Anomalous intraosseous venous drainage with bone edema and periosteal reaction: A rare entity to be aware of.

Varicose veins are associated with conditions that impair venous return, such as pregnancy, physical inactivity, valve failure and post-thrombotic syndrome. We report the case of a 50-year-old female patient with history of intermittent calf pain, worsening with prolonged standing posture. She had no previous medical history of either lower extremity trauma or infection.

Advanced MR Imaging for Knee Osteoarthritis: A Review on Local and Brain Effects.

Knee osteoarthritis is one of the leading causes of chronic disability worldwide and is a significant social and economic burden on healthcare systems; hence it has become essential to develop methods to identify patients at risk for developing knee osteoarthritis at an early stage. Standard morphological MRI sequences are focused mostly on alterations seen in advanced stages of osteoarthritis. However, they possess low sensitivity for early, subtle, and potentially reversible changes of the degenerative process.

Quantitative Evaluation of Meniscal Healing Process of Degenerative Meniscus Lesions Treated with Hyaluronic Acid: A Clinical and MRI Study.

Purpose: We aimed to evaluate clinical efficacy and healing effects of conservative management of degenerative meniscus lesions (DMLs) with a hyaluronic acid (HA) hydrogel.

Methods: Patients were subjected to two HA injections two weeks apart. Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC) and Patient's Global Assessment (PtGA) and Clinical Observer Global Assessment (CoGA) of the disease were assessed at baseline, 30, and 60 days after treatment.

Demographic and clinical differences between ankylosing spondylitis and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis: results from a multicentre retrospective study in the Lazio region of Italy.

Objectives: Axial spondyloarthritides (axSpA) are a group of disorders that share similar pathogenetic mechanisms and clinical picture. The aim of this retrospective multicentric study was to evaluate demographic and clinical differences between ankylosing spondylitis (AS) and non-radiographic axSpA (nr-axSpA) patients.

Methods: Patients from 7 rheumatological centres in the Lazio region of Italy were included from January 1st, 2010 to April 1st, 2018, if they had undergone pelvic and/or spine radiographs or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

Early intervertebral disc degeneration changes in asymptomatic weightlifters assessed by t1ρ-magnetic resonance imaging.

Study Design: Case-control study.

Objective: To evaluate early intervertebral disc degeneration quantified by T1ρ- and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in asymptomatic weightlifters compared with a healthy control group matched for sex and age.

Summary Of Background Data: Athletes consistently recruit or transfer high levels of repetitive forces through the spine, and MRI has documented a higher rate of intervertebral disc degeneration in athletes compared with matched controls.

Highly stable gel electrolytes for dye solar cells based on chemically engineered polymethacrylic hosts.

Four different species of ionically conductive polymers were synthesized and successfully implemented to formulate novel quasi-solid electrolytes for dye solar cells. A power conversion efficiency superior to 85% of the correspondent liquid electrolyte as well as an excellent cell's stability was demonstrated after 500 days of storage.

T1ρ magnetic resonance imaging quantification of early lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration in healthy young adults.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study using T1ρ magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of lumbar spine in healthy young adults.

Objective: To evaluate early intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) quantified by T1ρ- and T2-weighted MRI in asymptomatic young adults and to correlate T1ρ value with Pfirrmann degenerative grade, sex, and body mass index (BMI).

Summary Of Background Data: Intervertebral disc starts early to degenerate losing proteoglycan content in the nucleus pulposus (NP).

Equivalent clinical results of arthroscopic single-row and double-row suture anchor repair for rotator cuff tears: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Restoring the anatomical footprint may improve the healing and mechanical strength of repaired tendons. A double row of suture anchors increases the tendon-bone contact area, reconstituting a more anatomical configuration of the rotator cuff footprint.

Hypothesis: There is no difference in clinical and imaging outcome between single-row and double-row suture anchor technique repairs of rotator cuff tears.

Lung metastases from rectal adenocarcinoma: about the best diagnostic strategy.

A case of suspected lung metastases from colorectal adenocarcinoma is discussed. A diagnostic approach for follow-up of resected patients is proposed. It includes available diagnostic imaging for the characterization of metastatic pulmonary nodules together with methods for the differential diagnosis between primary malignant nodules and benign nodules.

Combined diagnostic imaging of transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract.

The case of a female patient with recurrent macroscopic hematuria and negative vesical and renal ultrasonography, is discussed. On urography a gross pyelocaliceal filling defect was visualized. Urographic findings were suggestive of the diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary.

Combined diagnostic imaging of adenomyomatosis of the gallbladder.

The consistency of a request for liver MRI and MR-cholangiopancreatography in a patient with an occasional US-finding of mural thickening of gallbladder fundus > or = 3 mm in size was assessed. The differential US diagnosis in case of focal mural thickening was analyzed in combination with the other findings to justify the radiologicoclinical reliability of the request. Overall, these findings suggested the diagnostic hypothesis of adenomyomatosis, then confirmed by a second level in-depth examination, namely liver MRI and MR-cholangiopancreatography.