15 articles in this issue
Razaan Davis
AbstractNo abstract available.
Savvas Andronikou,Dirk Johannes van der Merwe,Pierre Goussard,Robert P Gie,Nicolette Tomazos
AbstractBackground. Diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in children remains difficult. Lateral chest radiographs are frequently used to facilitate diagnosis, but interpretation is variable. In this study, lateral chest radiographs (CXRs) are evaluat... see more
Farzanah Ismail
AbstractAnomalous left coronary artery originating from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare coronary artery anomaly that presents with myocardial ischaemia or infarction and/or cardiac failure in infants. It is associated with a mortality rate of 90% ... see more
Cornelis de Jager,Ivan L Norval,Jennifer R Tynan
AbstractAortic stenosis (AS) is the most commonly encountered valvular disease in developed countries. Once symptomatic, this disease carries a dismal prognosis. Patients unfit for surgical valve replacement may require transcatheter aortic valve implanta... see more
Gudrun Peters,Catherine Mary Jones
AbstractUnilateral axillary adenopathy may be caused by a wide range of both benign and malignant aetiologies. While the most common cause is inflammation, infection or trauma of the breast, thoracic wall or arm, a significant proportion of cases are due ... see more
Bruce S Spottiswoode,S Du Plessis,Armin Gretschel,Jan W Lotz
AbstractBackground. Since its inception almost 20 years ago, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has greatly advanced our knowledge of human brain function. Although the clinical applications of fMRI are still limited, there have recently been en... see more
Philip Huxham Jansen van Rensburg,Malan Nicolaas Jansen van Rensburg
AbstractGlioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a class of devastating, highly aggressive central nervous system tumours. While the classical appearance is easily recognisable, several variations occur. We present 6 cases of confirmed GBM that illustrate the unu... see more
Antoinette Reinders,Matthys J van Wyk
AbstractAnkylosing spondylitis is a debilitating disease that is one of the seronegative spondylarthropathies, affecting more males than females in the proportion of about 6:1 in the age group 15 - 35 years of age. Early radiographic findings include bila... see more
C G Muralidharan,R P S Tomar,R Aggarwal
AbstractAlexander disease (fibrinoid leucodystrophy; originally described by Alexander in 1949) is a rare, fatal, nonfamilial leucoencephalopathy caused by astrocyte dysfunction characterised by missense mutation in the genes coding for glial fibrillary a... see more
S K Misser,I A Abdullah
S K Misser,T Z Mngoma,M Roux
P C Pretorius
Robert Matzdorff
Nasreen Mahomed,Halvani Moodley
AbstractThe sandwich sign refers to the sandwiching of mesenteric vessels and fat by enlarged mesenteric nodes on cross-sectional imaging, commonly occurring in lymphoma, but not specific to lymphoma. The sign is radiologically indistinguishable from post... see more
Nishentha Govender