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Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have sparked a paradigm shift by bridging the semantic gap between visual sensor signals and clinical narratives. Following the PRISMA guidelines, 167 representative studies are systematically synthesized in this review to provide a comprehensive roadmap of VLM technological evolution and clinical utility. First, rather than treating VLMs as generic feature extractors, their underlying mechanisms are uniquely distilled into seven core operational principles, which are then explicitly mapped to downstream applications such as few-shot diagnosis, prompt-driven segmentation, and multi-task foundation models. To facilitate intuitive evaluation, a rigorous quantitative cross-comparison of current benchmark architectures is presented. 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