Evidence Suggesting the End of Universal Domestic Asbestos Exposure in Metsovo, NW Greece.

Background: Inhabitants of Metsovo, NW Greece, had been domestically exposed to asbestos from a gradually abandoned whitewash ("luto") that resulted in a declining epidemic of malignant mesothelioma.

Objectives: We aimed to evaluate whether other sources of asbestos exposure exist following "luto" abandonment.

Methods: Chest computed tomography (CT) and bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) were used to evaluate residual asbestos exposure in younger Metsovites through the identification of pleural calcifications and asbestos bodies, respectively.

High-resolution heavily T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for evaluation of the pituitary stalk in children with ectopic neurohypophysis.

Background: In anterior pituitary deficiency, patients with non visible pituitary stalk have more often multiple deficiencies and persistent deficiency than patients with visible pituitary stalk.

Objective: To compare the diagnostic value of a high-resolution heavily T2-weighted sequence to 1.5-mm-thick unenhanced and contrast-enhanced sagittal T1-weighted sequences to assess the presence of the pituitary stalk in children with ectopic posterior pituitary gland.

Abnormalities of brain neural circuits related to obesity: A Diffusion Tensor Imaging study.

Purpose: Increased Body-Mass-Index (BMI) has been associated with brain atrophy in both gray and white matter structures. However, little is known concerning the integrity of white matter tracts in obesity. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the pattern of changes in white matter microstructure in human adiposity.

Diffusion tensor imaging in children with tuberous sclerosis complex: tract-based spatial statistics assessment of brain microstructural changes.

Background: There is evidence of microstructural changes in normal-appearing white matter of patients with tuberous sclerosis complex.

Objective: To evaluate major white matter tracts in children with tuberous sclerosis complex using tract-based spatial statistics diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) analysis.

Materials And Methods: Eight children (mean age ± standard deviation: 8.

Multimodal imaging evaluation of excessive daytime sleepiness in Parkinson's disease.

Purpose Of The Study: The multimodal imaging investigation of excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) in Parkinson's disease (PD). The role of dopaminergic treatment and other clinical parameters was also evaluated.

Materials And Methods: Seventeen non-demented PD patients with EDS (PD-EDS) and 17 PD patients without EDS were enrolled.