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A paediatric echocardiogram is an ultrasound scan of a child's heart. An echocardiogram, or ecg, uses sound waves to create images and videos of the heart

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a condition that can affect the brain and spinal cord, causing a wide range of potential symptoms, including problems with vision, arm or leg movement, sensation or balance

What are dislocations? The bones that make up the human skeleton are bound together by joints that, according to their degree of mobility, are classified into fixed joints, mobile joints and semi-mobile joints

Molluscum contagiosum: the term skin molluscs refers to a particular skin infection, which is infectious in nature and of viral aetiology

Melasma consists of (typical and characteristic) zone hyperpigmentation resulting in the formation of visible spots

A serious hereditary disease caused by a mutation in the GLA gene, Fabry disease is characterised by the accumulation of sphingolipids in lysosomes

What is miosis? It is the decrease in the diameter of the pupil and is a completely physiological condition of the eye, the functioning of which involves a narrowing or dilation of the pupil depending on the light

Everyone has had back pain at least once in their life. It is the so-called "low back pain", so called because it concerns the lumbar region

Lichen sclerosus et atrophicus is an inflammatory dermatosis that predominantly affects the ano-genital area

Crohn's disease (or disease), also known as terminal ileitis or segmental ileitis, is an inflammatory bowel disease with similarities and differences from the other, more widespread inflammatory bowel disease, which is ulcerative colitis…