A 65-year-old man presented to the ED with 1 day of acute onset mid-thoracic and low back pain, difficulty ambulating and ...

Taking steps to protect the eye and avoiding certain activities is important during recovery from cataract surgery. These include avoiding bending over and vigorous sneezing or coughing.

A Whipple procedure (pancreaticoduodenectomy) is a complex surgery involving several procedures during one operation. It is often performed to treat pancreatic cancer. It will take time for the ...

Hospitals performed more than 200,000 unnecessary back surgeries on Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. over three years, according to a new analysis. Why it matters: Roughly $2 billion was spent on ...

If your surgeon recommends surgery for your herniated disc, microdiscectomy is one option. Other options may include a lumbar laminectomy, open discectomy, or lumbar fusion surgery. You should discuss ...

Most people have surgery for colon cancer that hasn't spread. The operation you have depends on the position of the cancer in the bowel. This section is about surgery for cancer that starts in the ...

The specific traction procedures are shown below. 1. Gardener-Wells skull bone traction: Conventional axial continuous skull traction was applied to the patient (Figure 1). The weight of bone traction ...

The surgery lasted 40 min. Blood loss was about 10 ml ... The most common and universal method for accessing a bullet in the spinal canal is laminectomy (9). Lateral and anterior approaches are ...

This political agreement is usually used to speed up the legislative procedure and make it easier to reach an agreement at first reading between the Parliament and the Council. The procedure is ...