Gastric band erosion needs to be considered as a complication of gastric banding. A simple erect chest X-ray can often reveal band migration, and confirmation with CT scan is often required to locate ...

Several cardiovascular risk factors, such as advanced age and smoking history, are prevalent among lung cancer patients at the time of the diagnosis and increase their risk of future heart disease, ...

Preparation for a PET scan usually takes 24 hours but there are some details you need to sort out with your medical team at the time of scheduling.

Women are avoiding mammograms because they are worried about being topless, think it will hurt, or haven't found a lump, an NHS survey has found. Seeking to boost breast screening attendance to 80 ...

GU ASCO annual meeting featured a kidney cancer session and a presentation by Dr. Michael Staehler discussing 18 F-PSMA-1007 PET/CT for response assessment in patients with metastatic renal cell ...

Britain is in the grip of a gastric flu outbreak which has spread from hospitals in Scotland to the south coast, health chiefs said today. Levels of the virus, which has already affected 12 ...

(UroToday.com) The 2025 GU ASCO annual meeting featured a prostate cancer session and a presentation by Dr. Miguel Muniz discussing the utility of post-treatment SPECT/CT for identifying disease ...

A recent paper published by Johns Hopkins researchers in the Department of Computer Science details the development and use ...

A CT calcium score screen looks at plaque in your heart's arteries. It can catch issues that could lead to a heart attack. If ...

PET scans are routinely used in combination with computerized tomography (CT). The study is commonly referred to as PET/CT scan. PET scan is a nuclear medicine exam often used to help diagnose cancer, ...

Use of the semi-blunt dissection technique with endoscopic resection of gastric submucosal tumours was associated with a smaller maximum diameter of gastric muscularis propria damage and a shorter ...

PREOPERATIVE chest CT markers of myosteatosis, specifically reduced skeletal muscle density (SMD) and increased intermuscular adipose tissue (IMAT), are associated with worse overall survival (OS) in ...