Everyone has one, but what does the rib cage do, exactly? The rib cage is also known as the thoracic cage, and the primary rib cage function is to protect the organs inside the chest. These organs ...

Your back’s structure Your spine is divided into three sections: cervical, thoracic, and lumbar. Your cervical spine is in your neck, and your lumbar spine is in your lower back. If you have ...

These guidelines have been developed at the request of the Standards of Care Committee of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) and with the agreement of the Royal College of Radiologists and the British ...

Another small but interesting technical detail that’s been discovered in F1 2025 testing, this time on the Mercedes W16, is a duct that’s embedded in the floor. Given its location there’s ...

In C, sagittal CT reconstruction. In D, intraoperative view of the thoracic duct dissected after injection of indocyanine green (arrow). In E, thoracic duct ligation with metal clips. In the case ...

What is an aortic dissection? An aortic dissection is a tear (dissection) in the wall of the body’s main artery (aorta). The aorta sends blood from your heart to the rest of your body. A tear causes ...

Introduction: A Urethral diverticulum can be defined as sac-like dilation lined with epithelial tissue, which may be congenital or acquired. It usually develops in the penoscrotal angle region but can ...

Contrast-enhanced CT scan (Figure 1) revealed a mass in the head of the pancreas, with atrophy of the body and the tail of the pancreas, and the pancreatic duct was dilated, which suggested pancreatic ...

Second, the authors include both thoracic and abdominal aneurysms in their study. These are 2 highly disparate diseases (Figure), 9 reflective of different embryological origins of the aortic segments ...