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Phosphorus is found mainly in skeletal tissue and in smaller quantities also in muscle tissue and blood

Tension headache is the most common form of “headache”. The onset of tension headache is in youth, with a subsequent decline in early age

Ferritin is a protein found mainly in the liver, spleen and muscles. It contains iron ions in a cavity-like structure composed of 24 subunits. Ferritin plays a key role in iron storage

Mass of 42 kg removed, an ovarian cancer considered inoperable. The record intervention at the Polyclinic of Milan

Fistulogram is an X-ray test that makes it possible to analyse the path of fistulas, pathological communications that can form between two hollow organs (e.g. between the rectum and the bladder or between the rectum and the vagina) or…

“Sinus rhythm” typically appears on EKG reports. An example is “Tracing characterized by the presence of sinus rhythm”

With "polytrauma" or "polytraumatized" in medicine we mean by definition an injured patient who presents associated injuries to two or more parts of the body (skull, spine, thorax, abdomen, pelvis, limbs) with current or potential…

Medicine for major emergencies and catastrophes ("disaster medicine") is the medical area that analyzes and includes all the medical and first aid procedures that are implemented in the event of a major emergency or catastrophe, i.e. all…

The Emergency Room (sometimes Emergency Department or Emergency Room, hence the acronyms ED and ER) is an operating unit of hospitals expressly equipped to accommodate emergency cases, divide patients based on the seriousness of the…

Let's talk about metabolism. Our body receives, stores and uses a certain number of nutrients depending on the body's needs: our physical shape is determined by a number of factors, including energy consumption, food intake, physical…