The Value of Hormone Receptor Assessment in Ultrasound Guided Core Needle Biopsy of the Breast.

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in Western countries after skin tumors. Successful treatment depends on many factors, relies on clinical examination, diagnostic procedures, pathologic evaluation, and good therapy decision. The Pathologic diagnosis should be the determining factor in the decision on therapeutic approach.

A case of transient constrictive pericarditis in a 42-year-old patient.

We report a case of 42 year old patient with acute idiopathic pericarditis in whom we describe transient cardiac constriction, consisting of the temporary development of features of constrictive pericarditis with subsequent return to normality after medical therapy alone. After a mean of 6 months, there have been no recurrences of constrictive physiology or clinical symptoms. The results of our study suggest that patients who have constrictive features early in the course of their illness and are hemodynamically stable should be considered for a trial of conservative therapy before pericardiectomy is pursued.

Evaluation of circle of willis aneurysms with spiral computed tomographic angiography.

The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate the specificity and sensitivity of spiral computed tomographic angiograohy (SCTA) in the detection of intracranial aneurysms. Patients were included in this study on the ground of the SCTA, digital subtraction angiography, magnetic resonance angiography, neurosurgeons operative findings and autopsy reports. Scanning protocol was slice thickness of 1mm, reconstruction interval of 0.

[Spiral CT angiography in practice].

Incidence of vascular diseases and development of new radiologic techniques in the last three decades has given strong impuls for introduction of non-invasive vascular diagnostic methods. Thanks to the introduction of Doppler ultrasound, new types of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) scanners, non-invasive vascular diagnostic methods are replacing conventional invasive (catheter) angiographic methods. Computed tomographic angiography (CTA) is a noninvasive vascular diagnostic method based on continuous scanning with CT scanner during intravenous application of contrast material.