OBJECTIVE Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) is a minimally invasive technique with a high diagnostic yield used in the investigation of mediastinal diseases including sarcoidosis. Although previous reports have discussed the echoic features of metastatic mediastinal lymph nodes in lung cancer, few have addressed those features of mediastinal lymph node...

The patient was a 50-year-old woman with a palpable tumor and pain in the right breast in May of 2008. The tumor was then diagnosed as an atheroma. The tumor enlarged rapidly in June, and the pain and the redness had worsened. The patient was then referred to our hospital. The tumor was in the upper inner quadrant of the right breast with surface redness, measuring about 3 cm. In the mammograph...

PURPOSE To evaluate malignancy risk according to ultrasound (US) features and size change on follow-up US in mixed echoic thyroid nodules and to suggest management guidelines thereof. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among patients who underwent US-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy, 316 mixed echoic nodules in 303 patients were included after excluding the patients with pure solid or cystic nodules o...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Inverted Meckel's diverticulum has usually been misdiagnosed in the cases based on computed tomography images presented in the literature. The final diagnosis was made intra-operatively or by pathology reports after surgery. Despite this, preoperative diagnosis could be made successfully by using endoscopic ultrasound with double-balloon endoscopy prior to surgery. ...

The cortical mechanisms underlying echoic memory and change detection were investigated using an auditory change-related component (N100c) of event-related brain potentials. N100c was elicited by paired sound stimuli, a standard followed by a deviant, while subjects watched a silent movie. The amplitude of N100c elicited by a fixed sound pressure deviance (70 dB vs. 75 dB) was negatively correl...

The article discusses the problem of semelfactive and multiplicative verbs in contemporary English. We state that most semelfactive/multiplicative are sound-imitating origin. On basis four dictionaries (Longman Dictionary Contemporary English (2003), Oxford Advanced Learner’s Current (2000), Webster’s New World American Language (2008), Webster Universal College (1997)), 285 echoic were singled...