Pre-op exam, nerve monitor provides valuable thyroid outcomes information Date: November 18, 2013 Source: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Summary: Researchers set out to elucidate the ...

Over 440,000 Medicare patients who had cataract surgery were studied. Results showed that 53 percent of these patients had at least one preoperative test.

Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 74-year-old man. I have not had physical exams regularly until recently. I took a pre-op exam for surgery, and one of the numbers noted was for PSA. It was 6.1. Should I ...

The value of an extent-of-disease magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exam in patients 60 years and older with newly diagnosed breast cancer has been clearly demonstrated in a single-center study.

The importance of laryngeal exam prior to thyroid surgery has also been increasingly recognized, but the relationship between surgical outcomes and these two parameters has not been studied.

The importance of laryngeal exam prior to thyroid surgery has also been increasingly recognized, but the relationship between surgical outcomes and these two parameters has not been studied.