Background: Access to surgical care in low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in war-torn areas such as the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt), is a global health priority. The plastic surgical capacity in the oPt has not been evaluated. This study provides the first systematic evaluation of plastic surgical capacity in the oPt.
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July 2022
Background: Clinical outcome data in the United Kingdom, Europe, and the United States have yet to facilitate appropriately specific surveillance for liposarcoma histological subtypes, despite being one of the most common soft tissue sarcomas. Therefore, this study aims to demonstrate histologic-specific differences in liposarcoma recurrence, disease progression, and survival and discuss the implications.
Methods And Findings: This cohort study involves patients from a regional sarcoma service in the UK who have had a primary surgical excision of liposarcoma between October 2002 and September 2019.
Background: While there is a long history of measuring death and disability from injuries, modern research methods must account for the wide spectrum of disability that can occur in an injury, and must provide estimates with sufficient demographic, geographical and temporal detail to be useful for policy makers. The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2017 study used methods to provide highly detailed estimates of global injury burden that meet these criteria.
Methods: In this study, we report and discuss the methods used in GBD 2017 for injury morbidity and mortality burden estimation.
Background: As global rates of mortality decrease, rates of non-fatal injury have increased, particularly in low Socio-demographic Index (SDI) nations. We hypothesised this global pattern of non-fatal injury would be demonstrated in regard to bony hand and wrist trauma over the 27-year study period.
Methods: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2017 was used to estimate prevalence, age-standardised incidence and years lived with disability for hand trauma in 195 countries from 1990 to 2017.
Lower extremity injuries requiring soft tissue coverage comprises a significant proportion of these injuries worldwide. Reconstruction of the soft tissues overlying fractures is essential for bone union and reduction of infection thus improving function and reducing the rate of limb amputation. A systematic exploration and excision of the wound should be jointly performed by senior surgeons from Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgery.
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Objective: To address the following two questions: (A) Is there a difference in outcomes after spino-pelvic reconstruction of total sacrectomy defects compared with no reconstruction? (B) What constitutes best surgical technique for soft tissue and bony reconstruction after total sacrectomy?
Summary Of Background Data: The management of the soft tissue and bony defect after total sacrectomy for primary sacral tumors remains a challenge due to the complex anatomical relationships and biomechanical requirements. The scarcity of evidence-based literature in this specialized field makes it difficult for the treating surgeon to make an informed choice.
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March 2014
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June 2011
The virtues of silver as an antimicrobial agent have been known for some time. Various silver containing dressings are currently used for the treatment of wounds. Introduced in the late 1990s, Acticoat is a nanocrystalline silver dressing developed to overcome some shortcomings of the older dressings by providing sustained release of silver up to 7 days.
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December 2009
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January 2009
We describe a fluorescence assay for nitric oxide synthase activity based on a new indicator, 4,5-diaminofluorescein (DAF-2). The method offers the advantage of being safer and more convenient than the citrulline radioassay in common use. The rapid and irreversible binding of DAF-2 to oxidized nitric oxide (NO) enables NO production to be measured in real time.
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