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[OBJECTIVE - The purpose of this study was to assess the importance of CT in differentiating renal cystic masses of surgical causes from those of non-surgical masses. PATIENTS AND METHODS - The patients included in this study were collected from a private diagnostic center and university hospital prospectively, yielding a total of 55 analyzable renal cystic lesions. A careful helical CT abdomen focusing on the kidneys with intravenous contrast was obtained from all patients. The lesions were categorized into surgical and medical renal cystic masses using the Bosniak classification system supported by histology reports and follow up protocols for medical cases. RESULTS - Of 55 cases, 35 were classified as surgical (13 lesions as category IV and 22 as III) and 20 as medical cases (15 as category II and 5 as III). Out of 22 resected category III lesions 15 were found to be malignant and all categorized as type IV were malignant. No malignancies have been identified in the prospectively monitored group of patients. CONCLUSION - Our series results are comparable with other teaching institution series, and support the usefulness of the Bosniak classification system in separating renal cystic lesion into surgical and non-surgical lesions but with diagnostic categorization difficulty of complicated multilocular hydatid cysts versus neoplastic (category III) cystic masses.]
[INTRODUCTION - Cystic breast masses detected by ultrasound can be devided into several groups upon their morphology. One of them is the group of progressive atypical cysts. CASE REPORT - A young female patient presented multiple palpable nodules in the central part and in the upper-medial quadrant of the left breast. Ultrasound examination showed cystic lesions of middle size and with smooth walls. The cytological results of two consecutive punctures of the cyst was C2, consistent with acute inflammatory hemorrhagic cystic content. The patient was followed up by ultrasound, which 4-6 months later demonstrated considerable progression in size and morphological changes of the cysts. The presence of intracystic nodules and the pericystic solid lesions made the use of MRI examination justified but it couldn’t exclude the possibility of multicentric malignancy. The breast team decided the excision of the cystic lesions, at first. The biopsy revealed multiple intraductal and intracystic papilloma surrounded by normal breast tissue. CONCLUSION - Considering the problems of differential diagnosis which raised the suspicion of similar morphological histological entities (intracystic papillar carcinoma, adenoid cystic carcinoma, DCIS) surgery was justified. According to the authors’s suggestion, despite of the frightening morphological, radiological and clinical status, the less radical surgery should be performed.]
[INTRODUCTION - The causes of geophagism are psychotic sociopathies, popular customs, religious rites, natural disasters, crimes besides alcohol and drug abuses. CASE REPORT - A 50-year-old midly drunken man ate ten tablespoonful wet sands up. Barium swallows showed the dense material to pass slowly into the stomach and duodenum resulting a cast sign two hours later. The dirt was washed out from the stomach, the bowels became spontaneously empty. There was no complications. CONCLUSION - The geophagy can be easily diagnosed based on gastroduodenal cast phenomenon and lingering passage.]
[The radiological practice has been changed with the wide spread use of computers. New methods were introduced in digital radiology. The recognition of speech is provided by development of computer technology, which makes medical documentation easier. The object of the paper was to publish the experiences using a speech recognition system. The authors review the characteristics of conventional and computer- based radiological reporting, the advantages and problems of the speech recognition system. The Speech- MagicTM speech recognition software is a good method in the daily radiological practice which makes reporting easier and, decreases the patient's waiting time. It is possible to use the system easily after a short period of learning time.]
[Our aim is to review the radiologic literature of lung cancer of 2004 and some remarkable publications from 2003. There are three main groups in the recent publications dealing with lung cancer’s radiology. The first group comprises those reviews and metaanalyses which focus on the overall utility and reliability of routinely applied modalities such as CT and MRI. In the second group we find original articles reporting on the experience with new modalities. This group is dominated by publications dealing with positron emission tomography and the first clinical results of combined PET-CT technology. In the third part we review those articles dealing with lung cancer screening. Radiological lung cancer screening is in the focus of interest again, mainly due to the introduction of low-dose CT which is undoubtadly the most sensitive radiological modality for the early detection of lesions, however, its clinical utility is debated. The papers referred are basically sceptic, but this is not the end, because controlled long term follow-up studies are still in progress. Part of the publications report on the first clinical results of new methods, while others give valuable additional data regarding the performance of “well established” radiological modalities.]
[PURPOSE - The aim of this paper is to demonstrate morphological changes of Crohn’s disease observed by CT enteroclysis and also to evaluate the role of the method in the diagnosis and the follow up of patients with known or suspected Crohn’s disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS - We evaluated retrospectively 50 typical cases who were examined earlier. Crohns’s disease was diagnosed in 42 patients before CT enteroclysis. Histological confirmation was available in 36 cases after colonoscopy and in six cases after surgery. In eight patients had a high suspicion of the disease, histological examination was not performed. CT enteroclysis findings were read by two radiologist independently and results were compared. RESULTS - CT enteroclysis showed typical signs of Crohn’s disease in all patients. Different degree of wall thickening was seen in all cases, pathological enhancement of small bowel wall (in cases 35), multilayered appearance (n=29), fibrofatty proliferation (n=33), enlarged lymph nodes (n=37), entero-enteric fistula (n=6), entero-cutan fistula n (=5), mesenteric abscess (n=5) was found. CONCLUSION - CT enteroclysis is an accurate method to detect mural and extramural abnormalities in patients with Crohn’s disease. CT enteroclysis proved highly accurate in detecting small bowel involvement and it also provides an estimation of clinical activity of the disease. CT enetroclysis can be considered as the first imaging method in patients with clinical signs of Crohn’s diseases and also in the follow up of patients with known disease.]
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[Headache registry in Szeged: Experiences regarding to migraine patients]2.
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[The new target population of stroke awareness campaign: Kindergarten students ]3.
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Is there any difference in mortality rates of atrial fibrillation detected before or after ischemic stroke?4.
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Factors influencing the level of stigma in Parkinson’s disease in western Turkey5.
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