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The use of preoperative three-dimensional reconstruction and intraoperative indocyanine green in laparoscopic adrenalectomy
No full textThe Role of Intraoperative Indocyanine Green (ICG) and Preoperative 3-Dimensional (3D) Reconstruction in Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy: A Propensity Score-matched Analysis
No full textBackground: Laparoscopic adrenalectomy (LA) is considered the "gold standard" treatment of adrenal lesions that are often coincidentally diagnosed during the radiologic workup of other diseases. This study aims to evaluate the intraoperative role of indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence associated with preoperative 3-dimensional reconstruction (3DR) in laparoscopic adrenalectomy in terms of perioperative outcomes. To our knowledge, this is the first prospective case-controlled report comparing these techniques. Materials and Methods: All consecutive patients aged≥18 and undergoing laparoscopic transperitoneal adrenalectomy for all adrenal masses from January 1, 2019 to January 31, 2022 were prospectively enrolled. Patients undertaking standard LA and those undergoing preoperative 3D reconstruction and intraoperative ICG fluorescence were matched through a one-on-one propensity score matching analysis (PSM) for age, gender, BMI, CCI score, ASA score, lesion histology, tumor side, and lesion diameter. Differences in operative time, blood loss, intraoperative and postoperative complications, conversion rate, and length of stay were analyzed. Results: After propensity score matching analysis, we obtained a cohort of 36 patients divided into 2 groups of 18 patients each. The operative time and intraoperative blood loss were shorter in patients of the 3DR group (P=0,004 and P=0,004, respectively). There was no difference in terms of length of stay, conversion rate, and intraoperative and postoperative complications between the 2 groups. Conclusions: The use of intraoperative ICG in LA and preoperative planning with 3DR images is a safe and useful addition to surgery. Furthermore, we observed a reduction in terms of operating time and intraoperative blood loss
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Endoscopic Approach to Recurrent Pilonidal Sinus: A Retrospective Analysis
No full textBackground: The aim of this study is to report short-and long-term results using video-assisted ablation of pilonidal sinus (PS) technique to treat recurrent PS. Methods: We included all consecutive patients with a recurrent PS disease operated on with endoscopic approach since 1st January 2014 to 31st December 2018. Analyzed outcomes were recurrence rate at 1, 3, and 5 years, time off work, time to sitting on toilet and to walk without pain, time to wound healing, rate of incomplete wound healing and postoperative infection, postoperative pain at 6 hours, 1 day, and 1 week, and patients' satisfaction after 1 month. Demographic and sinuses' data were recorded. To adjust for all the variables, multivariate analyses were performed with outcomes as dependent variables, and with patients' and sinuses' characteristics as independent variables. Results: Sixty-three patients were included in the analysis. Recurrence rate at 1-year follow-up was 4.7% (3 patients on 63), at 3-year follow-up was 11.7% (4 on 34), and at 5-year follow-up was 23.07% (3 on 13). A 3-and 5-year follow-up was completed by 34 and 13 patients, respectively. The mean time off work was 3.5 ± 1.5 days, time to sitting on toilet without pain was 1.5 ± 1.1 days, and time to walk without pain was 1.3 ± 0.9 days. The mean time to wound healing was 27.9 ± 10.3 days, with a rate of incomplete wound healing of 4.7%. Postoperative infection rate was 7.9%. The mean postoperative pain was 1 ± 0.9 at 6 hours after the procedure, 0.6 ± 0.6 at 1 day and 0.1 ± 0.3 at 1 week. Patients' satisfaction was good in 98.5% of patients. After the multivariate analysis, no parameters showed an influence on the postoperative outcomes. Conclusions: Our results encouraged to adopt an endoscopic approach even in case of recurrent P
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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