Acute posterolateral corner injuries of the knee are rare and, when present, are frequently associated with concurrent ligament injury, neurovascular damage, or fractures of the femur or tibia. Early surgical treatment has been shown to be superior to delayed and nonoperative treatment of multiligamentous knee injuries. Historically, repair has been advocated. High-quality studies comparing rep...

Preservation of the skin envelope and the inframammary fold is the main factor in achieving breast symmetry in unilateral reconstruction. Skin sparing mastectomy (SSM) type-IV followed by immediate autologous reconstruction and contralateral symmetrization permits realizing this goal in large, ptotic breasted patients, and tumor superficially located in the inferior quadrants. If the tumor is s...

Smartphone dependence (SPD) is increasingly regarded as a psychological problem, however, the underlying neural substrates of SPD is still not clear. High resolution magnetic resonance imaging provides a useful tool to help understand and manage the disorder. In this study, a tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) analysis on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was used to measure white matter integr...

BACKGROUND In recent years, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) studies have detected subtle microstructural abnormalities of white matter (WM) in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, findings have been inconsistent, and it is unclear whether WM abnormalities are related to cognitive processes. The aim of this study was to explore the relationship of WM alterations with cognitive variables ...

An 18-year-old woman presented with a history of recurrent glenohumeral dislocations involving her right dominant shoulder. Physical examination suggested physiologic hyperlaxity and anterior instability. Magnetic resonance arthrography demonstrated an anomalous intracapsular origin of the long head of the biceps tendon (LHBT), with normal-appearing LHBT in the intertubercular groove. Diagnosti...

The human neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) gene is highly expressed in the brain, is implicated in numerous functions associated with neuronal development, and is a leading candidate gene for schizophrenia. The T allele of SNP8NRG243177, part of a risk haplotype for schizophrenia, has been previously associated with decreases in white matter in the right anterior internal capsule and the left anterior thal...

Vertebral involvement is no longer a contraindication for resection in superior sulcus tumors. We describe the reconstruction of thoracic vertebras 2 to 4 using a free vascularized fibular graft combined with dorsal and ventral stabilization using rods, screws, and hooks after resection of a superior sulcus tumor that invaded the thoracic spine. No complications have occurred after 7 years of f...

Large to massive rotator cuff tears are challenging to repair, although there are several options for dealing with them. Among them, superior capsular reconstruction was recently introduced as an effective procedure for retaining the static stability of the shoulder joint and preventing the progression to cuff tear arthropathy. The purpose of this technique-based article is to describe a surgic...

An 80-year-old man underwent a thoracoscopic right upper lobectomy for cT2N0 lung carcinoma. A partial anomalous drainage of the right superior pulmonary veins to the superior vena cava was discovered (Fig. 1). It was visible on computed tomography (CT) scan (Fig. 2a) and volume-rendering reconstruction (Fig. 2b). No other cardiac abnormality was found on echocardiography. Fig. 2. (a) The diagn...

In this issue of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Bang et al describe a novel design for a capsule endoscope, the MiRo (IntroMedic, Seoul, South Korea), that uses the technique of electric-field propagation to transmit data from inside the human body to a remote image recorder. With this technique, the patient’s own body is used to conduct the signal rather than using telemetry, as is conventionally...