Combined use of virtual monochromatic images and projection-based metal artifact reduction methods in evaluation of total knee arthroplasty.

Objectives: To evaluate the effect of the combined use of virtual monochromatic imaging (VMI) and projection-based metal artifact reduction (PB-MAR) methods on further artifact reduction and image quality in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) patients.

Methods: Fifty-seven knee joints from 36 patients who had a previous history of TKA for bilateral or unilateral knee joints were included in this study. Four sets of images were compared between non-MAR, PB-MAR, VMI, and VMI + PB-MAR.

Imaging features of left ovarian and renal venous aneurysms: two case reports and literature review.

Venous aneurysms rarely occur in the visceral veins. We report two extremely rare cases of venous aneurysms, one of the ovarian vein and the other one of the renal vein. The aneurysms were depicted on grayscale and color Doppler ultrasonography as anechoic saccular structures with compressibility and blood flow.

Multidetector computed tomography of iliac vein variation: prevalence and classification.

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of iliac venous variations and to classify the variations using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT).

Materials And Methods: MDCT images of 2,488 patients were retrospectively reviewed. Iliac venous variations were documented and classified with regard to internal iliac vein (IIV) drainage patterns, the presence of interiliac communicating veins and inferior vena cava (IVC) anomalies associated with iliac venous variations.

Unilateral renal oncocytosis and combined hybrid tumor: a case report and review of the literature.

Renal oncocytosis is a very rare cause of multiple renal masses. Imaging features of renal oncocytosis and combined tumors have rarely been reported. Here, we describe a case of unilateral left renal oncocytosis and a combined hybrid tumor between chromophobe renal cell carcinoma and oncocytoma, which were depicted on CT and MR imaging as multiple enhancing solid masses with one dominant mass.

Right double inferior vena cava associated with retrocaval ureter: computed tomographic findings in two cases.

Two cases of right double inferior vena cava (RDIVC) were observed on computed tomography. In one case, the duplicated IVCs were both located to the right of the abdominal aorta and were nearly on the same coronal plane. In the other case, the right IVC showed partial duplication.