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Still having pain after spine surgery — whether it never fully went away, or came back after a…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed September 2026 A limb deformity in a child is…

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…

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

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

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…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 A burst fracture is a spinal vertebra…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed September 2026 Bow legs medically called genu varum —…

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

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed September 2026 A “broken ankle” is the common term…

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…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 Blount’s disease, also called tibia vara, is…

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

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed September 2026 Disc degeneration seen on an MRI does…

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…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 Olfactory neuroblastoma also called esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB) —…

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

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 Oligodendroglioma is a diffuse glioma of the…

Medically reviewed content · Published 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) are tumors that…

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…

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

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…