Cerebellar astrocytoma: experience with 54 cases surgically treated at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota from 1978 to 1990

Rothia bacteremia: a 10-year experience at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

Rothia spp. are Gram-positive cocco-bacilli that cause a wide range of serious infections, especially in immunocompromised hosts. Risk factors for Rothia mucilaginosa (previously known as Stomatococcus mucilaginosus) bacteremia include prolonged and profound neutropenia, malignancy, and an indwelling vascular foreign body. Here, we describe 67 adults at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, from 20...

Trends of radiopharmaceutical use at Mayo Clinic Rochester.

UNLABELLED The field of radiology is continuously changing. The purpose of this study was to identify the effect of technologic advances on nuclear medicine during the past 15 y. METHODS The number of radiopharmaceutical doses dispensed at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) from 1990 through 2004 was tracked. The number of doses was equivalent to the number of scans performed. RESULTS Since...

Mayo Clinic Scottsdale Experience With Laparoscopic Nephroureterectomy

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the efficacy of laparoscopic nephroureterectomy for patients with transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract. METHODS Eighteen patients underwent attempted transperitoneal laparoscopic nephroureterectomy between June 2000 and October 2002. Mean patient age was 67.5 years. The specimen was removed intact through a 7- to 9-cm extraction incision in the lower m...

Disseminated Mycobacterium genavense in the immunocompromised: A Case Series at Mayo Clinic Rochester

Minimally invasive thymectomy: the Mayo Clinic experience.

BACKGROUND The prevalence of minimally invasive thymectomy (MIT) is increasing and may have significant benefit to patients in terms of morbidity and post-operative recovery. Our aim was to review the Mayo Clinic experience of MIT. METHODS We reviewed data from all MIT cases collected in a prospectively maintained database from January 1995 to February 2015. Data were collected regarding pati...