Free echogenic pelvic fluid: correlation with hemoperitoneum.

Echogenic fluid is an important extrauterine finding of ectopic pregnancy. The purpose of this study was to determine how accurately echogenic fluid correlates with hemoperitoneum at surgery. Transvaginal sonography was performed in 831 consecutive patients referred to rule out ectopic pregnancy over a 36 month period.

Interventional uroradiology.

The development of interventional uroradiologic techniques has had a major impact on the care of the urologic patient by allowing nonoperative treatment of many disease processes. This article will review percutaneous nephrostomy with emphasis on urologic calculi, interventional therapy for neoplasms and trauma of the urinary tract, diagnosis and treatment of renovascular hypertension, and the management of complications following renal transplantation.

Sonographic detection of echogenic fluid and correlation with culdocentesis in the evaluation of ectopic pregnancy.

Objective: Because the presence of echogenic fluid on transvaginal sonography has been shown to correlate well with hemoperitoneum in patients with possible ectopic pregnancy, the aim of this study was to compare echogenic fluid on sonography with the results of culdocentesis in predicting hemoperitoneum.

Materials And Methods: Free fluid on transvaginal sonography and the results of culdocentesis were correlated with the presence or absence of hemoperitoneum in 46 patients at surgery. Forty ectopic pregnancies and six nonectopic pregnancies were found.

Polyhydramnios and fetal intrauterine growth restriction: ominous combination.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the significance of polyhydramnios combined with intrauterine growth restriction. During a 6 year period, 39 fetuses were identified by prenatal sonography as having both polyhydramnios and intrauterine growth restriction. Polyhydramnios was defined as a four-quadrant amniotic fluid index of 24 or greater (mean 30.

Fetal cleft lip with and without cleft palate: US classification and correlation with outcome.

Purpose: To develop a prenatal ultrasonographic (US) classification of cleft lip with or without cleft palate (CL-P) and correlate the classification with fetal outcome.

Materials And Methods: During a 5-year period (1988 to 1993), 65 fetuses with CL-P were identified with prenatal US at one of two referral centers for high-risk obstetric cases. Sonograms from each case were prospectively and retrospectively evaluated.

Idiopathic polyhydramnios: association with fetal macrosomia.

Purpose: To determine the relationship between idiopathic polyhydramnios and fetal macrosomia in the absence of maternal diabetes.

Materials And Methods: Idiopathic polyhydramnios was studied with ultrasound (US) in 99 consecutive normal fetuses of nondiabetic women. Birth weights and estimated fetal weights were compared with those of postnatal and prenatal control groups, respectively.

Primary intracerebral Hodgkin's disease: a case report.

The authors report a case of primary intracerebral Hodgkin's disease in an 84-year-old woman who presented with a solitary intraparenchymal parieto-occipital lesion and absence of extracranial disease. The histologic diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease was further confirmed with positive immunohistochemical staining of Hodgkin's mononuclear cells and Reed-Sternberg cells and electron microscopy. Such an initial presentation of a solitary intracerebral tumor is extremely rare in Hodgkin's disease.

Intracranial tumor-forming papillary endothelial hyperplasia--a case report.

This is a report of extensive intracranial papillary endothelial hyperplasia in a 12-day-old twin. The infant presented with progressive macrocephaly, anemia and hydrocephalus. An MR image showed a large (6 x 5 cm) mass in the right middle cranial fossa.