Objective: There are controversies about the benefits of prophylactic antibiotics in prevention of postoperative surgical site infection in mesh herniorrhaphy for a long time. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness ...

Introduction: Transhiatal esophagectomy is a widely accepted approach for palliative resection of subcarinal esophageal cancers. This study was designed to evaluate the necessity of routine thoracostomy tube insertion in ...

Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease -NAFLD- is common among severely obese patients. Two-dimensional shear wave
elastography -2D-SWE- has been validated as a noninvasive diagnostic tool for liver stiffness ...