Headache in an Obese Adolescent Male: A Nonclassical Presentation of an Uncommon Disease.

. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH), also known as pseudotumor cerebri, is a diagnosis of exclusion in the clinical scenario of increased intracranial pressure without an identifiable cause. This case report provides a brief review of current literature on IIH, important differential considerations to rule out prior to diagnosis, and relevant imaging findings of IIH.

Chronic Constipation and Its Complications: An Interesting Finding to an Otherwise Commonplace Problem.

Background. Fecalomas are hard dense masses separate from surrounding fecal material or bowel contents. This case report intends to provide a brief review of the literature and differential diagnosis for a pelvic mass in a pediatric patient.

Estimated cumulative radiation dose from PET/CT in children with malignancies: a 5-year retrospective review.

Background: The increasing use of serial PET/CT scans in the management of pediatric malignancies raises the important consideration of radiation exposure in children.

Objective: To estimate the cumulative radiation dose from PET/CT studies to children with malignancy and to compare with the data in literature.

Materials And Methods: Two hundred forty-eight clinical PET/CT studies performed on 78 patients (50 boys/28 girls, 1.

Pediatric liver tumors--a pictorial review.

Hepatic masses constitute about 5-6% of all intra-abdominal masses in children. The majority of liver tumors in children are malignant; these malignant liver tumors constitute the third most common intra-abdominal malignancy in the pediatric age group after Wilms' tumor and neuroblastoma. Only about one third of the liver tumors are benign.

Congenital tracheobiliary fistula diagnosed with contrast-enhanced CT and 3-D reformation.

Congenital tracheobiliary fistula (CTBF) is a rare malformation. So far 24 cases have been reported in the English language literature. The imaging techniques used in diagnosis have been bronchography, fistulography, cholangiography, hepatobiliary nuclear imaging and MRI.