The value of coronal view as a stand-alone assessment in women undergoing automated breast ultrasound.

Background: Aim of the study was to evaluate the value of automated breast ultrasound (AUS) in women with dense breast, in terms of reading times, diagnostic performance and interobserver agreement. The assessment of coronal images alone versus the complete multiplanar (MPR) views was evaluated.

Methods: Between August and October 2017, consecutive patients with dense breast that were referred to our Institute, for post-mammography ultrasound assessment, pre-operative assessment or follow-up of known benign lesions, were invited to undergo an additional study with AUS.

Real-time fusion-imaging in low back pain: a new navigation system for facet joint injections.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of the current study is to present our experience in lumbar spine interventional procedures performed with a newly developed multimodal echo-navigator (EcoNav) and to evaluate short-term clinical outcomes of a series of patients affected by facet joint disease (FJD) treated with steroid and anaesthetic injection under fusion-imaging guidance, compared to a cohort of patients that received the same treatment under computed tomography (CT) guidance.

Methods: Sixty-five consecutive patients (34 females; mean age 68.3 ± 12.

Vacuum assisted breast biopsy (VAB) excision of subcentimeter microcalcifications as an alternative to open biopsy for atypical ductal hyperplasia.

Objective: Atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH) is a proliferative lesion associated with a variable increased risk of breast malignancy, but the management of the patients is still not completely defined, with mandatory surgical excision in most cases. To report the results of the conservative management with mammographic checks of patients with ADH diagnosed by vacuum assisted breast biopsy (VAB), without residual calcifications.

Methods: The authors accessed the institutional database of radiological, surgical and pathological anatomy.

Internal transcribed spacer as a target to assess yeast biodiversity in Italian Taleggio PDO cheese.

Unlabelled: Three batches of soft smear-ripened Taleggio PDO cheese were made in Northern Italy during the summertime 2010. A total of 129 isolates cultured from cheese surface were examined by using PCR-based methods and sequencing of both the ITS1 region and D1 and D2 domains of the 26S rRNA gene. Sequence analysis of isolates brought to the identification of 6 species: Debaryomyces hansenii, Kluyveromyces lactis, Kluyveromyces marxianus, Yarrowia lipolytica, Pichia guilliermondii, and Torulaspora delbrueckii.

Patency file and apical transportation: an in vitro study.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the transportation produced at the apical foramen by the use of stainless steel and nickel-titanium K-files #10, #15, #20, and #25 as a patency file. Thirty human maxillary lateral incisors were transversally cut at 4 mm from the apex and mounted in square pieces of silicone with special marks to ensure repositioning of the specimens. The specimens were randomly divided in two equal groups of 15.