One hundred and twenty-seven cases of intervertebral disc calcification in children, including 11 previously unreported cases, have been analysed. A distinction is made between symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, whose age, sex and spinal distributions of the calcifications have been shown to differ. Radiologically detectable protrusions and later resorption of the calcifications are common ...

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a multisystemic autoimmune disease, which affects a wide variety of organs including the spleen. Splenic involvement in SLE includes conditions such as splenomegaly, hyposplenism, infarction, and spontaneous rupture. However, only a few cases of splenic calcifications in patients with SLE have been reported. Herein, we present a case of a 24-year-old female...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE It is important to differentiate fungal from nonfungal sinusitis in order to determine the optimal treatment for chronic sinusitis. The purpose of this study was to describe the CT findings of calcifications in chronic fungal and nonfungal maxillary sinusitis. METHODS Five hundred ten patients with pathologically proved chronic maxillary sinusitis were studied with unen...

AIMS In a new-generation computed tomography (CT) scanner, coronary artery calcium (CAC) scores were measured using 3.0-mm slice reconstruction images originally acquired with 0.5 mm thickness scans in a single beat. This study investigated the usefulness of thin-slice (0.5 mm) reconstruction for identifying small calcifications in coronary arteries and evaluated the association with coronary p...

OBJECTIVES To study how professional radiologists describe, interpret and make decisions about micro-calcifications in mammograms. The purpose was to develop a model of the radiologists' decision making for use in CADMIUM II, a computerized aid for mammogram interpretation that combines symbolic reasoning with image processing. METHODS In Study 1, eleven radiologists were asked to 'think out ...

Introduction Calcifications in the brain can be associated with several intracranial pathologies including tumor growth, epilepsy, hyperthyriodism, and infectious diseases [1][2]. Recent advances have shown that MR guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (MRgHIFU) can be used in the brain, as a non-invasive functional neurosurgery [3]. Calcifications exhibit a high acoustic attenuation coeffic...

Background The presence of dense peripheral vascular calcifications has negative prognostic implications in patients with peripheral arterial disease. In addition, the presence of dense calcifications may alter the choice of peripheral access site for patients undergoing percutaneous revascularization or TAVR procedures. Peripheral MR angiography is commonly used as an alternative to CT angiogr...

OBJECTIVE Intracranial calcifications underlie certain brain diseases which may be de novo or systemic. But calcifications un-connected to pathologies are classified physiological. AIM To evaluate physiological intracranial calcifications in Douala with establishment of earliest age range of detection. MATERIALS AND METHODS Prospective study of brain computed tomograms was done from April t...

AIM OF THE STUDY To evaluate the association of intramammarian arterial calcifications seen on mammography with coronary artery disease and its risk factors and to discuss intramammarian arterial calcifications value as a predictor of coronary artery disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS Mammography was performed on 55 women over 40 years of age who have undergone coronary angiography and have not ha...

INTRODUCTION Leukoencephalopathy, brain calcifications and cysts, known as Labrune syndrome, is a rare syndrome. The etiology is unknown; in some cases it is difficult to differentiate from Coats plus syndrome and diagnosed as cerebroretinal microangiopathy with calcifications and cysts. We present the case of a patient with adult leukoencephalopathy, brain calcifications and cysts and discuss ...