Diagnostics and Treatments
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Diagnostics: Ways to diagnose your condition. Treatments: Ways to treat your condition.
Explore the different ways we can diagnose and treat your condition. An accurate diagnosis is the first step in the journey to achieving effective treatment for your condition.
Soft Tissue Techniques
Soft tissue treatment involves the assessment and treatment of any soft tissue injury that is causing pain and abnormal function.
Spinal tap (lumbar puncture).
During this test, a special needle is placed into the lower back, into the spinal canal. A small amount of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can be removed and sent for testing to find out if there is an infection or other problems.
Continue readingStenting of malignant strictures
Biliary stents are commonly used to treat malignant biliary obstruction.
Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT)
Stereotactic radiotherapy is a way of targeting radiotherapy very precisely at a tumour.
Continue readingStroboscopy
An examination in which a strobe light is combined with rigid or flexible laryngoscopy, allowing an examination of vocal fold vibration and vocal fold closure.
Subglottic stenosis
Subglottic stenosis (SGS) is a narrowing of the airway below the vocal cords (subglottis) and above the trachea, and is most commonly treated with steroid injections or surgery
Superior semi-circular canal dehiscence
A condition causes problems with hearing and balance.
Surface Guided Radiotherapy (AlignRT)
SGRT is a sophisticated stereovision technology that tracks thousands of points on your skin surface.
Continue readingSurgical Therapy
The surgical treatment of obesity aims to achieve significant and sustainable weight loss (>20% of body weight in the long-term) and an improvement in health.
Continue readingTattoo-less Therapy
High precision equipment at St. Vincent’s Private Hospital has removed the need for permanent tattoo markings on patients who are receiving radiotherapy cancer treatment.
Continue readingTendon Surgery
Tendon repair is surgery done to treat a torn or otherwise damaged tendon.
Testes Treatment
A range of medical and surgical options to treat conditions of the testes.
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