A nephrostomy offers access to the kidney so urine can be drained when a retrograde approach is not possible. Nurses need to understand how to care for, and manage, patients with a nephrostomy, but ...

Symptomatic hypermobile kidney is treated with nephropexy, a surgical procedure through which the floating kidney is fixed to the retroperitoneum. Although both open and endoscopic procedures have a ...

Tumor expression of cyclooxygenese-2 (COX-2) and vascular expression growth factor (VEGF) expression to predict survival outcome in locally advanced cervical cancer.

Correlation between fatigue level and irradiated volume of the whole body, lung and heart in breast cancer patients receiving adjuvant radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery No significant ...

Team reports an 85% rPCN success rate. WASHINGTON D.C.—The placement of transileal retrograde nephrostomy catheters (rPCN) is a safe and effective treatment for post-surgical ureteral obstruction ...