Adequate venous drainage of brain parenchyma is essential to maintain cerebral perfusion and clearance of cerebrospinal fluid. The cortical vein opacification score (COVES) is a radiographic metric ...

Objective To determine whether there still remains a significant advantage in the use of sutures to staples for orthopaedic skin closure in adult patients. Design Systematic Review/ Meta-Analysis.

A short cut review was carried out to establish whether staples are better than sutures for scalp wound repair in adults. Altogether 42 papers were found using the reported search, of which four ...