These objects can end up anywhere in the upper airways or the upper digestive tract, including the nose, throat, the esophagus, the trachea (windpipe) or the smaller air passages in the lungs called ...

A fracture of the distal radius is one of the most common types of injuries to the skeletal system. It is treated using a variety of different techniques, from casting to pinning to open surgery with ...

The pulmonary artery lies in a normal position in front of the trachea, but it is anchored to the distal part of the aortic arch by a patent ductus arteriosus —or a ligamentum arteriosum — at ...

In this study, we reveal the distal-to-proximal progression of endoreplication during SG morphogenesis and show that Hkb plays a critical role in this process. Loss of hkb results in abnormal cell ...

Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is an abnormal connection between the esophagus and trachea. TEF occurs when the wall that normally separates the esophagus and trachea does not form correctly before ...

His synthetic trachea was found to have come loose. Shortly after the operation he told the BBC: "I was very scared, very scared about the operation. But it was live or die." University of Iceland ...