Lung Adenocarcinoma Staged as a ...
A 66-year-old man, who presented with bright red blood per rectum, was referred for an 18F-FDG PET/CT after colonoscopy showed two suspicious colon ...
Impact of Lymphoid Follicles an ...
Purpose Although 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT has improved the accuracy of evaluating lymph node (LN) staging in non-small cell lung cancer ( ...
Clinical Significance of Diffus ...
Purpose We investigated the clinical significance of diffuse uptake in remaining thyroid after unilateral lobectomy for thyroid cancer. Methods A t ...
Assessment of Therapeutic Effec ...
Although sunitinib shows a high response rate in patients with untreated metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), quite a few patients show no therap ...
The Clinical Usefulness of 18F- ...
Purpose Individuals with systemic autoimmune disease have an increased susceptibility to both inflammation and malignancy. The aim of this study was ...
Comparison of the Intraperitone ...
Purpose We compared alternative routes for 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) administration, such as the retroorbital (RO), intraperitoneal (IP) and per ...
Compression of the Right Pulmon ...
A 67-year-old woman, who presented with a 2 month history of dyspnea, had a ventilation and perfusion lung scan that showed absent perfusion of the ...
Necrotizing Cervical Lymphadeni ...
Mycobacterium simiae (M. simiae) is an opportunistic pathogen rarely associated with human disease, although in recent years M. simiae has been dete ...
Depiction of Nidi and Fibrovasc ...
Purpose For the precise imaging diagnosis of osteoid osteoma (OO), the identification of the nidus and fibrovascular zone (FVZ) is essential. Howeve ...
Factors affecting brain structu ...
Introduction The purpose of this study was to characterize brain volumetric differences in HIV seropositive and seronegative men and to determine ef ...
CT angiography helps to differe ...
Introduction Currently, there is no reliable method to differentiate acute from chronic carotid occlusion. We propose a novel CTA-based method to di ...
Diffuse vascular injury: conver ...
Introduction Susceptibility-weighted image (SWI) is one of the most sensitive methods for detect microbleeding and useful for evaluation of traumati ...
Diffusion-weighted imaging find ...
Introduction The purpose of the present study was to determine the role of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and to investigate the use of DWI in the ...
F-18 FDG PET-CT for predicting ...
Introduction Recurrent gliomas are usually histologically high grade; either due to recurrence of a de novo high-grade primary or anaplastic transfo ...
Brain atrophy and lesion load a ...
Introduction The objective of this work is to study the relationship between the presence of lipid-specific oligoclonal IgM bands (LS-OCMB) in CSF, ...
Fractional anisotropy and mean ...
Introduction Modulation of neurodegeneration by physical activity is an active topic in contemporary research. The purpose of this study was to inve ...
Intra-arterial adjuvant tirofib ...
Introduction Intra-arterial (IA) thrombolysis with plasminogen activator is well-known, but the use of IA tirofiban as an adjuvant for IA thrombolys ...
Quantitative multivoxel proton ...
Introduction The purpose of this study is to investigate brain metabolic changes in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) using mu ...
Carotid–anterior cerebral arter ...
Introduction Rarely in the anterior circulation, an anastomosis of the carotid and anterior cerebral arteries occurs when an anomalous branch arises ...
Aberrant course of the intracra ...
Introduction The aim of this study is to describe the morphology of the rare malformation that is atresia of the internal auditory canal (IAC) and d ...
Lymphomas and metastases of the ...
Introduction The involvement of extra-ocular muscles in malignant diseases has been described only sporadically. The purpose of this study was to es ...
Endovascular embolization for s ...
Introduction Perimedullary arteriovenous fistula (AVF) has shunt on the spinal cord surface and it can be treated with surgery, or endovascular embo ...
Changes in susceptibility signs ...
Introduction The present study compares changes in susceptibility signs on follow-up single-shot echo-planar gradient-echo T2*-weighted images (GRE- ...
Selective inferior petrosal sin ...
Introduction Conventional MRI may still be an inaccurate method for the non-invasive detection of a microadenoma in adrenocorticotropin (ACTH)-depen ...
CTand MR perfusion can discrimi ...
Introduction Computed tomography perfusion (CTP) and magnetic resonance perfusion (MRP) are expected to be usable for ancillary tests of brain death ...