Objective: To find out the role of FNA cytology in the diagnosis of liver malignancy especially hepatocellular carcinoma. Material and methods: 35 female patients with age range 25-85 years who visited Gastroenterology Department of Sheikh Zayed Hospital Lahore were included in the study. The space occupying lesions of the liver of patients were diagnosed by ultrasonography. Fine needle aspirat...

introduction: behcet's disease is a chronic disease with multisystem involvement characterized clinically by oral and genital aphthae, cutaneous lesions and ophthalmologic, neurologic and gastrointestinal manifestation. nervous system involvement occurs in 5.3 – 30% of patients, mostly in brain stem and basal ganglia. the common manifestations are pyramidal signs, central nervous plegia, p...

non-discogenic sciatica can be caused by any lesion along the course of the lumbosacral nerve roots and sciatic nerve. we aim to present a rare case of refractory sciatica in an otherwise healthy 25-year-old man. he complained of left leg pain without significant back pain. extensor hallucis longus muscle was weak on the left side with limited straight leg rising. on magnetic resonance imaging,...

A space occupying lesion by definition is a discrete abnormality arising within the liver. Space occupying lesions of the liver can be classified into developmental, neoplastic, inflammatory and miscellaneous. Although in some cases, it is difficult to distinguish these entities with imaging criteria alone, certain focal liver lesions have classic ultrasonic, computed tomographic (CT) and magne...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the significance and values of 3.0T diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) to differentially diagnose benign and malignant space-occupying liver lesions. A total of 91 patients with liver space-occupying lesions (145 lesions) were admitted into Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University (Wuhan, China) from November 2015 to May 2016. Routine scanning, DWI and...

ABSTRACT Fungal infections of the central nervous system (CNS) usually present as subacute meningitis or intracranial space occupying lesion with mass effect on surrounding structures and consequent focal neurological deficits. Intracranial fungal granulomas are often misdiagnosed clinically and radiologically as neoplastic lesions.  Biopsy of the lesion is the only reliable technique to estab...