radiotherapy should now rarely be used in the treatment of prolactinoma. Resistant prolactinomas might need surgery but this treatment will not be curative, particularly if the tumor is large ...

Robotic surgery (also called robotic-assisted surgery) is perhaps the most cutting-edge medical technology of modern times. The most widely used system today involves a camera and the use of very ...

A fever after surgery (postoperative fever) is a common complication. There are a range of reasons why you might get a fever after surgery, including problems like infections that need treatment. You ...

What Is Knee Replacement Surgery? You can't move like you used to. It's painful to walk the dog, climb a flight of stairs, or simply get out of a chair. You've tried medicines, injections ...

Surgery is a procedure in which incision and physical manipulation are used to treat a patient with an injury or a disease. The patient's tissues are cut during this technique to permit the ...

The impact of surgery on QoL is often underestimated by caregivers and has a more profound effect on patients than expected by surgeons. A transient decline in QoL after surgery was observed across ...

Patients with normal IGF-1 concentration (IGF-1 values up to 1.3 × ULN matched for sex and age) were assigned to the CTA or CA groups (29). Patients with prior unsuccessful surgery and receiving ...

With the widespread use of computed tomography and MRI, the incidental discovery of pituitary incidentalomas is increasing in frequency. The most common cause of a pituitary mass is a pituitary ...