Mastitis and More: A Pictorial Review of the Red, Swollen, and Painful Breast.

Clinically, acute mastitis presents as a red, swollen, and painful breast. Targeted ultrasound can be performed to evaluate the extent of infection and for an underlying abscess. Noncomplicated mastitis or a small fluid collection may respond to oral antibiotics without further intervention, but a larger or more complex abscess may require single or serial percutaneous aspiration.

Combination Therapies: Quantifying the Effects of Transarterial Embolization on Microwave Ablation Zones.

Purpose: To quantify the effect of transarterial embolization on microwave (MW) ablations in an in vivo porcine liver model.

Materials And Methods: Hepatic arteriography and cone-beam computed tomography (CT) scans were performed in 6 female domestic swine. Two lobes were embolized to an endpoint of substasis with 100-300-μm microspheres.

Complex Inferior Vena Cava Filter Retrieval Complicated by Migration of Filter Fragment into the Aorta and Subsequent Distal Embolization.

In 2005, a 48-year-old man with a spinal cord injury had an inferior vena cava filter placed for recurrent deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. He was referred for filter retrieval after a computed tomography scan demonstrated caval stenosis and 2 fractured filter arms, 1 in a pulmonary artery and 1 penetrating into the retroperitoneum and impinging on the aorta. During retrieval, 1 arm was inadvertently advanced into the aorta, and embolization of the arm occurred to the left profunda femoris artery.

Percutaneous microwave ablation of hepatic tumors: prospective evaluation of postablation syndrome and postprocedural pain.

Purpose: To prospectively investigate the frequency and severity of postablation syndrome (PAS) and postprocedural pain in a cohort of patients undergoing hepatic microwave ablation.

Materials And Methods: From March 2009 to November 2011, 54 consecutive patients undergoing microwave ablation for liver tumors were enrolled. A questionnaire was administered to investigate PAS and pain at 1, 7, and 40 days after ablation.

Tumor ablation: common modalities and general practices.

Tumor ablation is a minimally invasive technique that is commonly used in the treatment of tumors of the liver, kidney, bone, and lung. During tumor ablation, thermal energy is used to heat or cool tissue to cytotoxic levels (less than -40°C or more than 60°C). An additional technique is being developed that targets the permeability of the cell membrane and is ostensibly nonthermal.