Publications by authors named "Nyali Peiris-Waser"

Purpose: The aim of of this study was to evaluate prospectively the long-term outcome of mesocolic and pelvic diverticular abscesses of the left colon.

Methods: Between October 1986 and October 1997, a total of 465 patients urgently admitted to our hospital with a suspected diagnosis of acute left-sided colonic diverticulitis had a CT scan. Of 76 patients (17 percent) who had an associated mesocolic or pelvic abscess, 3 were lost to follow-up.

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Objective: The purpose of this study was to review the normal and sonographic (US) anatomy of the central aponeurosis of the rectus femoris muscle, describe the sonographic appearance of its tears and correlate it with the MR findings.

Design And Patients: The rectus femoris internal architecture was evaluated by cadaveric dissection. To correlate the sonographic normal findings with cadaveric data, axial sections were compared with the corresponding US images.

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