BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery has several advantages over conventional laparoscopy. However, population-based comparative studies for low anterior resection are limited. This article aimed to compare peri-operative results of robot-...
INTRODUCTION: Long QT syndrome (LQTS) is a less prevalent cardiac ion channelopathy than Brugada syndrome in Asia. The present study compared the outcomes between paediatric/young and adult LQTS patients.
First proposed by Kimball and Ferris in 1933 for the treatment of papillary tumors in the upper urinary tract, radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) with bladder cuff excision remains the gold standard for management of high-risk upper tract urothelial ca...
BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can be trained to recognise tuberculosis-related abnormalities on chest radiographs. Various AI algorithms are available commercially, yet there is little impartial evidence on how their performance...
Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA
Sep 1, 2021
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is increasing over time worldwide, with similar trends to those of diabetes and obesity. A liver biopsy, the gold standard of diagnosis, is not favored due to its invasiveness. Meanwhile,...
Renal-cell carcinoma is the most common kidney cancer and the 13th most common cause of cancer death worldwide. Partial nephrectomy and percutaneous ablation, increasingly utilized to treat small renal masses and preserve renal parenchyma, require p...
Medicine and science in sports and exercise
Sep 1, 2021
PURPOSE: Rhabdomyolysis (RM) is a complex set of clinical syndromes that involves the rapid dissolution of skeletal muscles. Mortality from RM is approximately 10%. This study aimed to develop an interpretable and generalizable model for early mortal...
Interactive cardiovascular and thoracic surgery
Aug 18, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Lymph node dissection (LND) with robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (RATS) in lung cancer surgery has not been fully evaluated. The aim of this study was to compare LND surgical results between video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS...
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