neuroma/obesity

This paper quantifies the sex, location, and forefoot imbalances most frequently affected with an intermetatarsal neuroma. The authors also examine the relationship between patients' weights and neuroma development. This study reviews the hospital records of 97 patients undergoing surgical excision

Objective: To evaluate whether increased body mass index (BMI), age, or frailty influence vestibular schwannoma (VS) short-term surgical morbidity. Methods: The 2005-2017

Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS) is a rare, autosomal recessive disease with retinal dystrophy leading to blindness, postaxial polydactyly, truncal obesity, learning disabilities, male hypogenitalism, and renal anomalies. Heterozygous carriers of a BBS mutation are not thought to present symptoms of BBS;

BACKGROUND Cryotechnology is a modality of renewed interest in pain management. It is safe and effective when used to treat neuropathies of sensory and mixed nerves. Cryoablation, in general, is devoid of the risk of neuroma formation and can provide several weeks to months of adequate pain relief.