Stent-assisted coiling of unruptured intracranial aneurysms: long-term follow-up in 164 patients with 183 aneurysms.

Purpose: Stent-assisted coiling (SAC) is increasingly used to treat complex unruptured intracranial aneurysms (UIA) including wide-necked and fusiform IA. However, few data are available over the long-term results of this technique. We report our 9-year-experience of SAC of UIA.

Routine ultrasound screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm among 65- and 75-year-old men in a city of 200,000 inhabitants.

Unruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is seldom recognized. Thus it is difficult to know whether the incidence of AAA in the general population is high enough to warrant routine screening at least in men after a certain age. Ultrasound screening studies to evaluate the incidence of AAA have been carried out in several English-speaking and Scandinavian countries.

[Positron emission tomography in the evaluation of intrathoracic lymphatic extension of non-small cell bronchial cancer. A preliminary study of 30 patients].

Current methods for evaluating the mediastinum include chest radiography, computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance (MR) imaging and mediastinoscopy. Despite advances in morphologic imaging, some lung cancer patients are found to have unresectable disease at surgery. In contrast to CT scan or MR imaging, which depend primarily on anatomic and morphological criteria, positron emission tomography (PET) with 18fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) depends mainly of the metabolic characteristics of a tissue for the diagnosis of disease.

Percutaneous management of enterocutaneous fistulas.

Objective: Our objective was to evaluate retrospectively the results of percutaneous catheter management of enterocutaneous fistulas.

Subjects And Methods: From 1983 to 1995, 147 patients with enterocutaneous fistulas were referred to our department after at least 1 month of unsuccessful medical treatment. One hundred eleven of these patients (76%) had developed fistulas after surgery.