Filling defects in the pancreatic duct on endoscopic retrograde pancreatography.

Filling defects in the pancreatic duct are a frequent finding during endoscopic retrograde pancreatography (ERP) and have a variety of causes. Some filling defects may be artifactual or related to technical factors and, once their origin is recognized, can be disregarded. Others may be due to acute changes of pancreatitis and should prompt more careful injection of contrast material into the duct.

Color Doppler sonographic imaging in the assessment of upper-extremity deep venous thrombosis.

Color Doppler flow imaging with linear-array transducers was performed in 130 extremities in 91 patients with suspected upper-extremity deep venous thrombosis. Thrombi were detected in 39 studies (30%). Eighty-four patients had either imaging examinations (22 studies comprising venography in 20 patients, CT in one, and MR imaging in one) or clinical follow-up (99 studies) for correlation.

Choledochal cyst: findings on cholangiopancreatography with emphasis on ectasia of the common channel.

Choledochal cyst is a congenital malformation of the biliary tree that is unusual but by no means rare. During a 13-year period, we encountered eight patients with choledochal cysts who were evaluated with cholangiopancreatography. All of our cases showed an anomalous union of the pancreatic duct and common bile duct, resulting in a long common channel.

Correlation of computed tomography and postmortem findings of a diffuse astrocytoma: a case report.

Diffusely infiltrating astrocytomas often present diagnostic difficulties. We herein correlate the radiologic and postmortem findings of a diffuse astrocytoma and conclude that recognition of abnormal bilateral and fairly symmetric enlargement and increased density of normal structures in CT scans may lead to an antemortem diagnosis of the tumor.