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Richard J. Price receives funding from the National Institutes of Health and the UVA Focused Ultrasound Cancer Immunotherapy Center. Sound waves at frequencies above the threshold for human hearing ...

ABSTRACT: Primary hyperparathyroidism is rare in children and adolescents. The typical biochemical features are hypercalcemia and hypophosphatemia, but the symptoms are vague and non-specific. This ...

Virginians now have access to a new noninvasive liver cancer treatment. UVA Health in Charlottesville is the first hospital in the state to treat liver tumors with histotripsy, an incisionless ...

Abstract: Different tissues and structures in ultrasound produce varying sound wave reflections, resulting in black-and-white grayscale images. Radiologists review thousands of medical images daily ...

A trial including 162 patients showed that surgeon-performed transoral/transcervical ultrasonography (USG) achieved a diagnostic accuracy of 86%, outperforming clinical examination and MRI (68% and 76 ...