Erin Dwyer has been doing a lot of waiting. After a sonogram in December, she found out that she has a growth on her right kidney and had to wait months to see a specialist. Now she’s waiting for a CT ...
If you have stomach cancer, you have a higher chance of being cured if your healthcare team detects it early. A CT scan is often part of the diagnosis. Stomach cancer, or gastric cancer, happens when ...
Although CT is a relatively recent technology, there have been great improvements in the equipment. The early, slow "Step and Scan" machines required long image acquisition times, resulting in a ...
According to Mayo Clinic, CT scan machines are used for an array of purposes including diagnosing muscle and bone disorders, such as bone tumours and fractures, pinpointing the location of a tumour, ...
CT scans offer one way to learn more about the location, size, and shape of a brain aneurysm. A brain aneurysm is a weak or very thin spot on an artery in the brain that bulges out and fills with ...
If you need medical imaging tests done, you may wonder how much an MRI, CT scan, or other imaging test costs and how these tests differ. Hospitals and medical facilities negotiate the prices of ...
A MUM suffering severe bloating died after she had a suspected allergic reaction to a CT scan. Yvonne Graham, 66, went into cardiac arrest minutes after medics at Northampton General Hospital injected ...