Patients and methods Study patients: 11 consecutive adults with a diagnosis of pneumoperitoneum by CT. Control patients: 11 consecutive adults with severe acute abdominal pain with a diagnosis other than pneumoperitoneum by CT. US examination has been performed with a convex and a linear probe using the following scans: epigastrium, right and left hypocondrium, umbelical area and right hypocond...

UNLABELLED Conventional work-up (CWU) with chest radiography, abdominal ultrasonography, and skeletal scintigraphy has limited value in M staging of nonkeratinizing nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Our aim was to evaluate whether (18)F-FDG PET could replace CWU by comparing their diagnostic efficacies. METHODS Patients with histologically proven nonkeratinizing NPC and no prior treatment were ...

Presentation of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs) as perforation peritonitis is a rare entity with only few cases reported in literature. Here we present case 50-year-old male acute abdomen and signs peritonitis. Abdominal radiography revealed dilated small bowel loops the absence any free intraperitoneal air. Exploratory laparotomy growth arising from stomach wall at distal part body al...

Background and Aim: Due to the increasing number of radiographic tests, TLD dosimeters can be used to measure the effective dose of critical organs in various radiographic tests. In this research, the progression of analogue to digital radiology devices, which facilitates and accelerates the performance of radiographs, especially emergency patients, was investigated, and then the effective dose...

A 50-year-old woman presented with a 2-years history of chronic flanc and hematuria. Plain abdominal radiography was performed showing bilateral complete staghorn calculi. Urinalysis and urine culture revealed a urinary infection by Proteus Morganii. Biologic investigations did not show any matabolic disorder. The urinary infection was treated by antibiotics and the stone by a combination of pe...

INTRODUCTION Two dimensional (2-D) ultrasonography is a particularly well-adapted tool for exploring soft tissue in reptiles (liver, kidney, bladder, genital system, heart and large blood vessels at the base of the heart, as well as the digestive tract) 4,5,6,8,9,10,12,13,14,15. Unlike radiography, it can differentiate various soft tissue structures and provide information regarding organ locat...

postpolypectomy bleeding and perforation are the major complications of colonoscopy. this report presents a rare case of colon obstruction immediately after colonoscopy. a 56-year-old man underwent colonoscopy because of 6 months lower abdominal pain. colonoscopy revealed diverticulosis and multiple small sessile polyps in sigmoid colon. biopsy samples were taken from the polyps and the procedu...

To reduce the radiation exposure received by young scoliosis patients during treatment, six changes in technique were instituted: (1) a posteroanterior projection, (2) specially designed leaded acrylic filters, (3) a high-speed screen-film system, (4) a specially designed cassette-holder and grid, (5) a breast-shield, and (6) additional filtration in the x-ray tube the thyroid, breast, and abdo...