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Submissions from 2020
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
Association of Psychosis With Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome: A Systematic Review of Clinical Studies, Asma Hallab, Sadiq Naveed, Ahmed Altibi, Mariam Abdelkhalek, Huyen Thi Ngo, Thao Phuong Le, Kenji Hirayama, and Nguyen Tien Huy
Audiovisual Lexical Retrieval Deficits Following Left Hemisphere Stroke, Brenda Hanna-Pladdy, Hyun Choi, Brian Herman, and Spenser Haffey
Bilateral Massive Pharyngoceles, Norair Adjamian, Lyndsay L. Madden, and Libby J. Smith
Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia Worsens Bleomycin-Induced Lung Fibrosis in Rats, Rudolf K. Braun, Oleg Broytman, Felix M. Braun, Jacqueline A. Brinkman, Andrew Clithero, Dhruvangkumar Modi, David F. Pegelow, Marlowe Eldridge, and Mihaela Teodorescu
Current Trends in COMLEX-USA Level 1 and Level 2-CE Study Resources, Megan McMurray and Seth Bires
Delphi Analysis of Science Gaps in the 2015 American Heart Association Cardiac Arrest Guidelines, Ashish R. Panchal, Rebecca E. Cash, Remle P. Crowe, Ryan Coute, David Way, Tom Aufderheide, and Raina M. Merchant
E-Cigarettes: Facts for the Osteopathic Family Physician, Andrea Perloff, Katie E. Smeltzer, W. Joshua Cox, and Gautam Desai
Effect of Phenylephrine 1.0%-Ketorolac 0.3% Injection on Tamsulosin-Associated Intraoperative Floppy-Iris Syndrome, Steven M. Silverstein, Viren Rana, Robert Stephens, Larry Segars, Joseph Pankratz, Shivani Rana, Mark S. Juzych, and Nissiri Nariman
Exposure Therapy for Youth With Anxiety: Utilization Rates and Predictors of Implementation in a Sample of Practicing Clinicians from Across the United States, Adam M. Reid, Andrew G. Guzick, Alyka Glor Fernandez, Brett Deacon, Joseph P. H. McNamara, Gary R. Geffken, Ryan McCarty, and Catherine W. Striley
Group G Streptococcus Infective Endocarditis in Association With Colon Cancer, Ashraf Abugroun, Ramy Zughul, Mina Tawadrous, and Margiori Rodriguez
Hepatitis B Reactivation in the Treatment of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma, Matthew Kelling, Lubomir Sokol, and Samir Dalia
Idiopathic Charcot Arthropathy of the Knee Presenting as a Bicondylar Tibial Plateau Fracture, Logan F. Hanson, Cameron G. Hanson, and Kyle Barner
Infant Male With TARP Syndrome: Review of Clinical Features, Prognosis, and Commonalities With Previously Reported Patients, Kathrine E. Kaeppler, Raymond C. Stetson, Brendan C. Lanpher, and Christopher A. Collura
Intrastate Variation in Treatment and Outcomes of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Ryan Coute, Theresa A. Shields, James A. Cranford, Sardar Ansari, Mahshid Abir, M. Hakam Tiba, Robert Dunne, Brian O'Neil, Robert Swor, and Robert W. Neumar
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
Melanoma Mimicking Rosai-Dorfman Disease, Daniel Y. Xie, Collin M. Costello, Helen J. Liang, Brett Thomas, David J. DiCaudo, and Aaron R. Mangold
Metabolic Responses of Meniscal Explants to Injury and Inflammation Ex Vivo, Alex E. Cook, Aaron M. Stoker, Emily V. Leary, Ferris M. Pfeiffer, and James L. Cook
Metabolic Responses of Meniscus to IL-1β, Alex E. Cook, James L. Cook, and Aaron M. Stoker
Metastasis of Benign Leiomyomas Outside the Uterus, Nathaniel A. Parker, Christopher S.R. Dakhil, Shaker R. Dakhil, and Daniel Lalich
Pearls & Oy-sters: Enhancing Vigilance for Detection of Cerebral Air Embolism: From Syncope to Death, Dimitre Mirtchev, Tapan Mehta, Annie Daniel, and Thomas Finstein
Prehospital Cervical Spine Motion: Immobilization Versus Spine Motion Restriction, Erik E. Swartz, W. Steven Tucker, Matthew Nowak, Jason Roberto, Amy Hollingworth, Laura C. Decoster, Thomas W. Trimarco, and Jason P. Mihalik
Primary Pulmonary Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma: A Rare Malignancy and Rare Cause of the Luftsichel Sign, Elizabeth Von Ende, Travis Kauffman, Philip A. Munoz, and Santiago Martinez-Jiménez
Recurrent Psoas Syndrome Secondary to Urolithiasis and Indwelling Ureteral Stent, Kelly Lurz, Adrianna M. Darwish, Kevin Treffer, and Belinda Bombei
Small Incision Lenticule Extraction SMILE - The Future of Refractive Surgery is Here, John F. Doane, Jae E. Cauble, Jace J. Rickstrew, and James Quinten Tuckfield
The Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Interventions on Depressive Symptoms and Quality of Life: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials, Jonathan Manh Dang, Luma Bashmi, Stephen Meeneghan, Janet White, Rebecca Hedrick, Jelena Djurovic, Brigitte Vanle, Dennis Nguyen, Jonathan Almendarez, Paula Ravets, Yasmine Gohar, Sophia Hanna, Itai Danovitch, and Waguih William Ishak
The Laparoscopic Versus Open Approach for Reduction of Intussusception in Infants and Children: An Updated Institutional Experience, Leo Andrew Benedict, Derrick Ha, Joseph Sujka, Justin A. Sobrino, Tolulope A. Oyetunji, Shawn D. St. Peter, and Jason D. Fraser
The Plasma Membrane Calcium Pumps--The Old and the New, Asma Zaidi, Mercy Adewale, Lauren McLean, and Paul Ramlow
The Role of scaRNAs in Adjusting Alternative mRNA Splicing in Heart Development, Chloe K. Nagasawa, Allison Ogren, Nataliya Kibiryeva, Jennifer Marshall, James O'Brien, Naoya Kenmochi, and Douglas Bittel
Validity of the Rule of Threes and Anatomical Relationships in the Thoracic Spine, Clayton Oakley, Sarah Keim-Janssen, Joseph Pankratz, Travis McCumber, Kevin Treffer, and Anthony Olinger
Submissions from 2017
A Bioenergetics Systems Evaluation of Ketogenic Diet Liver Effects, Lewis J. Hutfles, Heather M. Wilkins, Scott J. Koppel, Ian W. Weidling, J. Eva Selfridge, Eephie Tan, John P. Thyfault, Chad Slawson, Aron W. Fenton, Hao Zhu, and Russell H. Swerdlow
Acquired Uterine Arteriovenous Fistula Following Dilatation and Curettage: An Uncommon Cause of Vaginal Bleeding, Adam Evans, Roland E. Gazaille III, Richard McKenzie, Meghan Musser, Robert Lemming, Jarrod Curry, William Meyers, and Nicholas Austin
An Ideal Opportunity for Interventional Radiologists to Advance Shared Decision Making, Michael Sarai, Charles E. Ray Jr., and Richard Duszak Jr.
Descriptive Analysis of Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Following Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest-An ELSO Registry Study, Nathan L. Haas, Ryan Coute, Cindy H. Hsu, James A. Cranford, and Robert W. Neumar
Electronically Self-assessed Functional Capacity and Exercise Testing: A Comparison of the Duke Activity Status Index and Patient-reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Tools, Ryan Coute, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, Deepak K. Gupta, Maxim A. Terekhov, and Jonathan P. Wanderer
Endoscopic View of Gastroduodenal Artery Coils at the Base of Duodenal Ulcer in Case of Recurrent Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleed, Rawaa Ebrahem, Salam Kadhem, John W. Frey, and William Salyers
Ethical Considerations in Prescribing or Withholding Opioids for Chronic Pain, Katie E. Smeltzer, Gautam Desai, and Britt Johnson
Ethmoid Malformation Associated With Pediatric Nasal Polyposis and Allergic Fungal Sinusitis, Cameron G. Hanson and Todd B. Proctor
Housing Environment Affects Baseline Anxiety in Zebrafish, Bhavana Movva, Jacob W. Guerrant, Maxwell J. Jentsch, Allison Ogren, Julie L. Mustard, and Norbert W. Seidler
Human Herpesvirus-6 Encephalitis Following Chemotherapy Induction for Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, John W. Frey, Joseph N. Cherabie, and Maha A. Assi
Lay Consultations in Heart Failure Symptom Evaluation, Katherine M. Reeder, Jessica L. Sims, Patrick M. Ercole, Shivan S. Shetty, and Michael Wallendorf
Malaria Over-Diagnosis in Cameroon: Diagnostic Accuracy of Fluorescence and Staining Technologies (FAST) Malaria Stain and LED microscopy versus Giemsa and Bright Field Microscopy Validated by Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sean M. Parsel, Steven A. Gustafson, Edward Friedlander, Alexander A. Shnyra, Aderosoye J. Adegbulu, Ying Liu, Nicole M. Parrish, Syed A. Jamal, Eve Lofthus, Leo Ayuk, Charles Awasom, Carolyn J. Henry, and Carole P. McArthur
National Institutes of Health-Funded Cardiac Arrest Research: A 10-Year Trend Analysis, Ryan Coute, Ashish R. Panchal, Timothy J. Mader, and Robert W. Neumar
Non-Invasive Repair of an Iatrogenic Tibial Artery Branch Pseudoaneurysm After Intramedullary Nailing, Cameron G. Hanson and Logan F. Hanson
Pharmacological Therapy for Apathy in Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Amir A. Sepehry, Michael Sarai, and Ging-Yuek R. Hsiung
Severe Calcific Aortic Stenosis as a Rare Etiology of Cerebral Vascular Accidents: Case Report, John Horky, Joan Crawford, and David Svinarich
Targeted Temperature Management Effectiveness in the Elderly: Insights from a Large Registry, Timothy J. Mader, Lauren M. Westafer, Brian H. Nathanson, Nadia Villarroel, Ryan Coute, and Bryan F. McNally
The Anterolateral Ligament: An Anatomic Study on Sex-Based Differences, Matthew Daggett, Camilo Partezani Helito, Matthew Cullen, Andrew Ockuly, Kyle Busch, Joseph Granite, Barth Wright, and Bertrand Sonnery-Cottet
Using Anatomical Landmark to Avoid Phrenic Nerve Injury During Balloon-Based Procedures in Atrial Fibrillation Patients, Nicolina M. Smith, Larry Segars, Travis Kauffman, and Anthony Olinger
Variability in the Anterior Extralaryngeal Branch of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve: Clinical Implications, Kara Hessel, Erich Wessel, Anthony Olinger, and Barth Wright
What Is the Lobular Branch of the Great Auricular Nerve? Anatomical Description and Significance in Rhytidectomy, Vicki S. Sharma, Robert Stephens, Barth Wright, and Christopher C. Surek
Submissions from 2016
A Descriptive Analysis of Therapeutic Hypothermia Application Across Adult Age Groups, Timothy J. Mader, Brian H. Nathanson, Ryan Coute, and Bryan F. McNally
Adverse Effects of Grape Seed Extract Supplement: A Clinical Case and Long-Term Follow-Up, Andrew C. Berry, Rahman Nakshabendi, Hussein Abidali, Kunakorn Atchaneeyasakul, Kevin Dholaria, Cassandra Johnson, Varsha A. Kishore, and Aaron C. Baltz
Blinded Evaluation of Combination Drug Therapy for Prolonged Ventricular Fibrillation Using a Swine Model of Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Timothy J. Mader, Ryan Coute, Adam R. Kellogg, and Brian H. Nathanson
Contraceptive Provision to Adolescent Females Prescribed Teratogenic Medications, Stephanie Stancil, Melissa Miller, Holley Briggs, Daryl Lynch, Kathy Goggin, and Gregory Kearns
