Cortical border-zone infarcts: clinical features, causes and outcome.

Objective: To report the clinical features, causes and outcome of cerebral cortical border-zone infarcts BZI (C-BZI).

Methods: The authors prospectively included patients with MRI-confirmed C-BZI among individuals consecutively admitted in Stroke Unit.

Results: Forty-five patients presented C-BZI out of 589 with MRI-confirmed cerebral infarcts (7.

Diffusion-weighted MR imaging sequence in the detection of postoperative recurrent cholesteatoma.

Purpose: To prospectively evaluate a fast spin-echo (SE) diffusion-weighted sequence for magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of recurrent cholesteatoma in patients who have undergone middle ear surgery.

Materials And Methods: The study was approved by the institutional review board, and informed consent was obtained from all patients. Twenty-four patients (10 female and 14 male patients; mean age, 44 years) who had undergone resection of cholesteatoma were referred for MR imaging.

Follicular adenoma in a juxtathyroidal thyroglossal duct cyst with papillary carcinoma in the adjacent thyroid gland.

This patient presented with a neck mass diagnosed as a papillary thyroid carcinoma by fine-needle aspiration. Preoperative computed tomography revealed a papillary carcinoma within a juxtathyroidal thyroglossal duct cyst. After surgery, the initial diagnosis was papillary thyroid carcinoma.