From the Department of Community Medicine (Al-Rubaii, Al-Ward) and the Department of Dermatology and Venereology (Al-Waiz), College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Bab-Al-Mu’adham, Baghdad, Iraq. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Makram Al-Waiz, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, PO Box 61301, Postal Code 12114, Bab-AlMu’a...

Traditionally, osteochondritis dissecans (OCD) has been thought of as a rare disorder occurring in approximately 15 to 21 per 100,000 knees.1 However, OCD is becoming increasingly more common as a cause of knee pain in teenagers and young adults. This may be due to earlier and increasingly competitive athletic endeavors.2 In addition, the widespread use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a ...

Re-audit of the physical examination of older adults admitted to one of two inpatient Older Adult wards at the Maudsley Hospital found that on admission, only 58% of patients had a brief physical examination and 43% had a full physical examination, and after 72 hours only 65% had a full physical examination. This is a slight improvement on the previous audit but still falls short of the target ...

C l i n M e d International Library Citation: Higgins JP (2015) Physical Examination of the Cardiovascular System. Int J Clin Cardiol 1:019 Received: October 13, 2014: Accepted: January 23, 2015: Published: January 27, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Higgins JP. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distrib...

Ischemic colitis (ischemic disease of the colon) was first described in 1966. It occurs when there is an occlusion of branches of the superior mesenteric (SMA) or inferior mesenteric arteries; the vast majority of cases describe the lesion in the splenic flexure and left colon. This severe illness is very common among the elderly with pronounced cardiovascular disorders. The onset is followed b...

The history and physical examination are an essential component in the assessment of patients with lumbar spinal stenosis. The differential diagnosis is broad, and many conditions may be ruled out with a thorough office evaluation. Peripheral neuropathy, arteriovascular disease, and hip arthrosis are common entities with similar symptoms. Imaging studies provide poor specificity. Clinical decis...

CONTEXT With heightened awareness of concussion, there is a need to assess and manage the concussed patient in a consistent manner. Unfortunately, concussion physical examination has not been standardized or supported by evidence. Important questions remain about the physical examination. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Review of ClinicalKey, Cochrane, MEDLINE, and PubMed prior to July 2015 was performe...

Ischemic colitis (ischemic disease of the colon) was first described in 1966. It occurs when there is an occlusion of branches of the superior mesenteric (SMA) or inferior mesenteric arteries; the vast majority of cases describe the lesion in the splenic flexure and left colon. This severe illness is very common among the elderly with pronounced cardiovascular disorders. The onset is followed b...

Acoustic -emission techniques are beginning to be frequently used as a means of detecting and locating deformation and fracture processes in both metallic and non-metallic engineering structures. This has happened despite a relatively poor understanding of the basic physical processes involved in the generation, propagation, and detection of acoustic -emission signals, and of the influence in m...