A 41-year-old male sawmill worker suffered blunt abdominal trauma while loading logs onto an edger. Initial abdominal CT scan showed subcapsular hepatic hematoma encompassing about 50% of the ...

What is CT scan (abdomen)? CT scan is an imaging modality which uses special X-ray equipment to produce multiple pictures of the inside of the body. These are then joined together by a computer to ...

Organs such as stomach, gall bladder, liver, spleen, pancreas, kidneys, lower gastrointestinal (GI) tract, the colon and rectum can be visualized with great clarity using CT imaging of the abdomen.

Image caption: Two series of abdominal CT scan slices, standard on the left and AbdomenAtlas’ organ segmentation on the right Image credit : Johns Hopkins University This approach enables the team to ...

A 68-year-old man with 1 week of bloating and constipation undergoes CT, which reveals Stanford type B aortic dissection ...

The presence of plaque on an abdominal CT scan is a strong predictor of coronary artery disease and mortality, according to a new study. Researchers found that patients are nearly 60 percent at ...

Doctors can use a patient’s abdominal CT scans to also check for signs of the bone-weakening disease osteoporosis, according to a new study. The researchers, who published their findings in the ...

Shows. Shop. Log In. Stream on. CT Scan Overuse May Up Cancer Risk. ... Researchers say an abdominal CT scan exposes patients to 50 times more radiation than an X-ray of the same region does.

The study showed sarcopenia diagnosis rates increased nearly fivefold among older adults, rising from just 0.01% of Medicare beneficiaries in 2017 to 0.07% by 2022.