Patient dose evaluation by means of DICOM images for a direct radiography system.

Purpose: The purpose of this work was to evaluate the statistical distribution of patient dose for different examinations by using the data stored in a DICOM image archive of a direct digital radiography system.

Materials And Methods: An automatic procedure to extract dose data and exposure parameters from the image archives was implemented. During a 4.

Prevalence of Paget's disease of bone in Italy.

Unlabelled: We examined the prevalence of PDB in Italy from radiological, scintigraphic, and biochemical surveys in two Italian towns. Prevalence rates varied from 0.7% to 2.

[A new catheter for enteroclysis: Torino 1. Results in 398 cases].

The authors report on the use a new barium enema catheter employed in 398 patients from January, 1990 through June, 1991. Its innovative characteristics and several possible uses are compared with those of conventional equipment. Particularly, the advantages offered by the various possible placement sites of the catheter--i.

[Treatment of postoperative biliary fistulas by endoscopic papillosphincterotomy and nasobiliary drain].

Personal experience in the non-surgical treatment of postoperative biliary fistulas observed between July 1987 and October 1990 is reported. Leakage were treated with an endoscopic technique (papillosphincterotomy+nasobiliary drain) in 11 of 12 patients in an average time of 2 weeks. The 12 patient, who presented a lesion of an intrahepatic duct, needed 2 months to heal following combined endoscopic-percutaneous manoeuvres.