Background: Correctly staging lung cancer is important because the treatment options and prognosis differ signifi cantly by stage. Several noninvasive imaging studies and invasive tests are available. Understanding the accuracy, advantages, and disadvantages of the available methods for staging non-small cell lung cancer is critical to decision-making. Methods: Test accuracies for the available...

objective(s): according to the unique properties of magnetic nanoparticles, nickel metal-organic frameworks (mof) was synthesized successfully by ultrasound irradiation. metal-organic frameworks (mofs) are organic–inorganic hybrid extended networks that are constructed via covalent linkages between metal ions/metal clusters and organic ligands called a linker. materials and methods: the nanopar...

texts, aimed at radiology and urology residents. This book certainly is pleasingly modern and is prolifically illustrated with generally good quality images of virtually all modalities including MRI and transrectal ultrasound scans. The only weaknesses here are the poor quality of some of the transabdominal ultrasound images and the deliberately brief coverage of nuclear medicine studies which ...

Antenatal ultrasonography is widely used in pregnancy to assess fetal growth, wellbeing and anatomy. Although ultrasound screening is now an integral part of routine antenatal care, recommendations for the delivery of obstetric ultrasound vary from country to country. A recent survey of English maternity units reported that 100% of women are offered routine mid-trimester fetal anomaly scanning,...

Measurement of thyroid size and volume is a useful clinical parameter in both human and veterinary medicine, particularly for diagnosing thyroid diseases and guiding corrective therapy. Procuring a fully-equipped clinical ultrasound unit (FCUS) may be difficult in most veterinary settings. The present study evaluated the inter-equipment variability in dolphin thyroid ultrasound measurements bet...

turn on the machine. Apply coupling gel. Start scanning. In the realm of the busy veterinary general practice, emergency clinic, or intensive care unit, that statement really sums up the basic use of ultrasound. Just as natural as it is for us to take the stethoscope from around our neck and place it on a patient’s thorax, so should be picking up the ultrasound probe and placing it on the patie...

wandering spleen, defined as a spleen without its usual peritoneal attachments, is a rare entity. we report a 34-year-old woman with acute abdomen due to torsion of the long vascular pedicle of a wandering spleen, displaced in the abdominal cavity, and infarction of the spleen. wandering spleen was diagnosed by ultrasound and computed tomography (ct) scan, and was managed by splenectomy in this...