Author: Cosimo Laterza, MD, FAWM, FAAEM; Chief Editor: Trevor John Mills, MD, MPH more... Left orbital floor fracture. This patient presented with little motility disturbance; however, because of the ...

Most of the US population will have low back pain at some point in their lifetime, with up to about a quarter of the population experiencing it within the past 3 months. [1] In addition, low back pain ...

In freshly voided clean-catch urine samples, the presence of ≥ 100 colonies of a single bacterial species with counts ≥ 10⁵ CFU/mL is regarded as a positive urine culture, suggestive of UTI.

Mitral stenosis (MS) is characterized by obstruction to left ventricular inflow at the level of the mitral valve due to structural abnormality of the mitral valve apparatus. The most common cause of ...

The following organizations have released guidelines for the management of psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). Key diagnostic and treatment recommendations have been reviewed and integrated ...

Povidone-iodine 1.25% ophthalmic solution may be as effective as topical antibiotics, especially in resource-limited settings There is no data supporting the cost-effectiveness of antibiotics for mild ...

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has published the following recommendations for the diagnosis and management of infectious diarrhea [36] : A detailed clinical and exposure history ...

Colon cancer is staged using the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) tumor/node/metastasis (TNM) classification and staging system. In this system, stages are assigned on the basis of the ...

These four glands produce parathyroid hormone (PTH), a single-chain polypeptide of 84 amino-acid residues that regulates calcium and phosphorus levels. [1] It maintains calcium homeostasis by acting ...

Evidence-based information on benzodiazepine equivalency is limited, and different sources may disagree; hence the use of dose ranges in this table. Even so, the data listed in this table are ...

Table 1. TNM Classification for Differentiated and Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer (Open Table in a new window) ...

Triple therapy Triple therapy for Helicobacter pylori infection consists of the following: Proton pump inhibitor (PPI) (omeprazole 20 mg BID, lansoprazole 30 mg BID, esomeprazole 40 mg QD, ...