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This case report describes the successful laparoscopic management of a rare horseshoe appendix (Type D anomaly) with dual perforated cecal insertions in a 60-year-old diabetic woman, emphasizing the critical need for systematic intraoperative exploration to ensure complete resection and prevent complications in such anatomically complex presentations.
This retrospective cohort study demonstrates that preserving the infrapatellar fat pad using PDS suture retraction during anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction significantly reduces postoperative fibrosis and improves early pain and functional outcomes compared to conventional selective resection, although these findings require prospective validation.
This 2026 randomized controlled trial conducted in Tigray demonstrates that a screening and brief intervention strategy significantly reduced risky post-war alcohol consumption among public hospital outpatients at 6- and 12-month follow-ups compared to a control group.
This study demonstrates that balancing training data by sex is insufficient to ensure fairness in AI-based emergency triage models, as a female-only model generalized well to both sexes while a male-only model performed poorly for women, highlighting the need to address structural biases during the design phase rather than relying solely on data composition.
This case report describes the rare discovery and successful surgical removal of a large, asymptomatic glass fragment retained in the pleural space for a decade in a skydiver, highlighting the challenges of detecting and managing such foreign bodies that may migrate years after the initial trauma.
This case report describes a fatal outcome in a 57-year-old woman with complicated sigmoid diverticulitis that progressed to extensive retroperitoneal and thigh necrotizing soft-tissue infection, underscoring the critical importance of early imaging and surgical source control despite the challenges of diagnosis and subsequent complications.
This case report describes a patient with myasthenia gravis who developed persistent postoperative hiccups following diaphragmatic plication despite prior phrenic nerve sacrifice, a condition that was successfully resolved with low-dose gabapentin, suggesting that residual sensory pathways can sustain the hiccup reflex even after motor denervation.
This pre-post quasi-experimental study demonstrates that a structured two-day online training program significantly improved knowledge, self-efficacy, and other perception domains regarding AI in medical research among Nigerian medical students and doctors, although ethical concerns remained unchanged and warrant greater emphasis in future interventions.
Based on a time-dependent analysis of the CHARLS cohort from 2011 to 2020, this study demonstrates that arthritis, whether prevalent or incident, serves as an independent and persistent predictor of increased risks for falls, hospitalization, and out-of-pocket medical spending among Chinese adults aged 45 and older, while showing no significant association with cognitive decline.
This retrospective study demonstrates that repeat stereotactic radiosurgery is an effective salvage treatment for locally recurrent brain metastases, identifying specific cumulative dose thresholds (BED10 >177 Gy and EQD2 >75 Gy) that significantly increase the risk of radiation necrosis without improving local control.