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Dung Lung: Reactive Airway Disease Syndrome From Yak-Dung Biomass Fuel Smoke

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Publish date: December 2, 2016

A 30-year-old man presented with coughing, wheezing, dyspnea on exertion, and decreased exercise tolerance following an overnight exposure to bioma...

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Holiday Poisonings

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Publish date: December 2, 2016

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Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: How Do Digital Tablets Stack Up to Paper Forms? A Randomized, Controlled Study

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Publish date: December 2, 2016

Over the past several decades, patient-reported outcomes (PROs) have become increasingly important in assessing the quality and...

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Suicidal and asking for money for food

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Publish date: December 1, 2016

Mr. L, age 59, attempts suicide by taking approximately 20 acetaminophen tablets of unknown dosage. He immediately comes to the emergency departmen...

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Exploring the function of self-criticism

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Publish date: November 30, 2016

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Limited-Incision Knotless Achilles Tendon Repair

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Publish date: November 30, 2016

The incidence of midsubstance Achilles tendon ruptures is increasing in patients 30 years to 50 years of age, and more than 50% of these injuries o...

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Total Knee Arthroplasty With Retained Tibial Implants: The Role of Minimally Invasive Hardware Removal

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Publish date: November 28, 2016

The patient is positioned on a radiolucent table, and a mobile fluoroscopy unit is available. A tourniquet is applied to the upper thigh but typica...

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Robotic Technology Produces More Conservative Tibial Resection Than Conventional Techniques in UKA

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Publish date: November 25, 2016

Unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) is considered a less invasive approach for the treatment of unicompartmental knee arthritis when compared ...

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An Overview of the History of Orthopedic Surgery

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Publish date: November 23, 2016

The modern term orthopedics stems from the older word orthopedia, which was the title of a book published in 1741 by Nicholas Andry, a pro...

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Fourth approved indication for ofatumumab in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

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Publish date: November 22, 2016

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Tibial Tubercle Fracture After Bone–Patellar Tendon–Bone Autograft

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Publish date: November 22, 2016

A fracture occurring after anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction is rare, and rarer still when it involves the harvest site of a bone&mda...

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Renal cell carcinoma approval adds another notch to cabozantinib’s belt

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Publish date: November 21, 2016

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Instability After Reverse Total Shoulder Arthroplasty: Which Patients Dislocate?

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Publish date: November 18, 2016

Risk factors for dislocation after reverse total shoulder arthroplasty (RTSA) are not clearly defined. Prosthetic dislocation can result in poor pa...

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Surgical Simulation in Orthopedic Surgery Residency

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Publish date: November 17, 2016

The training model for orthopedic resident education has been transformed. Surgeon factors, patient expectations, financial and legal concerns, ass...

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Arthroscopic Transosseous and Transosseous-Equivalent Rotator Cuff Repair: An Analysis of Cost, Operative Time, and Clinical Outcomes

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Publish date: November 16, 2016

The rate of medical visits for rotator cuff pathology and the US incidence of arthroscopic rotator cuff repair (RCR) have increased...