The aim of the present study was to evaluate a new, more simplified physiotherapy technique for management of peripheral lymphedema. Fifteen patients (11 female, 4 male) with ages varying from 22 to 63 years (average 54 years) were included in this study. All presented with stage I or II lower limb lymphedema confirmed by lymphoscintigraphy. Each patient underwent a newly designed modified manu...

Brugian filariasis prevalent mostly in South-East Asian countries including India contributes to a small but significant proportion of the socioeconomic burden due to lymphatic filariasis. Along with bancroftian filariasis, brugian filariasis has been targeted for elimination globally. The lack of a reliable daytime diagnostic test has been seen as an important barrier to the successful impleme...

Melorheostosis is a rare benign bone pathology which can be responsible for incapacitating pain and bone deformations. Its imaging abnormalities are often typical. We describe here the case of a patient with melorheostosis involving the lower limbs, associated with a peripheral form of inflammatory spondyloarthropathy, who underwent 18FNa positron emission tomography coupled to a computed tomog...

UNLABELLED There is great variation in the reported frequency of internal mammary (IM) sentinel node (SN) visualization. We observed a marked increase in our IM SN detection rate after 2 factors were changed simultaneously: depth of perilesional injection and dose. METHODS A retrospective review of 82 consecutive patients (group 1) was compared with 61 consecutive patients (group 2) after cha...

Osteomyelitis of the pelvis is rare in children as well as in adults. This explains why the diagnosis is often missed, so that the infection becomes chronic. The authors report five chronic paediatric cases, seen between 1993 and 2003. The diagnosis was initially missed in two patients. In two others, the osteomyelitis was recognised but insufficiently treated, so that it also became chronic. T...

and posterior spot views of pelvis were obtained, which revealed the same finding (fig. 1). Horizontal images of computed tomography (CT) (fig. 2) showed a mass in the retrovesical region consistent with fecal impaction in rectum (posterior to the bladder). The zone of absent radiotracer activity in posterior projection images of the pelvis was attributed to attenuation of gamma rays by impacte...

Os acromiale is an anatomic variant that in rare cases can cause pain. (99m)Tc-methylene diphosphonate bone scintigraphy with SPECT/CT can play an important role in diagnosing this clinical entity. We present a male football player with shoulder pain secondary to a symptomatic os acromiale, and we demonstrate the findings on bone scanning with limited SPECT/CT that diagnosed this important clin...

A bone scan was done and the findings were consistent with a diagnosis of Paget's disease in the right femur. It also revealed small areas of activity in the skull and pelvis. There was no evidence of pathological fracture, sarcomatous degeneration, or metastasis from prostate. It was concluded that pain was due to an increase in activity of the Pagetic lesion in the femur. The patient was put ...

This study presents the first demonstration of the MR signal decay due to diffusion in the internal field (DDIF) for in vivo knee trabecular bone imaging. DDIF contrast was compared with high resolution FLASH, T1, and T2* mapping in healthy volunteers. DDIF maps showed spatial variation, superimposed on a T1 background, reflecting trabecular structure. DDIF and T2* maps showed correlated contra...

A 24-year-old man presented with a stress fracture over his left tibia following an infantry training 6 years ago. X-rays of his left tibia revealed a stress fracture and bone scan showed marked tracer uptake at the fracture. He was treated conservatively but his pain persisted since then. Five years later, X-rays and histological examination confirmed the diagnosis of osteoid osteoma. The stre...