Evaluating Postoperative Outcomes and Investigating the Usefulness of EU-TIRADS Scoring in Managing Pediatric Thyroid Nodules Bethesda 3 and 4.

Objective: The aim was to assess postoperative outcomes in pediatric thyroid nodules with atypia of undetermined significance (AUS/FLUS) or suspicious for a follicular neoplasm (SFN) and their respective the European-Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (EU-TIRADS) scores.

Methods: Forty-four pediatric patients at a single center with thyroid nodules classified as AUS/FLUS or SFN from August 2019 to December 2022 were retrospectively reviewed. Data on demographics, thyroid function, nodule size, and ultrasonographic features were collected.

Evaluation of aortic arch morphologies by computed tomographic angiography in Turkish population.

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the aortic arch morphologies in the Turkish population using the computed tomography angiography technique.

Methods: Between August 2009 and August 2019, a total of 2,037 (1,003 males, 1,034 females; mean age: 52.8±20.

Interrelationship between liver T2*-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and acoustic radiation force impulse elastography measurement results and plasma ferritin levels in children with β-thalassemia major.

Purpose: To evaluate correlation and agreement between T2*-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (T2*-wMRI), acoustic radiation force impulse elastography (ARFI-e) measurement results of liver and plasma ferritin levels (PFLs) in children with β-thalassemia major (β-TM).

Methods: The study included 40 pediatric patients (aged 64-216 months; 14 girls, 26 boys) receiving blood transfusion and chelation therapy. To detect the severity of liver iron overload (LIO) and concomitant parenchymal fibrosis, T2*-wMRI and ARFI-e measurements were performed from the right lobe segments.

Relationship between Quantitative Sonographic Measurements and Serum Biochemical Parameters in Childhood Obesity.

Purpose: We investigated the relationship between sonographic measurements of fatty liver and body mass index standard deviation score (BMI-Z score), abdominal wall fat thickness (AWFT), and serum biochemical parameters in childhood obesity.

Methods: Anthropometric, laboratory, and ultrasonography data were obtained from 174 children with BMI-Z score >1. After the qualitative grading of hepatosteatosis (grades 0-3), the quantitative liver-kidney echogenicity ratio (LKER) was calculated using a software tool.

A Mathematical Model to Predict Human Microcephaly.

Background: Microcephaly (MiC) is defined as head circumference (HC) dimensions smaller than the normal standards.

Objective: To detect MiC with a mathematical formula.

Materials And Methods: The 0 to 5 years head HC percentile data for girls and boys reported by the World Health Organization were used.

Renal elastography measurements in children with acute glomerulonephritis.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the acoustic radiation force impulse elastography (ARFI-e) values of the renal cortical parenchyma in children with acute glomerulonephritis (AGN) and healthy children, and to determine a cut-off point for the diagnosis of AGN.

Methods: This prospective study included 30 children with biopsy-proven AGN and 30 healthy children. All the children underwent renal ARFI-e measurements.

Overview of the Pulmonary Manifestations in Patients with Autosomal Recessive Cutis Laxa Type IC.

Autosomal recessive cutis laxa type IC (ARCL1C) is characterized by cutis laxa accompanied by pulmonary, gastrointestinal, urinary, musculoskeletal involvement caused by biallelic mutations in latent transforming growth factor-beta binding protein 4 () gene. The overall prognosis is poor, and most patients die in infancy because of severe pulmonary emphysema (PE). We aimed to evaluate 3 ARCL1C patients, 2 of whom are still alive and in their childhood period, from 2 unrelated families with novel mutations, to demonstrate the clinical variability of pulmonary involvement.

Posterior fossa horns; a new calvarial finding of mucopolysaccharidoses with well-known cranial MRI features.

Background/aim: Mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS) are a group of hereditary metabolic diseases. The aim of this study was to share the previously unreported calvarial finding of internal hypertrophy of the occipitomastoid sutures (IHOMS) together with some other well-known cranial MRI findings in this patient series.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective evaluation was conducted of 80 cranial MRIs of patients who had been diagnosed and followed up with MPS from 2008 to 2019 in our center.

An adolescent case of extensive Behçet`s disease successfully treated with Infliximab.

Isıyel E, Bakkaloğlu S, Oğuz D, Yenicesu İ, Boyunağa Ö, Özdemir Y, Damar Ç, Kandur Y, Akçaboy M, Aslan AT, Şişmanlar T, Hasanoğlan E, Buyan N. An adolescent case of extensive Behçet`s disease successfully treated with Infliximab. Turk J Pediatr 2019; 61: 585-588.

Esophageal Atresia and Thenar Hypoplasia Associated with Asymmetric Crying Face.

Asymmetric crying face (ACF) is a minor congenital anomaly that is often associated with a high rate of major malformations and may be considered an indication of a syndromic clinical presentation. Here, we report a 21-month-old male presenting with left- sided ACF, thenar hypoplasia, and esophageal atresia. Ultrasonographic images of the volar surface of the left hand evidenced the absence of muscle tissue around the thenar prominence at the level of the first metacarpal bone.

Association between deep neck space abscesses and internal carotid artery narrowing in pediatric patients.

Background/aim: Our aim was to interpret the effects of deep neck space abscesses on the adjacent carotid artery according to abscess location, as well as to determine narrowing by calculating the mean stenosis ratios.Materials and methods: Neck computed tomography scans and clinical data of 45 children with neck abscesses were evaluated retrospectively for abscess location and internal carotid artery narrowing. The lumen areas of the carotid arteries were measured from standard levels, and stenosis ratios were calculated with two different techniques.

Hepatic Complications of Umbilical Venous Catheters in the Neonatal Period: The Ultrasound Spectrum.

Objectives: Umbilical venous catheterization is commonly used in the neonatal period; however, it has some complications. In this study, we evaluated neonates who underwent umbilical venous catheterization and developed hepatic complications. Furthermore, we aimed to define all of the possible lesions and to clarify the imaging findings of umbilical venous catheter-induced hepatic injury.

A Newborn with an Alternative Porto-Caval Shunt.

Background: Absent ductus venosus (ADV) is a rare condition, but it should be known that this embryonic anomaly may be detected by fetal echocardiographic or newborn ultrasound examinations.

Case Report: We present a baby with an ADV and an accompanying alternative porto-caval shunt between the right portal vein and inferior vena cava detected on postnatal ultrasound examination.

Conclusions: Variations in the fetal umbilical or porto-systemic circulations should be detected by fetal or newborn ultrasound examinations and kept in mind before common interventions such as UV catheterizations.

The effect of alfuzosin on renal resistive index, urinary electrolytes and β2 microglobulin levels and TGF β-1 levels of kidney tissue in rats with unilateral ureteropelvic junction obstruction.

Background: In this study, it was aimed to determine the effects of alfuzosin on experimentally generated unilateral partial ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPO) in rats.

Materials And Methods: Thirty Long-Evans rats were randomly allocated into five groups. In control group (C), nothing was performed; in group Sham (S) only laparotomy was done; in Alfuzosin group (A) only alfuzosin was administered for two weeks (10 mg/kg/day p.

Juvenile Nasopharyngeal Angiofibroma: Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings.

Purpose: Juvenile nasopharyngeal angiofibroma (JNA) is a rare tumor that exhibits a predictable spreading pattern. Radiologist's prior knowledge on the tumor's characteristics aids in establishing a diagnosis. We aimed to report the characteristic Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) findings and the spread patterns of JNA.

Multiple liver masses in a patient with breast cancer, metastasis or not? An unexpected diagnosis: hepatic fascioliasis. A case report and overview of the literature from Turkey.

A patient who underwent mastectomy of the left breast owing to breast cancer was referred to our department for abdominal ultrasonography during her routine check-up. Radiological examinations demonstrated multiple masses that tended to form clusters in the liver parenchyma, and the lesions were initially thought to represent metastases from the breast cancer. Multisite biopsies and serological tests confirmed the diagnosis of infestation.

Soluble Endoglin Level Increase Occurs Prior to Development of Subclinical Structural Vascular Alterations in Diabetic Adolescents.

Objective: Soluble endoglin (S-endoglin) has been implicated as a potential marker of endothelial dysfunction (ED) and was reported to be elevated in diabetic adults, correlating with the severity of diabetic vasculopathy. However, circulating S-endoglin and its association with other markers of ED have not been formerly analyzed in the first decade of diabetes onset in adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM).

Methods: Fifty-eight adolescents with moderately/poorly controlled T1DM were included in this study and twenty-nine healthy adolescents served as controls.

Imaging features of Burkitt lymphoma in pediatric patients.

Burkitt lymphoma is an aggressive and rapidly growing tumor that is curable and highly sensitive to chemotherapy. It can affect almost every tissue in the body, producing various clinical presentations and imaging appearances, according to the predilection of the different subtypes for certain sites. Awareness of its diagnostically specific imaging appearances plays an important role in rapid detection and treatment.

Non-infantile variant of desmoplastic ganglioglioma: Conventional and advanced MR imaging characteristics.

Desmoplastic infantile ganglioglioma is a paediatric brain tumor that is commonly seen in the infantile age group. Literature on the non-infantile variant of this low-grade supratentorial neoplasm is very scarce, except for a few case reports. Herein, we report a case of desmoplastic non-infantile ganglioglioma occurring at the age of 6 years and describe its conventional and advanced magnetic resonance imaging characteristics.