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  • SMC Anatomy Students Interact With Surgeon During Live Telesurgery

    Students taking Biology Professor Gregory Smith’s Human Anatomy course gathered around a TV in Brosseau Hall on Thursday, May 2, to participate in a unique first at Saint Mary’s—interacting with a surgeon while watching a live telesurgery of a hip replacement. From first cut to last, students identified anatomy and asked questions of Stefan Kreuzer, MD, from Advanced Center for Orthopedics in Houston.

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  • Direct approach to hip replacement

    Jill Porter is a lifelong athlete who pounds the pavement on courts and fields across a variety of sports.

    So when her left hip started hurting, she hoped it was something that rehabilitation and anti-inflammatories would take care of.

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  • US surgeon a smooth operator

    US surgeon a smooth operator

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  • Carroll Wade Pogue

    Pogue Carroll Wade Pogue, died Thursday, October 13 following an eight month struggle with declining health. He was born in O'Donnell, Texas, November 19, 1925, to Chester Pogue and Mamie Cogburn Pogue. He spent his childhood and teen years in Throckmorton, Texas, until he joined the Navy in March 1944. He was discharged in May 1946, having spent fourteen months of sea duty in the Pacific.

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  • New technology eliminates guesswork in knee surgeries

    Operating with a computer-assisted visualization guide consisting of one high-def TV for Dr. Stefan Kreuzer and another for an associate who keeps watch over the software, a robotic arm gently directs the surgeon's hand as he chisels an ever-so-precise chunk from the tip of a patient's arthritis-damaged femur. Should Kreuzer wander off course the least little bit, the computer squawks irritably, then locks him down cold.

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  • New technology eliminates guesswork in knee surgeries

    New technology eliminates guesswork in knee surgeries
    By DALE ROBERTSON
    Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

    Injection Helps Alleviate Knee Pain
    As Seen On www.Click2Houston.com

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  • New operating table improves hip replacement surgery

    Using a device that looks more like a torture rack than a surgical table, surgeons are now able to replace a hip through the front of the pelvis, limiting tissue and muscle damage and leading to faster recovery.

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