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The Challenge of Assessing and Diagnosing Acute Abdomen in Tetraplegics: A Case Study

The assessment and diagnosis of an acute abdomen in a spinal cord-injured patient presents a significant challenge to even the most experienced practitioners because of the muted or altered ...
Healio

Abdominal aortic calcification detected during bone imaging tied to CV risk

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A machine learning algorithm can assess abdominal aortic calcification level during a vertebral fracture ...
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Assessing the use of routine abdominal CT in staging evaluation of patients with primary breast cancer.

Correlation of receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa b (RANK) expression in breast cancer (BC) at the time of diagnosis with recurrence-free survival (RFS) and risk of bone-dominant metastases ...
Nature

Reproducibility of ultrasonography for assessing abdominal fat distribution in a population at high risk of diabetes

Visceral fat plays an important role in the development of metabolic disease independently of the effect of overall abdominal fat. Ultrasonography is an accessible method of accurately assessing ...
BMJ

C0089 The abdominal and pelvic floor muscular response during a hypopressive exercise: dynamic transabdominal ultrasound assessment

Background Hypopressive exercises are suggested for the prevention and conservative treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction. The aim of hypopressive exercises is to strengthen abdominal and pelvic floor ...
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The Challenge of Assessing and Diagnosing Acute Abdomen in Tetraplegics: A Case Study

MP was a 20-year-old, C4 ventilator-dependent tetraplegic hospitalized for acute rehabilitation after a diving accident. Past medical history was unremarkable. MP's hospital course was complicated by ...