introduction: there is substantial evidence that the technical quality of root canalfilling has a significant effect on the outcome of root canal treatment. theaim of this study was to evaluate the technical quality of root canal fillingsperformed by dental students. methods: the records of 325 teethradiographs, treated by dental students in 2008-2009 in babol dental school,were selected and ev...

Introduction . Abnormal motion on flexion-extension radiographs is often used to indicate instability in the cervical spine. This method is also used to evaluate healing after fusions. Correct interpretation of these radiographs is important, because an unhealed fusion is potentially unstable and eventually a source of pain. The true measuring errors by using conventional radiography to examine...

maxillary sinus aplasia and hypoplasia are rare conditions that can cause symptoms such as headaches and voice alteration. the majority of patients are asymptomatic, but these conditions must be noticed for importance of differential diagnosis such as infection and neoplasms. conventional radiographs could not differentiate between infl ammatory mucosal thickening, neoplasm, and hypoplasia of t...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Intravertebral clefts have long been considered as pathognomonic for avascular necrosis and as a rare cause of compression fracture. We have observed unsuspected clefts opacifying frequently during vertebroplasty. Our purpose in this study was to determine the incidence of these clefts in symptomatic osteoporotic compression fractures, assess the sensitivity of MR imaging...

A radiograph positioning device was developed to fit with commercially available film holders and implant systems. The device is indexed to the dental implant body and the adjacent dentition by using an implant placement driver and polyvinyl siloxane occlusal registration material. By fitting the device to a conventional film holder, accurate orthogonal radiographs can monitor changes in bone a...

Williams et al are to be complimented for an excellent and thorough review of devices available for interbody fusion and of the radiographic findings pertinent to the evaluation of fusion healing. As the authors point out, interbody fusions are being performed by spinal surgeons with increasing frequency, and the interpretation of postoperative radiographs is an increasingly common and importan...

Myositis ossificans circumscripta is a benign lesion characterized by focal heterotopic soft tissue ossification, occurring in young people generally after localized trauma. Clinical and radiological appearances may mimic a sarcomatous neoplastic process. We report a case of myositis ossificans occurring after trauma, so as to illustrate the different imaging features of this benign pathology o...

Conventional radiology is a routine examination in the diagnosis and management of cardiac diseases. A brief review of its value and limitations is given. A number of technical and/or physiological factors which may influence the cardiopulmonary configuration are mentioned. An approach is suggested for analysis of radiographs of the heart.

An 80-year-old woman underwent a right reverse total shoulder arthroplasty for cuff tear arthropathy with no complications. She was discharged 3 days after surgery with well-controlled pain. However, 6 days postoperatively, she reported the onset of excruciating pain in her right shoulder, and conventional radiographs, including an axillary radiograph, were obtained.

The ulna is a rare site of origin for osteosarcoma, and purely osteolytic osteosarcomas are uncommonly noted on conventional radiographs. We present a patient with a lytic lesion of the distal ulna for which imaging findings suggested an aneurysmal bone cyst. The lesion was histologically confirmed to be a fibroblastic osteosarcoma.