One-hundred-four patients with preoperative diagnoses of lumbar canal stenosis, disk herniation, or a combination of both were evaluated with intraoperative sonography with the intent of (1) describing the sonographic characteristics of herniated disks and distinguishing these from bulging anuli, epidural fat, scar tissue, and spondylolisthesis; (2) establishing criteria for adequate decompress...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the usefulness of abdominal sonography in the diagnosis of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). Methods: We reviewed the medical records of 51 neonates who were diagnosed with NEC in the neonatal intensive care unit at Yeouido St. Mary’s Hospital of the Catholic University in Korea between January 2008 and December 2012. The neonates under­ went abd...

The use of intraoperative sonography was analyzed in 24 patients with spinal dysraphism and syringohydromyelia in order to determine the role of real-time sonography in the surgical management of these patients. Specific diagnoses included tethered cord (nine), syringohydromyelia (seven), congenital tumor unassociated with a tethered cord (four), diastematomyelia (three), and occult sacral meni...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound has become a routine part of care for pregnant women in Uganda, being one of a range of techniques used in screening. However, it differs from most others because it allows women to view their babies. Routine obstetric sonography is now globally recognized as one of the ways through which maternal mortality can be reduced. This study aimed at finding out the knowledge, att...

Spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage is the most common central nervous system abnormality in premature infants. In this report the cranial sonographic and pathologic findings of 25 autopsied premature infants are correlated. The presence and size of subependymal, intraventricular, and intraparenchymal hemorrhage were well documented by sonography. Cerebellar, choroid plexus, and cortical hemorr...

OBJECTIVE To review the causes and sonographic appearance of pathologic processes that result in abdominal pain in the pediatric patient and to understand the use and limitations of abdominal sonography in the acute pediatric abdomen. METHODS A pictorial review of cases is presented. RESULTS Sonography in conjunction with color and pulsed Doppler imaging is a valuable tool in the evaluation...

Urinary tract infection is a common pediatric problem and vesicoureteral reflux is its most common complication. Detection of this reflux has classically been achieved by voiding cystouretrography (VCUG). Ultrasonography for evaluation of vesicoureteral reflux is shown to be feasible but is not widely accepted. Our aim was to assess the value of routine sonography in detecting vesicoureteral re...

‘Observation of fetal behavior reflects the functioning of the central nervous system, and behavioral assessment of the fetus enables the function of the brain to be examined’.1 The introduction of four-dimensional (4D) sonography techniques would facilitate fetal behavioral assessment in three dimensions in real time during pregnancy. We describe the latest 4D sonographic studies on fetal neur...

Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Department of Neonatology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine Received August 20, 2003 ; Accepted February 9, 2004 Address reprint requests to : Hyun Woo Goo, Department of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, 388-1 Poongnap-2dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel. 82-2-3010-4388 Fax....

There is continued discussion of including Internet dependence as a diagnosis in future editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The primary aim of the study was to evaluate the utility of the proposed diagnostic criteria for Internet dependence as measured by Young's Diagnostic Questionnaire (YDQ). Although the YDQ does not provide any measure of severity, there i...