The use of CT scanning to evaluate abdominal pain in emergency departments can help physicians arrive at a diagnosis quickly and decisively. The new study also finds that information provided by CT ...

A 41-year-old male sawmill worker suffered blunt abdominal trauma while loading logs onto an edger. Initial abdominal CT scan showed subcapsular hepatic hematoma encompassing about 50% of the liver ...

LITTLE FALLS, N.J., July 7-- Clinicians may miss a substantial number of new abdominal aortic dilations on CT scans, researchers have found. Clinical teams didn't record about 60% of dilations within ...

A large study reveals that high-dose radiation from CT scans puts younger patients, especially girls, at a higher risk of developing cancer. If your child’s pediatrician orders a computed tomography ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Patients who come to the emergency room with abdominal pain present a diagnostic challenge to ...

A single abdominal CT scan can deliver a blast of radiation equal to 90 chest X-rays. I did not know that when I had one eight years ago, but it’s haunted me ever since. Back then I was feeling ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The endocrine consult service obtained additional history. She was told she had an adrenal nodule several years ...

On exploratory celiotomy, the patient was found to have perforation of the proximal third portion of the duodenum, ischemic necrosis of the right colon with perforation, laceration of the colonic ...