Thanks to increasingly number imaging techniques, sonography is no longer indicated solely for the examination of the parenchymal organs of the abdominal cavity, but also for the small and large intestine. It has an important role in differential diagnosis of pain in the right hypogastrium, particularly when acute appendicitis is suspected. Sonography is also used in patients suspected from acu...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the therapeutic efficacy of differentially modified soluble receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGE) in vivo using vessel ultrasound sonography and to compare the sonography data with those from postmortem histomorphologic analyses to have a practical reference for future clinical applications. METHODS Vessel ultrasound sonography was performed in a sR...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To test a new contrast-specific sonography imaging method that offers visualization of the intracranial vasculature in a manner similar to that seen on angiography. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty patients (35 sonography studies total) were included in the study after they provided written informed consent. The patients were scanned through the temporal bone window from bo...

OBJECTIVE Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis are the most common causes of hyper and hypothyroidism, respectively. Differentiation of these 2 diseases, if the patient is euthyroid, may sometimes be extremely difficult on the basis of clinical and laboratory findings. The purpose of this study was to determine the sensitivity and specificity of gray scale sonography in differentiation o...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to investigate the ability of breast MR imaging to identify the primary malignancy in patients with axillary lymph node metastases and initially negative mammography and sonography, and we correlated those results with the conventional imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS From September 2001 to April 2006, 12 patients with axillary lymph node metastases and initially negative ma...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to review the technical aspects and the clinical applications of intraoperative sonography of the central nervous system (CNS) as well as the characteristic appearances of brain and spine diseases. METHODS A pictorial review of cases is presented on the basis of the performance and interpretation of intraoperative sonography of the CNS from January 1998...

OBJECTIVE To show the advantages of extended field-of-view sonography in abdominal applications. METHODS Thirty-one cases were prospectively analyzed in our study. Extended field-of-view images were obtained when the radiologist decided that they would offer potential advantages for the examination. When extended field-of-view scanning was used, the radiologist determined prospectively whethe...

BACKGROUND Jumper's knee is a common and troublesome condition among senior volleyball players, but its prevalence among elite junior players compared to matched non-sports active controls is not known. OBJECTIVE To clinically, and by sonography, examine the patellar tendons in elite junior volleyball players (15-19 years) at the Swedish National Centre for volleyball and in matched controls....

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE The initial method for evaluating the presence of pleural effusion was chest radiography. Isolated studies have shown that sonography has greater accuracy than radiography for this diagnosis; however, no systematic reviews on this matter are available in the literature. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of sonography in detecting pleural effusion, by...

Background: To compare pregnancy outcomes in women at risk for cervical incompetence after elective versus ultrasound indicated cerclage. Methods: In a prospective randomized trial, singleton pregnancies with at least one previous spontaneous midtrimester loss or early preterm delivery (between 15 and 32 weeks’ gestation) who met clinical criteria for the diagnosis of cervical incompe­ tence we...