Pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis is characterized by the presence of calcospherites in alveolar spaces. Sporadic cases are more common, but the disease also presents in an inherited familial form. The greatest number of reported cases is from Europe and especially Turkey. We present a 43-year-old female with complaints of dyspnea for many years. She had a suspicious familial ...

Introduction. Calyceal diverticular stones are uncommon findings that represent a challenge in their treatment, due to the technical difficulty in accessing the diverticulum, and the high risk of their recurrence. Current percutaneous technique for calyceal diverticular stones involves establishing a renal access, clearing the stone, and fulguration of the diverticular lining with a roller-ball...

PURPOSE To evaluate the occurrence of testicular microlithiasis in pediatric age group by means of ultrasonography (US) examinations and to review the literature for pediatric testicular microlithiasis cases accompanied by testicular and extratesticular tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS Nine children aged 3-16 years (mean age, 9.2 years) with testicular microlithiasis had been evaluated with US i...

OBJECTIVE Calyceal fistula is a rare complication of renal transplantation that may lead to graft loss. This article reports a case of functional recuperation of a graft that seemed condemned to failure. METHODS 31 year old male patient, submitted to living donor renal transplant, in which was necessary to ligate a superior polar artery found during donor nephrectomy, due to its short lengt...

The etiology of pyelocaliceal diverticulum is believed to be congenital.(2,4) Calyceal diverticulum seen in the upper (70%), mid (12%), or lower (18%) calyx, arises frequently from the posterior aspect of the kidney and is usually unilateral. Although the typical calyceal cyst is smaller than 1 cm,(5) some larger ones are occasionally detected. Here, we report a huge extraordinary 18 × 16 cm ca...

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan has been widely used as standard method of assessing bone density. Artefacts and incidental findings are frequently encountered on the DEXA scan images, some of which may affect bone mineral density values and the others are only of incidental findings. In this case report, we present a 44-year-old male diagnosed with pulmonary microlithiasis that wa...

BACKGROUND Testicular microlithiasis is a rare, usually asymptomatic, non-progressive disease of the testes associated with various genetic anomalies, infertility and testicular tumors. According to our literature search, there is no specific data about Doppler findings in this disease. CASE PRESENTATION Doppler findings of three cases of testicular microlithiasis during last two years in our...

Calyceal diverticula are outpouchings of a renal calyx. Often found incidentally on radiological imaging, they are generally benign and usually asymptomatic, although complications include infection and stone formation. More importantly, calyceal diverticula may mimic other potentially more serious pathology on imaging, such as renal tumour or abscess on ultrasound or computed tomography and ev...

OBJECTIVE Ultrasound surveillance of patients with testicular microlithiasis (TM) has been recommended because of the reported association between TM and testicular cancer (TC). The purpose of this review is to summarize what is known about TM and discuss recent recommendations. CONCLUSION The most recent recommendations do not support the use of routine ultrasound surveillance for patients w...

Aim: To evaluate the role of endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) in the diagnosis of gallbladder microlithiasis, sludge, and stone in patients with clinical suspicion of cholecystitis, but with normal transabdominal ultrasonography (TUS) during six months follow-up after laparosopic cholecystectomy (LCT). Background: Endosonography has been shown to be highly sensitive in the detection of choledoc...