BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of intracystic MRI features for detection of severe cyst infection that is usually refractory to antibiotic therapy alone in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. METHODS Seventy-six patients (88 episodes) with positive cyst cultures treated from January 2006 to December 2013 were enrolled as the case...

OBJECTIVE Echinococcus cyst in the heart as a life threatening condition has a rare incidence of only 0.5% to 2%. MATERIAL AND METHODS We have described the case of a 23-year-old patient with an echinococcus cyst localized in the inferoseptal and posterior wall of the left ventricle. In a random x-ray examination, a pathological formation in the left ventricle was found in a completely asympt...

Intrasellar arachnoid cyst is very rare. We report a case of intrasellar arachnoid cyst. A 44-year-old male was admitted for evaluation of his headache and visual disturbance on August 6, 1993. Neurological examination revealed bilateral decreased visual acuity and visual field defect. Endocrinological examination showed panhypopituitarism. Other neurological findings were normal. X-ray film of...

Objective: To propose a new typing method for sylvian arachnoid cysts (SACs) and to provide a basis for the choice of surgical approaches of SACs. Methods: 34 cases of SACs were divided into 3 types: I type. SACs medial cyst wall was located in the outer 1/3 of sylvian fissure; type II. SACs medial cyst wall was located in median 1/3 of sylvian fissure; III type. Type I and Type II accepted neu...

•Massive ovarian tumour weighing 56.95 kgs or 125.29 lbs removed in toto - HPE : mucinous cyst adenoma•Post operatively - had a parietal wall bleed - re-explored and hemostasis achieved.

The protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis (also known as Giardia lamblia) is a major waterborne pathogen. During its life cycle, Giardia alternates between the actively growing trophozoite, which has two diploid nuclei with low levels of allelic heterozygosity, and the infectious cyst, which has four nuclei and a tough outer wall. Although the formation of the cyst wall has been studied exten...

Gastrointestinal duplication is a congenital rare disease entity. Duplication cyst of the stomach with pseudo stratified columnar ciliated epithelium is extremely rare. The very appearance of a gastric duplication cyst in an adult can present a diagnostic dilemma. In majority of reported cases, the diagnosis is established during surgical exploration. We report on a 34 year-old female patient s...

Hemangioblastomas are tumors of the central nervous system, and the cerebellum is the most common site of occurrence. Cerebellar hemangioblastoma with enhanced wall thickness is rare and often misdiagnosed preoperatively. At present, no unified radiological classification system based on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings exists for cerebellar hemangioblastoma, and this tumor type can be...