Eccentric Target Sign: Think Neurotoxoplasmosis

The reversed halo sign: also think about chronic eosinophilic pneumonia

1. Dipartimento di Radiologia, A.O. dei Colli, Ospedale Monaldi, Napoli, Italia. 2. Dipartimento di Radiologia, Ospedale Bellaria, AUSL Bologna, Bologna, Italia. 3. Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia, Sezione Malattie Apparato Respiratorio, Università di Salerno, Salerno, Italia. 4. Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Neuromotorie, Università di Bologna, Sezione di Anatomia Patologica, M. Ma...

Target Sign: Endoscopic Sign of the Colonic Perforation.

A 68-year-old man underwent an en bloc endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) of a 20 mm non-granular laterally spreading tumor, type 0-IIa of the Paris classification, in the descending colon (Fig. 1). During the procedure, unintentional resection of the muscularis propria (‘target sign’) was observed immediately (Fig. 2A); the defect was closed by endoscopic clipping using four clips (Fig. 2B); n...

Hypertension and Target Organ Damage: Don't Believe Everything You Think!

Raised systolic blood pressure (BP) is a powerful independent risk factor for cardiovascular mortality and death from all causes.1 It is also a major cause of clinical and pre-clinical damage to the heart, brain, retina, kidneys, and arterial blood vessels. Damage to these organs typically manifests as coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke, other cardiovascular diseases and impaired ren...

Eccentric Behavior of Eccentric Planets

Recent increases in the discovery of high multiplicity Sub-Jovian planetary systems, in addition to discoveries of giant planets of high eccentricities in these multiple body systems, lead to questions into their origins and evolution. The study of secular interactions is not new, however it has only recently been applied to exoplanetary systems. These systems sometimes fall far from the classi...

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