Proximal femoral medullary canal diameters in Indians: correlation between anatomic, radiographic, and computed tomographic measurements.

Purpose: To compare anatomic, radiographic, and computed tomographic (CT) measurements of the proximal femur in an Indian population.

Methods: 26 left and 24 right dried cadaveric femurs were obtained. Each femur was divided into segments at 10 cross-sectional levels from proximal to distal.

Computed tomographic pulmonary angiography: utility in acute pulmonary embolism in providing additional information and making alternative clinical diagnosis.

Objective: To evaluate the role of computed tomographic (CT) pulmonary angiography (CT-PA) in detecting additional information that may help in making an alternative clinical diagnosis in patients referred to CT for a suspected acute pulmonary embolism (PE).

Materials And Methods: 50 patients (34 males, 16 females) in the age group of 18-72 years (mean 42.3 years), having high clinical suspicion of PE, underwent CTPA over a 2 year period.

MDCT venography in the evaluation of inferior vena cava in Budd-Chiari syndrome.

Objective: To assess the role of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) venography in the evaluation of the inferior vena cava (IVC) in Budd-Chiari syndrome (BCS), its accuracy as compared to digital subtraction venography (DSV) and the potential of this technique to replace venography for the definitive diagnosis of BCS.

Methods: Twenty-five suspected cases of BCS were prospectively enrolled in this study and underwent both MDCT venography and DSV. Two observers independently evaluated and graded both the axial and reformatted MDCT images for the presence, site, degree and length of IVC narrowing.

Image guided percutaneous splenic interventions.

Aim: The objective of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of image-guided percutaneous splenic interventions as diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective review of our interventional records from July 2001 to June 2006. Ninety-five image-guided percutaneous splenic interventions were performed after informed consent in 89 patients: 64 men and 25 women who ranged in age from 5 months to 71 years (mean, 38.

A clinico-aetiological and ultrasonographic study of Peyronie's disease.

Background: Peyronie's disease is a localised connective tissue disorder that involves the tunica albuginea of the penis. Although long recognised as an important clinical entity of the male genitalia, the aetiology of this disease has remained poorly understood.

Methods: The epidemiology and clinical presentation of Peyronie's disease during a 10-year period was evaluated.

Role of tissue harmonic imaging in focal hepatic lesions: comparison with conventional sonography.

Background: The purpose of the present study was to compare iissue harmonic imaging (THI) and conventional sonography in focal hepatic lesions.

Methods: Fifty patients with focal hepatic lesions were enrolled for study. Conventional grayscale and THI was performed in all the patients and two sets of images of the lesions were recorded (one each for THI and conventional) and assessed for fluid-solid differentiation, detail and overall image quality.

Inflammatory pseudotumor of gall bladder fossa of liver.

Inflammatory pseudotumor has been described in the lung, liver and other sites, but pseudotumors of the gall bladder fossa have not been reported earlier. We report a 39-year-old woman with inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver in the gall bladder fossa that resembled carcinoma gall bladder.

Pulmonary and hematological alterations in idiopathic ulcerative colitis.

Background: Patients with idiopathic ulcerative colitis (IUC) may suffer from one or more extraintestinal manifestations. We decided to prospectively study the prevalence of extraintestinal manifestations among patients with IUC, with special reference to pulmonary and hematological alterations.

Methods: Fifty-one consecutive patients with IUC attending the gastroenterology services of our tertiary-care referral center were evaluated prospectively.

Ultrasound-guided percutaneous catheter drainage of splenic abscess.

Splenic abscess is an uncommon clinical condition which is usually treated with splenectomy with its attendant risks. Image-guided percutaneous drainage of splenic abscesses has been described in adults. The case of a 12-year-old boy with a splenic abscess who was successfully treated with ultrasound-guided percutaneous catheter drainage is presented.

Role of sonography in the diagnosis of gallbladder perforation.

Purpose: Gallbladder perforation is a dreaded complication of acute cholecystitis that is associated with a high mortality rate. Early detection of gallbladder perforation reduces the associated mortality and morbidity rates. The purpose of this study was to highlight the role of sonography in the diagnosis of gallbladder perforation and to compare the diagnostic accuracy of sonography with that of CT.

Emphysema in heavy smokers with normal chest radiography. Detection and quantification by HCRT.

Purpose: To determine the severity and extent of emphysema in heavy smokers by high-resolution CT (HRCT) and to correlate the findings with spirometric tests (STs) and symptomatology.

Material And Methods: Fifty adult smokers with a mean age of 53 years with a smoking history of more than 30 pack years and normal chest radiographs underwent HRCT of the chest and ST (FEV1, FEV1/FVC, PEFR). Among these, 22 had symptoms of pulmonary disease and 28 were asymptomatic.