Background: Fetal growth retardation has been associated with diseases and disorders later in life. It has been suggested that this is caused by the impaired development of abdominal organs. Besides ...

WEST MICHIGAN — Medical experts say that in many cases the liver, kidney, and other abdominal organs of COVID patients can still be donated and transplanted into others safely. At the start of the ...

Increased amounts of fat around the pancreas are associated with decreased brain size and function in men, but not women, according to new research. A new study in the journal Obesity measured levels ...

Children's Hospital Los Angeles appoints Dr. Kambiz Etesami, MD, FACS, to lead its nationally renowned, high-survival rate ...

Texas baby born with omphalocele underwent rare surgery to correct condition. Jan. 10, 2012— -- Kelly Davis' first ultrasound results seemed to take longer than the others during the routine ...

Abdominal pain is a frequent manifestation of disorders of the abdominal organs, but it may also result from disorders in which the primary problem lies outside the abdomen. The cause of abdominal ...

Anna, Avery, Genevieve, Ian: Those are a handful of the names of American children with gastroschisis— whereby the intestines are born outside of the body, protruding from a hole beside the belly ...

In the presented case, the tumor was asymptomatic even though it was large and adjacent to a majority of the abdominal organs, major abdominal arteries and veins, including the inferior vena cava, ...

With some tumors, you don't know where to start. They grow into giant, bulbous burls before the doctors even find them. They engulf organs and become enmeshed in the connecting web of blood vessels to ...