Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson MD, MPH The navel, also known as the belly button or umbilicus, is a small, round, or ...

Approximately 10% of women of reproductive age worldwide are affected by endometriosis, equating to about 190 million individuals. This subst ...

Thurner syndrome (MTS) is a clinicopathological condition where the left common iliac vein is compressed by the overlying right common iliac artery, potentially leading to deep vein thrombosis (DVT) ...

Hand-held, software-backed ultrasound saves money and lives, yet is hugely underused in South Africa with less than a handful of disciplines supporting training for a safe tool that reduces accurate ...

Magnetic resonance imaging is a powerful soft tissue diagnostic tool with the ability to provide detailed cross-sectional anatomy of the human body without ... such as uterine abnormalities, previous ...

A healthy person can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's anatomy. For example ... Imaging tests such as chest or abdominal computerized tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), or ...

It was a Friday, and she was going in for what she thought would be a quick 20-week anatomy scan at her OB-GYN office in New ... Nicoletta soon learned through an MRI at a New Jersey hospital that her ...

The result is the drainage of fluid from the abdomen into the scrotum ... side of the testicle. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or a scrotal/pelvic ultrasound may be performed to evaluate the ...

Although on some non-MRI-labeled pacemakers a MRI scan may be safe because in several studies no adverse events occurred, manufacturers of pacemakers and of MRI systems state that MRI scanning of ...

Using a novel, medication-based approach, a new Northwestern Medicine study successfully reversed existing inguinal hernias in male mice and fully restored their normal anatomy without surgery.