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- Ileostomy, Colostomy, and Ileoanal Reservoir Surgery
Sometimes treatment for Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, and familial adenomatous polyposis involves removing all or part of the intestines. When the intestines are removed, the body needs a new way for stool to leave the body, so the surgeon creates an opening in the abdomen for stool to pass through. The surgery to create the new opening is called ostomy. The opening is called a stoma. Different types of ostomy are performed depending on how much and what part of the intestines are...
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
- NIH Launches New Study to Compare Prostate Surgery and Drugs
Bethesda, Maryland The Minimally Invasive Surgical Therapies (MIST) Consortium for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) has launched a new study to compare long-term benefits and risks of transurethral needle ablation (TUNA) and transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT) to a regimen of the alpha-1 inhibitor alfuzosin and the 5-alpha reductase inhibitor finasteride. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at NIH, part of the Department of Health and Human...
National Institutes of Health
- Laser Eye Surgery: Is It Worth Looking Into?
by Carol Lewis For Jeri Goldstein everything was a blur. Without her contact lenses she couldn't distinguish people, the scenes on television, the stars at night, and, generally, the world at large. Then, in March 1998, the 49-year-old California resident had eye surgery, and all that changed. "After wearing contact lenses for 35 years, you can't imagine the freedom I felt," says Goldstein. Goldstein underwent refractive eye surgery, an elective procedure intended to correct common...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Sizing Up Surgery
by Carol Lewis Thousands of Americans face surgery each year, often with fear and doubts about whether the right step is being taken. And not knowing what's involved may mean putting yourself through as much grief as the procedure intends to do away with. Whether you are undergoing surgery for the first time or the tenth, understanding why you need it, the risks involved, available alternative treatments, and the aftereffects will help you make the right decisions and deal effectively with the...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Psychic surgery
Psychic surgery is a procedure performed by self-styled psychic doctors or psychic surgeons, chiefly in the Philippines and in Brazil. Practitioners claim that it involves the extraction of "tumors" or other presumed pathological obects (pus, bones, etc.) from the patient's body through a bloody but painless and invisible "incision", often made with bare hands and without the use of antiseptics or anesthetics. Scientists, traditional medical doctors and stage magicians generally dismiss such...
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Organizations
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- American Society For Dermatologic Surgery - http://www.asds-net.org/
- Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract - http://www.ssat.com/
- American Society for Surgery of the Hand - http://www.hand-surg.org/
- American Society for Bariatric Surgery - http://www.asbs.org/
- American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery - http://www.aslms.org/
News
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- More obese adolescents turning to surgery
Reuters - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:29 EST
- More obese adolescents turning to surgery
Reuters - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:29 EST
- More obese adolescents turning to surgery
Reuters - Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:29 EST
- Hand-Assisted Technique May Decrease Time In Surgery For Colorectal Cancer Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Surgery
MedicalNewsToday - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
- Inner-ear Volume Study Leads To Higher Surgery Success Rates
MedicalNewsToday - Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:00 EST
Clinical Trials
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- Comparison of Aprotinin and Tranexamic Acid in Routine Cardiac Surgery
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00396760 - Active, not recruiting
Bleeding and Cardiac Surgery; Allogeneic Blood Transfusion; Aortic Valve Replacement; Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
- Conventional Surgery Compared With Laparoscopic-Assisted Surgery in Treating Patients With Colorectal Cancer
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00003354 - Active, not recruiting
Colon Cancer; Rectal Cancer
- Comparing Angiomax to Heparin with Protamine Reversal in Patients OPCAB
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00073593 - Active, not recruiting
Cardiac Surgery; Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
- Fenretinide Followed by Surgery Compared With Surgery Alone in Preventing Ovarian Cancer in Patients at Increased Risk
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00017134 - Active, not recruiting
ovarian epithelial cancer
- Combination Chemotherapy Followed by Surgery in Treating Infants With Newly Diagnosed Neuroblastoma
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00025623 - Active, not recruiting
disseminated neuroblastoma

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