Andie MacDowell has revealed she’s been diagnosed with piriformis syndrome, a rare neuromuscular condition. The actress, 66, ...

For obstructive sleep apnea, a CPAP machine is prescribed. However, sometimes surgery is recommended for severe cases of obstructive sleep apnea or when other therapies aren’t effective.

Laparoscopic surgery, also referred to as minimally invasive surgery (MIS) or laparoscopy, is a surgical technique in which a thin, camera-equipped surgical device is inserted into the abdomen or ...

Laminectomy is a type of spinal decompression surgery where a surgeon removes the bony arch from one or more of your spinal bones (vertebrae). This widens the space around your spine and can help ...

Robotic surgery (also called robotic-assisted surgery) is perhaps the most cutting-edge medical technology of modern times. The most widely used system today involves a camera and the use of very ...

A 25-year-old male patient presented with foot drop indicative of a sciatic nerve injury following gluteal intramuscular (IM) injections. Blood tests and magnetic resonance imaging of his spine ...

In analysis of the images, neurosurgeon Tyler Cole said that surgery Mangione received appeared to be "suboptimal," and that he would likely have continued to experience nerve pain after the ...

Other sampled muscles were normal. The findings were consistent with a partial sciatic nerve injury, most likely secondary to the injections. The prognosis for improvement was poor, because there ...

This is different to a sentinel lymph node biopsy. If the biopsy shows the lymph nodes have cancer cells in them, you might have surgery to remove them. This is called a lymph node dissection or ...