At City of Hope, we have been evaluating the use of pressurized intraperitoneal aerosolized chemotherapy, or PIPAC, which is the most optimized way to deliver chemotherapy in the abdominal cavity.

Even abdominal structures are safeguarded by muscular ... generated causes long nerves in the brain to stretch or tear. The anatomy of fight-ending and life-threatening blows and chokes in ...

The mesentery is a double fold of the peritoneum—the lining of the abdominal cavity—that connects the ... Medical textbooks, including Gray’s Anatomy, have since been updated to reflect ...

Kiley of Albany Medical College hurried in to perform peritoneal dialyses—exchange of body fluids in the abdominal cavity ... and “salt” (the salt label was torn). Mrs. Colvin was sure ...

It can be caused by compression in and around the organs or by stretching of the abdominal cavity. Visceral pain can also radiate ... Visceral versus somatic pain: an educational review of anatomy and ...

It is a large part of the body that lies deep inside, out of sight and perhaps out of mind: your abdominal core. A new and ...

Up to 90% of abdominal surgeries result in adhesions -- abnormal scarring that ties together organs and tissues. A gel has now been shown to prevented adhesions in mice and pigs. Surgical ...

CrossFit practitioners who participate in intense workouts create additional pressure within the abdominal cavity. Repeated running motions could injure areas of the groin because they remain ...

Further testing of fluid from around the abdominal cavity in 419 patients showed similar results: 123 (29%) had the marker, and these patients also experienced worse outcomes. The presence of this ...

Issuing a draft list of revised risk-based classification of cardiovascular and neurological devices, the Central Drugs ...

(NEXSTAR) – New cases of a dangerous, drug-resistant fungus have been identified in at least two states’ hospital systems. Candida auris, also called C. auris, was first identified in the U.S ...

who capture images of the abdominal cavity as well as nearby organs like the kidney, liver and pancreas; and breast sonographers, who capture images of breast tissue that could confirm the ...