Background: Medical tourism is increasing every year, especially in fields such as bariatric surgery. Global concerns rely on the fact of its safety, mainly because of a lack of standardization, unknown number of cases, and the type of specialists performing such procedures. Mexico continues to be among the top countries receiving patients from abroad, but there is no national consensus, guidelines, or recommendations about the practice in such fields.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The use of the internet and technology has increased, and its implication with medicine is inevitable. Along with these technologies, social media platforms have changed the interaction between peers, forcing an evolution on medical activities and patient relationship. There is no clear information on how surgeons interact with these platforms within their daily practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatient: Female, 66 FINAL DIAGNOSIS: Infiltrating ductal carcinoma • small lymphocytic lymphoma
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Medication: - Clinical Procedure: Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy • lumpectomy • axillary lymph node dissection Specialty: Breast cancer surgery.
Objective: Rare presentation of two concomitant malingancies.
Background: Lymphatic mapping of axillary breast cancer metastases in the presence of concomitant lymphoproliferative disease is still a controversial topic.