Abdominal splenosis and its differential diagnoses: What the radiologist needs to know.

Splenosis is a benign acquired condition characterized by the presence of heterotopic viable splenic tissue in other organs or within cavities such as peritoneum, retroperitoneum, or thorax after splenic trauma or surgery. Abdominal splenosis is often an incidental finding and computed tomography and magnetic resonance usually allow a confident diagnosis. The typical enhancement that parallels the spleen is a useful hallmark of splenosis.

CT and MR imaging of chemotherapy-induced hepatopathy.

Chemotherapy-induced hepatopathy includes a wide variety of parenchymal and vascular hepatic changes on imaging, including diffuse or focal hepatopathies (i.e. hepatitis, steatosis, fibrosis, pseudocirrhosis, or sinusoidal obstruction).

Assessment of a new 18F-FDG PET/CT protocol in the staging of oral cavity carcinomas.

Unlabelled: Because image fusion using (18)F-FDG PET/CT allows a better localization of the pathologic uptake, this modality has a greater sensitivity than PET alone in examining the head-neck region. However, examination of this area is particularly critical because the head and neck are close to other anatomic structures and because of the high physiologic uptake of the radiocompound. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of a new imaging protocol in the staging of oral carcinoma.

[Adult intestinal intussusception: comparison between CT features and surgical findings].

Purpose: To report our experience in the use of CT in the evaluation of adult intestinal intussusception. A correlation between radiologic findings and surgery was attempted in order to verify our diagnostic hypothesis.

Material And Methods: Intestinal intussusception was diagnosed by CT between September 1993 and December 2000 in 10 patients (6 men and 4 women, age range 18-82 years).