Effect of a Corset on the Gait of Healthy Beagle Dogs.

The prognosis for intervertebral disc disease (IVDD), a common neurologic disease in dogs, varies, with some cases requiring long-term rehabilitation. Corsets are used as part of the physical rehabilitation of dogs, and one of these, the Anifull Dog's Corset Pro, is manufactured and sold by Daiya Industry Co., Ltd.

Clinical impact of "true whole-body" (18)F-FDG PET/CT: lesion frequency and added benefit in distal lower extremities.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the lesion frequency and incremental added benefit with "true whole-body" (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography ((18)F-FDG PET/CT) of distal lower extremities. We compared this field of view with the typical whole-body view, from head to upper thighs, in numerous patients with known or suspected malignancy.

Methods: True whole-body (18)F-FDG PET/CT, from the top of the head to the bottom of the feet, was performed on 4574 consecutively registered patients with known or suspected malignancy.

¹⁸F-Fluorodeoxyglucose uptake and clinicopathological features of recurrent or metastatic endometrial stromal sarcoma.

Aim: Maximum standardized uptake value on (18) F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography was evaluated as a predictive surrogate marker in developing treatment strategies for recurrent or metastatic endometrial stromal sarcoma.

Methods: Clinical information was obtained from records of patients with recurrent or metastatic endometrial stromal sarcoma who underwent surgery or biopsy following (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography. Pathological features - including estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and Ki-67 expression - were immunohistochemically evaluated.

[Clinical utility of PET-CT for esophageal cancer].

It is important to diagnose the exact clinical staging according to the improvement of treatment for esophageal cancer. PET examinations for esophageal cancer are now covered by Japanese government health insurance, so the number of PET scans is now gradually increased in many institutions and their utility has been reported. In this report, we reviewed the conventional diagnostic tools for esophageal cancer and evaluated the clinical significance of PET-scans conventionally associated with it.

Multidetector row CT and MR imaging in diagnosing hepatocellular carcinoma.

It is important to diagnose hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) correctly and in early stage, because viral hepatitis and liver cirrhosis are often complicated by HCC. Noncontrast and enhanced CT and MRI are very useful to visualize and diagnose HCC objectively. Especially, CT and MR imaging with dynamic study is essential to diagnose HCC, because it is usually hypervascular.

Detection of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma with dynamic magnetic resonance imaging with simultaneously obtained in-phase and opposed-phase echo images.

Purpose: The technique of double-phase echo chemical shift gradient-echo magnetic resonance (MR) imaging with the fast low-angle shot sequence (double-echo FLASH) provides in-phase and opposed-phase (double-phase) images simultaneously. The purpose of this study was to assess whether the dynamic study with a combination of in-phase and opposed-phase (double-phase) echo images improves the detectability of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) compared with that with either in-phase or opposed-phase images alone.

Method: Thirty-seven patients with 107 hypervascular HCCs who underwent the whole-liver double-phase echo dynamic MR imaging were enrolled in the study.

Multidetector CT: diagnostic impact of slice thickness on detection of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma.

Objective: The objective of our study was to evaluate the diagnostic impact of varying slice thickness on multidetector CT to optimize detection of hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma.

Materials And Methods: Forty-three patients with 87 hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas (diameter: range, 3-80 mm; mean, 22 mm) and 19 patients with either chronic hepatitis or liver cirrhosis and without hepatocellular carcinoma who had undergone early arterial and late arterial phase imaging of the entire liver on multidetector CT were retrospectively enrolled in this study. The detector row configuration was 2.

High dose rate endovascular brachytherapy in aorto-iliac lesion for the prevention of restenosis.

This study examined the applicability of endovascular brachytherapy to larger del arteries such as the abdominal aorta and iliac artery. Endovascular brachytherapy using an Ir-192 HDR source was administered 11 times to nine patients who had undergone percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) between 1995 and 1999. The follow-up lasted 13 to 55 months after treatment (median, 24 months).

Small hypervascular hepatocellular carcinoma revealed by double arterial phase CT performed with single breath-hold scanning and automatic bolus tracking.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of double arterial phase CT for the detection of small hypervascular hepatocellular carcinomas, using an automated bolus-tracking technique to initiate the hepatic arterial phase CT.

Materials And Methods: Double arterial and late phase contrast-enhanced helical CT scans were obtained on 287 consecutive patients suspected of having hepatocellular carcinoma. These included 56 patients with 90 small (< or 3 cm) hepatocellular carcinomas and 50 patients with no hepatocellular carcinomas.