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Along with tea, sipping on clear hot bone broth can also help to moisturize your mucous membranes and promote better mucus flow, says Dr. Mercola. Broths are rich with amino acids, minerals, and ...
With the technological cryoprobe advancements in the 1960s came wider acceptance and practice of cryotherapy. Since the 1960s, liver, prostate, breast, bone, and other cancers have been treated with cryoablation in many parts of the world. Japanese physician Dr. Tanaka began treating metastatic breast cancer with cryoablation in 1968. [17]
Bronchiolitis obliterans results in worsening shortness of breath, wheezing, and a dry cough.The symptoms can start gradually, or severe symptoms can occur suddenly. [9] [10] These symptoms represent an obstructive pattern that is non-reversible with bronchodilator therapy, and need to be related to various lung insults. [11]
Low-dose high-resolution (1.25 mm) chest CT. HRCT is performed using a conventional CT scanner. However, imaging parameters are chosen so as to maximize spatial resolution: [1] a narrow slice width is used (usually 1–2 mm), a high spatial resolution image reconstruction algorithm is used, field of view is minimized, so as to minimize the size of each pixel, and other scan factors (e.g. focal ...
Hypertrophic osteoarthropathy is one of many distant effect disorders due to cancer, with lung cancer being the most common cause but also occurring with ovarian or adrenal malignancies. A distant effect disorder, or a paraneoplastic syndrome , affects distant areas and thus is not related to local compression or obstruction effects from the tumor.
Bone and some organs (such as lungs) especially lend themselves to projection radiography. It is a relatively low-cost investigation with a high diagnostic yield. The difference between soft and hard body parts stems mostly from the fact that carbon has a very low X-ray cross section compared to calcium.
This is because after trauma, an elevated pressure in the medullary cavity (central cavity of the bone where the bone marrow are stored) causes the release of fat globules into the venous system supplying the bone. Since venous blood returns to the right heart and is pumped to the lungs for reoxygenation, the fat globules often get lodged in ...
The Hounsfield unit (HU) scale is a linear transformation of the original linear attenuation coefficient measurement into one in which the radiodensity of distilled water at standard pressure and temperature is defined as 0 Hounsfield units (HU), while the radiodensity of air at STP is defined as −1000 HU.