Characteristics of High-Risk Bipolar Bone Loss Lesions Using 3-Dimensional Imaging.

Background: The concept of on-track versus off-track bone lesions in glenohumeral instability continues to evolve. Although much has been ascertained from an original biomechanical model, bony pathological changes, especially on 3-dimensional (3D) imaging, have not been fully evaluated.

Purpose: To compare the differences in on-track versus off-track lesions to characterize glenoid and humeral head bone defects using 3D modeling software.

Seroepidemiology for Enteric Fever: Emerging Approaches and Opportunities.

Safe and effective typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) are available, but many countries lack the high-resolution data needed to prioritize TCV introduction to the highest-risk communities. Here we discuss seroepidemiology-an approach using antibody response data to characterize infection burden-as a potential tool to fill this data gap. Serologic tests for typhoid have existed for over a hundred years, but only recently were antigens identified that were sensitive and specific enough to use as epidemiologic markers.

Gut Microbiota Characteristics in Children After the Use of Proton Pump Inhibitors.

Background/aims: Prolonged acid suppression from proton pump inhibitor (PPI) has been shown to cause gut microbiota alteration which may increase risk of various infections in adults. We aimed to characterize gut microbiota profiles in children after a short-term use of PPI.

Materials And Methods: Children aged 1-18 years who underwent PPI therapy were included during April-December 2017.

Interobserver agreement between senior radiology resident, neuroradiology fellow, and experienced neuroradiologist in the rating of Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score (ASPECTS).

Purpose: The distribution of ischemic changes caused by infarction of the middle cerebral artery (MCA) territories is usually measured using the Alberta Stroke Program Early Computed Tomography Score (ASPECTS). The first interpreter of the brain computed tomography (CT) in the emergency department is the on-call radiology resident. The primary objective of this study was to describe the agreement of the ASPECTS performed retrospectively by the resident compared with expert raters.

A rare cause of multiple small bowel ulcers and strictures in a 10-year-old child.

Enteritis and small bowel ulcers can be caused by inflammatory bowel disease, drug-induced enteritis, cytomegalovirus, tuberculosis, or intestinal lymphoma. Cryptogenic multifocal ulcerous stenosing enteritis (CMUSE) is an uncommon idiopathic cause of ulceration and stricture of the small bowel. CMUSE can occur in adults, but only few pediatric cases have been reported.

Conservative mastectomy versus nipple-sparing mastectomy: preliminary considerations of oncological safety on 30 patients not receiving intra-operative radiotherapy.

Background: For several years, there has been broad consensus that nipple-sparing mastectomy is a safe surgical treatment for breast cancer. However, the technique is associated with a relatively high risk of local recurrence (LR) behind the nipple-areola complex (NAC). It is for this reason that some years ago we introduced intraoperative radiotherapy with electrons (ELIOT) targeted specifically to the NAC to reduce the probability of recurrence there.

Axillary web syndrome self-assessment questionnaire: Initial development and validation.

Introduction: Despite the great strides made in medical knowledge, surgery still remains a necessary part of the breast cancer treatment. Surgical procedures still lead to post surgical sequelae. The axillary web syndrome (AWS) is one such sequela, which can lead to disability, reduced arm mobility and compromised quality of life.

Fibroadenoma versus phyllodes tumor: distinguishing factors in patients diagnosed with fibroepithelial lesions after a core needle biopsy.

Purpose: We aimed to identify factors that might help differentiate phyllodes tumors from fibroadenomas among cases in which a fibroepithelial breast lesion was diagnosed from core needle biopsy (CNB) under imaging guidance.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective review was performed on 213 lesions in 200 patients who had undergone both CNB and excisional biopsy during a four-year period between 2008 and 2011. The final pathology revealed 173 fibroadenomas and 40 phyllodes tumors.

Upgrading rate of papillary breast lesions diagnosed by core-needle biopsy.

Purpose: We aimed to estimate the upgrading rate of core-needle biopsy (CNB)-diagnosed papillary breast lesions to atypical or malignant papillary lesions on subsequent surgery.

Materials And Methods: We performed a retrospective review of medical records and imaging findings of patients diagnosed by CNB as having papillary lesions from January 1, 2005 to May 31, 2011. Outcomes were determined by pathology findings from surgical excision or by imaging findings at 12 months follow-up.

Fate of mucosal healing in transplanted deep frozen irradiated tracheal homograft.

Objective: Deep-frozen irradiated tracheal homograft has been successfully employed for subglottic-tracheal reconstruction, as in our previous report. Morphologically, though the transplanted site appeared to have good mucosal healing, the fate of the donor mucosa is not known. The objective of this study was to determine the survival of the mucosa of donor trachea.

Copper vapour laser treatment of café-au-lait macules.

Café-au-lait macules are skin lesions known to resist all kinds of treatment. Green light at a wavelength of 511 nm from a copper vapour laser through a built-in computerized scanner (SCANALL) was employed to treat café-au-lait-macules in 16 patients. The laser was used in continuous mode with a mean energy density of 8.

Histology and smoking history of lung cancer cases and implications for prevention in Thailand.

Background: Lung cancer is now a major public health problem in Thailand. This descriptive study looked at the issue of whether tumor histology varied with smoking status among lung cancer patients in Bangkok, Thailand.

Methods: A retrospective descriptive study was made of the 1,600 Thai patients with histologically proven lung cancer admitted to University of Siriraj Hospital between 1967 and 1991.