End-to-End Guides for Your Medical Journey

A limb deformity in a child is an abnormal alignment, shape, rotation, or length of an arm or…

Finding a purple or reddish patch on your skin that won’t fade, or hearing “Kaposi sarcoma” mentioned during…

Lumbar radiculopathy is a neurological syndrome caused by irritation, inflammation, or compression of a nerve root in the…

Kyphosis means forward curvature of the spine — and some kyphosis is completely normal anatomy in the mid-back…

Avascular necrosis (AVN), or osteonecrosis, occurs when impaired blood supply causes bone tissue to die. It most commonly…

Ankle arthritis is a condition in which the cartilage lining the ankle joint progressively breaks down or is…

Hepatoblastoma is a rare malignant liver tumor that develops primarily in young children, most commonly before age 5….

Ankle valgus deformity is an abnormal alignment in which the ankle tilts toward the outside of the body,…

Epithelial ovarian cancer is the most common broad category of ovarian cancer, arising from the cells covering the…

A burst fracture is a spinal vertebra fracture caused by strong axial compression (force driven straight down through…

Bow legs medically called genu varum — describe an outward curve of the legs, where the knees stay…

Scoliosis is a three-dimensional spinal deformity — sideways curvature combined with rotation — and it is genuinely not…

A “broken ankle” is the common term for an ankle fracture — a break in one or more…

If a lumbar MRI report mentions “kissing spinous processes” or “Baastrup’s disease,” it’s worth pausing before assuming this…

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is compression of the median nerve as it passes through the carpal tunnel —…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed September 2026 Discitis is inflammation or infection involving an…

A femoral hernia occurs when tissue often part of the bowel or fatty tissue — pushes through the…

Kümmell’s disease refers to a delayed collapse of a vertebra — a nonunion or failure to heal properly…

Myelopathy means dysfunction of the spinal cord itself — not a single disease, but a syndrome that can…

Blount’s disease, also called tibia vara, is a growth disorder affecting the inner (medial) part of the growth…

Chronic back pain is one of the most common reasons people seek medical care, and also one of…

Disc degeneration seen on an MRI does not automatically mean that disc is causing your pain, and having…

A cervical herniated disc occurs when the soft inner material of a disc in the neck pushes through…

Written by: Shifam Health Editorial Team — Neuro-Oncology Content Division Medically reviewed by: Shifam Health Clinical Advisory Panel…

Olfactory neuroblastoma also called esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB) — is a rare malignant tumor that arises from cells associated with…

Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is a non-invasive breast condition in which abnormal cells are confined to the…

Oligodendroglioma is a diffuse glioma of the central nervous system that, under the current World Health Organization (WHO)…

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) are tumors that arise from neuroendocrine cells in the pancreas, the hormone-producing islet cells,…

Hearing “medulloblastoma” for the first time — often after weeks of a child seeming a little off-balance, or…

A kidney cancer diagnosis often starts with a mass found incidentally on an ultrasound or CT scan done…

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a malignant tumor arising from squamous cells — the flat, scale-like epithelial cells…

Hearing that a scan has found a tumor near the brain is frightening almost by reflex — but…

A lump on the eyelid that keeps coming back in the same spot, gets treated as a stubborn…

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is breast cancer that does not have significant expression of estrogen receptors (ER), progesterone…

Polyposis syndromes are a group of inherited or sometimes non-inherited disorders characterized by the development of multiple gastrointestinal…

Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) is the older name for what is now generally called urothelial carcinoma (UC) —…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 Wilms tumor, also called nephroblastoma, is a…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 Urothelial carcinoma is a cancer that begins…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 A pituitary tumor is an abnormal growth…

Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive neuroendocrine skin cancer. That description matters, it’s genuinely important not…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 A neuroendocrine tumor (NET) is a growth…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) is a broad group…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a…

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common type of skin cancer, developing from basal cells in the…

If you or someone you love has just been told the diagnosis is adenoid cystic carcinoma, one of…

Angiosarcoma is one of the rarer cancers a person can be diagnosed with rare enough that many general…

Written by: Shifam Health Editorial Team — Oncology Content Division Medically reviewed by: Shifam Health Clinical Advisory Panel…

If a young woman often a teenager or someone in her twenties has just been found to have…

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a rare, aggressive form of invasive breast cancer in which cancer cells block…

Invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) is the most common type of breast cancer — an invasive cancer that begins…