Tag: Surgery: Misc.
Presurgical Immunotherapy Offers Long-Term Benefit in Melanoma
80 percent of adult patients with stage III/IV resectable melanoma remained event-free at four years from the start of neoadjuvant systemic treatment
Velar Adhesion Reduces Cleft Width Prior to Palatoplasty in Cleft Lip
Incidence of otitis media with effusion significantly lower for patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate undergoing velar adhesion
Wearable-Derived Biorhythms Predict Complications After Appendectomy
Machine learning model can predict postoperative complications in children up to three days before a formal diagnosis
Presurgical Ablative Radiotherapy + Chemo Improves Pathologic Outcomes in Pancreatic Cancer
Better posttreatment pathology and similar overall survival seen for stereotactic ablative radiotherapy group despite more advanced disease
Risk for Postop Proliferative Vitreoretinopathy Lower With Cannabis Use
Findings seen at six months and one year after undergoing retinal detachment repair by any method
A-Fib Catheter Ablation Cuts Risk for Ischemic Stroke After 30 Days, Mortality, Heart Failure...
Surgical ablation reduces relative risks for ischemic stroke, stroke from any cause, but benefits uncertain for other outcomes
Weight Loss Continues Five Years After Tummy Tucks
Authors say those losing weight develop healthy nutritional and exercise habits
Considerable Variation Seen in Commercial Pricing for Surgery Services
Facility prices exhibit more variability than professional prices for 10 common general surgery procedures
No Link Found for Preprocedural Fasting and Witnessed Pulmonary Aspiration
Author says long periods of fasting before surgery may not be necessary
Thresholds for Preop Serum Calcitonin Predict Lymph Node Metastasis in Thyroid Cancer
Updated thresholds outperform those recommended by American Thyroid Association guidelines for patients with medullary thyroid cancer