A CT scan after those treatments showed that her liver metastases, were shrinking but another mass in her sigmoid colon appeared to be growing. Her doctors wanted to shrink and reduce most of her ...

A CT scan after those treatments showed that her liver metastases, were shrinking but another mass in her sigmoid colon appeared to be growing. Her doctors wanted to shrink and reduce most of her ...

The gallstone was found firmly lodged in the sigmoid colon, which itself was ... an uncommon cause of mechanical bowel obstruction that requires a high index of suspicion to avoid a delay in diagnosis ...

Can I go for a CT, ultrasound, something?" But my family doctor wasn't listening to me. He thought I was allergic to gluten. He ended up scheduling me for a CT scan, but he didn't schedule me ...

The CT scan reported colocolic intussusception extending from proximal to mid-sigmoid colon, with early ischaemic changes ... in adults and only accounts for 1% of the cases of intestinal obstruction ...

Chronic Abdominal Pain Acute pain typically starts suddenly, has a specific cause, and is often severe (e.g., appendicitis, bowel obstruction ... Imaging tests such as a computed tomography (CT) scan ...

MATERIALS AND METHODS: CT scans of 69 patients with surgically proved sigmoid diverticulitis were retrospectively reviewed and compared with CT findings in 29 patients with surgically proved ...

I prayed to God and I said, ‘You know, if you just let me live, I’ll do anything I can to make sure that other people have this information,'” New Jersey mom Elaine ...

Griffin was 44 when doctors discovered that a 4.3-centimeter tumor had broken through the wall of her sigmoid colon ... quickly developed complete colon obstruction and would have required ...

Smith-Bindman and like-minded colleagues have long pushed for federal policies aimed at improving safety for patients undergoing CT scans. Under new Medicare regulations effective this year ...

The scientists are the first to capture high-resolution CT scans of the interior of a large, dense object—a gas turbine blade—using a compact, laser-driven X-ray source. The findings ...