The noninferiority trial included 234 adults (five lost to follow-up) who were referred to seven sites across the U.S. for ...

We randomly assigned 220 patients with adenocarcinoma of the mid-to-distal esophagus or adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia involving the distal esophagus either to transhiatal esophagectomy or ...

Adults admitted to hospital with new suspected acute heart failure and raised natriuretic peptide levels have a transthoracic doppler 2D echocardiogram within 48 hours of admission. The following ...

IN spite of several earlier attempts to develop a safe and reliable method, needle biopsy of pulmonary lesions has not become generally accepted in the diagnosis of lung diseases. Complications ...

In this edition of Journal of Oncology Practice, Accordino 2 et al publish their findings regarding the use of image-guided transthoracic needle biopsy in patients with cancer. This study has ...

Survival benefit of oophorectomy in stage IV gastric cancer patients with Krukenberg tumors. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2020 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full ...

If a doctor orders a transthoracic echocardiogram, the sonographer applies a gel to the chest and moves the transducer around the chest to obtain different images of the heart. A sonographer is a ...

Doctors may use transthoracic echocardiography to assess the heart valve in people with a bicuspid aortic valve. Transthoracic echocardiography is an imaging test that uses ultrasound to view the ...