New gadgetry opens doors to better surgery
Advances help doctors improve teaching and reduce patients' recovery time
(San Antonio - October 9, 2006) The first time Drs. David Jimenez and Constance Barone performed the pediatric skull surgery that now defines their careers, a medical student videotaped the procedure using a handheld recorder.
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Unique surgery gives little boy new lease on life
When their son is diagnosed with craniosynostosis, S.A. parents must decide which type of treatment they should seek
(San Antonio - November 21, 2004) With a blue felt-tipped pen, Dr. David Jimenez drew a series of lines and dashes on the tiny misshapen head of Bishop Cray Uhlrich, propped like a sphinx on the operating room table at University Hospital.
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Trauma care back on track in S.A.
(San Antonio - November 21, 2004) A year ago, trauma care in the San Antonio region perched on the edge of disaster.
All the full-time neurosurgeons at the UT Health Science Center quit because of job dissatisfaction, leaving University Hospital, the region's largest Level 1 trauma center, without a full-time staff surgeon to treat patients who arrived in its emergency room with brain or spine injuries. More...
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