Dive deeper into the different disciplines of sonography–including abdominal, obstetrical, gynecological, small parts examination, and much more–as you further your understanding of ultrasound ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Ultrasound technicians, commonly called sonographers or diagnostic medical sonographers, help doctors and other professionals ...

Sharing her experience with PUNCH Healthwise, Bisi said fibroids made life difficult for her until she eventually got it removed without surgery using the High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound ...

Breast fat necrosis is a noncancerous condition that occurs when there's damage to fatty breast tissue. You can develop breast fat necrosis at any age in any area of the breast, but if you're ...

Although hysterectomy remains the most common procedure for treating fibroids and fibroids are ... uterine-artery embolization, focused ultrasound ablation, and radiofrequency ablation.

The treatment for fibroids includes several options. One method is high-intensity focused ultrasound, a minimally invasive procedure that uses high-intensity ultrasound waves to target and destroy ...

A recent study found that nearly 60% of women undergoing hysterectomy for fibroids had not received a less invasive treatment first. Having alternative options to hysterectomy allow women to maintain ...

For the first time, the British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have collaborated to develop ...

With the use of intraoperative ultrasound guidance, targeted radiofrequency energy ablates the fibroid with coagulative necrosis to shrink the fibroid. Uterine-artery embolization is performed ...

Diagnosing fibroids is straightforward with a pelvic ultrasound but determining who to screen is not, and screening usually occurs after the fibroids are large or the patients are symptomatic.

These alternatives include medical therapies, hormone-releasing IUDs, radiofrequency ablation, focused ultrasound ablation and uterine artery embolization. Early detection is key. When fibroids ...