OBJECTIVE To report the uncommon association between neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and unroofed coronary sinus. CASE DESCRIPTION Girl with four years and six months old who was hospitalized for heart surgery. The cardiac problem was discovered at four months of life. On physical examination, the patient presented several café-au-lait spots in the trunk and the limbs and freckling of the axil...

To cite: Shah VA, Martin CO, Hawkins AM, et al. J NeuroIntervent Surg 2016;8:568–570. ABSTRACT Background The increasing utilization of balloon guide catheters (BGCs) in thrombectomy therapy for ischemic stroke has led to concerns about large-bore sheaths causing vascular groin complications. Objective To retrospectively assess the impact of large large-bore sheaths and vascular closure devices...

BACKGROUND The incarceration of a segment of bowel within a groin hernia can result in intestinal strangulation if hernia treatment is delayed. Once intestinal strangulation occurs, a bowel resection may be required, and there is an overall increased risk for postoperative complications. The aim of this study was to identify biomarkers to predict the severity of an incarcerated groin hernia. MA...

Examination of groin hernias is an important skill for medical students and doctors. This article presents a comprehensive, concise and evidence-based approach to examination of groin hernias which is consistent with The Principles of Clinical Examination [1]. We describe the signs seen with groin hernias and, based on a review of the literature, the precision and accuracy of these signs is dis...

river banks are exposed to bank erosion and destruction. one of the river engineering goals is to provide human life requirements and reduce river danger. so spreading extent of this phenomenon, whose risk and other important factors must be recognized. using groins is one of the control ways that by accurate design and accurate performance, bank erosion control and field reclamation would be p...

In response to the report by Nilsson and Ripa of higher rates of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in the throat compared with the rates in the nose (3), Harbarth et al. reported contrary findings for a small number of intensive care unit (ICU) patients (1). They reported a 62% sensitivity of throat swabs for detecting methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage, with only 1 of 13 ...