4 results match your criteria: "Institute for Diagnostic Imaging of the Skin and Soft Tissues[Affiliation]"

Background: Clinical and ultrasound experience has revealed that after soft tissue injections of the lateral cheek, the filler may displace from the zygoma to the caudal temporal area.

Objective: To obtain more data to provide insight into product distribution when soft tissue fillers are injected in the zygomatic region.

Methods: Two hundred patients were examined with facial ultrasound imaging of the zygomatic and temporal region.

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Background: There is a steady increase in publications about the use of ultrasound and filler treatments, written by physicians from different specialties. The terminology used to describe the ultrasound images of fillers is not uniform, making the different articles difficult to compare. Standardization of the descriptions based on their basic sonographic parameters is recommendable.

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Color Doppler Sonography of Merkel Cell Carcinoma.

J Ultrasound Med

January 2018

Institute for Diagnostic Imaging of the Skin and Soft Tissues, Santiago, Chile (X.W.); Department of Imaging, Clinica Servet, Santiago, Chile (X.W.); and Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

We illustrate the color Doppler sonographic findings in primary cutaneous Merkel cell carcinoma. Eight cases (4 female and 4 male; mean age, 75.4 years) were collected.

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Ultrasound Morphology of Polycaprolactone Filler.

J Ultrasound Med

December 2017

Department of Dermatology, Faculty of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Nowadays, cosmetic fillers are widely used and the reports of complications are rising. Therefore, the possibility to detect and identify noninvasively new fillers can provide a potent tool for managing complications. The objective of this study was to assess the ultrasound morphology of polycaprolactone.

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