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An 89-year-old woman who initially presented for evaluation of acute chest pain and headache developed acute abdominal...
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Months of extremely high temperatures throughout the United States made the summer of 2016 one of the hottest summers on record. The summer may...
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An increasingly number of patients with symptomatic isolated medial unicompartmental knee...
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Ceramic Femoral Heads for All Patients? An Argument for Cost Containment in Hip Surgery
Total hip arthroplasty (THA) has revolutionized the practice of orthopedic surgery. The number of primary THAs performed in the United States......
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In both elective and revision surgery, removal of retained hardware can be unpredictable. Broken hardware, whether identified before or during...
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There is a paucity of literature on how mechanism of injury may be associated with patient retention. Failure to attend outpatient clinics is a...
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As the United States becomes increasingly diverse, with predictions that by 2045 minorities will comprise 50% or more of the population,1 the...