Publications by authors named "Samuel Skulsky"

Background: Finding applicants that fit in with educational environments is a goal of many educators in hopes that it will lead to successful training. "Fit" is used colloquially to describe a general feeling, however the field of study has grown to include specific terms describing the compatibility between people and their environments, organizations, and jobs. Despite common use, the term is used often but non-specifically in medical education.

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Background: Diet-disease association studies increasingly use dietary patterns (DP) to account for the complexity of the exposure. We assessed if a DP associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease, and all-cause mortality is also associated with colorectal cancer.

Methods: We used reduced rank regression on 24-hour recall data to identify DPs, explaining the maximum variation in four nutrient-response variables: energy density, saturated fatty acids, free sugars, and fiber density.

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Objective: This scoping review will evaluate the current published literature on decision-making in obesity management.

Introduction: Obesity is increasing in incidence worldwide. Although indications have been established for a variety of available treatment modalities, treatment selection must also factor in patient preferences, clinician expertise, and resource availability.

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Objective: Airway obstruction in newborns with Pierre Robin sequence (PRS) may be managed with tongue-lip adhesion (TLA), mandibular distraction osteogenesis (MDO), or tracheostomy to prevent airway compromise when conservative airway interventions fail or are contraindicated based on the type of obstruction present. Unfortunately, some of these procedures have the potential to affect a child's speech and feeding development.

Method: The authors retrospectively reviewed the records of all children with PRS treated at our institution in the last 25 years.

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Introduction: Bariatric surgery is an evidence-based approach for sustained weight loss in patients with severe obesity. The most common procedures in North America are the laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB). The Edmonton Obesity Staging System (EOSS) is a tool that assigns patients a score of 0 to 4 according to their obesity-related comorbidities and functional status.

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Background: The Edmonton Obesity Staging System (EOSS) is a staging system describing comorbidities and functional limitations associated with obesity, thus facilitating the prioritization of patients for bariatric surgery. Our objective was to elucidate any associations of EOSS scores with major complications after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB).

Methods: A retrospective chart review examined patients who received primary LRYGB from 2009 to 2015 at a single center.

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Background: Sentinel node navigation surgery (SNNS) for gastric cancer using infrared visualization of indocyanine green (ICG) is intriguing because it may limit operative morbidity. We are the first to systematically review and perform meta-analysis on the diagnostic utility of ICG and infrared electronic endoscopy (IREE) or near infrared fluorescent imaging (NIFI) for SNNS exclusively in gastric cancer.

Methods: A search of electronic databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, SCOPUS, Web of Science, and the Cochrane Library using search terms "gastric/stomach" AND "tumor/carcinoma/cancer/neoplasm/adenocarcinoma/malignancy" AND "indocyanine green" was completed in May 2017.

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Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a malignancy that arises from epidermal keratinocytes. Although the majority of cutaneous SCC cases are easily treated without further complication, some behave more aggressively and carry a poor prognosis. These "high-risk" cutaneous SCCs commonly originate in the head and neck and have an increased tendency toward recurrence, local invasion, and distant metastasis.

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