Prostate-specific Antigen Parameters and Prostate Health Index Enhance Prostate Cancer Prediction With the In-bore 3-T Magnetic Resonance Imaging-guided Transrectal Targeted Prostate Biopsy After Negative 12-Core Biopsy.

Objective: To assess prostate cancer (PCa) detection and prediction by combining the in-bore magnetic resonance imaging-guided transrectal targeted prostate biopsy (MRGB) with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) parameters and the Prostate Health Index (PHI) in case of negative 12-core standard biopsy.

Materials And Methods: A total of 112 men (2014-2016) underwent 3-T multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging and subsequent MRGB of Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) lesions 3-5. Ancillary PSA parameters (PSA ratio [%fPSA] and PSA density [PSAD]) and the PHI and PHI density (PHID) were recorded.

Critical shoulder angle combined with age predict five shoulder pathologies: a retrospective analysis of 1000 cases.

Background: Acromial morphology has previously been defined as a risk factor for some shoulder pathologies. Yet, study results are inconclusive and not all major shoulder diseases have been sufficiently investigated. Thus, the aim of the present study was to analyze predictive value of three radiological parameters including the critical shoulder angle, acromion index, and lateral acromion angle in relationship to symptomatic patients with either cuff tear arthropathy, glenohumeral osteoarthritis, rotator cuff tear, impingement, and tendinitis calcarea.

Osteogenesis imperfecta type III and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism result in severe bone loss: a case report.

We present the case of a 33-year-old male patient with multiple fractures and typical radiographical and clinical characteristics of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) type III. Furthermore, the patient has suffered from hypogonadotropic hypogonadism since childhood. On the basis of antiresorptive therapy, no further fractures occurred within several years.

Idiopathic pulmonary artery aneurysm.

A 60-year-old male being treated for chronic venous stasis ulcers presented with an asymptomatic pulmonary artery aneurysm involving the main pulmonary trunk and extending into both pulmonary arteries. He underwent successful resection of the aneurysm, and his chronic ulcerations recovered spontaneously. Surgical treatment of pulmonary artery aneurysm could be found in reports from Wilms and Sauerbruch dating from the early twenties of the last century.

Trisacryl gelatin microspheres versus polyvinyl alcohol particles in the preoperative embolization of bone neoplasms.

The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of trisacryl gelatin microspheres versus polyvinyl alcohol particles (PVA) in the preoperative embolization of bone neoplasms, on the basis of intraoperative blood loss quantified by the differences in preoperative and postoperative hematic levels of hemoglobin, hematocrit and erythrocytes count. From January 1997 to December 2002, preoperative embolization of bone tumors (either primary or secondary) was carried out in 49 patients (age range 12/78), 20 of whom were treated with trysacril gelatin microspheres (group A) and 29 with PVA particles (group B). The delay between embolization and surgery ranged from 1 to 13 days in group A and 1 to 4 days in group B.

Transbrachial stenting of a critical ostial arteria lusoria stenosis.

Purpose: To report the endovascular treatment of a critical ostial stenosis in an aberrant right subclavian artery (ARSA), a rare embryologic anomaly of the aortic arch.

Case Report: A 76-year-old woman presented with acute ischemia of her right forearm. Her medical history was notable for hyperlipidemia but otherwise negative for risk factors of atherosclerosis.

Imaging of chest trauma: radiological patterns of injury and diagnostic algorithms.

In patients after chest trauma, imaging plays a key role for both, the primary diagnostic work-up, and the secondary assessment of potential treatment. Despite its well-known limitations, the anteroposterior chest radiograph remains the starting point of the imaging work-up. Adjunctive imaging with computed tomography, that recently is increasingly often performed on multidetector computed tomography units, adds essential information not readily available on the conventional radiograph.

[Anterior sacral meningocele in pregnancy].

Anterior sacral meningocele is a rare condition characterized by the herniation of meningeal membranes and cerebrospinal fluid through a defect in the anterior aspect of the sacrum. We present the case of a 26-year-old patient with an anterior sacral meningocele which had been discovered during gynaecologic surgery because of a cystic pelvic mass. Subsequently, the patient underwent two pregnancies.

Elective and emergent endovascular treatment of subclavian artery aneurysms and injuries.

Purpose: To demonstrate our short and long-term results after transbrachial treatment of subclavian artery aneurysms and injuries with stent-grafts in elective and emergency settings.

Methods: Ten of 12 consecutive patients (6 men; mean age 63.8 years, range 38-80) were treated electively with commercially prepared endografts delivered via a transbrachial access to repair a subclavian artery aneurysm (n=3) or an injury from a misplaced central venous catheter (n=7).