Vaginal tears are cuts that occur in vaginal tissues, both inside the body and externally. Symptoms include pain, bleeding, swelling, bruising, and problems sitting or walking. Tears range in severity ...

Patient consent for annular suturing, performed after discectomy with a relatively intact and defect-free annulus fibrosus. The criteria for exclusion were as follows: (1) Patients with multilevel LDH ...

The official diagnosis of Hawkins’ back issues that caused him to miss time in November and December was a lumbar spine annular fissure. He also experienced back issues during his time at UConn.

Heel fissures, or cracked heels, happen when the skin on the bottom of your heel becomes hard and dry. No matter what the cause of your cracked heels, there are steps you can take to treat them.

Plain radiographs can provide useful information regarding intervertebral discs, including signs of instability and the degenerative process (Figure 2). Changes in vertebral structure occur in the ...

A kind of annular uranium nitride (UN) fuel suitable for lead-cooled fast reactor applications has been designed in this study. The design is directly targeting two main issues of UN fuel: severe ...