The sternum, or breastbone, is the flat bone where the ribs meet. Sometimes, the joints can pop or crack as a person stretches or moves. A muscle spasm, an injury, costochondritis, and surgery are ...

As the German right ascends, the nation is still grappling with its fascist past — and how to handle its remains. A skull found at a grave containing around 1,000 bodies near Hungary’s border ...

More than one in ten patients experience on-site surgical complications, the two main ones being infections and dehiscence [2]. “Medicud is tackling a critical yet often overlooked issue in surgical ...

It uses a method called explosive dehiscence, which means that the seeds are forcefully ejected from their pods. While this giant tree is far from the only plant species to make use of this ...

Chan has broken multiple fingers, toes, and ribs over the course of his long career, not to mention both cheekbones, hips, sternum, neck, and ankle. He has a permanent hole in his skull from one ...

The last time Robert allegedly beat Virginia was on Jan. 9, which left her with a cracked sternum and a perforated eye, among other injuries. She was transported to the hospital for her injuries ...

In conclusion, both the VAMC and Rotterdam score indices can be used to predict the development of abdominal wound dehiscence. The VAMC prognostic score had better calibration and discriminative ...

Uterine scar dehiscence (persistent perimetrium only). Uterine scar rupture (no persistent tissue). The obstetricians that assessed the scars were blinded to the results of the ultrasonographic ...

Canadians came away with a pair of medals in the penultimate finals of the World Cup season on Saturday in Idre Fjäll, Sweden. Reece Howden, of Cultus Lake, B.C., won the men's big final to ...

Hall was shot in the upper left side of her torso, the upper front of her left side, the inside of her left knee and in the center mass of her sternum, according to the lawsuit. Brock’s ...

A pinched nerve occurs when there is pressure or force on an area of a nerve, causing it to send pain signals to the brain. Most cases are mild, and a person can often treat them at home. In this ...