Word: lesions
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...reasons that aren't yet clear to Barr or anyone else, when the elasticity software is applied, the image of a suspicious lump becomes larger if the lump is cancerous. Conversely, a noncancerous lesion appears smaller in an enhanced image. Additionally, cancerous lesions have a characteristic pattern--a sort of stringy network--whereas benign cysts look like a well-defined bull...
...test usually takes a couple of days, and hardly any doctors do it anymore because everyone assumes that most skin infections respond to the usual antibiotics. "HMO's aren't going to be paying for you to do a culture on what they consider to be a [common] skin lesion," Bancroft says...
...stent, thereby preventing what could have been a heart attack. "I would have been one of those guys who was just out jogging with my son or playing basketball and died," Fackelmann says. "There was never any reason for me to suspect that there was such a dramatic lesion in my heart...
...suit, Shearer also alleges that in the period during and after Gould’s diagnosis in New York, doctors at the Harvard-affiliated hospitals reviewed the treatment that Gould received and determined in private meetings that the Feb. 2001 X-ray did indeed show the lesion...
...radiologists, Rebecca L. Dyson and Salvatore G. Viscomi, are also named in the suit. According to Shearer’s lawyer, Alex H. MacDonald, the two doctors had also confirmed that the early X-ray with the lesion were clear of disease...