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Ultrasound Unit
Healthline — Ultrasonography also has therapeutic applications, although the frequencies used for therapy are usually in different frequency ranges than those used in diagnostic ultrasound. BODY FLUID SAMPLING. A technique developed at MIT uses ultrasound to ...More…
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Stomach Cancer
Healthline — More than 95% of stomach cancers are caused by adenocarcinomas, malignant cancers that originate in glandular tissues. The remaining 5% of stomach cancers include lymphomas and other types of cancers. It is important that gastric lymphomas be ...More…
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Healthline — MRI scanning should not be used when there is the potential for an interaction between the strong MRI magnet and metal objects that might be imbedded in a patient's body. The force of magnetic attraction on certain types of metal objects ...More…
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Li-Fraumeni syndrome
Healthline — Li-Fraumeni syndrome follows autosomal dominant inheritance meaning that every individual diagnosed with LFS has a 50% (1 in 2) chance of passing on the condition to each of his/her children. Nearly every individual inheriting the LFS gene ...More…
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Genetic testing
Healthline — Various genetic syndromes are caused by structural chromosome abnormalities. To analyze a person's chromosomes, his or her cells are allowed to grow and multiply in the laboratory until they reach a certain stage of growth. The length of growing ...More…
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Genetic Counseling
Healthline — An important aspect of the genetic counseling session is the compilation of a family pedigree or medical history. To accurately assess the risk of inherited diseases, information on three generations, including health status and/or cause of ...More…
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Complete Blood Count
Healthline — The clinical laboratory test that evaluates the three main cellular components of peripheral blood (red cells, white cells, and platelets) is called the "complete blood count" (CBC). It is used commonly to assess whether a patient is anemic (low ...More…
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Echocardiography
Healthline — Echocardiography is a diagnostic test that uses ultrasound waves to produce an image of the heart muscle and the heart's valves. Echocardiography is used to diagnose certain cardiovascular diseases, and is one of the most widely ...More…
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Pelvic Ultrasound
Healthline — Pelvic ultrasound is a procedure in which high-frequency sound waves are used to create images of the pelvic organs by projecting the sound waves into the pelvis and measuring how the sound waves reflect, or echo, back from the different ...More…
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White Blood Cell Count and Differential
Healthline — A white blood cell (WBC) count determines the concentration of white blood cells in the patient's blood. A differential determines the percentage of each of the five types of mature white blood cells. This test is included in general health ...More…
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Urine concentration test
Healthline — A urine concentration test measures the ability of the kidneys to conserve or excrete water appropriately. For this test, the specific gravity of urine is measured before and after one or more of the following: To obtain a clean-catch sample, men ...More…