Following the innovations and new discoveries of the last 10 years in the field of lung
ultrasound (LUS), a multidisciplinary panel of international LUS experts from six countries …

Background. Traditional monitoring of athletes during sports has long been hampered by
bulky, complicated and tethered systems. In the past decade, this has changed due to the …

Chest diagnostic imaging is essential when dealing with a critically ill patient. At present,
direct visualization of the lung parenchyma is performed with a chest x-ray and computed …

Lung ultrasound (LUS) is now widely used in the diagnosis and monitor of neonatal lung
diseases. Nevertheless, in the published literatures, the LUS images may display a …

Previous research has considered action and adventure sports using a variety of associated
terms and definitions which has led to confusing discourse and contradictory research …

A new class of sport has emerged in the last few decades, variously called extreme,
adventure, action, and lifestyle sports. These activities are revolutionizing the notion of sport …

Pneumothorax (PTX) represents accumulation of the air in the pleural space. A large or
tension pneumothorax can collapse the lung and cause hemodynamic compromise, a life …

The adoption of bipedalism is a key benchmark in human evolution that has impacted talar
morphology. Here, we investigate talar morphological variability in extinct and extant …

Neanderthal foot bone proportions and morphology are mostly indistinguishable from those
of Homo sapiens, with the exception of several distinct Neanderthal features in the talus. The …

Abstract Background Poland syndrome (OMIM: 173800) is a disorder in which affected
individuals are born with missing or underdeveloped muscles on one side of the body …