Purpose: To estimate the levels of basal ganglia iron levels in Parkinson's disease (PD) using the PRIME MR sequence at 3.0 Tesla, in relation to patients' motor symptom severity.
Materials And Methods: Seventy patients with PD and 10 healthy controls underwent assessment of movement and MR imaging.
Genitourinary complications are relatively common in inflammatory bowel disease, with a reported incidence of 4-23%, although they more frequently occur in established disease. We present the case of a 12-year-old boy, already under investigation for short stature, who only developed florid symptoms of colitis after removal of a large staghorn calculus. In all cases of childhood nephrolithiasis, the possibility of underlying inflammatory bowel disease needs to be considered.
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