Tag: Surgery: Misc.

Unilateral biportal endoscopic microdiscectomy has longer operating times, lower pain med intake in early postop period

Improved disease-free survival seen among patients with high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma after radical surgery

Improvement seen in overall structure preservation rate, orbit preservation rate, and skull base preservation rate

Perioperative nivolumab showed event-free survival benefit from time of surgery compared with neoadjuvant nivolumab

More than 70 percent with stage I pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma and about 30 percent with stage II PDAC upstaged after surgery

Authors say findings highlight the need for infection prevention

In addition to no difference in patient outcomes with lower threshold, the authors say relaxed potassium control is cost-saving

No associations seen for radiotherapy, chemotherapy and excess suicide

Pregnancy after tubal sterilization reported by 2.9 to 5.2 percent of women

However, restrictive strategy results in a significant but small reduction in operation rate