A meniscus tear, damage to a piece of cartilage in the knee, causes pain and swelling. Symptoms of knee or kneecap dislocations include pain and swelling in the knee, stiffness, and deformity. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease marked by swollen painful joints, a rash, swollen lymph nodes, and more. Osgood-Schlatter disease causes a painful swollen bump on the shin below the knee.
Plastic surgeons can use one of several different types of techniques to perform liposuction surgery. These techniques include dry, wet, tumescent, super-wet, ultrasound-assisted liposuction, and power-assisted liposuction (MicroAire) techniques.
The most common types of laser eye surgery include LASIK, PRK, LASEK and EpiLASIK. Each of the four laser eye surgery procedures below uses the same special laser, called an âexcimerâ laser, to reshape the cornea. This is what corrects vision. But laser eye surgery can vary in the specifics of the procedure, the recovery time, which surgical instruments are used and your patient candidacy. You might be a better candidate for PRK, for instance, than for LASIK.