A novel immuno-PET/CT imaging technique has identified and validated a potent biomarker for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC). The biomarker, CD70, is highly and constantly expressed in NPCs, and ...

Everyone thought it had to be an infection, a pulmonary embolism ... out of the hospital a week later. A follow-up CT showed hundreds of liver abscesses from bacteremia — those cleared with ...

A CT scan of the liver and biliary tract may be performed to assess the liver and/or gallbladder and their related structures for tumors and other lesions, injuries, bleeding, infections, abscesses, ...

He had mildly deranged liver function tests on admission and a CT scan of the abdomen revealed liver abscesses. This was initially treated with antibiotics, and subsequently by insertion of ...

Liver abscesses form when pockets of pus develop within the liver tissue, usually resulting from bacterial infections ... studies such as ultrasounds, CT scans, or MRIs provide detailed views ...

suggestive of acute infection. A CT scan revealed multiple peripherally enhancing hypotenuse lesions in the right lower lobe of the liver, the largest measuring 6.5 cm in maximum dimension, suggestive ...

James Q. Zhou (Medicine): A 56-year-old woman with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis and cirrhosis was admitted to this hospital because of end-stage liver disease. The patient ...

A pericholecystic abscess is an abscess that forms in ... is one of several associated complications of gallbladder disease. The gallbladder is a small sac-like organ that is located under the liver.

Infections can travel to the liver from other body parts ... Imaging scans, such as an abdominal ultrasound, CT scan, or MRI can help locate and measure the abscess. It may be necessary to extract ...

A subsequent abdominal CT scan confirmed the presence of a 10-cm abscess of the right lobe of the liver. Stool tests for parasites were ... The stool polymerase chain reaction test results for this ...