Pregnancy in a rudimentary horn: multicenter's MRI features of a rare condition.

Purpose: To describe the MRI features of rudimentary horn pregnancy (RHP) with surgical correlations.

Methods: Nine women with a RHP underwent preoperative pelvic MRI. MRI protocol included T2- (n = 9), T1- (n = 7), and fat-suppressed contrast-enhanced T1-weighted sequences (n = 4).

How to differentiate acute pelvic inflammatory disease from acute appendicitis ? A decision tree based on CT findings.

Purpose: To construct a decision tree based on CT findings to differentiate acute pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) from acute appendicitis (AA) in women with lower abdominal pain and inflammatory syndrome.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective study was approved by our institutional review board and informed consent was waived. Contrast-enhanced CT studies of 109 women with acute PID and 218 age-matched women with AA were retrospectively and independently reviewed by two radiologists to identify CT findings predictive of PID or AA.

Assessment of Strangulation in Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction on the Basis of Combined CT Findings: Implications for Clinical Care.

Purpose To determine which computed tomography (CT) findings or combinations of findings can help to accurately identify strangulation in adhesive small bowel obstruction (SBO). Materials and Methods Contrast agent-enhanced CT findings in a cohort of 256 patients consecutively admitted for adhesive SBO, with a delay of less than 24 hours between CT and surgery for the operated patients, were reviewed independently by two radiologists, with consensus by a third, to assess CT findings commonly associated with strangulation. The reference standard for strangulation was surgery.