OBJECTIVE To describe peripapillary detachment in pathologic myopia (PDPM), a newly recognized fundus lesion. DESIGN Retrospective medical record review. METHODS We evaluated a series of myopic eyes that had a yellow-orange elevation of the retina and retinal pigment epithelium at the inferior border of the myopic conus. RESULTS Twenty eyes of 15 patients were identified during a 17-year ...

Ciliated foregut cyst of gallbladder is a very rare benign cystic lesion. A 39-year-old woman was referred to our hospital after abdominal ultrasonography revealed a cystic lesion of gallbladder. On abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography, a unilocular cystic lesion was found at right upper quadrant with attachment to the gallbladder neck. The gallbladder with cystic lesion was resect...

802 DR. SEDLIS: A brief review of the clinical features of a group of patients with eczema will be followed by a report of special studies of the pathology of the skin. Eczema is a frequent, important skin disease in early life. It has been a puzzling problem for the physician and an exasperating one for parents and patients alike. We began our study of eczema about 1 year ago. During this year...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate the additional value of whole-lesion histogram apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) metrics, when combined with standard pathologic features, in prediction of biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included 193 patients (mean age, 61 ± 7 years) who underwent 3-T MRI wi...

A 45-year-old woman presented with acute vertigo and a vertical gaze palsy. Examination with Frenzel goggles showed that during vertical saccades the eyes were torsionally deviating to the left (counterclockwise from the patient’s point of view) and slowly returned to the initial zero torsion after the saccade (video on the Neurology Web site at www.neurology. org; figure 1). This eye movement ...

the aim of this study was to assess the value of 99mtc-hexakis-2-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (mibi) scintigraphy in patients with clinical and radiologic features of primary or metastatic musculoskeletal tumors. methods: the scintigraphic findings for 84 patients were compared with the surgical and histologic findings. each patient underwent three-phase bone scan with 99mtc-methylene diphosphonat...

medulloblastoma is one of the most common primary tumors of the central nervous system of children but it is uncommon in adult age. we report a case of young male presented with a history of generalized headache that was found to have medulloblastoma with diffuse leptomeningeal involvement without prominent mass lesion. to our knowledge, our patient is the second reported case of medulloblastom...

The authors report the MR, CT, and pathologic findings in a case of invasive papillary cystadenoma originating in the endolymphatic sac and involving the temporal bone. This case illustrates characteristic imaging features of this lesion. The authors emphasize awareness of this entity with its aggressive temporal bone involvement as an aid to pathologic differential diagnosis.