BACKGROUND This study investigated changes in tendon vascularity in 102 (67 men and 35 women) volleyball players over a 6 month competitive season. METHODS Athletes were examined with both grey scale ultrasound and standardised colour Doppler settings. Vessel length and pain were measured each month on five separate occasions. Vascular tendons were divided into (i) those that were vascular on...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The roles of DTI and dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced-PWI in predicting the angiographic vascularity of meningiomas have not been studied. We aimed to investigate if these 2 techniques could reflect the angiographic vascularity of meningiomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirty-two consecutive patients with meningiomas who had preoperative dynamic susceptibility contr...

Assessment of vascularity and blood-tissue barrier was performed by sequential scintigraphy in 43 patients with brain tumours. The blood-tumour barrier was evaluated by use of 99mTc-pertechnetate, and vascularity using 99mTc-labelled red blood cells. Three groups of tumours were found: tumours with low vascularity and permeable barrier, tumours with high vascularity and permeable barrier, and t...

Background: Ransvaginal Color Doppler Ultrasound is proposed as a novel prognostic tool in women with cervical cancer. We evaluated the assessment of tumour vascularity as a prognostic factor and its correlation with other well-known prognostic factors such as tumour size, parametrial invasion and lymph node status determined by MRI. Method: Transvaginal Colour Doppler Ultrasound (TVCDUS) was u...

Objective. To investigate the relationship between synovial vascularity and joint damage progression in each finger joint of patients with RA under low disease activity during treatment with biologic agents. Methods. We studied 310 MCP and 310 PIP joints of 31 patients with active RA who were administered adalimumab (ADA) or tocilizumab (TCZ). Patients were examined with clinical and laboratory...

Conventionally, tumour vascularity is assessed invasively by immunofluorescent analysis. Quantified contrast-enhanced power Doppler ultrasound has been used to measure tumour angiogenesis non-invasively in humans and experimental animals. The purpose of this study was to correlate quantified contrast-enhanced power Doppler ultrasound with immunofluorescent results in 45 spontaneous canine tumou...

Purpose To compare the agreement between optical coherence tomography (OCT)-based choroidal vascularity markers measured by two previously reported image binarization techniques. Methods Spectral-domain OCT using enhanced-depth imaging was performed in 100 eyes from 52 normal subjects. Choroidal images were binarized to luminal area and stromal area using two different algorithms. Choroidal v...

introduction: giant cell lesions of the bone comprise a group of jaw bone pathologies. different pathogeneses such as reactive, vascular or neoplastic have been proposed for these lesions. in addition, differentiating between aggressive and nonaggressive central giant cell granuloma (cgcg) of the jaws based on histopathologic features is still impossible and due to different treatment protocols...

BACKGROUND This study examined whether patellar tendon vascularity could be quantified accurately in the clinical setting using colour Doppler ultrasonography. METHODS A sonographer and two radiologists visually estimated tendon vascularity in millimetres in 74 tendons during ultrasound (US) examination and from hard copy films. These estimates were then compared to the length of vessels meas...