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Through the abdominal wall, organs inside the pelvis can be seen, such as the urinary bladder or the ovaries and uterus in women. Because water is an excellent conductor for ultrasound waves, visualizing these structures often requires a well-filled urinary bladder (this means the patients has to drink plenty of water before the examination).
Medical ultrasound includes diagnostic techniques (mainly imaging techniques) using ultrasound, as well as therapeutic applications of ultrasound. In diagnosis, it is used to create an image of internal body structures such as tendons, muscles, joints, blood vessels, and internal organs, to measure some characteristics (e.g., distances and velocities) or to generate an informative audible sound.
In anatomy, the abdominal wall represents the boundaries of the abdominal cavity.The abdominal wall is split into the anterolateral and posterior walls. [1]There is a common set of layers covering and forming all the walls: the deepest being the visceral peritoneum, which covers many of the abdominal organs (most of the large and small intestines, for example), and the parietal peritoneum ...
An epigastric hernia is a type of hernia that causes fat to push through a weakened area in the walls of the abdomen. It may develop in the epigastrium (upper, central part of the abdomen ). Epigastric hernias are more common in adults and usually appear above the umbilical region of the abdomen.
Bounded by the posterior leaf of the renal fascia and the muscles of the posterior abdominal wall. It contains only fat ("pararenal fat" also known as "pararenal fat body", "paranephric body", or "paranephric fat"). Pararenal fat is a fatty layer situated posterior to the renal compartment, and extending inferiorly into the iliac fossa. [7]
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) or echo-endoscopy is a medical procedure in which endoscopy (insertion of a probe into a hollow organ) is combined with ultrasound to obtain images of the internal organs in the chest, abdomen and colon. It can be used to visualize the walls of these organs, or to look at adjacent structures.
Anatomy photo:35:13-0101 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center - "Anterior Abdominal Wall: The Posterior Wall of the Rectus Sheath" Anatomy image:7113 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center; Anatomy image:7573 at the SUNY Downstate Medical Center; rectussheath at The Anatomy Lesson by Wesley Norman (Georgetown University) Rizk N (1991).
Abdominal wall defects: thoracoschisis and/or abdominoschisis; Limb defects; As a component of the abdominal wall defect, the umbilical cord is shortened or absent with the fetus being directly attached to the placenta, a key feature in its prenatal diagnosis by ultrasound. [3] Several systems have been proposed to classify LBWC cases ...