Background: The aim of this study was to identify the rate of unsuspected malignancy in
vertebral compression fractures (VCFs) treated with percutaneous vertebral augmentation …

A 15-year-old boy with right humeral shortening underwent distraction osteogenesis with 1
mm/day lengthening. Preoperative Sauvegrain method showed skeletal maturity and …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic had drastic consequences on medical education,
especially in surgical exposure and procedural learning. Cognitive task analysis (CTA) …

There were tumor strictures commonly encountered in the esophageal squamous cell
carcinoma (ESCC) to limit the conventional echoendoscope for exact tumor staging and size …

Background Tissue sampling for biliary stricture is important for differential diagnosis and
further treatment. This study aims to assess the differences of transpapillary biliary biopsy for …

Although the incidence of gastric cancer in the United States has steadily declined since the
1930s, globally it remains the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality. 1 This …

Purpose Organisational learning plays a critical role for firms to keep abreast of a supply chain
environment filled with volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA). This study …

Qigong is a Chinese traditional ethnic sport that is practised worldwide. In the West it is
often applied as an Eastern mind-body intervention. Although clinical trials have reported its …

The thesis covers the competing perspectives on Hong Kong history, with a special focus on
how British colonial historiography and Mainland Chinese patriotic historiography wrote the …

Innovation is now commonplace in public service organizations around the globe. Innovation
is used to create public value in citizen collaborations, through civil society and non-profit …