INTRODUCTION Recurrent goitre is a significant clinical problem among patients who have been operated due to benign lesions. An atypical localization of recurrent goitre - near the hyoid bone - poses additional difficulties as there are no data available on the clinical significance of such lesions. The aim of this study was to analyze if this unusual localization of recurrence is related to an...

A 35-year-old male with lepromatous leprosy showed significant progression of the disease on initial examination. Along with typical lepromatous skin lesions, many scar-forming lesions were present, mainly on his extremities. Some lesions showed erosive surfaces. From clinicopathological findings, these lesions were suspected to be due to the partial excretion of intradermal lepromatous granulo...

The noninvasive Doppler assessment of regurgitant volume from jet size is limited by the fundamental inequality of jet volume and regurgitant volume and by the dependence of jet dimensions on driving pressure and instrument settings for a given flow volume. Therefore, this study addresses the hypothesis that an equation could be derived from basic physical principles to quantify regurgitant vol...

Multiple sclerosis white matter (WM) lesions can affect brain tissue volume measurements of voxel-wise segmentation methods if these lesions are included in the segmentation process. Several authors have presented different techniques to improve brain tissue volume estimations by filling WM lesions before segmentation with intensities similar to those of WM. Here, we propose a new method to ref...

Objective—Recently, a strong correlation between the increase in hypointense lesion load on T1 weighted spin echo images, and the increase in disability was reported. Although the eVect of interferon-â has been demonstrated both in reducing exacerbation rate, frequency of enhancing lesions, and accumulation of disease burden on T2 weighted images, the impact on the accumulation of hypointense l...

OBJECTIVE Recently, a strong correlation between the increase in hypointense lesion load on T1 weighted spin echo images, and the increase in disability was reported. Although the effect of interferon-beta has been demonstrated both in reducing exacerbation rate, frequency of enhancing lesions, and accumulation of disease burden on T2 weighted images, the impact on the accumulation of hypointen...

INTRODUCTION The aim of the study was to assess the influence of thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) on the size and ultrasound (US) features of the lesions and to examine whether the possible effects are persistent. MATERIAL AND METHODS One hundred and fifty biopsied and 50 control thyroid nodules underwent two US examinations, 10-20 days and 8-10 weeks after the biopsy. The study t...

Dercum disease, or adiposis dolorosa, is a rare disorder characterized by multiple painful lipomas distributed throughout the body. There are currently no approved treatments for disease and excision often not feasible due to tumor burden extent of disease. Here we present use deoxycholic acid (DCA) reduce size associated with Ultrasound was used obtain 3-dimensional measurements in three patie...

UNLABELLED The dose-response relationship in a fixed-activity approach generally applied in the treatment of differentiated thyroid cancer was assessed using (124)I PET/CT. METHODS Pretherapeutic (124)I PET/CT images of 47 patients scheduled for radioiodine therapy were retrospectively analyzed. (124)I PET/CT images were acquired 24 and 96 h after oral administration of approximately 28 MBq o...

Visual identification of coronary arterial lesion from three-dimensional coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) remains challenging. We aimed to develop a robust automated algorithm for computer detection of coronary artery lesions by machine learning techniques. A structured learning technique is proposed to detect all coronary arterial lesions with stenosis [Formula: see text]. Our al...