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Am J Sports Med
June 2024
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Institute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Copenhagen University Hospital-Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Background: Plantar fasciitis is a painful tendinous condition (tendinopathy) with a high prevalence in athletes. While a healthy tendon has limited blood flow, ultrasound has indicated elevated blood flow in tendinopathy, but it is unknown if this is related to a de facto increase in the tendon vasculature. Likewise, an accumulation of glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) is observed in tendinopathy, but its relationship to clinical pain is unknown.
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September 2022
Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
Background: Adverse economic conditions often prevent the widespread implementation of modern surgical techniques in third world countries such as in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Aim Of The Study: To demonstrate that a modern technique (laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal inguinal hernioplasty [TEP]) can safely be performed at significantly lower cost using inexpensive mesh material.
Settings: Douala University Hospital Gynecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics and two affiliated centers, Ayos Regional Hospital and Edéa Regional Hospital in Cameroon.
World J Plast Surg
January 2014
Department of Plastic Surgery, Burn Care Center, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Background: Penetrating and impalement injuries of the hand and fingers are one of the commonest presentations at the hospital's emergency rooms. This study assessed the characteristics of patients who suffered foreign body injuries to the hands and documented the pattern of diagnosis and management at a specialist plastic surgical facility.
Methods: The study was conducted at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad over a period of six years (i.
Asian Pac J Trop Biomed
June 2012
Department of Microbiology, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka, India-576104.
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is an established animal pathogen while the zoonotic infections in humans are rarely reported. Infections occur after exposure to animals or animal products that are mostly occupational in adults. Here we report in a child for the first time septic arthritis and osteomyelitis without an identifiable risk factor.
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June 2011
Department of Neurosurgery, Clinique du Parc Léopold CHIREC, Brussels, Belgium.
The widespread use of minimally invasive and other spinal procedures raises concern about the peroperative radiation exposure to surgeon and patient. The authors noted the fluoroscopy time and the radiation dose, as read from the image amplifier, in 95 spinal procedures. The results of this prospective study varied widely between different operations.
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