background focused assessment with sonography for trauma (fast) is a precise, non-invasive, and low cost method to assess free abdominal fluid in trauma patients. objective this study assessed the relationship between free intra-abdominal fluid and organ injury in blunt abdominal trauma and designed a scoring system based on fast. patients and methods a total of 200 patients with blunt abdomina...

trauma is the leading cause of death in united states in the younger population. cardiac trauma is common following blunt chest injuries and is associated with high morbidity and mortality. this study discusses various multidetector computed tomography (mdct) findings of cardiac trauma. cardiac injuries are broadly categorized into the most commonly occurring blunt cardiac injury and the less c...

introduction: to retrospectively analyze the outcome of patients who underwent meckel’s scan in a local centre in hong kong over the past fifteen years. diagnostic values in different referring indications were also reviewed. methods: all patients who referred for meckel’s scan in a local hospital in hong kong from 1/1/1996 to 31/12/2010 were identified. patients’ demographic data, presenting s...

various dimensions of the human vestibular aqueduct were evaluated in two groups, patient and control, and these measurements were compared. both groups were examined clinically, followed by audiometric evaluation and temporal bone high resolution ct scan. it was found that in approximately one third of the patient group (with idiopathic snhl), the vestibular aqueduct was 1.5 mm or larger. also...

background and aims: one of the most common injuries around the world is the traumatic injury of the spine and spinal cord with unknown worldwide situation of traumatic spinal cord injury (tsci) affecting on the effectiveness of preventive policy programs. in addition, because of possibility of making paralysis, the potential injury to the spine could be one of the most important traumas and a ...

we present a female patient with atypical chest pain who was referred to our department for ischemia evaluation. 99mtc-mibi myocardial perfusion scan with dipyridamole stress was performed. sub-diaphragmatic activity in the hepatic tissue and then in the bowel loops caused severe overlap on the inferior wall even on consecutive delayed images. dipyridamole stress was repeated for the patient wi...

a 21 years old woman presented with a history of sle and skin lesions on the arms, trunk, and abdomen. the left gluteal region was ulcerated and painful and occasionally extruded a chalky white material. the patient referred from rheumatology department for osteomyelitis assessment. on physical examination the patient had hard, nontender lesions on the proximal arms, lower abdomen and lower bac...

how to cite this article: eghbalian f, rasuli b, monsef f. frequency, causes, and findings of brain ct scans of neonatal seizure at besat hospital, hamadan, iran. iran j child neurol. 2015 winter;9(1):56-63. abstract objective neonatal seizures are the most common neurological symptoms and often signal an underlying serious neurologic condition. this study determines the frequency of neonatal s...