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Nov 7

Upper-Right Abdominal Pain After Meals: The HIDA Scan Explained

You finish a plate of wings on a Friday night, and an hour later there is a deep, pressing ache under your right ribs. It builds rather than stabs. Sometimes ...

Nov 1

Renal Scans: How Nuclear Imaging Checks Kidney Function

Your doctor called about the ultrasound. One kidney looks a little swollen, or one looks smaller than the other, and now there is a second test on your schedule with ...

Oct 22

Wrist and Elbow Injuries: Imaging Sprains, Fractures and Tennis Elbow

You slipped on black ice at the end of the driveway, threw a hand down to catch yourself, and got up more embarrassed than hurt. That was ten days ago. ...

Oct 16

Breast Biopsy: What to Expect, Step by Step

The appointment card sits on your kitchen counter with the mail piled around it, and every time you walk past, your eyes go straight to one word on it. Biopsy. ...

Oct 4

Called Back After a Mammogram? What It Does and Does Not Mean

The message says the imaging center called and would like you to come back for a few more pictures. You read it twice. Then you sit down on the edge ...