Association of abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness with hepatic steatosis, liver enzymes, and serum lipids in obese children.

Introduction: Childhood obesity can cause hyperlipidemia and hepatic steatosis at early age and chronic disease complications in adult life. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between abdominal subcutaneous fat thickness (ASFT) and hepatic steatosis, serum lipid and transaminase levels in obese children.

Population And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted with children (aged 4-18 years) who presented to outpatient clinic due to obesity.

A Proposal for Determining a Diagnostic Cutoff Value of a New Ultrasonographic Index of Retronychia Inversely Correlating with Disease Severity.

Background: Ultrasonography has demonstrated a shortening of the distance between the origin of the nail plate and the base of the distal phalanx in retronychia. The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical and ultrasonographic features of retronychia.

Methods: We evaluated the clinical findings in 18 patients with retronychia, along with the ratio of ultrasonographic distance a, extending between the nail plate origin and the base of the distal phalanx, to distance b, perpendicular to distance a, extending between the nail plate origin and the upper margin of the distal phalanx.

Use of Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient in Gastric Cancer Staging.

Background: The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC), the quantitative parameter of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI), is a measure for this restricted diffusion, and its role in gastric cancer (GC) including distinguishing malignant segments from healthy gastric wall, metastatic perigastric lymph nodes from benign nodes and evaluating response of GC to neoadjuvant chemotherapy has been investigated in previous studies. Evidence suggests that ADC may also be of help in assessment of aggressiveness and preoperative staging of gastric cancer, which needs to be explored in further studies.

Objective: To investigate the role of DW-MRI and its quantitative parameter, ADC in staging of gastric cancer.

Measurement of the depth of facial nerve at the level of stylomastoid foramen using MR imaging in Bell's palsy.

Objectives: To investigate whether the depth of the facial nerve from the skin surface as it exits the stylomastoid foramen differs between the paralyzed and unaffected sides in patients with Bell's palsy.

Methods: Forty-three patients (23 females, 20 males; mean age 43.8 ± 15.

Can MR Enterography and Diffusion-Weighted Imaging Predict Disease Activity Assessed by Simple Endoscopic Score for Crohn's Disease?

Purpose: Monitoring Crohn's disease (CD) activity has a crucial importance, especially for evaluating treatment efficacy. Magnetic resonance enterography (MRE) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) or their combination may represent potential non-invasive tools for this purpose. This study aimed to examine DWI and MRE for their potential to differentiate between different grades of ileocolonic CD activity.

Adrenal mass of unusual etiology: Ewing sarcoma in a young man.

Ewing sarcoma and peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor belong to the Ewing sarcoma (ES) family of tumors originating from a primitive neural tube. We report a 31-year-old man who was admitted to the urology clinic with complaints of fever, nausea, and dysuria. A right-sided adrenal mass was detected during ultrasonography.

Frequency of abnormal pulmonary computed tomography findings in asylum seeking refugees in Turkey.

Background: Lungs are particularly vulnerable to both acute infections, including TB, and chronic diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as well as to malignancies, all of which require particular attention during war times in which health conditions are far from optimal.

Methods: This retrospective cross-sectional study included 1149 refugees that underwent thoracic computed tomography (CT) for respiratory symptoms between March 2013 and February 2015 in Turkey.

Results: At least one positive CT finding was seen in 231 (20.

Management of chronic cervical lymphadenopathy in children.

Background: It is important how to evaluate chronic cervical lymphadenopathies and when to perform excisional biopsy in children. We tried to analyze the usefulness of clinical and ultrasonographic findings in order to differentiate malign lymphadenopathies from benign ones.

Methods: This prospective study included 100 children who had cervical lymphadenopathies, larger than 1.

Carotid intima media thickness in obese children: is there an association with hyperlipidemia?

Background: We aimed to evaluate the association between hyperlipidemia and carotid intima media thickness in obese children, compared to non-obese ones.

Methods: Two hundred (110 girls, 90 boys) children aged between 6 and 15 years participated in this study. The obese group included 53 girls, 47 boys whose body mass indices (BMI) above 95th percentile, the control group included 57 girls, 43 boys who had normal weight.