This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – external hernias If the hernia can be seen from the outside or if the protrusion resulting from a hernia leads from the inside of the body towards the skin, it is referred...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – Gastric outlet stenosis The hypertrophic pyloric muscle can be visualized by an ultrasound examination. In clinically unclear cases, an X-ray diagnosis is useful. A characteristic abnormal feature is the presence of a large...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – Liver cirrhosis Liver cirrhosis – a term coined by the French doctor René Laënnec at the beginning of the 19th century – is the final stage of chronic liver disease. The connective...…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – Urothelial carcinoma Carcinoma of the urinary bladder is one of the common malignant tumors. Men are affected twice as often as women. The main symptom is hematuria as microhematuria or painless macrohematuria.…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated From symptom to diagnosis Abdominal pain – Nephrolithiasis With the widespread use of ultrasound equipment and the performance of computed tomographic cross-sectional imaging, kidney stones are detected more frequently nowadays than in the past. The goal of imaging…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Sports injuries The agony of choice in imaging It may sound a bit old-fashioned, but with any medical problem, the classic order applies: history, clinical examination, additional clarifications. Imaging therefore comes in third place if there is already…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Encephalitis Despite many treatment options, lethality remains high At the annual meeting of the Swiss Neurological Society in late October 2014, a session focused on encephalitides. These acute life-threatening diseases are rare, but the different etiologies and therapies…
