An investigation of the efficacy of shear wave elastography in the characterization of benign and malignant liver lesions.

Purpose: To investigate whether shear wave elastography (SWE) examination, which has recently been proposed as an accessory radiological examination technique, is effective in characterizing focal liver lesions (FLLs).

Material And Methods: A total of 105 patients, comprising 48 males and 57 females, underwent SWE examination. The mean age of the patients was 53.

Morphometric Analysis of the Sacral Canal and Hiatus Using Multidetector Computed Tomography for Interventional Procedures.

Aim: The sacral canal has been frequently used as "a passage" for minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures for spinal diseases. The aim of the present study was to investigate morphometric analyses of the sacral canal, hiatus, and surrounding structures according to different age groups and gender by using the "multidetector computed tomography" method.

Material And Methods: Multiplanar-reconstructed images from 300 adult (150 females and 150 males, between 20 and 80 years old) were divided into three groups according to age and retrospectively examined.

Radiological anatomy of the C7 vertebra: Clinical implications in spine surgery.

Context: This study was designed to understand and define the special radio-anatomic morphometry of C7 vertebra by using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT).

Aims: The major aim of the study was to detect the gender- and side-related morphometric differences of C7 vertebra among subjects.

Setting And Design: Our radiology unit database scanned for MDCT sections of the C7 vertebra.