Laparoscopic hysterectomy: the Kaiser Permanente San Diego experience.

Study Objective: To evaluate patient and surgical characteristics of laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH), including both total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) and laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy (LSH), compared with total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH).

Design: Retrospective, comparative study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: Health maintenance organization/residency-training program.

Intracarpal steroid injection is safe and effective for short-term management of carpal tunnel syndrome.

A double-blinded placebo-controlled trial was performed to evaluate the use of steroid injections beneath the transverse carpal ligament in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) refractory to nonsurgical therapy. Forty-three patients received 6 mg betamethasone and lidocaine and 38 patients received 1 ml saline placebo and lidocaine. The primary outcome measure was satisfaction with symptom relief.