A method for a combined air and isotope ventriculography is described. Twenty-nine infants with suspected hydrocephalus were studied. The merit of the combined study is the possibility of obtaining both anatomical and functional information. A very small amount of radioactivity-15 μc-was found to give satisfactory results. Patterns of cerebrospinal fluid flow in communicating and non-communicat...

A forty-one-year-old male patient was referred to our department of Radiology for left shoulder pain and reduced mobility. There was no history of trauma, infection nor therapeutic intervention. A plain radiograph (Fig. A) of the left shoulder showed the presence of two small roundshaped lucent bubbles in the soft tissue above the glenoid. An additional ultrasound examination revealed the prese...

When x-rays were discovered in 1895 specialists started to describe the radiologic aspects of the pulmonary diseases. Levy-Dorn and Zadek affirmed that the characteristic picture of an entire simple cyst in the lungs is a round shadow with neat borders. As every symbol in biology, this affirmation proved to be false and so Lanari was able to say that the most perfect image of an hydatic cyst he...

Protoxylem plays an important role in the hydraulic function of vascular systems of both herbaceous and woody plants, but relatively little is known about the processes underlying the maintenance of protoxylem function in long-lived tissues. In this study, embolism repair was investigated in relation to xylem structure in two cushion plant species, Azorella macquariensis and Colobanthus muscoid...

Case We report a case of a 55-year-old male with diabetes and end-stage renal failure presenting to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia. He developed respiratory failure and required ventilatory support for more than a week. An elective tracheostomy was done and he was weaned off subsequently from ventilatory support. The tracheostomy was decannulated after he recovered from the pneu...

A 31-year-old female was admitted with headache, memory disturbance, abnormal behavior, incontinence, confusion, complex partial seizures, decreased oxygen saturation and increased temperature. Anti-NMDAR antibodies were positive in serum and cerebrospinal fluid. Subsequently, a regimen of immunotherapy that included intravenous immunoglobulins, methylprednisolone, plasma exchange and their com...

Stridor is a noise caused by the passage of turbulent air through a diminished airway caliber. Laryngomalacia is the most common congenital anomaly of the larynx and the principal cause of stridor in children under 6 months. A less common etiology of stridor and respiratory distress in newborns and infants is congenital laryngeal saccular cyst. This entity should be considered in the differenti...

OBJECTIVE Stellate ganglion block is usually performed with the classic anterior paratracheal approach. The anatomy of the stellate ganglion being in close proximity to various critical structures renders a number of complications, which are potentially associated with its blockade. The aim of this study was to assess the analgesic efficacy and safety of a new approach of the stellate ganglion ...

abstract hydatid disease is caused by echinococcus spp. especially echinococcus granulosus that is the most common cause of hydatid disease in humans. this disease occurs either through direct contact with infected dogs or indirectly from the ingestion of contaminated water or food with eggs of worms. the most common site in human is the liver (59-75%), followed in frequency by lung (27%), kidn...