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Skipping Routine CT Scans Before Children’s Cochlear Implants May Be Safe, Study Finds

A retrospective study of 164 children in Freiburg found that omitting routine preoperative CT before bilateral cochlear ...
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Early PET/CT Scan Predicts Which HER2-Positive Breast Cancers Will Vanish Before Surgery

A prospective study finds that 68Ga-HER2 PET/CT scans after just two cycles of neoadjuvant therapy can predict which ...
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VUMC Performs Nation’s First Surgery Using Latest Generation of Intraoperative PET-CT Scan Technology

Newswise — Surgeons in Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery have successfully performed the country’s first procedure using the latest generation ...
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Vanderbilt Health Performs Nation’s First Breast Cancer Surgery Using Intraoperative PET-CT Scan Technology

Newswise — Following the introduction of a surgical protocol that leveraged intraoperative imaging with a combination PET-CT scanner to assess the success of head and neck cancer resection, surgeons ...
Reuters

CT scan not advised for probable appendicitis

WASHINGTON (Reuters Health) - When someone has all the signs of acute appendicitis, waiting to get a CT scan to confirm the diagnosis is not a good idea, researchers report. Compared with a ...
Medical Daily

Nearly 3 Percent of Scanned Patients Had Pancreatic Tissue Looped Around a Major Vein Without Knowing It

Women on CagriSema lost 25% of their body weight in a post hoc trial analysis, while 79.6% of users had digestive side effects. The drug is not approved. Ice Water, Math Quizzes, and Shocks: The 1948 ...

[Episode 1] Liver cancer discovered by chance during a heart CT scan. A record of the approximately 4cm tumor and the surgery

The discovery of the cancer was an unexpected event.Around March 2024.I have a pre-existing heart condition, and I was ...