Comparison of ethanol and hypertonic saline as a single ıntracystic agent in the percutaneous treatment of liver hydatid cysts.

Purpose: In this study, the effects of hypertonic saline and ethanol as a single intracystic agents in the percutaneous treatment of liver hydatid cysts were compared.

Methods: The 50 patients were separated into two groups as those administered 30% hypertonic saline alone as the intracystic agent in percutaneous treatment (33 patients, 52 cysts), and those administered 96% ethanol alone (17 patients, 26 cysts). Both groups were compared in terms of percentage of cyst volume reduction, complications, and treatment success.

An evaluation with shear wave elastography of kidney elasticity in patients with familial Mediterranean fever.

Purpose: To investigate the changes in kidney elasticity in patients with familial Mediterranean fever using the non-invasive diagnostic method of shear wave elastography (SWE).

Methods: The kidney elasticity of 35 FMF patients and 23 healthy control subjects was evaluated with SWE. The relationships were evaluated of the SWE values with eGFR, microproteinuria, FMF severity score, number of attacks per month, and colchicine doses of the FMF patients.

Testes Parenchymal Shear Wave Elastography Findings in Varicocele.

Objective: To investigate the testicular parenchymal changes in patients with varicocele using shear wave elastography (SWE).

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Place And Duration Of Study: Department of Radiology, Hatay Mustafa Kemal, School of Medicine, Hatay, Turkey, between June and August 2021.

Posttravmatik frontoetmoidal mukopiyosel.

Paranasal sinus mucoceles are mucus-containing cystic structures with an epithelial lining that completely fills in the paranasal sinuses. Although they are benign in nature, they may result in the destruction of the surrounding bony structures over time. Clinical findings such as exophthalmia, visual impairment, and diplopia occur due to pressure of the fronto-ethmoidal mucocele on the orbita.

Congenital abnormalities of the ribs: evaluation with multidetector computed tomography.

Objective: To evaluate congenital abnormalities of ribs using multidetector computed tomography.

Methods: The retrospective study was conducted at Mustafa Kemal University Research Hospital, Hatay, Turkey and comprised data of patients aged 1-45 years who attended the Radiology Department for computed tomography of the thorax between January 2010 and July 2013. Multiplanar reconstructions, maximum intensity projections, and 3-dimensional images were acquired to investigate numerical and structural abnormalities of the ribs of the patients who underwent multidetector computed tomography for a variety of indications.

The relationship between coronary artery disease and pericoronary epicardial adipose tissue thickness.

Objectives: A retrospective study to investigate the relationship between epicardial adipose tissue thickness (EATT) and presence of coronary artery plaque, coronary artery disease (CAD) and CAD risk factors.

Methods: Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) coronary angiography images were reviewed. Left anterior decending artery, right coronary artery and left circumflex artery pericoronary EATT were measured.

Evaluation of ovarian reserve and function in female patients treated with oral isotretinoin for severe acne: an exploratory study.

Background: Isotretinoin affects the levels of female hormones and ovaries in patients with severe acne.

Objective: This study evaluated the effects of isotretinoin on the ovarian reserve and levels of female hormones in patients with severe acne.

Methods: Thirty-two female patients with severe acne were enrolled.

Traumatic fat necrosis of male breast.

Fat necrosis is a benign nonsuppurative inflammatory process that most commonly occurs in female breast. It is a rare condition in male breast. There are very few reports in the literature.

Pituitary volumes are reduced in patients with somatization disorder.

Objective: Despite of the suggested physiological relationship between somatoform disorder and disturbances in HPA axis function no volumetric study of pituitary volumes in somatization disorder has been carried out. Therefore, we aimed to use structural MRI to evaluate the pituitary volumes of the patients with somatization disorder.

Methods: Eighteen female patients with somatization disorder according to DSM-IV and same number of healthy controls were included into the study.

Role of the apparent diffusion coefficient measurement by diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging in the diagnosis of Fasciola hepatica in the liver.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the diagnostic role of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurement in the diagnosis of focal parenchymal lesions and to understand the discriminating role of the ADC value for differentiating Fasciola lesions from other focal liver lesions.

Materials And Methods: We measured ADC values of parenchymal lesions and liver parenchyma in 18 patients with Fasciola hepatica infestation at b 100, b 600, and b 1000 s/mm(2) gradients. We further measured average ADC values of hepatic metastases (n = 21), hepatocellular carcinomas (n = 21), cholangiocarcinomas (n = 7), hydatid cysts (n = 12), and focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) (n = 12) and compared them with average ADC values for Fasciola hepatica.

Hippocampus and amygdalar volumes in patients with somatization disorder.

In regard to somatization disorder which covers an important section of our patient population, there is no systematic structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) study in the literature. Therefore, we aimed to use structural MRI to evaluate the hippocampus amygdalar complex which is associated with both stress and regulation of emotion that are main basis clinical presentation of somatization disorder in the patients with somatization disorder. Totally 40 subjects (20 patients with somatization disorder and 20 healthy controls) were enrolled.

The role of ADC measurement in differential diagnosis of focal hepatic lesions.

Purpose: To evaluate the utility of apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) measurement in characterization of focal solid hepatic lesions and determine the role of ADC values in differentiation of solid benign and solid malignant hepatic lesions.

Materials And Methods: Between June 2006 and December 2010, a total of 95 focal solid hepatic lesions in 95 consecutive patients were evaluated by abdominal MRI. Diffusion weighted MRI was performed with b 100, b 600 and b 1000 gradients with ADC measurements.

Pituitary volumes in hypochondriac patients.

To date, no study has examined the pituitary volumes in patients with hypochondriasis. In the present study, we evaluated pituitary volumes in patients with hypochondriasis and healthy controls. Twenty individuals with hypochondriasis (ten males, ten females), aged 20 to 48 years, and healthy controls were included into the study.