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Current Therapeutic Options for Chronic Low Back Pain: A Focus on Nonsurgical Approaches
This activity will explore the newest types of physical rehabilitation as an alternative to surgery, as well as other conservative methods, that can be integrated with pharmacologic therapies to provide a multidisciplinary approach for the relief of LBP.
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Evaluation of treatment in ischemic priapism: Surgical intervention and cost effectiveness
Priapism, although uncommon, is a well known urologic emergency. Complications of priapism include pain and fibrosis of the corpora cavernosa leading to erectile dysfunction (ED). Urgent treatment focuses on detumescence to prevent ED. Current treatment recommendations from the American Urological Association (AUA) Guideline on the Management of Priapism include a stepwise approach from least invasive to most invasive procedures to achieve satisfactory detumescence.
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CASE & COMMENT: Is this ruptured kidney tumor malignant?
A 77-year-old woman presents with acute, severe left flank pain accompanied by lower abdominal cramps. She denies trauma, hematuria, history of stones, or symptoms of urinary tract infection. Hemoglobin is 7 g/dL, and a stat CT scan demonstrates left kidney rupture and retroperitoneal hemorrhage with the lower pole renal parenchymal fragments and extravasated contrast material within the mass lesion (see the CT image).
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Laparoscopic pyeloplasty: Tips and techniques
With overall success rates that rival the gold standard of open pyeloplasty and lower overall morbidity, laparoscopic pyeloplasty is rapidly emerging as a bona fide standard of care in the urologic management of symptomatic UPJ obstruction in adults.
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