Implanting radioactive seeds (brachytherapy) into the prostate is considered as effective as surgery for men with early stage prostate cancer. Five years after treatment, men who received brachytherapy were as likely to be as disease-free as similar patients who have undergone a radical...
Physicians are now able to open an airway in the trachea by controlled percutaneous introduction of tracheostomy tubes. Elective percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is the gradual dilation of the tracheal entrance site made by sequentially sized dilators being placed over a wire guide,...
The term intravenous (IV) sedation is used to describe the type of anesthesia resulting in the loss of protective reflexes of the patient, but not in unconciousness as with general anesthesia. The purpose of IV sedation is to relax, not to completely anesthetize a patient.
Discography is an invasive radiographic technique that uses the injection of contrast media to visualize intervertebral disk space. Developed in Sweden in 1948, it soon became widely used to diagnose such diseases or conditions as lumbar degenerative disease, disc herniation, disc protrusion,...
During endoscopic carpal tunnel release, physicians insert an optical device through a small incision into the carpal tunnel of the wrist in order to release pressure of the median nerve, which passes through this canal into the wrist.
