This policy statement discusses clinical guidelines for screening of fetuses suspected of manifesting a skeletal dysplasia or for pregnancies at-risk. Historically, in-utero radiographs of a fetus ...

Adenomatous polyps typically do not cause symptoms unless they progress to colon cancer. Even then, there may be no sign of a problem until the malignancy is advanced. This is why colon cancer ...

Dietary fiber is found in foods like grains, fruits, and vegetables and offers multiple health benefits, such as supporting digestion, maintaining weight, and preventing certain chronic diseases. Most ...

Fibrous Dysplasia Foundation, and the Soft Bones Foundation. His research has been featured in 125 peer-reviewed articles, and he has written 11 book chapters on topics that include the ...

Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is a benign medullary fibro-osseous anomaly that compromises the mechanical strength of bones, especially the long bones that bear strong mechanical stresses. It can lead to an ...

Muscle is fibrous tissue that contracts to produce movement. There are three types of muscle tissue in the body: skeletal, smooth, and cardiac. Cardiac muscle is highly organized and contains many ...

Objective: Fibrous dysplasia (FD) presents as skeletal lesions in which normal bone is replaced by abnormal fibrous tissue due to mosaic GNAS mutation. McCune–Albright syndrome (MAS) refers to FD ...