Your heart, lungs, and the upper part of your esophagus (food pipe) are in the thoracic cavity above the diaphragm ... A healthy person can have some minor variations in the diaphragm's anatomy. For ...

The best multimodal approach for resectable locally advanced esophageal adenocarcinoma is unclear. An important question is whether perioperative chemotherapy is preferable to preoperative ...

Aside from the axillary artery, the subclavian arteries branch into the internal thoracic artery, vertebral artery ... being displaced to an area between the trachea (windpipe) and esophagus (the tube ...

Intraoperative findings confirmed the presence of the anomalous vascular anatomy, specifically the left subclavian artery originating from the right aortic arch and crossing anterior to the esophagus ...

Ever since the first half of Grey's Anatomy season 21 came to a dramatic end at the end of last year, fans have been clamouring for the next instalment. Well, there's some good and bad news on ...

By Mekado Murphy ‘The Room Next Door’ | Anatomy of a Scene Pedro Almodóvar narrates a sequence from his film starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. By Mekado Murphy ‘Wicked ...

SYMPTOMATIC of the development of thoracic surgery in the past four ... in the cardiovascular field has obscured the lung and the esophagus. To show that these fields have not lain fallow is ...

What is a 5-year relative survival rate? Where do these numbers come from? 5-year relative survival rates for esophageal cancer Understanding the numbers Keep in mind that survival rates are estimates ...

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Anatomy is the field of biology that studies the structure of living things. Anatomy focuses on the composition, structure and location of the parts of organisms tissues, organs and systems ...

Although not as well standardized as gastric emptying (GE) scintigraphy, esophageal transit scintigraphy, if performed in a comprehensive manner including both quantitative and qualitative analysis of ...