Background: Recurrence of tracheoesophageal fistula is a frequent complication after esophageal atresia repair. Acquired tracheoesophageal fistulas are long new fistulas that are localized at sites that are not typical of ...

Introduction & Objectives: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the major causes of death among young people in the world. TBI is an important public health problem in recent years and is the most common cause of disability ...

Secondary brain injury resulting from head injury is usually related to cellular and molecular damage from the onset of the trauma to hours or days following the trauma. Brimonidine tartrate is a selective alpha-2 receptor ...

Cancer is an important health issue, with rapidly increasing incidence and mortality worldwide. Significant advances have been achieved in cancer immunotherapy with the discovery of antigens that enable cancer cells to be ...

Introduction: The distribution of hippocampal sclerosis (HS) subtypes, according to the classification of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), has been reported mainly in adult patients. We aimed to review the ...

Objective: To determine audiological outcomes of children who use a cochlear implant (CI) in one ear and an auditory brainstem implant (ABI) in the contralateral ear. Design: Retrospective case review. Setting: ...

Objective: To study the effect of age at auditory brainstem implant (ABI) surgery on auditory perception, language, and speech intelligibility. Study design: Retrospective single cohort design. Setting: Tertiary ...

Aim: To evaluate the long-term outcomes and prognostic variables in a surgical cohort of pediatric meningiomas treated in a single institution. Material and methods: Medical records and follow-up notes of 23 pediatric ...

Capsule contracture is a pathological condition caused by excessive fibrosis response to the breast implant. The mast cell is one of the key cells that stimulates this response with its proinflammatory mediators including ...

AIM: To investigate immunohistochemical expression of EMT/MET and associated markers among mesenchymal tumors together with their potential influence on biological characteristics of these tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ...