abstract：:Our objective was to evaluate the hemolytic effect of stents and stent grafts in an in vitro flow model. The model consisted of silicone tubings. Pulsatile flow was delivered at 1170 ml/min. Diluted packed erythrocytes were used (hematocrit of 33%). The Palmaz, MegaLink stents or Passager, Hemobahn stent grafts were p...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Grimm J,Brunn H,Heller M,Mueller-Huelsbeck S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new technique is presented for retrograde urethrography (RGU) using a plastic adjustable clamp. The procedure was performed in 36 patients with suspected urethral stenosis. Mean age was 55.3 years. The device and the procedure are described. All the radiologic examinations of the urethra were carried out successfull...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Berná JD,Berná JD Jr

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proton MR spectroscopy was used to observe long-term post-irradiation metabolic changes in epileptogenic tissue and in the contralateral parts of the brain which are not available with conventional imaging methods. We studied these changes in the temporal lobe in six patients, following radiosurgery on the amygdala an...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Hájek M,Dezortová M,Liscák R,Vymazal J,Vladyka V

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to assess the clinical value of an early arterial scan for assessing the hepatic and mesenteric vasculature in patients with suspected primary or metastatic hypervascular liver disease undergoing multislice computed tomography. In 42 patients a very early arteriographic scan was performed before stan...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Zandrino F,Curone P,Benzi L,Musante F

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lymphoma is a spectrum of malignant neoplasms of the lymphoid system. The appearances radiologically are diverse with almost all organs susceptible to involvement. The condition is challenging as it can mimic the appearance of almost all other neoplasms. This review highlights in a general way the diversity of the rad...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Halliday T,Baxter G

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a bibliometric search to evaluate number and scientific "weight" of papers written by European radiologists, as compared with colleagues from other countries, to measure the contribution of European researchers to radiology journals, and to correlate bibliometric parameters with some socio-economic factor...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Mela GS,Martinoli C,Poggi E,Derchi LE

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to find a tracer in diagnosing human pancreatic cancer using positron emission tomography (PET). For this purpose in vitro test of pancreatic tissues with autoradiography was used. Autoradiography was performed with (11)C-harmine (a MAO-A-inhibitor) with and without competitive inhibition. Tissue pre...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Herlin G,Persson B,Bergström M,Långström B,Aspelin P

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to evaluate the role of MR urography (MRU) in the diagnosis of obstructive uropathy in selected groups of patients. The groups involved following pathologies: calculi; strictures of ureteropelvic junction (UPJ); benign and malignancy-induced ureterostenosis. Sixty patients with clinical diagno...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Zielonko J,Studniarek M,Markuszewski M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of our study was to assess whether contrast-enhanced CT colonography is a feasible alternative to both conventional colonoscopy and liver ultrasonography in the follow-up program of colorectal cancer patients. Thirty-five patients, surgically treated for colorectal cancer, underwent a follow-up program that in...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Laghi A,Iannaccone R,Bria E,Carbone I,Trasatti L,Piacentini F,Lauro S,Vecchione A,Passariello R

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron beam tomography (EBT) has been used for cardiac diagnosis and the quantitative assessment of coronary calcium since the late 1980s. The introduction of mechanical multi-slice spiral CT (MSCT) scanners with shorter rotation times opened new possibilities of cardiac imaging with conventional CT scanners. The pu...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Ulzheimer S,Kalender WA

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the study was to evaluate transcranial Doppler ultrasonography for identifying cerebrovascular disease in neurologically asymptomatic children and young adults with sickle cell disease. A total of 47 consecutive patients with sickle cell disease (28 females, 19 males; age range 8 months to 29 years, mea...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Riebel T,Kebelmann-Betzing C,Götze R,Overberg US

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to quantify water volume using magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) sequences and apply this to secretin-stimulated studies with the aim of quantifying pancreatic exocrine function. A commercially available single-shot MRCP sequence was used in conjunction with a body phased-array coil ...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Punwani S,Gillams AR,Lees WR

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to follow-up patients in whom scheduled MR-guided vacuum biopsies for suspicious lesions were aborted due to absent enhancement of contrast medium. Thirty-seven of 291 scheduled MR-guided vacuum biopsies were aborted. Six cases were lost to follow-up. Two could be unequivocally identified and were ne...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Hefler L,Casselman J,Amaya B,Heinig A,Alberich T,Koelbl H,Heywang-Köbrunner SH

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of our study is to demonstrate the value of CT in the emergency department (ED) for patients with non-traumatic abdominal pain. Between August 1998 and April 1999, 536 consecutive patients with non-traumatic abdominal pain were entered into our study. Using a computer order entry system, physicians were as...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Rosen MP,Siewert B,Sands DZ,Bromberg R,Edlow J,Raptopoulos V

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diagnosis of myocardial viability after infarction focuses on the prediction of functional improvement of dysfunctional myocardium after revascularization therapy. Magnetic resonance imaging provides different approaches for the detection of myocardial viability. Measurement of end-diastolic wall thickness is easy to ...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Sandstede JJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five testicular appendages are formed during development of the male genito-urinary tract, which are the remnants of the degenerating mesonephric and paramesonephric ducts. The testicular and epididymal appendages, found at the upper pole of the testis and at the head of the epididymis respectively, are the most commo...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Sellars ME,Sidhu PS

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent development in biomedical imaging is the non-invasive mapping of molecular events in intact tissues using fluorescence. Underpinning to this development is the discovery of bio-compatible, specific fluorescent probes and proteins and the development of highly sensitive imaging technologies for in vivo fluores...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Ntziachristos V,Bremer C,Weissleder R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on an isolated enlargement of the fourth ventricle in a patient with neurosarcoidosis which developed 3 years after the insertion of a ventriculo-atrial shunt. Repeated MRI images were obtained in a patient with known neurosarcoidosis between 1995 and 2000. Imaging findings were correlated to the medical cou...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Hesselmann V,Wedekind C,Terstegge K,Schulte O,Voges J,Krug B,Lackner K

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of transient bone marrow edema syndrome migrating within two different compartments of the same knee. This unusual pattern of migration of the marrow edema, which has been previously described only in three cases of transient osteoporosis, may raise the suspicion of an aggressive disease. Radiologists...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Gaeta M,Mazziotti S,Minutoli F,Vinci S,Blandino A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rare case of a proximal jejunal diverticulitis is presented. The diagnosis was initially suggested by US and confirmed by CT. Ultrasound detected a hypoechoic irregular lesion continuous with the jejunum suggestive of the presence of diverticula. The presence of peridiverticular hyperechoic fat, associated with US s...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Kelekis AD,Poletti PA

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diagnostic approach for evaluation of adrenal tumour in pregnant women is a problem. This article presents the multifactorial diagnosis of rare, incidentally detected massive adrenal tumour with 2D and 3D US. Grey-scale 2D and 3D US with tissue harmonic imaging showed inhomogeneous, encapsulated, solid tumour of t...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Slapa RZ,Jakubowski W,Kasperlik-Zaluska AA,Szopiñski K,Debski R,Samsel M,Polañski J,Borowicz K

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiac angiosarcoma is a rare tumour entity with a poor prognosis. Early detection is difficult but important for the further course of the disease. We report on a young patient with a tumour of unknown origin and dignity of the right atrium. Magnetic resonance imaging, CT and echocardiography were sufficient in loca...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Freudenberg LS,Rosenbaum SJ,Schulte-Herbrüggen J,Eising EG,Lauenstein T,Wolff A,Bockisch A

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a case of active bleeding of a secondary aortoenteric fistula (SAEF), in which CT angiography with multi-detector-row CT (MDCT) was finally diagnostic after negative catheter angiography and unsatisfactory endoscopy. The MDCT angiography clearly demonstrated the fistulous tract between the abdominal aortic g...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Roos JE,Willmann JK,Hilfiker PR

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe and discuss the various forms of cystography and their clinical value. Conventional fluoroscopic voiding cystourethrography (VCU), radionuclide cystography and the various sonographic cystographic approaches, including echo-enhanced cystosonography (EECS), are described. Their ind...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Riccabona M

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetic resonance imaging can be used to measure the muscle volume of a given muscle or muscle group. The purpose of this study was to determine both the intra- and inter-observer variation of the manually outlined volume of the extensor muscles (tibialis anterior, extensor digitorum longus and extensor hallucis long...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Lund H,Christensen L,Savnik A,Boesen J,Danneskiold-Samsøe B,Bliddal H

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods of imaging and intervention in acute non-traumatic vascular arterial conditions has changed substantially during recent years. Computed tomography, MRI angiography and, more recently, intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) have replaced to a large extent conventional diagnostic angiography. An increasing number ...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Cwikiel W,Midia M,Williams D

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to propose a quantitative MR protocol with very short acquisition time and good reliability in volume construction, for the evaluation of body composition in patients affected by Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This MR protocol was compared with common anthropometric evaluations of the sam...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Pichiecchio A,Uggetti C,Egitto MG,Berardinelli A,Orcesi S,Gorni KO,Zanardi C,Tagliabue A

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this prospective study was to measure lung attenuation at paired HRCT obtained at full inspiratory/expiratory position, to correlate with pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and to characterize different types of ventilatory impairment. One hundred fifty-five patients with and without pulmonary disease unde...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Kauczor HU,Hast J,Heussel CP,Schlegel J,Mildenberger P,Thelen M

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the radiation dose given by semicoronal CT of the sacroiliac joints (SIJs) in comparison with axial CT and conventional radiography. The total effective radiation doses given by serial contiguous semicoronal and axial CT, using 5-mm slices, 120 kV and 330 mAs, were determined by m...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Jurik AG,Hansen J,Puhakka KB

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Imaging is the standard method for the evaluation of emergency bile ducts and gallbladder diseases. Imaging may help to treat the patient also. In acute cholecystitis, association of clinical and sonographic data is accurate for the diagnosis, even when the patient is examined by a junior radiologist. Computed tomogra...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Menu Y,Vuillerme MP

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blunt injury of the extrahepatic bile duct is rare and hence a large series of scientific study of its MRI is difficult to perform. We present the MRI and MR cholangiography of a case of blunt extrahepatic bile duct injury proven at surgery. The diagnosis could be established based on MRI findings of an abrupt taperin...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Wong YC,Wang LJ,Chen RJ,Chen CJ

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objectives of this study were to evaluate the influence on image quality and dose to the patient and operator of various equipment settings for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and to optimize the set-up. With an Alderson phantom, different settings, such as projection, protective screens, filtration, ima...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Geijer H,Beckman KW,Andersson T,Persliden J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of MRI in detecting prosthesis integrity and malignancy after breast augmentation and reconstruction. Forty-one implants in 25 patients were analyzed by MRI before surgical removal. Imaging results were compared with ex vivo findings. Magnetic resonance i...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Herborn CU,Marincek B,Erfmann D,Meuli-Simmen C,Wedler V,Bode-Lesniewska B,Kubik-Huch RA

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The differentiation of hemangioma from other hepatic neoplasms using MRI usually relies on the evaluation of heavily T2-weighted images. The aim of this study was to assess the value of T2-relaxation times calculated from moderately T2-weighted turbo spin-echo (TSE) sequence in characterization of focal hepatic lesion...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Cieszanowski A,Szeszkowski W,Golebiowski M,Bielecki DK,Grodzicki M,Pruszynski B

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our purpose was to evaluate the utility of surface anatomy scanning (SAS) of the brain with superimposition of MR angiograms in the diagnosis and presurgical planning of superficial cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs). We performed SAS in 15 patients with superficial cerebral AVMs. Two-dimensional phase-contra...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Tsuchiya K,Katase S,Yoshino A,Hachiya J,Shiokawa Y

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-sectional imaging has revolutionised the radiological diagnosis of pleural collections. Not only can the precise location and volume of a pleural effusion be established, but also features specific for the aetiology of the effusion can be demonstrated. Increasingly, radiologists are called upon to perform image-...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Ellis JR,Gleeson FV

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to assess the image quality and diagnostic value of MR urography in detecting abnormalities of the urinary collecting system relevant for the preoperative evaluation of living renal donors. Study subjects were selected from the existing intravenous urography (IVU) reports: 18 consecutive ...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Bakker J,De Kort GA,Lo R,Van Gils AP,Hené RJ,Lock TM,Burger H,Beek FJ

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe and characterize the MR imaging findings in a group of patients who underwent surgery for adhesive capsulitis. Twenty-four MR imaging studies in 24 consecutive patients with clinical evidence of adhesive capsulitis were performed prior to arthroscopic capsulotomy. There were 1...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Connell D,Padmanabhan R,Buchbinder R

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to compare screen-film mammography (SFM) to full-field digital mammography (FFDM) regarding image quality as well as detectability and characterization of lesions using equivalent images of the same patient acquired with both systems. Two mammography units were used, one with a screen-f...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Obenauer S,Luftner-Nagel S,von Heyden D,Munzel U,Baum F,Grabbe E

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of Power Doppler sonography in nodal diseases provides an improvement of early and noninvasive diagnosis of regional metastatic involvement. By using Power Doppler sonography it is possible to characterize lymph nodes as reactively enlarged, metastases, malignant lymphoma, tuberculosis and to study cervical cy...

journal_title：European radiology

authors： Steinkamp HJ,Wissgott C,Rademaker J,Felix R

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00