What is New and Innovative in Emergency Neurosurgery? Emerging Diagnostic Technologies Provide Better Care and Influence Outcome: A Specialist Review by Athanasios K. Zisakis, Vassilios Varsos, Aristomenis Exadaktylos

“…New ultrasound devices make the diagnosis of haematomas easier. In stroke, the introduction of noninvasive new gadgets aims to provide better treatment to the patient. …”
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Characteristics of Small Bowel Polyps Detected in Cowden Syndrome by Capsule Endoscopy by Keita Saito, Eiki Nomura, Yu Sasaki, Yasuhiko Abe, Nana Kanno, Naoko Mizumoto, Rika Shibuya, Kazuhiro Sakuta, Makoto Yagi, Kazuya Yoshizawa, Daisuke Iwano, Takeshi Sato, Shoichi Nishise, Yoshiyuki Ueno

“…Cowden syndrome is an uncommon, autosomal dominant disease characterized by multiple hamartomas and hyperplastic lesions in the skin, mucous membrane, brain, breast, thyroid, and gastrointestinal tract. …”
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THE MAXILLARY SINUS COMPLICATIONS OF ORAL SURGERY by Alexandra Roi, Ciprian Roi, Eric Bumbar, Cosmin Sinescu, Mircea Riviș

“…Aim of the study: The study aims to evaluate the frequency of the maxillary sinus pathologies and complications occurring during and after dental extraction and dental implants placement, among which we list: maxillary sinusitis, hematomas, oedema, oro-sinus fistulas, perforation of the sinus mucosa, pushing the dental roots at the level of the maxillary sinus. …”
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Lymphangioma of the Lower Lip—A Diagnostic Dilemma: Report of a Rare Case with a Brief Literature Review by Shamimul Hasan, Syed Ansar Ahmad, Mandeep Kaur, Rajat Panigrahi, Swagatika Panda

“…Hamartomas are tumor-like deformities typified by cellular propagation indigenous to the original site, although they display growth arrest without the possibility for further growth. …”
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Endovascular Treatment of Right Heart Masses Utilizing the AngioVac System: A 6-Year Single-Center Observational Study by Aashish Katapadi, Lauren Richards, William Fischer, Suhail Q. Allaqaband, Tanvir Bajwa, M. Fuad Jan

“…However, a number of complications, including but not limited to hematomas, anemia, and hypotension, occurred, as described below. …”
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The Evolution of the Appendectomy: From Open to Laparoscopic to Single Incision by Noah J. Switzer, Richdeep S. Gill, Shahzeer Karmali

“…Patients are postulated to have reduced post-operative complications such as infection, hernias, and hematomas, as well as a quicker recovery time and less post-operative pain scores, in comparison to its predecessors. …”
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Treatment of Anxiety Disorders and Comorbid Alcohol Abuse with Buspirone in a Patient with Antidepressant-Induced Platelet Dysfunction: A Case Report by Mir Mazhar, Tariq Hassan, Tariq Munshi

“…Treatment with venlafaxine, citalopram, escitalopram, and clomipramine resulted in improvement and anxiety symptoms, as well as reduction in alcohol use, but pharmacological treatment has to be discontinued because of bruising and hematomas. In view of an active substance use disorder, benzodiazepines were avoided as a treatment option. …”
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Gluteal Compartment Syndrome following an Iliac Bone Marrow Aspiration by Edmundo Berumen-Nafarrate, Carlos Vega-Najera, Carlos Leal-Contreras, Irene Leal-Berumen

“…Gluteal compartment syndrome (GCS) secondary to hematomas is seldom reported. Here we present a case of a 51-year-old patient with history of a non-Hodgkin lymphoma who underwent a bone marrow aspiration from the posterior iliac crest that had excessive bleeding at the puncture zone. …”
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Posttraumatic Spinal Cord Injury without Radiographic Abnormality by Kivanc Atesok, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Andrew O’Brien, Yohan Robinson, Dachling Pang, Donald Deinlein, Sakthivel Rajaram Manoharan, Jason Pittman, Steven Theiss

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a valuable diagnostic tool in patients with SCIWORA because of its superior ability to identify soft tissue lesions such as cord edema, hematomas and transections, and discoligamentous injuries that may not be visualized in plain radiographs and CT. …”
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Management of the Acute Scrotum in a District General Hospital: 10-Year Experience by Lukas Tajchner, John O. Larkin, Michael G. Bourke, Ronan Waldron, Kevin Barry, Paul W. Eustace

“…There were no postoperative wound infections or scrotal haematomas. Testicular salvage depends critically on early surgical intervention, so the delay incurred in diagnostic imaging may extend the period of ischaemia. …”
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Intraoperative Management of Large Resuscitation-Associated Venous Air Embolism (VAE) for Emergent Neurological Surgery by Ryan S. D’Souza, Arnoley S. Abcejo, Matthew A. Sexton

“…We report a 22-year-old previously healthy female who experienced a motor vehicle accident with severe facial and head trauma, and mixed subdural and epidural hematomas with an 8 mm midline shift. Computed tomography revealed significant air entrainment in the right heart and main pulmonary artery, with venous air tracking from the right axillary vein. …”
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Cardiac Pacing in Cienfuegos from 2005 to 2009 by Yanier Coll Muñoz, Brandy Viera González

“…Major complications included displacement of the electrode, hematomas and the pacemaker syndrome. <strong><br />Conclusion:</strong> the number of patients requiring cardiac electrical stimulation continues to increase in Cienfuegos. …”
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Sharp needle reconstructs peripheral outflow for patients with malfunctional arteriovenous fistula by Yong Xu, Shu-Yuan Zhu, Yuan-Ming Li, Xin-Xin Liu, Hao Zhang, Lu-Fang Wang

“…Postoperatively, all cases presented with mild subcutaneous hematomas around the tunneling site and minor diffuse bleeding. …”
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CT Findings and Mortality in Patients with Nontraumatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage by Pedro Juan Barrios Fuentes, José Luis Bernal Muñoz, Marcos Félix Osorio Pagola, Anagalys Ortega Alvelay, Liliana Teresa Caneiro González

“…Intracerebral hemorrhage was more common in patients under 60 years old while intraparenchymatous hemorrage predominated in patients from 75 on. Most voluminous hematomas were detected in intracerebral hemorrhage patients (83.3%), as well as hydrocephalus (52.2%). …”
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APLASTIC SYNDROME IN A PREGNANT WOMAN ON THE BACKGROUND OF COVID-19: A CLINICAL CASE by Индира Венеровна Сахаутдинова, Ирина Борисовна Фаткуллина, Ирина Робинзоновна Рахматуллина, Игорь Сергеевич Засядкин, Анна Юрьевна Лазарева

“…However, a tendency to cytopenia began to be noted, a skin-mucous hemorrhagic syndrome appeared in the form of hematomas, petechiae, nosebleeds, hemorrhoids. At 32 weeks, she was delivered naturally in the pelvic presentation of the fetus due to spontaneous delivery. …”
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Combined Catheter Ablation and Left Atrial Appendage Closure in Atrial Fibrillation Patients with and without Prior Stroke by Bin-Feng Mo, Rui Zhang, Jia-Li Yuan, Jian Sun, Peng-Pai Zhang, Wei Li, Mu Chen, Qun-Shan Wang, Yi-Gang Li

“…Procedure-related complications in the Stroke group included two pericardial effusions and two groin hematomas, which did not differ significantly fromthe Control group (4.9% vs. 4.2%, P=0.778). …”
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Hemorrhagic syndrome at liver cirrhosis by I. A. Kurkina, O. S. Volkova, M. V. Mayevskaya, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Bleeding developing at invasive procedures in LC patients, bleeding from varicose esophageal veins, hematomas, hemorrhagic purpura, nasal bleeding, odontorrhagia, menorrhagias are actual clinical problems. …”
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Volumetric trans-scale imaging of massive quantity of heterogeneous cell populations in centimeter-wide tissue and embryo by Taro Ichimura, Taishi Kakizuka, Yoshitsugu Taniguchi, Satoshi Ejima, Yuki Sato, Keiko Itano, Kaoru Seiriki, Hitoshi Hashimoto, Ko Sugawara, Hiroya Itoga, Shuichi Onami, Takeharu Nagai

“…Using a custom-made giant lens system with a magnification of ×2 and a numerical aperture (NA) of 0.25, and a CMOS camera with more than 100 megapixels, we built a trans-scale scope AMATERAS-2, and realized fluorescence imaging with a transverse spatial resolution of approximately 1.1 µm across an FOV of approximately 1.5×1.0 cm2. …”
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The Development of Methods of BLOTCHIP^®-MS for Peptidome: Small Samples in Tuberous Sclerosis by Kunio Yui, George Imataka, Kotaro Yuge, Hitomi Sasaki, Tadashi Shiohama, Kyoichi Asada, Hidehisa Tachiki

“…Mutations in the TSC1 and TSC2 genes result in the constitutive hyperactivation of the mammalian target of the rapamycin (mTOR) pathway, contributing to the growth of benign tumors or hamartomas in various organs. TSC2 mutations were associated with a more severe phenotypic spectrum than TSC1 mutations because of the inhibition of the mTOR cascade. …”
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Combined Therapy of Catheter Ablation and Left Atrial Appendage Closure for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Case-Control Study by Bin-Feng Mo, Jian Sun, Peng-Pai Zhang, Wei Li, Mu Chen, Jia-Li Yuan, Yi Yu, Qun-Shan Wang, Yi-Gang Li

“…Procedure-related complications of the combined group included one pericardial effusion and two groin haematomas, which did not differ significantly with those of the CA-only group (3.9% vs. 2.6%, P=0.650) or the LAAC-only group (3.9% vs. 2.6%, P=0.650), respectively. …”
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