A complex pulmonary vein varix -- diagnosis with ECG gated MDCT, MRI and invasive pulmonary angiography.

A case of an asymptomatic 32-year-old male with a complex congenital pulmonary vein varix is reported herein. Chest X-ray incidentally revealed a tubular opacity passing from the periphery of the left lingula to the mediastinum. ECG gated multidetector computed tomography showed the opacity to be a vessel emptying into the left atrium via the left superior pulmonary vein.

The first experience with the high-resolution multi-slice CT-angiography in pediatric cardiology in Slovakia.

Objectives: The high-resolution multi-slice computed tomography angiography (HRMS-CTA) is a new imaging method characterized by a precise isotropic imaging of any cardiovascular system structure. The purpose of this study was to review the first experience with the high-resolution multi-slice HRMS-CTA in pediatric patients with congenital heart defects as well as with acquired cardiac diseases in the Slovak Republic.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed benefits of HRMS-CTA and its influence on the subsequent choice of the most appropriate management in 20 patients with pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and multiple aortopulmonary collaterals (PA, VSD, MAPCAs) and in 15 patients with different diagnoses with expected benefit from HRMS-CTA in terms of an exact delineation of extra-cardiac vascular structures.

Partial tear of the flexor hallucis longus at the knot of Henry: presentation of three cases.

The flexor hallucis longus (FHL) tendon is susceptible to injury along its entire course from the posterior aspect of the ankle to its insertion into the base of the distal phalanx of the great toe. Various lacerations, ruptures, longitudinal splits, and stenosing tenosynovitis have been noted. This report documents three cases of longitudinal split of the FHL at the knot of Henry.

Ultrasound in the diagnosis of posterior tibial tendon pathology.

We retrospectively evaluated the effectiveness of ultrasonography as a diagnostic tool for investigating pathology in the posterior tibial tendon by comparing the preoperative ultrasonograms for 17 patients with their recorded surgical findings. In all cases, the surgical findings confirmed the ultrasonographic diagnoses: 3 inflammations, 4 partial tears, and 10 ruptures. Interestingly, two ruptures had been undiagnosed by magnetic resonance imaging.

[Abnormal CT brain scan during acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children].

The results of CT brain scans were evaluated in 96 children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in different stages of the disease. Practically normal findings were recorded at establishing the diagnosis (17 children), with the exception of infiltration of the brain and meninges in one patient. Examinations performed after induction chemotherapy (31 children) revealed abnormal CT scans in 55% of the children concerning most frequently dilatation of the cerebrospinal fluid pathways and exhibiting less frequently hypodense foci in the white matter.