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Obesity, defined as body mass index (BMI, calculated as weight (kg)/ [height (m)] 2) of 30 or greater, is a common medical comorbidity of pregnancy affecting one third of reproductive-aged women. Maternal obesity is also a well-recognized risk factor for dysfunctional labor and cesarean delivery

Thyroid surgery is one of the most frequently performed surgical procedures worldwide . Nowadays, total thyroidectomy is the recommended procedure for thyroid disease . As total thyroidectomy is the procedure of choice, the most common complication resulting after this surgery is transient

Details of Radiation Therapy: Both breast conserving surgery and IORT will be delivered as per standard practice. Lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy will be performed by the breast surgeon using standard techniques and as per standard of care. IORT with Xoft Axxent System will be given at the

Background Sentinel node biopsy (SNB) is a well-established technique for nodal staging of malignant disease, including breast cancer and malignant melanoma. The sentinel node (SN) is the first lymph node to receive cancer cells in a given lymph node basin. The status of the SN is often the most

Breast cancer treatment has been accompanying advances in technology, surgeries are more conservative, however postoperative complications are still observed. At early postoperative period, the most common operative wound complications are seroma, infection and necrosis. Shoulder dysfunctions are a

Screening at the first evaluation: The anamnesis for each potentially eligible patient will be performed to assess whether the inclusion and exclusion criteria are met. If the selection criteria for inclusion in the study are met, the patient will be proposed to participate in the study with the

Overview of the Proposed Trial This will be a pilot randomized controlled trial. The investigators chose a randomized controlled trial, the 'gold standard' of clinical research design, with the goal of obtaining the highest quality evidence to inform clinical practice. Randomly allocating subjects

Patients admitted to our transplant surgery inpatient floor for cadaveric kidney transplant surgery will be reviewed with the circle of care team and approached for consent if deemed suitable for this trial. A Nova Scotia Health Authority Research Ethics Board approved informed consent form will be

The Buckypaper (BP) is an innovative material that has attracted the attention of many research groups engaged in the study of its possible applications in various technological fields preliminary to human experimentation. In fact the experimentation, preliminary conducted on animal model, will be

Most surgical wounds heal by primary intention, meaning the wound edges are brought together, or approximated, by some sort of mechanical means (sutures, staples, paper tape, surgical glue or adhesive strips) to heal with minimal scar formation. National clinical guidelines recommend that incisions