Palpation is a method of examination of body parts by a health professional.

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Los médicos hablan generalmente de detectar "lumps"

Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute - Home: Cancer By Type ...- [ Traduzca esta página ]The second most available detection procedure is ***palpation to detect lumps***, nodules, or tumors in the breast, mouth, salivary glands, thyroid, ...
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The "detect" bit does not seem to appear on UK/AmE sites.

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Revista chilena de radiología - <B>PROCESOS INFLAMATORIOS DEL ...
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En TC se observa una masa de tejido adiposo denso, mal delimitada, con imágenes ... que se fundamenta en una mayor capacidad para detectar estas lesiones, ...
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Procedimiento para el Diagnóstico del Cáncer del Seno (Diagnosis ...
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palpación - tocar cuidadosamente el nudo y el tejido que le rodea –su tamaño, ... al laboratorio para detectar si hay presencia de células cancerosas. ...
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Cancer Information
Adipose atrophy in cancer cachexia: morphologic and molecular ...
Adipose tissue mass is also influenced by adipogenesis that involves the ... with cytoplasm containing enlarged and electron dense mitochondria (E). ...
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Identification of glucocorticoid target genes in human ...
The central obese phenotype characteristic of Cushing's syndrome emphasises the role of glucocorticoids (GC) in regulating adipose tissue mass and ...
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Diseases of adipose tissue: genetic and acquired lipodystrophies
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absence of adipose tissue, are important determinants of. the metabolic abnormalities in ... dense LDL (low-density lipoprotein) particles, increased uric ...
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Slide 1
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Small, dense LDL particles are likely to be the most atherogenic lipid. risk factor. ... (leptin, IL-6 & ASP), reflecting changes in adipose tissue mass. ...
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Nasal lipoma
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Computed tomography (CT) showed low density mass. (Figure 2). T ... regions where adipose tissue is present, lipomas of the ...
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Body composition
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Fat mass. consists of 20% water and 80% adipose tissue and can, ... determine body composition from body density. If volume and body weight are ...
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Texture Analysis in Mammography
On the original, histogram equalisation highlights the lesion and other dense adipose tissue from the rest of the parenchymal background. ...
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Clinical Science (2006) Immediate Publication - E. ter Avest et al.
However, ageing-related post maturation increases in adipose tissue mass also appear to contribute to an aggravation and/or modulation of this genetically ...
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IngentaConnect Diagnostic utility of magnetic resonance imaging ...
... and detailed palpation for soft tissue mass failed to detect the responsible tumor. However, magnetic resonance imaging skeletal survey revealed a tumor ...
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palpation= medical term: to to examine by touching

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Note added at 1 hr (2006-11-24 15:42:05 GMT)
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tissue mass of course ;)

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There is concentric soft-tissue thickening (white arrows) with narrowing of the lumen. There is also a hypodense layer (black arrows), which represents ...
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a 35-year-old right-handed man was admitted to the hospital ...... performed after the oral and intravenous administration of contrast material COMMA revealed circumferential soft-tissue thickening around a 2-cm segment ...
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lesions showed soft tissue thickening. Ultra-. sonography of the lesions demonstrated ... tissue thickening, including skin, subcutaneous fat, and fas- ...
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[PDF] Cyst of the Canal of Nuck With Demonstration of the Proximal CanalFile Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
tissue thickening directed deep into the inguinal canal ... Note the associated focal nodular tissue thickening at the posterior wall of the cyst (asterisk) ...
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