Technique for curettage of benign bone tumors
2Nov, 2015
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Technique for curettage of benign bone tumors

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Aggressive benign bone tumors require treatment by curettage of the lesion and packing of the cavity with bone grafts or bone cement. Curettage of the pathologic tissue through a wide cortical window is usually mandatory to avoid the risk of local recurrence. However, large cortical removal for creating the window may weaken the bone and increase the risk of fracture. Minimally invasive approaches for the treatment of benign bone tumors have been reported in few articles. Trans-articular arthroscopic excision of benign bone tumors such as chondroblastoma and osteoid osteoma have […]
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Osteoporosis
20Oct, 2015
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Canadian Health&Care Mall News: Osteoporosis

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The worldwide incidence of VCF is 1 in 3 women and 1 in 8 menover 50 years of age. Osteoporosis is the most common condition associated with painful vertebral body compression fractures, resulting in over 500,000 fractures in the United States in 2005. According to the report of the U.S. Surgeon General, in 2004, osteoporosis-related fractures resulted in more than 432,000 hospital admissions, almost 2.5 million medical office visits, and about 180,000 nursing home admissions. The mean length of stay for management of a VCF was 10.1 days with an […]
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Suprarenal invasion
14Oct, 2015
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Suprarenal invasion

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The incidental detection of kidney cancer has increased due to the dissemination of the use of abdominal imaging methods; such tumors tend to be smaller when compared to symptomatic lesions, according to the observations of Siow et al.. Our study indicated that lesions with isolated hematuria tend to present minor diameters than its counterparts presenting additional symptoms. Such finding may have implications in patients’ prognosis, since other studies still point to the fact that lesion size is one of the most important prognostic factors for RCC. Our patients had an […]
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