Venous Malformations Sclerotherapy: Outcomes, Patient Satisfaction and Predictors of Treatment Success.

Purpose: To retrospectively evaluate the results of sclerotherapy for venous malformations, with emphasis on patient satisfaction, complications and predictors of positive response to treatment.

Materials And Methods: Three hundred and nine patients were treated with ethanol sclerotherapy for venous malformations in our center between the years 2000 and 2014. All of them were sent a self-assessment questionnaire for evaluation of their satisfaction and treatment complications.

Physiologic uptake of 18F-FDG in transposed ovaries may mimic metastasis on 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging.

Background: Ovarian transposition is aimed at preserving ovarian function before irradiation in pelvic malignancies. The extrapelvic location of the ovaries and their physiologic fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG)-uptake is a potential source of misdiagnosis as metastasis on F-FDG PET/CT. We describe the F-FDG PET/CT characteristics of transposed ovaries and their changes over time.

FDG PET-CT evaluation in neurolymphomatosis: imaging characteristics and clinical outcomes.

Neurolymphomatosis (NL) often represents unidentified non-Hodgkin lymphoma relapses. Considering its severity, early detection and treatment are crucial. We outline one hospital's F-FDG-PET-CT imaging findings of NL, along with the patients' clinical characteristics.

Postoperative versus Spontaneous Intracranial Abscess: Diagnostic Value of the Apparent Diffusion Coefficient for Accurate Assessment.

Purpose To assess the diagnostic value of apparent diffusion coefficients (ADCs) in spontaneous intracranial abscesses compared with those occurring after primary neurosurgery. Materials and Methods This retrospective comparative study was approved by the local institutional review board. The requirement to obtain written informed consent was waived.

A volcanic explosion of autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus: a diversity of 180 different antibodies found in SLE patients.

Recent research in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) yielded new antigens and antibodies in SLE patients. We describe the various autoantibodies that can be detected in patients with SLE. A literature review, using the terms “autoantibody” and “systemic lupus erythematosus”, was conducted to search for articles on autoantibodies in SLE, their target antigens, association with disease activity and other clinical manifestations.