Prognostic factors and the value of radiographic osteoarthritis for persistent complaints after referral for ankle radiography.

Background: Ankle symptoms are a common reason to consult the general practitioner and often persist for years. In a population referred for ankle radiography, the prevalence of radiographic osteoarthritis (OA) is substantial, but its additional predictive value for persistent symptoms is unknown. Therefore, we examined the prognosis of symptoms 2-3 years after referral for ankle radiography, assessed clinical prognostic factors, and the additional predictive value of radiographic OA for persistent ankle complaints.

Letter to the Editor on "Radiologic serosal invasion sign as a new criterion of T4a gastric cancer on computed tomography: diagnostic performance and prognostic significance in patients with advanced gastric cancer".

We provide commentary on the paper by You et al., which proposed the 'serosal invasion sign' as a new criterion for T4a gastric cancer on CT. We clarify the anatomical relationship between the perigastric vessels and the serosa, correcting for an anatomical oversight in the original figures.

Feasibility of clinical studies of chemical exchange saturation transfer magnetic resonance imaging of prostate cancer at 7 T.

Chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) has been explored for differentiation between tumour and benign tissue in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. With ultrahigh field strengths such as 7-T, the increase of spectral resolution and sensitivity could allow for selective detection of amide proton transfer (APT) at 3.5 ppm and a group of compounds that resonate at 2 ppm (i.

Prevalence of radiographic ankle osteoarthritis in different subgroups of patients referred for ankle radiography.

Background: Ankle osteoarthritis(OA) has detrimental effects on physical health and has a relatively early disease onset compared to OA in other joints. However, the prevalence of radiographic ankle OA in different subgroups of patients referred for ankle radiography remains unknown. Therefore, we aimed to determine the prevalence of radiographic talocrural, subtalar and talonavicular OA(Kellgren-Lawrence scale ≥2) in a population referred for ankle radiography.

Additional surgical procedures and perioperative morbidity in post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for metastatic testicular cancer in two intermediate volume hospitals.

Purpose: To evaluate the perioperative morbidity of PC-RPLND in two intermediate volume centers and to identify predictors of high morbidity.

Methods: Retrospective analysis of 124 patients treated with open PC-RPLND at two tertiary referral centers between 2001 and 2018. Perioperative morbidity was determined by analyzing additional surgical procedures, intra-operative blood loss, and postoperative complications.

Outcome after pollicization: comparison of patients with mild and severe longitudinal radial deficiency.

Background: Pollicization of the index finger is a well-established treatment in type IIIB to type V hypoplastic thumbs. However, there is a lack of quantitative outcome studies, and little is known about the outcome differences between patients with mild and severe longitudinal radial deficiencies. Therefore, the aim of this study was to quantitatively assess and compare outcome after pollicization in severe and mild longitudinal radial deficiency and compare outcome to healthy controls.