1. Department of Medical Imaging, AZ Sint-Lucas, Bruges, Belgium Background: A 65-year-old man presented with slight cough and throat ache for one month. The complaints largely disappeared under medical treatment. Clinical examination and laboratory results showed no significant abnormalities. A conventional radiography was taken, which showed a mediastinal abnormality and several lung nodules....

Methods 28 adult male intact Labrador Retrievers, reported to be healthy by their owners, were included. 12 dogs were categorized as lean (body condition score, BCS, ≤5) and 16 as overweight (BCS ≥6). Physical examination and laboratory testing were performed. Serum CRP concentrations were measured with a canine-specific high-sensitivity CRP assay (Gentian hsCRP). Mann Whitney U test (⍺=0.05) w...

Chemosensory signaling influences maternal care and other innate behaviors toward conspecific young animals in rodents. In this chapter, we describe basic protocols for assessment of postpartum maternal behavior and other pup-directed behaviors in laboratory mice. The specific aim of this protocol is to screen out the abnormal phenotypes in parenting of genetic mutant mice under the standard ho...

Major bacterial infections are most commonly associated with agranulocytosis or an abnormality of immunoglobulins or complement. Occasionally, repeated infections cannot be attributed to these relatively common causes. In such cases, a quantitative abnormality in neutrophil function should be sought. Complete evaluation of neutrophil function, including: chemotaxis, adhesion, aggregation, phago...

We describe a 36-year-old man with antiphospholipid antibody syndrome complicated by cerebral hemorrhage. In December 1991 he was brought to another hospital with sudden onset of left hemiparesis and status epilepticus. He had been well previously. A CT scan and MRI showed a cerebral hematoma located in the right frontoparietal region. Twelve days later he was transferred to our hospital. Altho...

F Introduction Ultrasound monitoring of pregnancy is based on standardised 2D examination of the fetus and associated structures in each trimester of pregnancy. A second-look ultrasound examination is undertaken for diagnostic or prognostic purposes in various circumstances: localisation of a suspected morphological or biometric abnormality found on the screening ultrasound and/or identificatio...

Mrs. McTavish is a 25-year old patient whose Papanicolaou (Pap) test results have come back from the laboratory. The smear is described as satisfactory for evaluation; however, it is noted that an inadequate number of endocervical cells were present in the sample. The results of the patient’s past Pap tests have been satisfactory for evaluation and negative for abnormality. She is otherwise wel...

The patient was referred to our department for appropriate therapy. Because of the metastatic potential of squamous cell carcinoma, prior to the operation, we performed a physical examination and positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET-CT) to search for metastasis. No adjacent palpable lymph node was found in the physical examination. PET-CT indicated a hypermetabolic abnormality ...

Pantothenate kinase 2 deficiency (previously known as Hallervorden-Spatz disease) is an unusual metabolic disorder characterized by progressive extrapyramidal dysfunction and dementia. A 27-year-old Caucasian presented with a major depression disorder and social phobia since adolescence. Patient had marked paranoia, auditory hallucinations, extrapyramidal dysfunction, poor memory, and gait abno...

Abnormal electrophoretic pattern of serum lactate dehydrogenase isoenzyme is shown. In this case electrophoretic pattern showed a sharp single band between lactate dehydrogenase 4 and lactate dehydrogenase 5 and broad band between lactate dehydrogenase 2 and lactate dehydrogenase 4. This abnormality was suggested to be caused by the presence of lactate dehydrogenase and immunoglobulin G (kappa ...