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Diagnosis of diffuse adenomyosis by means of conventional techniques and pelvic examination is still unsatisfactory. Adenomyosis is quite a common disease that causes pelvic pain and menorrhagia in the premenapausal group of women. A thirty-nine years old female patient with severe pelvic pain and menorrhagia was examined by transvaginal ultrasonography. The findings of transvaginal ultrasonography, correlated with the pathology report is presented in this paper. Anechoic heterogenous areas in the myometrium have raised the question of adenomyosis. Pathological findings of the hysterectomy specimen were in accordance with the ultrasonography findings, which may lead to a new era in the diagnosis of adenomyosis.

A huge endometrioma presenting as an intraabdominal mass was confused with a malignant tumor in a 44 year old woman. The computed tomographic and ultrasonographic findings of the lesion with this rare size of existence are illustrated and pertinent literature is briefly reviewed.

In this paper we present the results of ab initio first-principle calculations of the lattice dynamics of ternary TlInS2 semiconductor with highly anisotropic crystal structure. Calculations have been performed using the open-source code ABINIT on the basis of density functional theory within the plane-wave pseudopotential approach. The basis of plane waves was truncated at electron kinetic energy of 40 Ha. Integration over the Brillouin zone was carried out using a 2 x 2 x 2 grid. The equilibrium structure was determined by minimizing the total energy with respect to the lattice constants and the internal structural parameters. The results are discussed in terms of previously existing experimental data. It is shown that along the layer, the low-frequency acoustic branch displays the bending wave behavior that is typical for crystals having a layered structure.

A patient with pulmonary actinomycosis who unexpectedly showed focal uptake of technetium-99m-hexakis-2-methoxy isobutyl isonitrile and thallium-201 is presented. The appearance of the lesion on the chest radiograph and x-ray CT scan resembled a mediastinal tumor. The diagnosis of pulmonary actinomycosis was achieved by histopathologic examination of the surgically removed mass.

Objectives To compare prospectively maternal acceptance of fetal and neonatal virtuopsy with that of conventional autopsy and to determine the confidence with which magnetic resonance (MR) virtuopsy can be used to diagnose normality/abnormality of various fetal anatomical structures. Methods MR and/or computed tomography virtuopsy and conventional autopsy were offered to 96 women (102 fetuses/neonates) following termination of pregnancy (TOP), intrauterine fetal death (IUFD) or neonatal death. Multivariable logistic regression analysis was used to investigate the effect on maternal acceptance of virtuopsy and/or conventional autopsy of the age of the mother, gestational age at TOP or delivery after IUFD, order of pregnancy, parity, religion, type of caregiver obtaining consent and reason for death. When parents consented to both MR virtuopsy and conventional autopsy of fetuses = 20 weeks of gestation or neonates, the confidence with which MR virtuopsy could be used to diagnose normality/abnormality of variousanatomical structures was determined on a scale in which conventional autopsy was considered gold standard. On autopsy we classified fetuses/neonates as having either normal or abnormal anatomical structures; these groups were analyzed separately. At virtuopsy, we indicated confidence of diagnosis of normality/abnormality of every anatomical structure in each of these two groups defined at autopsy, using a scale from 0 (definitely abnormal) to 100 (definitely normal). Results Of the 96 women, 99% (n = 95) consented to virtuopsy and 61.5% (n = 59) to both conventional autopsy and virtuopsy; i.e. 36 (37.5%) consented to virtuopsy alone. Maternal acceptance of conventional autopsy was independently positively related to singleton pregnancy, non-Moslem mother, earlier gestation at TOP or delivery afer IUFD and a maternalfetal medicine specialist obtaining consent. Thirty-three fetuses = 20 weeks of gestation had both conventional autopsy and MR virtuopsy, of which 19 had a full autopsy including the brain. In fetuses with normal anatomical structures at conventional autopsy, MR virtuopsy was associated with high diagnostic confidence (scores > 80) for the brain, skeleton, thoracic organs except the heart, abdominal organs except the pancreas, ureters, bladder and genitals. In fetuses with abnormal anatomical structures at autopsy, MR virtuopsy detected the anomalies with high confidence (scores