When individuals acquire new skills, initial performance is typically better and tasks are
judged to be easier when the tasks are segregated and practiced by block, compared to …

Objectives/Hypothesis Patients are increasingly using the Internet as a source of information
on medical conditions. Because the average American adult reads at a 7th‐to 8th‐grade …

Object Cushing's disease is a challenging neuroendocrine disorder. Although resection
remains the primary treatment option for most patients, the disease persists if there is …

OBJECTIVE The authors report the diagnosis, management, and outcomes of 6 cases of
spindle cell oncocytoma (SCO) in an effort to guide clinical diagnosis and management of …

The Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) protocol is a successful course offered by the
American College of Surgeons. Once based on didactic lectures and seminars taught by …

Background and purpose The Pipeline Embolization Device (PED) has been shown to
effectively treat complex internal carotid artery aneurysms while maintaining patency of …

Objective Most professional organizations now provide patient information material, and not
all of this material is appropriate for the average American adult to comprehend. The …

Military explorations of the practical role of simulators have served as a driving force for
much of the virtual reality technology that we have today. The evolution of 3-dimensional …

The history of endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) demonstrates the importance of
studying neurosurgery's history. A story that began with numerous technological …

BACKGROUND: Although use of very high-dose recombinant human bone morphogenetic
protein-2 (rhBMP-2) has been reported to markedly improve fusion rates in adult spinal …