CE Email comments/questions to [email protected], fax 800-556-3288, or log on to www.VetLearn.com Computed radiography (CR) is a digital imaging technology and digital x-ray image management system that has been used in human and veterinary medicine since the 1980s. CR helps eliminate many of the disadvantages of traditional radiography. A storage phosphor plate collects the pattern of x...

A 15 year old girl who had pain, oedema of her left hand, and fever of four months' duration is described. Marked demineralisation of her hand was shown by radiography, and increased articular uptake by technetium-99m bone scan. All these changes were indistinguishable from reflex sympathetic dystrophy. After two admissions to hospital and multiple explorations we discovered that she had induce...

The microbiologic contamination can occur in all the steps of an intraoral conventional or digital radiographic examination, unless some measures to avoid the cross-infection are applied. Scientific articles have shown that during the radiograph taking procedure, there is contact with the patient’s oral fluids (saliva and blood) and, consequently, the contamination of the film or digital sensor...

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is among the most common forms of chronic inflammatory arthritis. RA affects about 1% of adults, and it is two to three times more prevalent in women than in men. RA may begin as early as infancy, but onset usually occurs in the fifth or sixth decade. There are no specific laboratory tests for RA; diagnosis depends on a constellation of signs and symptoms that can be s...

The objective of the study was, with multidetector computed tomography (CT) as the reference method, to determine whether bone erosions in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) metacarpophalangeal (MCP) joints detected with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonography (US), but not with radiography, represent true erosive changes. We included 17 RA patients with at least one, previously detected, r...

Objectives. This paper aims to review the diagnostic application of cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) in the field of periodontology. Data. Original articles that reported on the use of CBCT for periodontal disease diagnosis were included. Sources. MEDLINE (1990 to January 2014), PubMed (using medical subject headings), and Google Scholar were searched using the following terms in different ...

R Chairman and Gentlemen,?When, at the beginning of the ession, I offered to give this demonstration, it had been my intenl0n "to bring before your notice the information gained by the radiography examination of the whole alimentary tract, but on going ?Ver the material on hand it became evident that in so doing I ran e risk either of boring you to distraction and crowding out other e9.ually in...

The ideal aim of treatment in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is to suppress synovial inflammation and to stop or reduce structural joint damage progression. To evaluate joint damage in RA, radiographic assessment of hands and feet is the traditional method. Nevertheless, plain film radiography can only evaluate bone damage (erosion) and, indirectly, joint cartilage. Magnetic resonance imaging presen...

BACKGROUND: Dental disease, trauma and maxillofacial surgeries can cause alveolar bone defects. Among different kinds of treatment, autogenous bone grafts is accepted as a golden standard. On the other hand, because of limitation of treatment with autogenous bone grafts, osteogenic cells derived from stem cells are suggested. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to compare the mean density of ...

Nodular fasciitis (NF) is a rare fibroblastic proliferative lesion, characterized clinically as a solitary mass of hardened and slightly painful on palpation, fast growing and no gender preference. The objective of this study is to report the case of a patient with NF in third finger of left hand, describe the findings of plain radiography, computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging and...