Isolated muscle involvement in hydatid cyst.

Although hydatid cyst, caused by , can develop in any part of the body, involvement of the liver and lung represents approximately 90% of all cases. Involvement of the musculoskeletal system is comparatively rare. Diagnosis is difficult because symptoms are non-specific.

Could radio-morphological changes in humerus greater tuberosity be an early indicator of rotator cuff tendon injuries?

Objectives: To reveal the possible relationship between greater tuberosity volume with rotator cuff tendon injuries.

Materials And Methods: In our study, the morphology of the greater tuberosity was evaluated retrospectively by using radiographs and MR images of 335 cases. While critical shoulder angle (CSA) was measured on radiographs, greater tuberosity (GT) area and volume were calculated, and also supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and teres minor tendons were evaluated, on MR images.

Which is the most affected muscle in lumbar back pain - multifidus or erector spinae?

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the relationship between lumbar back pain, lumbar disc herniation, and erector spinae and multifidus muscle lipomatous degeneration.

Material And Methods: After receiving approval from the clinical studies Ethics Committee, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies of patients who had physical examination in orthopaedic, neurology, neurosurgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics were evaluated. Their pre-diagnoses were 'herniated nucleus pulposus' or 'lumbar disc herniation' or 'back pain' and their age range was between 18 and 64 years.

Investigation of Blood Betatrophin Levels in Obese Children with Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.

Purpose: The prevalence of obesity has significantly increased among children and adolescents worldwide and is becoming an important health care problem in parallel with the increased prevalence of obesity pediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. Betatrophin is a newly define hormone that is commonly secreted by liver and plays role in glucose tolerance. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between serum betatrophin levels and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in obese children.

Gaucher's disease in a patient presenting with hip and abdominal pain.

Gaucher's disease is characterized by glucocerebroside accumulation in the cells of the reticuloendothelial system. There are three subtypes. The most common is type 1, known as the non-neuropathic form.

Amyand's hernia detected incidentally in two patients.

The appendix is rarely present inside the inguinal hernia sac. The risk of appendicitis increases in these patients since the blood supply to the appendix can be impaired. The condition is frequently asymptomatic, and even if symptomatic it gives rise to non-specific symptoms.

The relation between chondromalacia patella and meniscal tear and the sulcus angle/ trochlear depth ratio as a powerful predictor.

Purpose: To investigate the relation between chondromalacia patella and the sulcus angle/trochlear depth ratio as a marker of trochlear morphology. In addition, we also planned to show the relationship between meniscus damage, subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness as a marker of obesity, patellar tilt angle and chondromalacia patella.

Methods: Patients with trauma, rheumatologic disease, a history of knee surgery and patellar variations such as patella alba and patella baja were excluded.

Evaluation of paravertebral muscle atrophy and fatty degeneration in ankylosing spondylitis.

Aim: The purpose of this study was to assess morphological changes in the paravertebral muscles in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-one patients diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis and a 50 member control group were included in the study. The surface area of the multifidus and erector spinae muscles was measured at four levels between L1 and L5, and fatty degeneration in these muscles was scored.

Relationship between Abdominal Aortic Intima Media Thickness and Central Obesity in Children.

Background: Childhood obesity is one of the important risk factors for early atherosclerosis. We aimed to evaluate the effect of obesity on abdominal aortic intima media thickness (aaIMT) in children.

Methods: We consecutively recruited 60 obese and 28 healthy children from the outpatient clinic of pediatrics.

Prospective evaluation of the renal morphology and vascular resistance in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

Aims: To evaluate renal morphology, prevalence of urinary stone disease, renal perfusion and resistance to renal blood flow in patients with ankylosing spondylitis(AS).

Material And Methods: Thirty-eight patients diagnosed with AS and with normal basal renal functions, together with 38 healthy individuals matched in terms of age, sex, blood lipid profile and body mass index, were included. Total cholesterol, triglyceride, urea, creatinine and glucose levels were measured in both groups, as well as vitamin D, erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein in the AS group.

The accuracy of urinary ultrasound in the diagnosis of urinary stone disease in patients with acute flank pain: is it influenced by the time of ultrasound performance during the day or week?

Background: The aim of this article is to investigate the possible impact of timing of ultrasound (US) during the day or week on its diagnostic accuracy.

Methods: We analyzed the records of 500 patients who underwent an initial urinary US, followed by a noncontrast computed tomography (NCCT) for the assessment of urinary stone disease. The sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive values, negative and positive likelihood ratio, and overall diagnostic accuracy rates of US and were analyzed at different times of the day or week.

Comparison of individuals consuming natural spring water and tap water in terms of urinary tract stone disease.

Objectives: To compare individuals consuming natural spring water and tap water in terms of presence of urinary tract stone disease.

Patients And Methods: Patients were divided into two groups on the basis of the type of water: tap water (Group I) vs natural spring water consumers (Group II). The two groups were compared in terms of presence of urolithiasis.

Association of congenital left renal vein anomalies and unexplained hematuria: multidetector computed tomography findings.

Objectives: To investigate whether congenital renal vein anomalies are involved in the etiology of hematuria by analyzing abdominal multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) results.

Methods: Six hundred and eighty patients undergoing MDCT for various abdominal pathologies in whom possible causes of hematuria were excluded were retrospectively assessed in terms of left renal vein anomalies, such as circumaortic left renal vein (CLRV), retroaortic left renal vein (RLRV) and multiple renal vein (MRV). Patients with CLRV, RLRV or MRV and patients with normal left renal veins were compared in terms of the presence of hematuria.

Epicardial adipose tissue thickness in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.

The purpose of our study was to measure epicardial adipose tissue (EAT) thickness as a novel indicator of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular risk factor in ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients and to show the relationship with clinical parameters and inflammatory markers. Forty AS patients (42.75 ± 12.