Endometrial calcification along with ossification is an uncommon clinical entity. Most of the cases are asymptomatic or present with secondary infertility. Endometrial ossification associated with repeated abortions has been reported very infrequently. Here we report a case of endometrial calcification with ossification  due to retained fetal bony tissue in a 38 year old symptomatic female havi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the accuracy of ultrasonography for the diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis. METHODS This study was a prospective observational review of patients with clinically-suspected necrotizing fasciitis presenting to the emergency department of an urban (Taipei) medical center between October 1996 and May 1998. All patients underwent ultrasonographic examination, with the ultras...

PURPOSE Bladder tumors are rare in children and adolescents. For this reason, the diagnosis is sometimes delayed in pediatric patients. We aimed to describe the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up methods of bladder urothelial neoplasms in children and adolescents. MATERIALS AND METHODS We carried out a retrospective multicenter study involving patients who were treated between 2008 and 2014....

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To assess the accuracy of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis. METHODOLOGY A prospective randomized study was carried in the Dept. of Radiology and Imaging, Tribhuvan University, Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, Nepal. A total of 120 patients, who were clinically diagnosed as acute appendicitis were subjected to ultrasonography of the abdomen. ...

BACKGROUND Gallbladder polyps are becoming a common finding. The management of these polyps is complicated considering that they can bear malignant lesions. AIM To analyze the ultrasonographic and histopathologic findings of patients operated due to gallbladder polyps. PATIENTS AND METHODS The records of patients with ultrasonographic diagnosis of gallbladder polyp and that underwent cholec...

PURPOSE This study was performed to analyze the surgical pathology results of the "atypia of undetermined significance" (AUS) category from thyroid fine needle aspiration (FNA) and to describe the characteristics to distinguish a malignant from a benign nodule. METHODS A retrospective analysis was done on 116 patients who underwent thyroid surgery from December 2008 to December 2012, followin...

In a prospective study over 11 years we assessed the relationship between neonatal deformities of the foot and the presence of ultrasonographic developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH). Between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2006, 614 infants with deformities of the foot were referred for clinical and ultrasonographic evaluation. There were 436 cases of postural talipes equinovarus deformity (T...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ultrasonographic features of benign adenomyoepithelioma of the breast. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between 2005 and 2009, five patients had histologically confirmed adenomyoepithelioma of the breast. We retrospectively evaluated the ultrasonographic findings of the tumors in correlation with the pathology, and reviewed medical records. RESUL...

BACKGROUND This is the first description of the ultrasonographic findings in a cow with vascular hamartoma of the liver. CASE PRESENTATION Ultrasonographic examination of a six-year-old Swiss Braunvieh cow revealed an excessive number of hypoechogenic blood vessels in the liver parenchyma and a thrombus in the right hepatic vein. The activities of the liver enzymes and the concentration of bi...

OBJECTIVE Kawasaki disease (KD) is one of the common causes of cervical lymphadenopathy during early childhood. The purpose of this study was to compare the ultrasonographic feature of cervical lymph nodes in patients with KD, bacterial lymphadenitis, and infectious mononucleosis. DESIGN We studied 22 patients with KD, 8 with presumed bacterial lymphadenitis, and 5 with Epstein-Barr virus inf...