We reviewed 36 traumatic brachial plexus injury patients with C5 nerve root injury. We used the choline acetyltransferase (CAT) activity measurement as a gold standard indicator of repairability to assess the reliability of the conventional techniques (preoperative clinical, electrophysiologic, and radiologic examination and intraoperative clinical and electrophysiologic examinations). We proposed a repairability scoring system composed of the correlated conventional techniques ... Read more

There is limited data about the mucosal lesions of portal hypertensive enteropathy (PHE) detected by capsule endoscopy, and there is no scoring system to evaluate their severity. Our aim is to create a reliable scoring system for PHE, and to explore the possible usefulness of using transient elastograhy (TE) in that field. We compared the medical records of 31 patients ... Read more