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Submissions from 2020
A Timely Debut for Extended-Release Polymer Technologies, Michael Weaver, Tremayne Koochin, Heeral Shah, and Jordana Fein
A Unique Presentation and Clinical Course of a Pancreatic Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide Secreting Tumor in a 68-year-old Male, Balaji R. Jagdish and William R. Kilgore 3rd
Beneficial Effects of Amnion-Chorion Stem Cell Grafting in the Long Term Management of Nonuremic Calciphylaxis Wounds, Theja Bhamidipati, Huy Luong Doan, Nariman Hossein-Javaheri, Hao T. Tang, and Mohsin Soliman
Biomechanical Comparison of a New Memory Compression Alloy Plate versus Traditional Titanium Plate for Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: A Finite Element Analysis, Jiantao Liu, Runqing Wang, Hongbo Wang, Yanbiao Wang, Dongbo Lv, Pan Diao, Shihan Fang, and Yanzheng Gao
Case Report: Simultaneously Diagnosed Gastric Adenocarcinoma and Pernicious Anemia - A Classic Association, Syed Kamran, Mattias K. Dilling, Nathaniel A. Parker, Joel Alderson, Nathan D. Tofteland, and Quoc V. Truong
Chronic Rhinotillexomania Leading to Multiple Infectious Sequelae in a 66-Year-Old Female, Kunal Shah, Praveen Sankrithi, Sanket Shah, and Mark A. Smith
Depth Transitions of the Frontal Branch of the Facial Nerve: Implications in SMAS Rhytidectomy, Joseph Pankratz, Jacob Baer, Catherine Mayer, Viren Rana, Robert Stephens, Larry Segars, and Christopher C. Surek
Differentiation Syndrome, a Side Effect From the Therapy of Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia, Gizem Reyhanoglu, Benjamin Hughes, Katherine E. King, and Robert Cambridge
Elective Inguinal Hernia Surgery in the Setting of Unfollowed Congenital Complete Heart Block With No Postponement, Kyle S. Varkoly, Roxana N. Beladi, and Steven Ritrosky
Elusive Diagnosis of Behcet's Disease in Setting of Painless Vision Loss, Arti A. Patel, Amelia Stutman, Prarak Patel, and Madhavi Capoccia
Endoscopic Endonasal Resection of Meckel's Cave Epidermoid Cysts: Case Discussion and Literature Review, Jehad Zakaria, Pravesh Saini, Mariya Yanovskaya, John T. Tsiang, Krishnan Ravindran, Stephen Johans, Chirag R. Patel, and Anand V. Germanwala
Etiology and Comorbidity Diagnoses Effect on Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography, Victoria Gordon, Anni Chowdhury, and Sarah Keim
"E-Years": A Proposal for Standardized Quantification of Electronic Cigarette Use, Hadley Cameron-Carter, Cali Clark, Alex Nail, Tanner Riscoe, Terrence Kelly, and John Paulson
Findings of Subarachnoid Fat After Trauma to a Tarlov Cyst, Kevin M. Kain, Nitin Jain, and Kevin O'Brien
Full-Length Transcriptome Sequencing and Modular Organization Analysis of Oleanolic Acid- and Dammarane-Type Saponins Related Gene Expression Patterns in Panax Japonicus, Ran Xu, Jiao Zhang, Jingmao You, Limei Gao, Yongchang Li, Shaopeng Zhang, Wenjun Zhu, Shaohua Shu, Chao Xiong, Hui Xiong, Ping Chen, Jie Guo, and Zhiguo Liu
Impending Central Retinal Vein Occlusion in Patient With Idiopathic Cutaneous Leukocytoclastic Vasculitis, Amir Akhavanrezayat, Doan Luong Hien, Brandon Huy Pham, Huy Vu Nguyen, Ngoc Trong Tuong Than, Ahmad Al-Moujahed, Gunay Uludag, Samendra Karkhur, Huy Luong Doan, and Quan Dong Nguyen
Implementation of a Standardized Template for Reporting of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules Feasibility, Acceptability, and Outcomes, Allison Aase, Angela E. Fabbrini, Katie M. White, Sarah Averill, Amy Gravely, and Anne C. Melzer
Intra-abdominal Abscess After Appendectomy-Are Drains Necessary in All Patients?, Wendy Jo Svetanoff, Neal Talukdar, Charlene Dekonenko, Robert M. Dorman, Obiyo Osuchukwu, Jason D. Fraser, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, and Shawn D. St. Peter
Is World Malaria Day an Effective Awareness Campaign? An Evaluation of Public Interest in Malaria During World Malaria Day, J. Michael Anderson, Aaron Stafford, Austin L. Johnson, Micah Hartwell, Samuel Jellison, and Matt Vassar
Low-Intensity Shockwave Therapy in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction, Kelly Lurz, Paulette Dreher, Jason Levy, Brian McGreen, Javier Piraino, Andrew Brevik, Daniel Edwards, and Laurence H. Belkoff
Mapping the Genicular Arteries to Provide a Caution Zone During Knee Surgery, Kyle Barner, Catherine Mayer, Charles Orth, Quoc Tran, Anthony Olinger, and Barth Wright
Microbial Growth on Soft Embalmed Cadavers Over Time, Joanna Rowe, Kenneth S. Johnson, Victoria Gordon, Clayton Marolt, Adam L. Lewis, Kanwalgeet Hans, and Barth Wright
Mutagenic, Genotoxic and Immunomodulatory effects of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine: a review to evaluate its potential to use as a prophylactic drug against COVID-19, Allan Giri, Ankita Das, Ajoy K. Sarkar, and Ashok K. Giri
Nicotinamide Riboside Relieves Paclitaxel-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy and Enhances Suppression of Tumor Growth in Tumor-Bearing Rats, Marta V. Hamity, Stephanie R. White, Christopher Blum, Katherine N. Gibson-Corley, and Donna L. Hammond
Nonmissile Penetrating Spinal Injuries: Mechanisms, Expectations, and Management, Brian Fiani, Ryan Arthur Figueras, Frank De Stefano, Neha Gautam, Asif Khan, and Marisol Soula
Office-Based Needle Arthroscopy: A Standardized Diagnostic Approach to the Shoulder, Matthew Daggett, Blake Stepanovich, Brian Geraghty, Andrew Meyers, Joseph Whetstone, and Adnan Saithna
Optical Density Optimization of Malaria Pan Rapid Diagnostic Test Strips for Improved Test Zone Band Intensity, Prince Manta, Rupak Nagraik, Avinash Sharma, Akshay Kumar, Pritt Verma, Shavran Kumar Paswan, Dmitry O. Bokov, Juber Dastagir Shaikh, Roopvir Kaur, Ana Francesca Vommaro Leite, Silas Jose Braz Filho, Nimisha Shiwalkar, Purnadeo Persaud, and Deepak N. Kapoor
Outcomes Following Lower Extremity Amputation in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus and Peripheral Arterial Disease, Poya Pourghaderi, Kyle M. Yuquimpo, Camila Roginski Guetter, Lauren Mansfield, and Henry Soo-Min Park
Overlooked and Underestimated: New Insight on Communicating Branches of The Facial Nerve, Blair Freed, Robert Steele, Charles Coker, Clayton Marolt, and Jennifer F. Dennis
Phosphorylation Modulates the Coregulatory Protein Exchange of the Nuclear Receptor Pregnane X Receptor, Wenqi Cui, Xunan Shen, Emre Agbas, Brandon Tompkins, Hadley Cameron-Carter, and Jeff Staudinger
Physical Activity in Patients with Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease: Insights from the PORTRAIT Registry, Poghni A. Peri-Okonny, Kensey L. Gosch, Sarthak Patel, Jan M. M. Heyligers, Carlos Mena-Hurtado, Mehdi H. Shishehbor, Ali O. Malik, Jeremy Provance, Vittal Hijjaji, John A. Spertus, and Kim G. Smolderen
Pineal Gland Metastasis From Poorly Differentiated Carcinoma of Unknown Primary Origin, Joshua A. Cuoco, Michael W. Kortz, Michael J. Benko, Robert W. Jarrett, Cara M. Rogers, Mark R. Witcher, and Eric A. Marvin
Platelet Proteolytic Machinery Assessment in Alzheimer’s Disease, Roy G. Muriu, Jessica Sage, and Abdulbaki Agbas
Pregnancy-Induced Exacerbation of Hereditary Angioedema in a Multiparous Caucasian Female, Praveen Sankrithi, Kunal Shah, and Celina C. Bernabe
PrEP (Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis) Education for Clinicians: Caring for an MSM Patient, James Perucho, Luis Alzate-Duque, Amir Bhuiyan, John Paul Sánchez, and Nelson Felix Sánchez
Primary Pulmonary Synovial Sarcoma in a 49-Year-Old Male, Sanket Shah, Praveen Sankrithi, Kunal Shah, Samir Dalia, and Mohan Rudrappa
Recommendations to Close Care Gaps, Improve Quality and Cost in OB/GYN, Blair Freed, Charles Coker, Robert Steele, and Janis Coffin
Reinfection After SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Looming Concern, Akshay Kumar, Nimisha Shiwalkar, Juber Dastagir Shaikh, Roopvir Kaur, Ana Francesca Vommaro Leite, Purnadeo Persaud, Asim Kichloo, Alfonso J. Rodríguez-Morales, and Ranjit Sah
Relation of the Marginal Mandibular Nerve to the Inferior Border of the Mandible in Fresh and Embalmed Cadavers, Clayton Marolt, Blair Freed, Kenneth S. Johnson, Joanna Rowe, Charles Coker, Robert Steele, Robert Stephens, and Christopher C. Surek
Reporting of Interventions Used in Anesthesiology Trials: Analysis Using the Template for Intervention Description and Replication (TIDieR) Checklist, Samuel Jellison, Johnny Nolan, Nam Vo, Mark Thai, Livia Puljak, and Matt Vassar
Retrograde Intussusception after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, Akshay Kumar, Stephanie Ogbonda, Purnadeo Persaud, and Nimisha Shiwalkar
scaRNA1 Levels Alter Pseudouridylation in Spliceosomal RNA U2 Affecting Alternative mRNA Splicing and Embryonic Development, Chloe K. Nagasawa, Nataliya Kibiryeva, Jennifer Marshall, James O'Brien, and Douglas Bittel
Severe Scalp Sarcoidosis in an Unlikely Patient, Tyler Long, Richard Bindernagel, Brett Austin, and Michelle Tarbox
Small Bowel Obstruction Due to Retroperitoneal Hernia Following Renal Transplant: A Case Report, Atta Nawabi, Adam C. Kahle, Clay D. King, and Perwaiz Nawabi
Social Media as an Early Proxy for Social Distancing Indicated by the COVID-19 Reproduction Number: Observational Study, Joseph Younis, Harvey E. Freitag, Jeremy S. Ruthberg, Jonathan Paul Romanes, Craig Nielsen, and Neil Mehta
Sucrase Breath Testing in Children Presenting With Chronic Abdominal Pain, Sandeep Rathod, Craig A. Friesen, Kim Radford, and Jennifer M. Colombo
Surgical Approach for Kidney Transplantation Under Spinal Anesthesia, Atta Nawabi, Peter Sullivan, Martin De Ruyter, Amy Pichoff, Clay D. King, and Perwaiz Nawabi
Targeting Hypoxia Sensitizes TNBC to Cisplatin and Promotes Inhibition of Both Bulk and Cancer Stem Cells, Andrew Sulaiman, Sarah McGarry, Jason Chambers, Emil Al-Kadi, Alexandra Phan, Li Li, Karan Mediratta, Jim Dimitroulakos, Christina Addison, Xuguang Li, and Lisheng Wang
Tense Bullae on the Hands, Georgeanne Cornell, Atieh Jibbe, Brett C. Neill, Anand Rajpara, and Daniel J. Aires
The Critical Shoulder Angle as a Diagnostic Measure for Osteoarthritis and Rotator Cuff Pathology, Zak Rose-Reneau, Amanda K. Moorefield, Derek Schirmer, Eugene Ismailov, Rob Downing, and Barth Wright
The Impact of Workers' Compensation on Recovery After Biceps Tenodesis, Eric R. Wagner, Jarret M. Woodmass, Michelle J. Chang, Kathryn M. Welp, Laurence Higgins, and Jon J.P. Warner
The Incidence of Venous Thromboembolism in Children Following Colorectal Resection for Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Multi-Center Study, Christina M. Bence, Michael D. Traynor Jr., Stephanie F. Polites, Derrick Ha, Pete Muenks, Shawn D. St. Peter, Matthew P. Landman, John C. Densmore, and D. Dean Potter Jr.
The Plight of Being a Rural Applicant for Medical School, Shaughnelene Smith
TIDieR Checklist Evaluation of Clinical Trial Intervention Reporting for Recent FDA-Approved Anticancer Medications, Cole Wayant, Richard Bindernagel, and Matt Vassar
Tracing the Route of the Dorsal Nerve of the Clitoris, Victoria Gordon, Joanna Rowe, Lauren Grubb, Larry Segars, Christopher C. Surek, Travis McCumber, Gilbert M. Willett, and Anthony Olinger
Trans-Specific Geriatric Health Assessment (TGHA): An Inclusive Clinical Guideline for the Geriatric Transgender Patient in a Primary Care Setting, Reid M. Gamble, Shayne S. Taylor, Adam D. Huggins, and Jesse M. Ehrenfeld
Two Birds With One Stone: The Decisive Role of Cardiac MRI in Identifying Both Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Pericarditis Simultaneously in a Patient with Chest Pain, Islam M. Shatla, Shahbaz Malik, Ali A. Malhi, and Ata Ur Rahim Bajwa
Unilateral Vesicular Eruption in a Neonate, Brett Thomas, Jacob Whitsitt, and Anand Rajpara
Use of Topical 2.4% Glycopyrronium Tosylate in Familial Benign Pemphigus (Hailey-Hailey Disease), Richard Bindernagel, Brooks D. Kimmis, and Deede Liu
Variations in Anterior Segment Vasculature of the Eye and Their Implication in Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures, Adam L. Lewis, Kenneth S. Johnson, Joanna Rowe, Kanwalgeet Hans, Victoria Gordon, Clayton Marolt, and Anthony Olinger
Vesicouterine Fistula, Jennifer Evans, Roland E. Gazaille III, Ana Keppke, Patrick Pagur, Dhananjay Paranjpe, Kyle Tharp, Jason Broomhall, and Ankit Mohla
Virtual Reality in Neurosurgery: "Can You See It?"-A Review of the Current Applications and Future Potential, Brian Fiani, Frank De Stefano, Athanasios Kondilis, Claudia Covarrubias, Louis Reier, and Kasra Sarhadi
Yet Another Case of Ocular Sarcoidosis, Doan Luong Hien, Neil Onghanseng, Ngoc Trong Tuong Than, Jaclyn Joyce Hwang, Brandon Huy Pham, Huy Luong Doan, Huy Vu Nguyen, Muhammad Sohail Halim, Gunay Uludag, Yasir J. Sepah, Diana V. Do, and Quan Dong Nguyen
Submissions from 2019
An Evaluation of Nephrology Literature for Transparency and Reproducibility Indicators: Cross-Sectional Review, Ian A. Fladie, Tomi M. Adewumi, Nam Vo, Daniel Tritz, and Matt Vassar
A Review of Corneal Endotheliitis and Endotheliopathy: Differential Diagnosis, Evaluation, and Treatment, Majid Moshirfar, Michael S. Murri, Tirth J. Shah, David F. Skanchy, James Quinten Tuckfield, Yasmyne C. Ronquillo, Orry C. Birdsong, Daniel Hofstedt, and Phillip C. Hoopes
Arthroscopic On-Lay Biceps Tenodesis: The Loop-Lock Technique, Matthew Daggett, Blake Stepanovich, Andrew Meyers, and Brian Geraghty
A Unique Presentation of a Large, Seven-segment, Spinal Epidural Abscess in a Patient with a Pleural Empyema, Kyle Barner, Kyle M. Yuquimpo, David A. McMillan, and Evan M. Shaw
Automatic Mapping of CT Scan Locations on Computational Human Phantoms for Organ Dose Estimation, Choonsik Lee, Gleb A. Kuzmin, Jinyong Bae, Jianhua Yao, Elizabeth Mosher, and Les R. Folio
Cardiac Damage by Doxorubicin Is Mitigated in Smad3 Deficient Mice, Kyle Campbell, Edward Dorfman, James Yang, Melissa S. Cobb, Magdy Girgis, Jeryl Hauptman, Shixin Tao, Robert Vincent, Dawn Buddhadeb, and Eugene A. Konorev
Cellular Optimization of Nanofat: Comparison of Two Nanofat Processing Devices in Terms of Cell Count and Viability, Steven R. Cohen, Tunç Tiryaki, Hayley Womack, Serli Canikyan, Kai Uwe Schlaudraff, and Michael Scheflan
CELLULITIS: A mnemonic to increase accuracy of cellulitis diagnosis, Brett C. Neill, William V. Stoecker, Ramzi Hassouneh, Anand Rajpara, and Daniel J. Aires
Coaching, Health, and Movement Program (CHAMPS) Taught by Medical Students: A Didactic Curriculum and Program Analysis, Julia C. Ronecker, Joseph Liu, Ramon E. Newman, and Anne M. VanGarsse
Cocaine: A Provoking Risk Factor in Venous Thromboembolism, Daniel Griffin and Suji Cha
Cost Effective Videography for Modern Anatomy Education, Parker G. Adams, Colin Farritor, Gregory Motzkus, and Jennifer F. Dennis
Disruption of Oocyte Maturation by Selected Environmental Chemicals in Zebrafish, Era Maskey, Hannah Crotty, Taelah Wooten, and Izhar A. Khan
Elucidating Emotional Closeness Within the Theory of Health-Related Family Quality of Life: Evidence From Breast Cancer Survivors, M. Elise Radina, Briana L. Deer, Rachael A. Herriman, Anjana Jagpal, Mallory M. Dodd, Kaylie L. Kawamura, and Lindsay C. Clark
Evaluation of the NCCN Guidelines Using the RIGHT Statement and AGREE-II Instrument: A Cross-Sectional Review, Cole Wayant, Craig Cooper, D'arcy Turner, and Matt Vassar
Impaired Cu-Zn Superoxide Dismutase (SOD1) and Calcineurin (Cn) Interaction in ALS: A Presumed Consequence for TDP-43 and Zinc Aggregation in Tg SOD1G93A Rodent Spinal Cord Tissue, Jolene M. Kim, Elizabeth Billington, Ada Reyes, Tara Notarianni, Jessica Sage, Emre Agbas, Michael Taylor, Ian Monast, John A. Stanford, and Abdulbaki Agbas
Integrated Chemical and Transcriptomic Analyses Unveils Synthetic Characteristics of Different Medicinal Root Parts of Angelica Sinensis, Ran Xu, Jiang Xu, Yongchang Li, Yun-Tao Dai, Shaopeng Zhang, Guang Wang, Zhiguo Liu, Linlin Dong, and Shilin Chen
Lactating Adenoma Arising From a Tubular Adenoma in a Pediatric Patient, Maria Tran, Roshini Pudhucode, Janice Aportela, Smita Sharma, Marie Crandall, and Bharti Jasra
Online Symptom Checker Diagnostic and Triage Accuracy for HIV and Hepatitis C, A. C. Berry, B. D. Cash, B. Wang, M. S. Mulekar, A. B. Van Haneghan, Kyle Yuquimpo, A. Swaney, M. C. Marshall, and W. K. Green
Osteopathic Structural Findings in Women During Menstruation, Kelsie L. Cabrera, Adrianna M. Darwish, Kelly Lurz, Rance McClain, Elizabeth McClain, W. Joshua Cox, and Larry Segars
Patterns of Recurrence and Retreatment Outcomes Among Clinical Stage I and II Head and Neck Melanoma Patients, Arya W. Namin, Georgeanne Cornell, Lori A. Thombs, and Robert P. Zitsch III
Performance of a Quick Screening Version of the Nintendo 3DS PDI Check Game in Patients With Ocular Suppression, Kyle A. Smith, Andrew W. Arnold, Jacob H. Sprano, Stephanie L. Arnold, and Robert W. Arnold
Performance of the 2WIN Photoscreener With "CR" Strabismus Estimation in High-Risk Patients, Stephanie L. Arnold, Andrew W. Arnold, Jacob H. Sprano, and Robert W. Arnold
Presence of ‘Spin’ in the Abstracts and Titles of Anaesthesiology Randomised Controlled Trials, Nicholas Kinder, Michael Weaver, Cole Wayant, and Matt Vassar
Prevalence of Pigment Dispersion Syndrome in Patients Seeking Refractive Surgery, John F. Doane, Jace J. Rickstrew, James Quinten Tuckfield, and Jae E. Cauble
Reply: Location of the Internal Mammary Vessels for Microvascular Autologous Breast Reconstruction: The "1-2-3 Rule", Christina Dami Lee, James Butterworth, Robert Stephens, Barth Wright, and Christopher C. Surek
School Bus Accommodation-Relaxing Skiascopy, Andrew W. Arnold, Stephanie L. Arnold, Jacob H. Sprano, and Robert W. Arnold
Side Variations of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Coronal Angles: Implications for ACL Reconstruction, Catherine Mayer, Kyle Barner, Shannon Lorimer, Quoc Tran, Jacob Baer, Sarah Keim-Janssen, Travis McCumber, and Barth Wright
Simultaneous Bilateral Rupture of Patellar Tendons in a Young Man Without Predisposing Factors or Systemic Disease, Kyle Barner, Caitlin Gluck, and Kevin A. Witte
Single-Stage Repair of Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm and Spinal Cord Compression, Akshay Kumar, Nimisha Shiwalkar, Purnadeo Persaud, and Arun Kumar Haridas
Snord94 Expression Level Alters Methylation at C62 in snRNA U6, Allison Ogren, Nataliya Kibiryeva, Jennifer Marshall, James O'Brien, and Douglas Bittel
Tension Pneumothorax During Rigid Bronchoscopy for Chronic Foreign Body Removal in a Child: A Case Report, Akshay Kumar, Nimisha Shiwalkar, Hunain Aslam, and Purnadeo Persaud
The Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Hospital Teaching Status on Mortality, Cost, and Length of Stay in Elective Total Hip Arthroplasty Patients, Cameron G. Hanson, Kyle Barner, Zak Rose-Reneau, and Michael W. Kortz
Transparent, Reproducible, and Open Science Practices of Published Literature in Dermatology Journals: Cross-Sectional Analysis, J. Michael Anderson, Andrew Niemann, Austin L. Johnson, Courtney Cook, Daniel Tritz, and Matt Vassar
Trends in the Epidemiology of Pediatric Acute and Chronic Cholecystitis-Related Admissions in the USA: A Nationwide Emergency Department and Inpatient Sample Study, Suvrat Chandra, Craig A. Friesen, and Thomas M. Attard
Venetoclax: Evidence to Date and Clinical Potential, Luis Miguel Juárez-Salcedo, Viraj Desai, and Samir Dalia
Submissions from 2018
Addressing the Increased Incidence of Common Sexually Transmitted Infections, Megan McMurray, Mianna Armstrong, and John Paulson
Anatomic and Histological Study of the Anterolateral Aspect of the Knee: A SANTI Group Investigation, Matthew Daggett, Clark Stephenson, John R. Dobson, Amy Whitaker, Andrea Redler, Edoardo Monaco, Barth Wright, Adnan Saithna, and Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet
