Cardiac assessment part 1: Inspection, palpation, percussion

Palpation and Percussion of the Abdomen

Assessment of the impact of omitting palpation of the lungs and the liver at meat inspection

Meat inspection of finisher pigs is gradually moving from traditional inspection involving palpation and incision to a more visual inspection. However, what do we miss if we no longer palpate and incise? This is addressed in this paper which focuses specifically on palpation of the lungs and the liver. A risk assessment following international guidelines was undertaken. The assessment shows tha...

Cardiac assessment part 2: Auscultation

Appendicitis from a Physician's Point of View—Percussion and Palpation—Treatment of Tuberculosis

View. By J. F. Goodhart, m.d., f.r.c.p. The Practitioner.?Dr. Goodhart is under the impression that appendicitis is actually becoming more common, and that the increase is not solely due to improved diagnosis. In this he thinks it resembles diphtheria. As causes of increase in frequency he alludes to the theory that the appendix may be tonsillary in its affinities, and the inflammation of the a...

Cardiac MRI: Part 1, cardiovascular shunts.

OBJECTIVE MRI plays an important role in the morphologic and functional evaluation of cardiovascular shunts. Good spatiotemporal resolution, inherent contrast resolution, wide FOV, and multiplanar imaging capabilities make MRI an ideal tool in the investigation of cardiovascular shunts. The velocity-encoded phase-contrast sequence is used in the quantification of a shunt and the steady-state fr...