Manipulation of vena cava filters. Locked-catheter technique.

abstract：:In a prospective study, the effect of infusion of a low-density contrast material was evaluated as an adjunct to high-density, double-contrast imaging of the sigmoid colon. After double-contrast barium enema (DCBE) study, 52 consecutive patients with sigmoid diverticulosis received an additional 500-750-mL enema eithe...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Lappas JC,Maglinte DD,Kopecky KK,Cockerill EM,Lehman GA

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the impact of radiographic findings on the interpretation of bone and gallium scans of patients with active osteomyelitis, the authors reviewed the medical records and radiologic examinations of 104 patients. The only diagnostic finding of active disease on radiographs was the presence of a sequestrum (th...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Tumeh SS,Aliabadi P,Weissman BN,McNeil BJ

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doppler sonography and magnetic resonance (MR) angiography were prospectively used in combination as a substitute for conventional angiography in 24 consecutive patients likely to undergo carotid endarterectomy. Of 19 patients (20 lesions) who underwent carotid endarterectomy, 18 had not undergone preoperative angiogr...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Polak JF,Kalina P,Donaldson MC,O'Leary DH,Whittemore AD,Mannick JA

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The potential of a new nonionic gadolinium complex--gadodiamide injection--to (a) allow distinction between reperfused and occlusive infarction and (b) enable differentiation between reperfused reversible and irreversible myocardial injury was investigated. Three groups of rats were used: 10 with reversibly reperfused...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Saeed M,Wendland MF,Takehara Y,Masui T,Higgins CB

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine technical success with percutaneous abscess drainage (PAD) in patients with Crohn disease during 14 years. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Medical records of 32 patients with Crohn disease who underwent PAD from 1985 to 1999 were reviewed. Results of abscess drainage and nature of subsequent surgical proced...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Gervais DA,Hahn PF,O'Neill MJ,Mueller PR

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose To inform the management of fractured inferior vena cava filters on the basis of results from a tertiary referral center specializing in complex filter retrieval. Materials and Methods This study had institutional review board approval and was HIPAA compliant. Retrospective analysis of all patients with fractu...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Trerotola SO,Stavropoulos SW

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analog model of the part of a patient's body containing a tumor is constructed by drawing anatomical contours obtained from computed tomograms on a set of transparent plastic sheets. The coverage of radiotherapy fields in the patient is visualized in three dimensions using the model and the light beam from the radi...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Tatcher M,Elgrabli S,Kuten A,Kleinhaus U

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of esophagitis caused by oral medication are reported: 2 were the result of prolonged use of quinidine tablets (producing focal subacute inflammation mimicking carcinoma in one and stricture in the other) and one occurred soon after ingestion of liquid KCl. Previous reports have implicated KCl tablets ("sl...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Teplick JG,Teplick SK,Ominsky SH,Haskin ME

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To estimate the fraction of moving blood in tissue with power Doppler ultrasound (US). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Power Doppler US measurements of moving scatterers in a flow tube were made as a function of successive dilutions of the perfusate. Measurements were normalized relative to the maximum Doppler power in ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Rubin JM,Adler RS,Fowlkes JB,Spratt S,Pallister JE,Chen JF,Carson PL

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Krypton-81m, an inert, radioactive gas with a physical half-life of 13 seconds was used to evaluate regional lung ventilation in 25 pediatric patients. The results suggest that Kr-81m has several advantages over previous methods employing xenon-133. These include: more favorable physical characteristics for imaging wi...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Li DK,Treves S,Heyman S,Kirkpatrick JA Jr,Lambrecht RM,Ruth TJ,Wolf AP

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the effect of the introduction of digital mammography on the recall rate, detection rate, false-positive rate, and rates of invasive procedures in a cohort of women from four population-based breast cancer screening programs in Spain. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The study was approved by the ethics commi...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Sala M,Salas D,Belvis F,Sánchez M,Ferrer J,Ibañez J,Román R,Ferrer F,Vega A,Laso MS,Castells X

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Thermal ablation of cancers may be associated with high rates of local tumor progression. A thermal accelerant gel has been developed to improve the transmission of microwave energy in biologic tissues with the aim of enlarging the thermal ablation zone. Purpose To determine the effects of a thermal acceler...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Maxwell AWP,Park WKC,Baird GL,Martin DW,Lombardo KA,Dupuy DE

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrasonographic (US) examinations of the upper abdomen were performed in 80 patients with Gaucher disease. Of the 49 patients that had not undergone splenectomy, 47 had splenic enlargement. Sixteen patients had multiple lesions in the spleen. Most patients had discrete hypoechoic lesions that corresponded pathologica...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Hill SC,Reinig JW,Barranger JA,Fink J,Shawker TH

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-resolution, real-time ultrasonography (US) with graded compression was used to evaluate 90 patients with clinically suspected acute appendicitis. US visualization of a noncompressible appendix was the primary criterion for a diagnosis of acute appendicitis. The overall sensitivity was 89%, the specificity was 95%...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Jeffrey RB Jr,Laing FC,Lewis FR

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital subtraction angiography (DSA) was used to study the cardiovascular system in more than 400 patients and was specifically compared with conventional angiography of the aorta and renal arteries in 30 patients. For the renal arteries, the overall accuracy of DSA was 71% (50/70). Excluding 11 cases of inadequate v...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Buonocore E,Meaney TF,Borkowski GP,Pavlicek W,Gallagher J

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Findings from computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound (US) examinations of 74 patients who were clinically thought to have pelvic masses and of 110 patients who had possible recurrence of pelvic tumors were analyzed. There was no significant difference in the ability of the two modalities to identify masses or to pred...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Sanders RC,McNeil BJ,Finberg HJ,Hessel SJ,Siegelman SS,Adams DF,Alderson PO,Abrams HL

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess feasibility and reliability of electrocardiographic (ECG)-gated cardiac magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with a simplified reusable electrode design that does not touch the skin. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In this institutional review board-approved, HIPAA-compliant study, a silicon positioner held four EC...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Thimmappa ND,Cooper MA,Nguyen TD,Dutruel SP,Kawaji K,Weinsaft JW

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thrombosed arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) in children are rare lesions that may present with headaches or a seizure disorder. Thirteen patients (4 months to 21 years of age) with this lesion were examined with computed tomography (CT). In 11 patients surgical confirmation was obtained, and the other two patients w...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Mitnick JS,Pinto RS,Lin JP,Rose H,Lieberman A

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spurting of blood from standard arterial needles during guide-wire insertion can be controlled easily with a syringe and a simple needle inserted along the syringe plunger. With this method, blood droplets that may be infected with the hepatitis or human immunodeficiency virus will not come into contact with the head ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Cope C,Machan L

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The angiographic differentiation of an intrinsic exophytic brainstem glioma from an extra-axial posterior fossa tumor is not always easy. The location of the basilar artery alone may not be significant. Displacement of the anterior pontomesencephalic vein anterior to the basilar artery appears to be a reliable indicat...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Sarwar M,Bafnitzky S,Schechter MM

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-five patients, each of whom had peripheral intrathoracic lesions that were smaller than 5.0 X 5.0 cm in size and not diagnosed by conventional methods, underwent real-time sonography and ultrasonically guided aspiration biopsy. The lesions included 18 nodules, two infiltrates, and five cavitary lesions. Sonogra...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Yang PC,Luh KT,Sheu JC,Kuo SH,Yang SP

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the estimated absorbed radiation doses to the ovaries and skin entrance during uterine artery embolization (UAE) for leiomyomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Radiation dose was measured in 20 patients who underwent UAE for leiomyomas. Measurements were obtained by placing lithium fluoride dosimeters both ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Nikolic B,Spies JB,Lundsten MJ,Abbara S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rationale for prebiopsy and preoperative irradiation in a multimodal approach to treatment of osteosarcoma is presented. Six patients with osteosarcoma underwent preoperative irradiation, amputation, and elective chemotherapy. Five of these also received prebiopsy irradiation: three survive without metastases at 2...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Munzenrider JE,Emami B,Tchakarova I,Necheles TF,Banks HH,Paradelo JC,Oh WH

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine the reliability and efficacy of magnetic resonance (MR) cholangiography in demonstrating the site and extent of stricture. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In 40 patients with obstructive jaundice, three-dimensional MR cholangiography was performed with a sequence of mirrored fast imaging with steady-state p...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Hall-Craggs MA,Allen CM,Owens CM,Theis BA,Donald JJ,Paley M,Wilkinson ID,Chong WK,Hatfield AR,Lees WR

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background During the peak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the authors noted an increase in positive lower-extremity CT angiography examinations in patients who presented with leg ischemia. The goal of this study was to determine whether lower-extremity arterial thrombosis was associated with COVI...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Goldman IA,Ye K,Scheinfeld MH

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To determine whether hemangiomas and malignant tumors can be better differentiated at 1.5-T magnetic resonance imaging with use of more heavily T2-weighted conventional spin-echo sequences. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Eighty-three patients with focal liver lesions (50 malignant tumors, 24 hemangiomas, nine cysts) la...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： McFarland EG,Mayo-Smith WW,Saini S,Hahn PF,Goldberg MA,Lee MJ

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pelvic sonograms from 61 consecutive patients with suspected ectopic pregnancy and an additional 17 proved ectopic pregnancy cases were reviewed retrospectively. Special attention was given to the appearance of the uterus and intrauterine fluid collections in the absence of a fetal pole. Criteria for the exclusion of ...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Bradley WG,Fiske CE,Filly RA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the accuracy of positron emission tomography (PET) with 2-deoxy-2-[fluorine-18] fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) in the detection of osseous and soft-tissue metastases of prostate cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Thirty-four patients (mean age, 71 years) with biopsy-proved prostate cancer and known or suspected...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Shreve PD,Grossman HB,Gross MD,Wahl RL

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose To evaluate the immediate and long-term safety as well as thrombus-capturing efficacy for 5 weeks after implantation of an absorbable inferior vena cava (IVC) filter in a swine model. Materials and Methods This study was approved by the institutional animal care and use committee. Eleven absorbable IVC filters...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Huang SY,Eggers M,McArthur MJ,Dixon KA,McWatters A,Dria S,Hill LR,Melancon MP,Steele JR,Wallace MJ

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To retrospectively determine and compare the sensitivity and specificity of unenhanced and contrast material-enhanced computed tomography (CT) (reference standard) in the diagnosis of brain abnormalities and to evaluate any change in diagnosis that resulted from the contrast-enhanced study. MATERIALS AND METHO...

journal_title：Radiology

authors： Branson HM,Doria AS,Moineddin R,Shroff MM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00