Abstract
The increased use of abdominal imaging techniques for a variety of indications has contributed to more-frequent detection of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Ultrasonography has been used to characterize the solid...
The Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science is strongly committed to medical student education. With strong collaborations between the public sector, hospital-based medicine and academics, students are exposed to a...
Toxocara canis (also known as dog roundworm) is worldwide distributed helminth parasite of dogs and other canids. T. canis are gonochorists, adult worms measure from 9 to 18 cm, are...
Atherosclerosis (also known as arteriosclerotic vascular disease or ASVD) is a condition in which an artery wall thickens as the result of a build-up of fatty materials such as cholesterol....
“Filtered ultraviolet (Wood’s) light elicits a green fluorescence from some dermatophyte fungi, mainly Microsporum species, in hair infections. Exposure to Wood’s light is a useful screening procedure for taking specimens...
The chordae tendineae are tendons linking the papillary muscles to the tricuspid valve in the right ventricle and the mitral valve in the left ventricle. As the papillary muscles contract...
Pain arising from structures served by the phrenic nerve is often "referred" to other somatic regions served by spinal nerves C3-C5. For example, a subphrenic abscess beneath the right diaphragm...
