Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), initially appreciated as a respiratory illness, is now known to affect many organs in the human body. Significant data has become available on muscle involvement, with creatinine kinase elevations present in a significant percentage of patients. For those with suspected COVID-19-associated myositis, the imaging modality of choice has been gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging; however, the use of technitium-99 m bone scan has not been previously reported.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: MFG-E8 is a novel endometrial protein with conserved functions in tissue remodeling and angiogenesis in non-uterine tissues. Our aims were: 1. To examine the presence of MFG-E8 protein in the human endometrium during the window of implantation, in human endometrial cell lines, in human placental tissue at different gestational ages, and in murine implantation sites during early gestation; and 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a 51-year-old postmenopausal woman with an angiolipoleiomyoma, a rare mesenchymal uterine tumor, and describe its sonographic appearance. The clinical presentation of these invariably benign tumors often mimics that of uterine leiomyomas, making angiolipoleiomyomas difficult to diagnose correctly before histopathologic evaluation. In this case, sonography performed to determine the cause of the patient's vaginal bleeding showed a sharply marginated, brightly echogenic solid mass adjacent to the echogenic endometrium, without associated shadowing.
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