A tool to predict disparities in the timeliness of surgical treatment for breast cancer patients in the USA.

Purpose: Breast cancer outcomes are impaired by both delays and disparities in treatment. This study was performed to assess their relationship and to provide a tool to predict patient socioeconomic factors associated with risk for delay.

Methods: The National Cancer Database was reviewed between 2004 and 2017 for patients with non-metastatic breast cancer managed with upfront surgery.

Medical-grade Honey as an Alternative to Surgery: A Case Series.

Introduction: Modern wound management continues to present new challenges. Many patients elect to forego operative debridement secondary to high risk, fear, cost concerns, and personal ideologies on healing. Although operative debridement has long been a tenet of proper wound care, alternative innovative approaches to wound management must be considered.

Combination therapy with PTH and DBM cannot heal a critical sized murine femoral defect.

Orthopaedic surgeons continue to search for cost-effective bone graft substitutes to enhance bone repair. Teriparatide (PTH 1-34) and demineralized bone matrix (DBM) have been used in patients to promote bone healing. We evaluated the efficacy of PTH and DBM in healing a critical sized femoral defect in three lineage-specific transgenic mice expressing Col3.

Is an Incidental Meckel's Diverticulum Truly Benign?

Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract and it is found to affect nearly 2 percent of the population. Interestingly, the surgical management of an asymptomatic Meckel's diverticulum remains widely controversial in the adult population. Review of the literature finds the overall risk of Meckel's diverticulum becoming symptomatic to be low; however, the risk accompanying its resection also proves to be minimal thus perpetuating the question of its proper management.

Utility of early postoperative radiographs after posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Study Design: Retrospective.

Objective: Evaluate the ability of serial full-length spine radiographs to detect clinically significant implant-related (IR) and non-implant-related (NIR) radiographical abnormalities in the first 6 months after routine posterior spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).

Summary Of Background Data: Patients with AIS are exposed to repeated doses of ionizing radiation during the course of their treatment with potential consequences for their long-term health.

Conformational analysis of 6α- and 6β-naltrexol and derivatives and relationship to opioid receptor affinity.

Naltrexol and its C₆ α and β desoxy, iodo, mesyl, tosyl, trifyl, dimethylcarbamyl, and diphenylcarbamyl derivatives were studied in their energy-minimized C ring chair-like and boat-like conformations using B3LYP/6-31G** and SM5.4/A to estimate aqueous solvation free energy. The results were compared to experimental opioid receptor binding affinities.