Targeting tumor-associated antigens (unique or overexpressed) gains more interest as an alternative to, or in combination with, conventional treatments like chemotherapy, external beam radiation and surgery.
Despite several inherent and unique limitations, neuroendoscopic surgery is now performed for a variety of intraventricular, skull base, and spinal operations.
Both of these changes have unique implications for surgery trainees, who traditionally spent long hours caring for patients in the hospital, and who must be assessed in 2 broad domains: their medical care of pre- and postoperative patients, and their technical skill with procedures in and out of the operating room.
However, the authors focussed on extreme thrombocytosis, ascribing this finding to alcohol abuse and infections, and they were doubtful whether the finding was unique to orthopaedic surgery.
Industry funding has previously been suggested as a contributing factor to waste. 2 3 4 However, collaboration with industry developers and funders is an important source of surgical innovation, 6 which may present a unique dynamic in surgery specific studies.
However, it is unlikely that the hyperglycemic effect we measured in this study is unique to dexamethasone or cardiac surgery patients.
The purpose of this study was to develop and test a unique, new pelvic floor surgery complication scale and compare it with an existing validated measure.
RYGB is unique among weight-loss surgery approaches to diabetes for producing marked improvements in metabolic status, including disease remission in at least 80% of patients (74).
Each individual demonstrated a unique response to the surgery and this could be mapped as a patient journey, whereby both the metabolic and the cytokine panels could be followed and modeled temporally.
These complications can partly be attributed to the unique aspects of cardiothoracic surgery, such as the sternotomy, cardioplegia, and use of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) with the exclusion of lung circulation.
