News tagged with parathyroid surgery

Osteoporosis drug improves healing after rotator cuff surgery

Tears in the shoulder's rotator cuff, a common sports injury, are painful and restricting. Surgery to repair the damage is successful for pain management, but in many patients it does not result in full recovery of function ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tulane University surgeon pioneers 'scarless' thyroid surgery

Tulane University School of Medicine surgeon Dr. Emad Kandil is one of the first in the country to perform a new form of endoscopic surgery that uses a small incision under the arm to remove all or a portion of the thyroid ...

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created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stem cell success points to way to regenerate parathyroid glands

An early laboratory success is taking University of Michigan researchers a step closer to parathyroid gland transplants that could one day prevent a currently untreatable form of bone loss associated with thyroid surgery.

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Thyroid and parathyroid surgery outcomes may be worse in pregnant women

Pregnant women appear to have worse clinical and economic outcomes after thyroid and parathyroid surgery compared with women who are not pregnant, according to a report in the May issue of Archives of Surgery.

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created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0