Hysterectomy - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Reproductive, menstrual, and other hormone-related factors and risk of renal cell cancer.

30 Oct 2008 A role of hormone-related factors in renal cell cancer (RCC) etiology has been hypothesized, but the epidemiological evidence is inconsistent. The present study aimed at evaluating the effect of reproductive, menstrual and other gender-specific ... Read more...

Postoperative pain and analgesic requirements after anesthesia with sevoflurane, desflurane or propofol.

30 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: General anesthetics may have nociceptive actions that affect postoperative pain. In studies evaluating postoperative pain, the effect of general anesthetics on analgesic requirements has not been considered except for one recent study ... Read more...

Surgical management of inguinal neuralgia after a low transverse Pfannenstiel incision.

30 Oct 2008 OBJECTIVE: The authors assessed the long-term pain relief after local nerve blocks or neurectomy in patients suffering from chronic pain because of Pfannenstiel-induced nerve entrapment. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: The low transverse Pfannenstiel ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Hysterectomy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Reproductive, menstrual, and other hormone-related factors and risk of renal cell cancer. 30 Oct 2008
• Postoperative pain and analgesic requirements after anesthesia with sevoflurane, desflurane or propofol. 30 Oct 2008
• Surgical management of inguinal neuralgia after a low transverse Pfannenstiel incision. 30 Oct 2008
• Adjuvant hysterectomy for treatment of residual disease in patients with cervical cancer treated with radiation therapy. 19 Oct 2008
• [A woman in the second trimester of pregnancy with acute abdominal pain] 7 Oct 2008
• Gestational choriocarcinoma mimicking a uterine adenocarcinoma. 4 Oct 2008
• Comparison of examination of the entire cervix with routine cervical sampling in hysterectomy specimens from women with endometrial cancer: comment on a paper. 29 Sep 2008
• Reply to 'Chronic pain after hysterectomy'. 29 Sep 2008
• Radical hysterectomy in obese and morbidly obese women with cervical cancer. 29 Sep 2008
• A case of ovarian cancer associated with hypercalcemia. 29 Sep 2008
• Discussion: 'Physician gender, specialty, and hysterectomy utilization' by Gretz et al. 29 Sep 2008
• A case-control study of robot-assisted type III radical hysterectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection compared with open radical hysterectomy. 29 Sep 2008
• A comparative study of 3 surgical methods for hysterectomy with staging for endometrial cancer: robotic assistance, laparoscopy, laparotomy. 29 Sep 2008
• Revisiting the legal standards that govern requests to sterilize profoundly incompetent children: in light of the "Ashley Treatment," is a new standard appropriate? 29 Sep 2008
• The effect of menopause and hysterectomy on systemic vascular endothelial growth factor in women undergoing surgery for breast cancer. 28 Sep 2008
• Pre-incisional epidural magnesium provides pre-emptive and preventive analgesia in patients undergoing abdominal hysterectomy. 24 Sep 2008
• [Pulmonary densities following a hysterectomy, caused by benign metastatic leiomyoma] 11 Sep 2008
• Concentrations of cardiac Troponin I before and after ovariohysterectomy in 46 female dogs with pyometra. 9 Sep 2008
• Trends in the safety of inpatient hysterectomy for benign conditions in California, 1991-2004. 30 Aug 2008
• Peripartum hysterectomy: 1999 to 2006. 30 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Hysterectomy'

Definition: Excision of the uterus.

Descriptor UI: D007044

Alternative terms: Hysterectomy; Hysterectomies;

Allowable Qualifiers: adverse effects; classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; methods; mortality; nursing; psychology; rehabilitation; standards; trends; utilization; veterinary; statistics & numerical data; contraindications; ethics;

Tree Number: E04.950.300.399;

Technical Notes: do not use /util except by MeSH definition; abdominal: do not coord with ABDOMEN