"Toddler's fractures" are common in the pediatric population. Traditional treatment recommends casting these fractures, although with their inherent stability, may be unnecessary. This study evaluated if toddler's fractures can be treated with observation alone as opposed to casts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the efficacy of immersive virtual reality (VR) in combination with standard local anesthetic for mitigating anxiety and pain during US-guided breast biopsies compared to local anesthetic alone.
Methods: Patients scheduled for US-guided biopsy were invited to participate. Eligible patients were females 18 years of age or older.
Background And Objective: Upper tract urothelial cancer (UTUC) lacks high-quality evidence to appraise current patterns of presentation, diagnosis, treatment and outcomes as a result of disease rarity and patient heterogeneity. Registries may overcome many of the challenges making clinical trials challenging in UTUC and provide answers to many of the clinical questions that afflict UTUC management. In this narrative review we aim to summarise the design of registries that have contributed to the UTUC literature, discuss their strengths and limitations and the future directions of registries in UTUC.
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