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...
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,...
The indications for amputation of part or all of an extremity include: trauma that is beyond repair; tumor of the bone, soft tissue, muscles, blood vessels, or nerves; extensive infection that does not respond to treatment or contributes to septicemia; and a variety of vascular diseases....
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.
