Nephrostomy tube placement, a common procedure for malignant urinary obstruction, carries a notable risk of infection and death in oncology patients. A recent retrospective cohort study has ...

While randomized comparative trials are needed, a relatively new treatment option for upper urinary tract cancers shows promise for lowering long-term recurrence in many patients with low-grade ...

1 Department of Urology, Sarawak General Hospital, Kuching, Malaysia. 2 Department of Urology, Sarawak Heart Centre, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia. The body mass index (BMI), a simple metric, is utilised ...

More than two months after a 9-year-old San Diego girl died following a dental procedure, officials have released new details on her death. The San Diego County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled the ...

Plastic surgery is on the rise, with some procedures becoming so common and flawlessly handled among film stars and influencers that they are often undetectable—but is there a limit to what surgeries ...

Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, University of Veterinary Medicine, Hanover, Germany Objective: To evaluate the feasibility and safety of placing cholecystostomy drains percutaneously ...

In recent weeks, activist organizations fueled by hundreds of millions of dollars in donations and sometimes even Government grants have obtained sweeping injunctions far beyond the scope of relief ...

"As we all know, Medicare rules do not always follow CPT directives. The same is true in this case," write Jonathan Rubenstein, MD, and Mark Painter. To help answer this question, we should first ...