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ISSN: 2078-6778    frecuency : 4   format : Electrónica

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Volume 15 Number 4 Year 2011

16 articles in this issue 

Benjamin M Terry,David Blehar,Romolo Gaspari,Arthur Thomas Maydell,Fourie Abraham Bezuidenhout,Savvas Andronikou

AbstractBackground. Peer-reviewed literature demonstrates increasing support for the use of focused abdominal sonography in trauma (FAST) in the setting of blunt trauma, one study demonstrating the sensitivity and specificity of FAST for the detection of ... see more

 

Geoffrey K Korir,Jeska S Wambani,Ian K. Korir

AbstractThis study details the distribution and trends of doses from occupational radiation exposure among radiation workers from participating medical institutions in Kenya, where monthly dose measurements were collected for a period of one year (January... see more

 

Mwaffaq Heis,Zouhair Amarin,Alaa Ibrahim,Nael Obeidat,Basil Obeidat,MA'MOON AL-Omari

AbstractObjective: To assess the findings and usefulness of hysterosalpingography as a routine investigation in the fertility workup prior to selective laparoscopy. Design: Descriptive retrospective study.Setting: A university hospital in the north of Jo... see more

 

Werner S Harmse

AbstractObjective. Renal length determination is common in everyday radiology practice. However, a normal range of kidney sizes may not apply to people of all body habitus. This study investigates this relationship in order to determine normal ranges in r... see more

 

Donald Jan Emby

AbstractTwo patients who sustained severe blunt injury to the pelvis without external injury to the upper abdomen or lower chest, yet who were found to have a ruptured solid upper abdominal viscus, are reported. The first patient on delayed arrival reveal... see more

 

Nausheen Khan,Irma van de Werke,Zaeem Ismail Ebrahim,Farzanah Ismail

AbstractMalignant melanoma (MM) is an unpredictable tumour that can metastasise to any organ, and is well known for its widespread dissemination. The incidence of metastases to the gastro-intestinal (GI) tract is well documented; this, however, is a late ... see more

 

Nausheen Khan,Zaeem Ismail Ebrahim,Irma van der Werke

AbstractLeiomyosarcoma (LMS) is an uncommon malignant tumour of smooth muscle origin. It arises in the gastro intestinal tract, retroperitoneum, urinary bladder, uterus and soft tissue. Peritoneal leiomyosarcomatosis (PL) is defined as a peritoneal disse... see more

 

Pieter Barnardt,Jacqueline Du Toit

AbstractCystic and cavitatory pulmonary lesions are abnormalities encountered on chest computed tomography (CT). Malignant lesions, including metastases, rarely present as cystic lesions; we report on two such cases: a man with advanced carcinoma of the l... see more

 

Umesh Chandra Parashari,Sachin Khanduri,Samarjit Bhadury,Fareena Akbar Qayyum

AbstractOculodentodigital dysplasia (ODDD), also known as oculodento-osseous dysplasia, is an extremely rare autosomal dominant disorder with high penetrance, intra- and interfamilial phenotypic variability, and advanced paternal age in sporadic cases. Th... see more

 

Phillip Carl Pretorius

AbstractI was alerted to an article in Radiology Vol. 255 No. 2 (May 2010)1 by a colleague. The article, entitled ‘Kidney and urinary tract imaging: Triple-bolus multidetector CT urography as a one-stop shop – Protocol design, opacification, and image qua... see more

 

Nasreen Mahomed,Yusuf Seedat

AbstractThe dural tail sign was first described by Wilms in 1989, as a post-contrast linear thickening of the meninges that resembles a tail extending from a mass on T1-weighted MR imaging. The sign consists of a tapering rim ranging from 0.5 to 3.0 cm in... see more