Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy for bladder cancer studied

EDAP TMS S.A. - Ablatherm HIFU a safe alternative to surgery or radiotherapy

FoxHollow Technologies, Inc. - One-year outcomes data on plaque excision released at vascular surgery meeting

Hannover Medical School - Accuracy of CT-based bone drilling navigation evaluated

National Cancer Center, Singapore - Acceptance of prophylactic surgery and chemoprevention surveyed in Singapore

University of Birmingham - Gene- and immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma reviewed

AMA - Higher body mass linked to lower death rate after bypass surgery

AMA - Stroke experts release comprehensive stroke center recommendations

American College of Physicians - Practice guideline on management of obesity in primary care released

Boston University - Platelet-derived growth factor intensifies ischemic flap revascularization

Cardiogenesis Corporation - U.S. FDA issues letter for percutaneous myocardial channeling trial

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center - Restoring flow to all blocked areas of the heart improves 5-year survival rate

Center for the Advancement of Health, County Cork - Experienced hospitals and surgeons make for better patient outcomes

Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Quebec - Prognostic significance of lymphovascular invasion assessed

Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago - Risk analysis of magnetic resonance angiography for nonpalpable testis conducted

Christie Hospital Nat. Health Service Trust, Lancs - Patterns of local disease failure and outcome after salvage surgery discussed

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Multidetector CT angiography enables assessment of luminal stenosis

Cleveland Clinic Foundation - Survival after laparoscopic radiofrequency thermal ablation predicted

Cornell University - Multiple re-excisions compared to mastectomy in breast cancer patients

Derriford Hospital, Devon - Role of radiotherapy in rectal cancer evaluated

Dokkyo University, Saitama - Recurrent intractable seizures occurred in children with cortical dysplasia

Duke University - Neovaginal reconstruction needed after radical pelvic surgery

Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - Decreased type I iodothyronine deiodinase expression indicated papillary cancer

Fremantle Hospital - Colonoscopy performed 12 months after surgery for colorectal neoplasia

Georgetown University Hospital - CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery treated spinal tumors

Glenfield General Hospital, Leicester - Risk of intra-aortic balloon pump-related complications dropping

Gunma University - RhoA overexpression correlated with tumor progression in esophageal carcinoma

Hospital Urbino - Thymidylate synthase polymorphisms prognosticated gastric cancer

Iranian Center for Breast Cancer, Tehran - Researchers' data advance breast cancer research

JAMA - Study examines characteristics of cancers of the esophagus

Kanazawa University - Aldosterone antagonist is useful for prevention of ARDS

Kaohsiung Medical University - Morbidity associated with free radial forearm flap transfers characterized

Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm - Epiaortic ultrasonography should be used routinely in cardiac surgery

Kawasaki Medical University - Novel system enables direct NO measurement during CPB

Keio University, Tokyo - Chemosensitivity of ovarian cancer tested via histoculture drug response assay

Klinik Beau-Site, Bern - Novel surgery effective for patients with long-standing disc degeneration

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Recent studies add new data to cervical cancer research

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Researchers provide details of new studies and findings in the area of gastroenterology

Massachusetts General Hospital - Gastrointestinal management of bariatric surgery patients

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge - MIT tissue engineers implant viable, vascularized 3-D muscles

Medical Inst. of La Floresta, Caracas - Laparoscopic technique to repair vesicovaginal fistula described

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - Clinical examination after preoperative chemoradiation found unreliable

MizMedi Hospital, Seoul - Laparoscopic surgical staging performed for locally advanced cervical cancer

Monash University, Victoria - Management of superficial bladder cancer in Victoria surveyed

Nagasaki University - Studies describe new findings in breast cancer research

Natl. Hosp. for Neurology & Neurosurgery, London - Diagnostic utility of vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials reviewed

Nevada Cancer Institute - Cancer institute adds four senior leaders