Clustered microcalcifications of intermediate concern detected on digital mammography: ultrasound assessment.

To report our experience with targeted-ultrasound in assessing 142 cases with clustered microcalcifications of intermediate concern detected on digital mammography. All cases had histopathologically-proven microcalcifications within the biopsied or surgical specimens. There were 30%[43/142] breast cancers and 70%[99/142] benign lesions.

Portal vein thrombosis in biliary atresia patients after living donor liver transplantation.

Background: Vascular complications are major complications after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), especially in biliary atresia (BA). Early diagnosis and treatment of portal vein thrombosis (PVT) may ensure optimal graft function and good recipient survival. Our aim was to find any association between pre- and post-transplant anatomic characteristics and hemodynamics, and the occurrence of post-transplant PVT in BA patients undergoing LDLT.

Prophylactic intraoperative uterine artery embolization to control hemorrhage in abnormal placentation during late gestation.

Objective: To determine whether prophylactic intraoperative uterine artery embolization (UAE) reduces blood loss and minimizes morbidity and mortality in cases of placenta accreta, increta, and percreta.

Design: A prospective, nonrandomized clinical trial.

Setting: A university-based, high-risk pregnancy unit and department of interventional radiology.

Late prenatal diagnosis of hydrometrocolpos secondary to a cloacal anomaly by abdominal ultrasonography with complementary magnetic resonance imaging.

Objective: Prenatal diagnosis of a cloacal anomaly is difficult. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can assist in the identification of the connection and continuity of a cystic mass to confirm the diagnosis of a cloacal anomaly.

Case Reports: In the first case, a fetal abdominal cystic mass was observed at 32 weeks of gestation.

Clinical significance of muscular deep-vein thrombosis after total knee arthroplasty.

Background: The definition of gastrocneumus and soleus deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical significance of muscular deep-vein thrombosis after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Methods: This study consisted of 359 consecutive patients undergoing TKA evaluated for DVT by ascending venography.

Diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis after total knee arthroplasty: a comparison of ultrasound and venography studies.

Background: A prospective clinical study was performed to compare the diagnostic accuracy between ultrasound and venography of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) after total knee arthroplasty (TKA).

Methods: This series consisted of 55 patients (43 women and 12 men) with an average age of 61 (range, 51-81) years who underwent TKA. No pharmaceutical prophylaxis for DVT was administered.

Prevention of deep-vein thrombosis after total knee arthroplasty in Asian patients. Comparison of low-molecular-weight heparin and indomethacin.

Background: A prospective clinical study was performed to compare the efficacy of low-molecular-weight heparin and indomethacin for the prevention of deep-vein thrombosis after total knee arthroplasty in Asian patients.

Methods: One hundred and fifty patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty were randomly divided into three groups. One group consisted of fifty-one patients who received no prophylaxis with an anticoagulant (the control group), one consisted of fifty patients who received the low-molecular-weight heparin Fraxiparine (the Fraxiparine group), and the third consisted of forty-nine patients who received indomethacin (the indomethacin group).