Lateral Lymph Node Dissection for Locally Advanced Rectal Carcinoma: A Step-by-Step Description of Surgical Anatomical Planes During Cadaveric Dissection and Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Purpose: Total mesorectal excision (TME) is accepted as gold standard method in rectal cancer globally. But there is no standard for lateral lymph nodes. Combination of neoadjuvant treatment plus lateral lymph node dissection (LLND) in select patients might be a promising method.

The results of decompression of the musculocutaneous nerve entrapment in children with obstetric brachial plexus palsy.

Purpose: Elbow flexion is a key indicator of functional recovery in obstetric brachial plexus palsy (OBPP). However, lack of flexion could be a result of an entrapped musculocutaneous nerve during the healing period. The purpose of this study was to investigate the possible compression of the musculocutaneous nerve and outcomes of decompression.

Preventing the recurrence of acute anorectal abscesses utilizing a loose seton: a pilot study.

Introduction: This pilot study aimed to document our results of treating anorectal abscesses with drainage plus loose seton for possible coexisting high fistulas or drainage plus fistulotomy for low tracts at the same operation.

Methods: Drainage plus fistulotomy were performed only in cases with subcutaneous mucosa, intersphincteric, or apparently low transsphincteric fistula tracts. For all other cases with high transsphincteric fistula or those with questionable sphincter involvement, a loose seton was placed through the tract.

Matrix induced autologous chondrocyte implantation in the knee: Comparison between osteochondritis dissecans and osteonecrosis and effect of chondrocyte thickness on prognosis.

Objective: The aim of this study was compare the clinical success of treatments for avascular necrosis and osteochondritis dissecans in cases who underwent matrix autologous chondrocyte implantations, and evaluate cartilage thickness on the clinical outcomes after implantation.

Methods: A total of 37 patients (29 men, and 8 women; mean age: 23.8 years (16-38)) were treated prospectively with a two-stage matrix autologous chondrocyte implantation (avascular necrosis, n=21; osteochondritis dissecans, n=18).

Complementary Specific Pelvic Sequences on Routine Lumbar Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scans: An Imaging-Based Study Focused on Piriformis Syndrome.

Aim: To discuss the rationale and merit of specific pelvic sequences as an adjunct to routine lumbar magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for early detection of piriformis syndrome (PS) and to disclose its frequency in patients who underwent radiological evaluation.

Material And Methods: This retrospective, imaging-based study included all individuals who underwent lumbar MRI and those who were further evaluated with a pelvic MRI, but excluded all high-energy trauma cases. The patients' demographics and radiological features were reviewed using electronic patient records and hospital-based picture image archiving and communication system.

Evaluation of Muscle Injuries in Professional Football Players: Does Coach Replacement Affect the Injury Rate?

Objectives: To assess the incidence and characteristics of muscle injuries in professional football players and to assess if coach dismissal may be related with muscle injuries within 1-month period from the dismissal.

Design: Prospective cohort study during 3 consecutive seasons.

Setting: Turkish Super League football teams.

Regression of lumbar disc herniation by physiotherapy. Does non-surgical spinal decompression therapy make a difference? Double-blind randomized controlled trial.

Background And Objectives: The aim of the study determining whether or not Non-invasive Spinal Decompression Therapy (NSDT) was effective in resorption of herniation, increasing disc height in patients with lumbar disc herniation (LHNP).

Methods: A total of twenty patients diagnosed as LHNP and suffering from pain at least 8 weeks were enrolled to the study. Patients were allocated in study (SG) and control groups (CG) randomly.

One patient, one bone, and two different tumoral lesions.

In this article, we report a 67-year-old female patient who has two different tumoral lesions located in left humerus with clinical and radiological findings. Previously, the patient was diagnosed as impingement syndrome in shoulder, but, tumoral lesions were detected on the radiograms incidentally during evaluation.

Lumbar Epidural Varicose Vein: Early Neurological Improvement and Late Radiological Full Recovery with Surgery; The Importance of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Follow-Up.

A lumbar epidural varicose vein is a rare clinical condition that can lead to neurological deficits. 3 types of lumbar epidural varicose veins were described according to the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings: Type 1 is a thrombosed dilated epidural vein, type 2 is a non-thrombosed dilated epidural vein and type 3 is a sub-membraneous epidural hematoma. Enlarged epidural venous plexuses must be decompressed if they have lead to a neurological deficit.

Comparison of minimally invasive techniques in tongue base surgery in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Objective: To compare the effectiveness and morbidity of 3 microinvasive tongue base surgical procedures combined with uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) in supine-dependent obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients.

Study Design: A prospective, randomized clinical study.

Setting: A tertiary referral center.

Quantification of the effects of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation with functional magnetic resonance imaging: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled study.

Objective: To evaluate the effects of transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Settings: University medical center and an outpatient imaging center.

Paget-Schroetter syndrome forerunning the diagnoses of thoracic outlet syndrome and thrombophilia.

Reported here is a 22-year-old professional wrestler who was diagnosed to have Paget-Schroetter syndrome after Greco-Roman wrestling. On substantial neuromuscular examination and laboratory testing, he was found to have also thoracic outlet syndrome and heterozygous mutations for factor V Leiden and methyltetrahydrofolate reductase genes. To the best knowledge of the authors, the concomitance of these pathologies is discussed for the first time in the literature.

Anatomical study of axis for odontoid screw thickness, length, and angle.

Anterior odontoid screw fixation is a safe and effective method for treatment of odontoid fractures. The screw treads should fit into the odontoid medulla, should pass the fracture line, and should pull fractured odontoid tip against body of axis in order to achieve optimum screw placement and treatment. This study has demonstrated optimal anterior odontoid screw thickness, length, and optimal angle for safe and strong anterior odontoid screw placement.

Congenital absence of flexor pollicis longus tendon without associated anomalies of thumb hypoplasia: a case report and review of the literature.

In this paper, we report a case of a 14-year-old girl with congenital aplasia of the flexor pollicis longus tendon who had no other associated anomalies of thumb hypoplasia and no trauma history. Flexor pollicis longus tendon anomalies are rare; several types of this congenital anomaly have been reported in the literature. The diagnosis should be considered if a patient is unable to flex the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.

Magnetic resonance findings of osteitis pubis.

Purpose: To determine the correlation of MR findings with clinical features of osteitis pubis and to look for associating injuries complicating chronic cases.

Materials And Methods: Pelvic MR images of the 22 elite athletes with groin pain were taken. Correlation analysis between the MR findings and clinical properties was carried out.

Significance of fibrosis around and/or at external urinary sphincter on pelvic magnetic resonance imaging in patients with postprostatectomy incontinence.

Objectives: To determine the clinical importance of fibrosis on pelvic magnetic resonance imaging in patients with postprostatectomy incontinence (PPI) due to sphincteric incompetence.

Methods: Urethral and periurethral fibrosis was determined by pelvic magnetic resonance imaging in patients who did (n = 22) or did not (n = 14) have urinary incontinence after transurethral resection, transvesical prostatectomy, or radical retropubic prostatectomy. The relation between fibrosis and the duration of incontinence, pad weight, symptom score, cystoscopy findings, and urodynamic findings was examined.

T2-weighted MRI in Parkinson's disease; substantia nigra pars compacta hypointensity correlates with the clinical scores.

Background: Iron accumulation in substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) and related intensity and volumetric changes in patients with idiopathic Parkinson's disease (PD) has been reported previously. There are only a few studies evaluating the relation between neuroradiological findings and clinical scores, with contradictory results.

Aims: In this study we aimed to measure the iron-rich brain areas of PD patients and healthy subjects with T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and to evaluate the relation between the clinical scores of PD patients and these imaging results.