Functional PET imaging results suggest that patients in minimally conscious states may feel pain and therefore require analgesics. Medscape Medical News
The use of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography did not appear to improve the detection of small metastases in patients with head and neck cancer. Medscape Medical News
In a study of bipolar patients treated with lithium, serum lithium levels did not correlate with brain lithium levels in older patients. Medscape Medical News
Patients with renal pelvis and ureteral cancers have an increased risk for colorectal cancer, and in turn, a history of colorectal cancer increases the risk for renal pelvis and ureteral cancers. Medscape Medical News
At a 1-day symposium on deep brain stimulation being held in Washington, DC, on May 6, experts will discuss its impact on quality of life. Medscape Medical News
We estimated the prevalence of HPV-16, -18, and -52 in bladder cancer or recurrent cystitis and studied the correlation of type-specific HPV-IgG with PCR results and clinicopathologic parameters. The Medscape Journal of Medicine