Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE
Jun 12, 2019
Measuring spasticity is important in treatment planning and determining efficacy after treatment. However, the current tool used in clinical settings has been shown to be limited in inter-rater reliability. One factor in this poor inter-rater reliabi...
The Charlson comorbidity index is an outdated comorbidity assessment tool which is not disease specific and is not applicable to contemporary BCa patients.
Congenital diseases requiring reconstruction of parts of the gastrointestinal tract, skin, or bone are a challenge to alleviate especially in rapidly growing children. Novel technologies may be the answer. This article presents the state-of-art in re...
OBJECTIVE: Minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) has demonstrated superior outcomes compared to open approaches. The myriad of techniques has precluded the recommendation of a standard approach. The addition of robotics to esophageal resection has p...
Exclusive liquid repellency (ELR) describes an extreme wettability phenomenon in which a liquid phase droplet is completely repelled from a solid phase when exposed to a secondary immiscible liquid phase. Earlier, we developed a multi-liquid-phase op...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Jun 9, 2019
BACKGROUND: Soft materials, with their compliant properties, enable conformity and safe interaction with human body. With the advance in actuation and sensing of soft materials, new paradigm in robotics called "soft robotics" emerges. Soft robotics h...
OBJECTIVE: To generate a nomogram based on preoperative parameters to predict the occurrence of a major complication within 30-days of robotic partial nephrectomy.
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