Dr. Thomas Melvin Kessler M.D.
Geriatrician | Geriatric Medicine
5658 Arizona 260 Lakeside AZ, 85929About
Dr. Thomas Kessler practices Geriatric Medicine in Lakeside, AZ. Geriatricians prevent, manage, and develop care plans that address the special health problems of the elderly. Dr. Kessler works as part of a team with other healthcare providers, to address the natural aging that goes on within the body and to manage multiple medical problems and ensure social support.
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Family MedicineAmerican Board of Family MedicineABFM
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Spontaneous intraperitoneal hemorrhage.
- Patient satisfaction with the outcome of surgery for urethral stricture.
- Treatment of a case of primary retroperitoneal mucinous cystadenocarcinoma: is adjuvant hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy justified?
- Long-term results of surgery for urethral stricture: a statistical analysis.
- Attempted nerve sparing surgery and age have a significant effect on urinary continence and erectile function after radical cystoprostatectomy and ileal orthotopic bladder substitution.
- Ileal orthotopic bladder substitute combined with an afferent tubular segment: long-term upper urinary tract changes and voiding pattern.
- Intermittent catheterisation in older people: a valuable alternative to an indwelling catheter?
- Bilateral migration of sacral neuromodulation tined leads in a thin patient.
- Botulinum A toxin injections into the detrusor: an effective treatment in idiopathic and neurogenic detrusor overactivity?
- Prolonged sacral neuromodulation testing using permanent leads: a more reliable patient selection method?
- Clinical indications and outcomes with nerve-sparing cystectomy in patients with bladder cancer.
- Patients' perception of preoperative information by interactive computer program-exemplified by cholecystectomy.
- Continent urinary diversion.
- Patients' satisfaction with the preoperative informed consent procedure: a multicenter questionnaire survey in Switzerland.
- Alternate or additional findings to stone disease on unenhanced computerized tomography for acute flank pain can impact management.
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