symmetry in young adult orthodontic patients in North Sumatra, Indonesia: a cross-sectional study.

Temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) includes symptoms of pain and dysfunction in the muscles of mastication and the temporomandibular joint. Differences in vertical condylar height, observed in the assessment of mandibular asymmetry, is a structural alteration that represents a risk factor for TMD. The study aimed to evaluate the association between TMD symptoms and vertical mandibular symmetry in young adult orthodontic patients in North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Utility of multiple rule out CT screening of high-risk atraumatic patients in an emergency department-a feasibility study.

Background: Several large trials have evaluated the effect of CT screening based on specific symptoms, with varying outcomes. Screening of patients with CT based on their prognosis alone has not been examined before. For moderate-to-high risk patients presenting in the emergency department (ED), the potential gain from a CT scan might outweigh the risk of radiation exposure.

Analyzing Menton Deviation in Posteroanterior Cephalogram in Early Detection of Temporomandibular Disorder.

Introduction: Some clinicians believed that mandibular deviation leads to facial asymmetry and it also had a correlation with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). Posteroanterior (PA) cephalogram was widely reported as a regular record in treating facial asymmetry and craniofacial anomalies. The objective of this study was to analyze the relationship of menton deviation in PA cephalogram with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) symptoms.

[Isolated gallbladder agenesis without biliary atresia in a 16-year-old boy].

We present a case of a 16-year-old male patient with recurrent abdominal pain in the upper right quadrant, signed up for elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to a single gallstone seen on preoperative abdominal ultrasound. Because of dilatation of the common bile duct subsequent magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography was performed, and surprisingly, the gallbladder was found missing. The operation was therefore cancelled.

No Circadian Variation in Surgeons' Ability to Diagnose Acute Appendicitis.

Objective: To examine if there were circadian variations in surgeons' ability to diagnose acute appendicitis.

Design: Retrospective database study of all patients admitted to an acute surgical procedure under the potential diagnosis of acute appendicitis in a 4-year period. The day was divided into 2 time intervals, day to evening hours (08:00-23:59) and night hours (00:00-07:59).

[The use of pre-hospital tourniquets in life-threatening extremity traumas].

Tourniquets have been used for centuries. They have been called lifesavers and "an invention of the evil one". 90.

[The use of pre-hospital tourniquets in life-threatening in extremity traumas].

Tourniquets have been used for centuries. They have been called lifesavers and "an invention of the evil one". 90.

[Recruiting medical students for the surgical education].

For a longer period the interest for surgical education in Denmark has been low measured in the number of junior doctors choosing a surgical career. The Danish Surgical Society has reviewed the published data describing the factors involved when selecting a surgical career.

[Damage control surgery--a survey of a Cochrane review].

Damage Control Surgery (DCS) has been the approach in dealing with multi-trauma patients for the last 15 years. In this Cochrane-review the authors seek to compare the outcome of DCS with the outcome after the conventional strategy which is often a time-consuming operation with definitive repair. However, no randomised controlled trials are found, and thus it is not possible to say whether DCS is superior to the conventional approach or not.

[Diaphragmatic hernia--admitted under the gallstone diagnosis].

A 34-year old woman was admitted with pain in the upper right abdomen. The tentative diagnosis was gall stones, but none of the paraclinical results supported this diagnosis. A chest x-ray showed a completely white right lung.

Ultrasound of the acute abdomen performed by surgeons in training.

Aim: Ultrasound has a well-established role in the diagnostic assessment of acute abdominal pain where some ultrasonically easily-accessible organs account for several diagnostic possibilities. The objective of the present study was to evaluate whether surgeons without ultrasound experience could perform valid abdominal ultrasound examinations of patients referred with acute abdominal pain.

Methods: Patients referred with acute abdominal pain had an ultrasound examination by a surgeon in training as well as by an experienced consultant radiologist whose results served as the gold standard.

[What happens to gallstone patients discharged without cholecystectomy? Follow-up of 222 consecutive patients with initially untreated gallstones].

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate the cholecystectomy rate and rate of gallstone-related complications in patients formerly seen and discharged without operation from the Clinic for Day-Surgery, Glostrup University Hospital, Denmark.

Materials And Methods: From January 2000 to December 2002 a total of 222 patients with gallstones were discharged without operation (lap. cholecystectomy) from the day-surgery clinic.