Triaxial system in stent-graft placement for traumatic renal artery dissection: A case report.

Stent-graft placement is an important treatment for traumatic renal artery dissection, but it may occasionally be technically difficult to advance a catheter through the lesion of the dissection due to severe stenosis of the true rumen. A triple-coaxial (triaxial) system, which consists of a small microcatheter, a large microcatheter, and a 4-Fr. catheter, has recently become available, and it contributes to super-selective catheterization.

2D-shear wave elastography in the prediction of type II endoleaks after endovascular aneurysm repair.

Purpose: To evaluate the usefulness of 2D-shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) in the prediction of type II endoleaks after endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA).

Material And Methods: Twenty-nine patients underwent EVAR for AAA, and 2D-SWE was performed after EVAR. Follow-up contrast-enhanced CT and ultrasonography were performed to evaluate endoleaks in all patients.

Internal mammary lymph node metastases in breast cancer: what should radiologists know?

The internal mammary lymph node (IMLN) chain is a pathway through which breast lymphatic drainage flows. The internal mammary lymphatic vessel runs around the internal mammary artery and veins with IMLN in the parasternal intercostal spaces. IMLN metastasis, which forms a part of clinical TNM staging, may negatively affect the prognosis of primary breast cancer patients.

The variations of the middle colic vein tributaries: depiction by three-dimensional CT angiography.

Objective: Laparoscopic transverse colectomy is challenging owing to technical difficulties in identifying an adequate dissection plane, ligating and dissecting lymph nodes around the middle colic vessels. One of the reasons for the technical difficulties is the complex relationship between the middle colic vein (MCV) and its tributary. So, defining the venous anatomy around the MCV before laparoscopic surgery seems important to avoid massive bleeding.

Triaxial system for embolization of type II endoleak after endovascular aneurysm repair.

Purpose: To demonstrate the utility of a triaxial catheter system for embolization of type II endoleak after endovascular aneurysm repair.

Technique: The technique is illustrated in 2 patients with sac enlargement owing to persistent type II endoleak of lumbar artery origin. In both cases, the access to the iliolumbar and lumbar arteries was very long and tortuous.

Bone formation in a rectal inflammatory polyp.

Heterotopic bone formation (osseous metaplasia) is rarely detected in the gastrointestinal tract. Most of reported cases are associated with malignant lesions. We herein report a case of osseous metaplasia in a rectal inflammatory polyp and a review of the literature on suggested mechanisms for its aetiology.

A retrospective study of immunochemical fecal occult blood testing for colorectal cancer detection.

Background: Colonoscopic examination is the common pathway for positive screening tests detecting colorectal lesions. We evaluated a specific, quantitative high-throughput automatic immunochemical fecal occult blood test (Auto iFOBT) method for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and to determine its concordance with physician assessments informed by complete colonoscopy, the gold-standard technique for evaluation of the colonic mucosa.

Methods: 1200 CRC symptomatic patients were recruited for a retrospective investigation.

Progression of a sessile serrated adenoma to an early invasive cancer within 8 months.

Recent studies suggest that serrated polyps, including hyperplastic polyps, traditional serrated adenomas, and sessile serrated adenomas, may be morphologically and genetically distinct and linked to microsatellite unstable colorectal cancers, and thus the concept of a hyperplastic polyp-serrate adenoma-carcinoma pathway has been suggested. Furthermore, it has been suggested that transformation from serrated polyps to invasive cancers can be rapid and occurs when the lesions are small; however, direct evidence for this issue is scant. We herein describe a case of a sessile serrated adenoma showing rapid transformation into a submucosal invasive carcinoma with remarkable morphological change in a short period of 8 months.

[Spontaneous rupture of an aneurysmal arteriovenous fistula of the kidney causing massive retroperitoneal hemorrhage: a case report].

Angiography depicted the arteriovenous fistula at the peripheral cortex of the kidney, which was treated superselective transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE). Bleeding was controlled and did not recur. The contrast-enhanced computed tomographic (CT) scan performed on the 27th day after the procedure revealed a parenchymal perfusion deficit of 3% and the return of serum creatinine concentration to pre-injury levels.