Overview on Percutaneous Therapies of Disc Diseases.

Low back pain is an extremely common pathology affecting a great share of the population, in particular, young adults. Many structures can be responsible for pain such as intervertebral discs, facet joints, nerve roots, and sacroiliac joints. This review paper focuses on disc pathology and the percutaneous procedures available to date for its treatment.

Congenital kidney malformation: Computed tomography and scintigraphy findings of renal reversed rotation.

Renal reversed rotation is a congenital abnormality due to anomalous kidney rotation around its long axis, resulting in faced laterally renal hilum; this condition is associated with several vascular variants. The aim of this report is to describe the case of a 47-year-old male with renal reversed rotation who came to our attention after ultrasound exam. The association of renal rotation and vascular anomalies increases long-term complications as kidney lithiasis, hydronephrosis, colic pain, hematuria, and renal failure.

Paucisymptomatic pulmonary and right ear tuberculosis in young woman suffering from anorexia and bulimia nervosa.

Nowadays tuberculosis has become a reemerging infectious disease due to the many forms of immunodeficiency. Patients with eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia are a susceptible group due to the immune impairment correlated with severe malnutrition and their prevalence and incidence is growing. We describe the case of a 31-year-old woman, with long-standing history of anorexia nervosa and bulimia, diagnosed with advanced pulmonary tuberculosis.

Evaluation of a cardiac sarcoma with CT multislice contrast-enhanced and 18FDG-PET/TC.

We present the case of an adult male who arrived to our emergency room with progressive dyspnea that had been ongoing for 2 months. During the radiological investigation, we found a large intracardiac mass, which invaded the pericardium, pulmonary trunk, pulmonary arteries, and left ventricle. Studies done with the 18FDG-PET/CT scan helped us to determine the malignant nature of the mass and to suspect the diagnosis of rhabdomyosarcoma.

Post-traumatic superior mesenteric venous thrombosis with subsequent extension to the portal vein.

Acute superior mesenteric vein thrombosis was first described in 1935 by Warren and Eberhardt. It is a potentially life-threatening condition, as it can lead to bowel ischemia and, ultimately, infarction. Its etiology may be primary or secondary to acquired prothrombotic conditions.

Anomalous development of the inferior vena cava: Case reports of agenesis and hypoplasia.

We reported the cases of two adult male patients who were admitted to our emergency room with abdominal pain and dyspnea caused by gallstones and pulmonary embolism respectively. During the radiological investigations, as collateral findings, we found two anomalous development of the inferior vena cava. These conditions affect about 4% of population and, although asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic, are associated with thrombotic manifestations as deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

Chronic expanding hematoma of the left flank mimicking a soft-tissue neoplasm.

Soft-tissue hematomas are a common clinical entity often associated with trauma, surgery, and bleeding disorders. In the majority of cases, soft-tissue hematomas acutely appear and spontaneously resolve, but sometimes, they present as swellings that slowly expand and progressively increase with time. We present a case of a 70-year-old man with chronic expanding hematoma of the left flank without any history of recent trauma or other medical disease.