Feasibility and Cost-Effectiveness of Daycare Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction - A Retrospective Case Series.

Introduction: Multiple reviews of the applicability, cost-effectiveness, and safety of daycare reconstruction of anterior cruciate ligament have been published in French, American, and British setups, but have not been described in our population.

Materials And Methods: In this study, 25 patients who underwent Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) as a daycare surgery in our setup were assessed retrospectively. Post-operatively patients were reviewed for pain, complications, conversion from daycare to inpatients, readmission within two weeks post ACLR and cost-effectiveness.

Large-grain scintillator screens for proton radiography.

Protons from the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center have been used for pulsed radiography in dynamic experiments for the past 25 years. Pulses of protons are imaged on a scintillator, and the light from these images is captured by fast gated cameras. The need for fast, bright scintillators has led to some compromises in image quality due to tiling the scintillators and backgrounds with totally internally reflected light.

Perspective on Clinical and Functional Outcomes of Arthroscopic All-Inside Meniscal Repair: Insights From a Lower Middle-Income Country.

Background Meniscal tears are a common injury in the adult population. With the advent of newer devices, the adoption of the all-inside repair technique has been expanding substantially because of its feasibility and reduced risk to surrounding neurovascular structures. This study was conducted in a lower middle-income country to assess the functional outcome of the arthroscopic all-inside technique and to identify the potential factors that may affect the functional outcome that will eventually influence the future management of these patients.

Effectiveness of Proximal Femur Nail in the Management of Unstable Per-Trochanteric Fractures: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

Background  Intertrochanteric (IT) fractures in the elderly demand surgical intervention for optimal recovery. While dynamic hip screw (DHS) is standard for stable fractures, its use in unstable cases is debated. Proximal femur nail (PFN) addresses unstable per-trochanteric fractures, boasting biomechanical advantages.

Contrast-enhanced proton radiographic sensitivity limits for tumor detection.

Proton radiography may guide proton therapy cancer treatments with beam's-eye-view anatomical images and a proton-based estimation of proton stopping power. However, without contrast enhancement, proton radiography will not be able to distinguish tumor from tissue. To provide this contrast, functionalized, high- nanoparticles that specifically target a tumor could be injected into a patient before imaging.