Browsing College of Medicine by Publisher "Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins"
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Appendiceal carcinoid in a pediatric patient with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: A case report and comprehensive literature review.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2021 , Report)Peutz-Jeghers syndrome (PJS), a rare autosomal dominant disorder, is characterized by mucocutaneous pigmentations, hamartomatous polyps in the gastrointestinal tract, and a high risk of developing various malignancies. To ... -
Assessing the psychological impact of Beirut Port blast: A cross-sectional study
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2022 , Article)Beirut Port blast's magnitude is considered the third after Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings. This blast occurred in the densely populated section of Beirut, leaving more than six thousand injured patients. The ... -
Bias assessment: mQ or RoB?
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2023 , Other)In a recent paper in the journal, Stone et al. propose that JBI adopt the term risk of bias (RoB) wherever critical appraisal, study validity, method- ological quality (mQ), or methodological limitations are used. The ... -
Biomarkers of Targeted Therapy and Immuno-Oncology in Cancers Metastatic to the Breast.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2019 , Article)The breast is a rare site for metastases, and their molecular characteristics have not been studied yet. Intrinsic molecular genetics, cancer characteristics, and breast tissue immune responses in diverse metastases to the ... -
Comparative effectiveness and safety of direct-acting oral anticoagulants (DOACS) for the reduction of recurrent venous thromboembolism in cancer patients: A protocol for systematic review and network meta-analysis using a generalized pairwise modeling methodology.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2020 , Article)There has been a significant improvement in both our understanding and therapeutic choices available to clinicians for the management of cancer associated thrombosis (CAT). Even with the recent publication of a systematic ... -
The complete spectrum of pentalogy of Cantrell in one of a set of dizygotic twins: A case report of a rare congenital anomaly.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2021 , Article)Pentalogy of Cantrell (POC) is an extremely rare syndrome with an estimated incidence of 1:65,000 to 200,000 live births. Its complete form includes a midline epigastric abdominal wall defect, defects affecting the lower ... -
COVID-19 and male infertility: An overview of the disease
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2022 , Article)Since SARS-CoV-2 infection was first discovered in December 2019 in Wuhan City in China, it spread rapidly and a global pandemic of COVID-19 has occurred. According to several recent studies on SARS-CoV-2, the virus primarily ... -
The efficacy of colchicine in the management of coronavirus disease 2019: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2020 , Article)BACKGROUND: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV2) infection is a recently emerged viral infection causing predominantly mild upper respiratory symptoms. However, in some instances, it might result in ... -
Epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of selected congenital anomalies at the largest Bosnian pediatric surgery tertiary center
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2022 , Article)Congenital anomalies (CA) are any abnormality present at birth, either structural or functional, that may potentially affect an infant's health, development, and/or survival. There is a paucity of studies on clinical ... -
A generalized pairwise modelling framework for network meta-analysis.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2018 , Article)Indirect comparison methods are used to measure the effect of two treatments that were each compared against a similar control group in a meta-analysis. The network meta-analysis method extends this to multiple treatments ... -
Glycogen-rich Clear Cell Carcinoma of the Breast: A Comprehensive Review.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2020 , Article Review)Glycogen-rich clear cell carcinoma (GRCC) is a very rare form of primary breast cancer (<0.1% of all breast cancers). It is characterized by the presence of neoplastic cells with a glycogen-abundant clear cytoplasm (the ... -
Methodological quality assessment should move beyond design specificity.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2023 , Article)This study aimed to assess the utility of a unified tool (MASTER) for bias assessment against design-specific tools in terms of content and coverage. Each of the safeguards in the design-specific tools was compared and ... -
Molecular Profiling Reveals Limited Targetable Biomarkers in Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Cervix.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2020 , Article)Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix (NEC) is a rare and highly aggressive cervical malignancy. Given that no targeted therapy has been approved specifically to NEC, we investigated the presence of novel, potentially ... -
Moving towards a standards-based methodological quality assessment scheme for clinical research
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Mucocele of the appendix presenting as an exacerbated chronic tubo-ovarian abscess: A case report and comprehensive review of the literature.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2019 , Article)Appendiceal mucocele is a rare entity of mucinous cystic dilatation of the appendix. It has no typical clinical presentation and is considered a potentially premalignant condition. We present a case of accidental intraoperative ... -
A new improved graphical and quantitative method for detecting bias in meta-analysis.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2018 , Article)Detection of publication and related biases remains suboptimal and threatens the validity and interpretation of meta-analytical findings. When bias is present, it usually differentially affects small and large studies ... -
A Rare Sequela of Constriction Band Syndrome: Case Report.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2021 , Report)The patient in this case report is a 19-year-old man who presented with left foot cauliflower lesion. He complained of an inability to wear proper shoes, in addition to an unpleasant appearance of his foot. The lesion was ... -
The robust error meta-regression method for dose-response meta-analysis.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2018 , Article)Dose-response meta-analysis has been widely employed in evidence-based decision-making. Currently, the most popular approach is the one or two-stage generalized least squares for trend model. This approach however has some ... -
Selecting the best meta-analytic estimator for evidence-based practice: a simulation study.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2019 , Article)Studies included in meta-analysis can produce results that depart from the true population parameter of interest due to systematic and/or random errors. Synthesis of these results in meta-analysis aims to generate an ... -
Unexpected adrenal pheochromocytoma associated with a generalized tonic-clonic seizure in a prepubertal boy: A case report.
( Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins , 2021 , Article)Pheochromocytoma (PHEO) is a rare neuroendocrine tumor arising from chromaffin cells of the adrenal medulla. Most pediatric PHEOs are functional tumors, and clinical manifestations are related to catecholamine hypersecretion ...