UK Reproducibility Network open and transparent research practices survey dataset.

Openness and transparency in the research process are a prerequisite to the production of high quality research outputs. Efforts to maximise these features have substantially accelerated in recent years, placing open and transparent research practices at the forefront of funding and related priorities, and encouraging investment in resources and infrastructure to enable such practices. Despite these efforts, there has been no systematic documentation of current practices, infrastructure, or training and resources that support open and transparent research in the UK.

Hepatocellular cancer response to radiofrequency tumor ablation: contrast-enhanced ultrasound.

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is increasingly being used as percutaneous treatment of choice for patients with early stage hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). An accurate assessment of the RFA therapeutic response is of crucial importance, considering that a complete tumor ablation significantly increases patient survival, whereas residual unablated tumor calls for additional treatment. Imaging modalities play a pivotal role in accomplishing this task, but ultrasound (US) is not considered a reliable modality for the evaluation of the real extent of necrosis, even when color/power Doppler techniques are used.

Inferomedial displacement of the meniscal free fragment: MR findings.

Purpose: To define the accuracy of Magnetic Resonance (MR) in the diagnosis of inferomedial displacement of the meniscal fragment.

Materials And Methods: The MR examinations of the knee performed between December 2002 and April 2004 on 676 patients (mean age 32 years) with knee trauma and subsequently subjected to arthroscopy were retrospectively reviewed to assess the presence of bucket-handle meniscal tear and inferomedial displacement of the meniscal free fragment. The MR examinations were performed using a superconductive 0.

Virtual bronchoscopy in patients with central endobronchial stenosing lesions. Technique optimisation with single slice spiral CT.

Purpose: To describe an original protocol for single slice spiral Computed Tomography (CT) virtual bronchoscopy in the evaluation of patients with central airway stenoses and compare the results with fibreoptic bronchoscopy.

Materials And Methods: Ten patients (4 female and 6 male; age range 22-60 years; mean age 44 years) with endobronchial disease diagnosed by fibreoptic bronchoscopy (8 malignant tumours, 1 benign tumour and 1 fibroid stenosis) underwent virtual bronchoscopy with single slice spiral CT. A panoramic spiral CT scan of the whole chest was first obtained.

Acute traumatic acromioclavicular joint lesions: role of ultrasound versus conventional radiography.

Purpose: To assess the diagnostic potential of ultrasound as compared to conventional radiography in quantifying the anatomic and structural damage and determining the grade of acute traumatic lesions of the acromioclavicular (AC) joint.

Materials And Methods: From September 2001 to September 2002, 18 patients (16 men, 2 women; age range: 17-78 years) who came to our Emergency Service with clinically suspected acute traumatic AC joint lesion were examined by ultrasonography with a variable frequency linear-array transducer (7.5-12 Mhz).

Bleeding renal angiomyolipomas. CT findings.

Purpose: To describe our experience in three cases of abdominal haemorrhage caused by bleeding renal angiomyolipomas, which were studied with Computed Tomography (CT).

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study carried out at our archives identified 3 patients (aged 58.6 on average) with renal angiomyolipomas clinically manifested with acute abdomen and haemorrhage.