Musculoskeletal Tuberculosis: New Insights on Diagnosis Strategy and Treatment.

Background/ Objective: Skeletal tuberculosis (TB) is rare. We aimed to report on diagnostic strategy and treatment of skeletal TB.

Methods: In this multidisciplinary single-center medical records review study, all adult patients admitted between January 2009 and December 2019 with microbiologically proven skeletal TB were included.

Post-traumatic brachial plexus MRI in practice.

Injuries are separated into spinal nerve root avulsions (pre-ganglionic lesions) and more distal rupture (post-ganglionic lesions). The lesions may be associated with different nerve root levels. Spinal MRI is used to diagnose pre-ganglionic lesions, which may be present in the absence of pseudomeningoceles.

Diffuse spine involvement in sarcoidosis with sternal lytic lesions: two case reports.

Study Design: Case report.

Objective: To report 2 cases of sarcoidosis with a diffuse vertebral involvement, associated with a rare location in the sternum.

Summary Of Background Data: Sarcoidosis is a systemic disease of unknown cause with various clinical and radiologic manifestations.

[Glomus tumor of forearm: a case report].

The authors report a case of a glomus tumor of the soft-tissues of the forearm in a 23 year old woman. The diagnosis was suspected on MRI, and confirmed by a biopsy. The result after surgical resection was excellent, just like other cases in the literature.

[Multiple peripheral nerve tumors: update and review of the literature].

Multiple tumours of the peripheral nerves are seen only in neurofibromatosis. They are hereditary. They present and develop in a variety of different ways.

Imaging appearances of metastases from neuroendocrine tumours of the pancreas.

Endocrine tumours of the pancreas (ETPs) are rare neoplasms that are frequently malignant. Despite their usual slow growth, metastases do occur and have a major impact on prognosis. Metastases may be the first manifestation of disease, and recognition of particular radiological features of these hypervascular metastases should suggest their possible neuroendocrine origin.

Intraneural mucoid pseudocysts. A report of ten cases.

A mucoid pseudocyst of a peripheral nerve is a rare and benign tumour of controversial origin. We have reviewed ten patients with a mean follow-up of 3.2 years.

[Benign solitary tumors of the peripheral nerves].

Solitary tumors of the peripheral nerves are uncommon and found to be benign in 90 p. 100 of the cases. They develop from the elements constituting the nerve and are generally schwannomas (80 p.

Contribution of magnetic resonance imaging for the diagnosis of median nerve lesion after endoscopic carpal tunnel release.

Deterioration of pre-existing signs or appearance of a nerve deficit raise difficult problems during the complicated course following endoscopic carpal tunnel release. One possible explanation is transient aggravation of nerve compression by passage of the endoscopy material, but these signs may also be due to incomplete section of the flexor retinaculum or an iatrogenic nerve lesion. Each case raises the problem of surgical revision.

SAPHO syndrome: a long-term follow-up study of 120 cases.

Objective: To assess the long-term outcome of the synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis (SAPHO) syndrome.

Methods: All patients with the SAPHO syndrome seen at our unit between 1974 and 1997 were identified. Follow-up was prospective from 1992 to 1997.

Closed ruptures of the flexor digitorum tendons: MRI evaluation.

Objective: To assess the MRI findings in cases of closed rupture of the flexor digitorum tendons (FDT).

Patients And Design: Ten patients with a clinical suspicion of rupture of FDT underwent MRI before surgery. None of the patients presented a skin injury.

Median nerve suture in the distal part of the forearm. MRI evaluation.

The aim of the study was to assess MR images of median nerve suture in the distal part of the forearm on fresh cadavers and injured patients. The median nerve was dissected in the distal one-third of the forearm in four fresh cadaveric specimens, divided and repaired in three of them in two cases with 3/0 nylon (one with well-apposed edges and the other with a lateral gap) and, in the third specimen, with 9/0 nylon with well apposed edges. The course of the median nerve was then studied on MR imaging in different planes and the quality of the nerve repair was evaluated.

Complications of flexor tendon repair in the hand: MR imaging assessment.

Purpose: To determine if magnetic resonance (MR) imaging enables differentiation of adhesions from tendon rupture after repair of digital flexor tendon injuries.

Materials And Methods: The reference group comprised eight tendon sutures with a good clinical outcome. Axial and sagittal spin-echo sequences and three-dimensional gradient-echo sequences with curved reconstructions were analyzed in 63 injured fingers.