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Purpose Methods and Materials Results Conclusion References Personal Information, Purpose: Gastro-Intestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST)are the most common tumors of non-epithelial gastrointestinal tract.Since the introduction of molecular targeted drug, there has been increasing concern about the use of the traditional tumor response...

Aim of our study was to investigate role of ADC values at b=0, 500, 800, and at multi-b in the evaluation of PCD

Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References, Aims and objectives: Use of computed tomography (CT) has increased dramatically since its inception in 1970; for this reason in the last decades exposure to ionizing radiations in CT has constantly increased [1,2]. Most authors agree that patients should receive...

Purpose: Due to admitted limits of autopsy-based studies in the diagnosis of drowning, virtopsy is considered the new imaging horizon in these post-mortem studies. The aim of our study was to evaluate the role of virtopsy performed through computed tomography (CT) in the forensic diagnosis of drowning. Materials and methods: We retrospectively examined the CT data of four cadavers recovered from sea water and suspected to have died by drowning. Each patient underwent a full-body post-mortem CT scan, and then a traditional autopsy. Conclusion: To date, there are no autopsy findings pathognomonic of drowning. This study proves that virtopsy is a useful tool in the diagnosis of drowning in that it allows us to understand if the victim was alive or dead when he entered the water and if the cause of death was drowning. Results: All the cadavers showed fluid in the airways and patchy ground-glass opacities in the lung. Only one patient had no fluid in the digestive tract; this patient had a left parietal bone fracture with a large gap and other multiple bone fractures (nose, clavicle, first rib and patella). One of the three patients who had fluid in the digestive tract had no fluid in the paranasal sinuses. This latter patient showed cerebral oedema with subarachnoid and intraventricular haemorrhage, multiple bone fractures (orbital floor, ribs, sacrum and acetabular edge) and air in the heart, in the aorta and in bowel loops. © 2014, Italian Society of Medical Radiology.

Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References, Aims and objectives: Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, accounting for 7% of all injury related deaths[1]. The autopsy diagnosis of drowning is one of the major problems in forensic medicine, especially when there is delay in...

Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References, Aims and objectives: In the last years, the number of MRI scans has more than tripled[1]and this resulted in an unavoidable rise of incidentally detected findings[2-6]. According to a study by Orme et al.[7], a minimum of one incidental finding was present in 39.8% of...

Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References, Learning objectives: Breast cancer rappresents the most common cause of death in women, such demonstrated by WHO reports. Can 3D Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) improve breast malignant pathology detection? A case-to-case imaging comparison between 3D DBT and 2D...

Introduction: Inflammatory bowel diseases are heterogeneous in their presentation. Crohn's disease (CD) has been described as an unusual cause of massive lower gastrointestinal bleeding. We present a patient with CD whose first presentation was hemoperitoneum following mild blunt abdominal trauma Case presentation: A 54-year-old woman came to the emergency room with a blunt abdominal trauma. The patient underwent an abdominal CT scan with i.v. contrast medium injection, which showed hemoperitoneum with stenotic strictures of the small bowel and active massive bleeding from ileocolic artery. The rapid anemia onset and the CT report induced us to perform blood transfusion and an emergency exploratory laparotomy. Histological examination of the resected terminal ileum revealed a Crohn's disease. Discussion: Crohn's disease has been associated with hemoperitoneum, but to date there is no exact protocol regarding treatment of massive hemorrhagic Crohn's disease, which is rare. A conservative approach with medical therapy has been suggested for initial treatment. However, if medical treatment fails or bleeding continues even with intervention, bowel resection through surgical therapy should be performed.

Presentiamo la nostra esperienza riguardo la progettazione e l'utilizzo di un plug-in per il software open-source di visualizzazione di immagini DICOM (OsiriX 32-bit; GNU General Public License) per la valutazione dei criteri dimensionali e densitometrici di metastasi epatiche in TCMS.

Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References, Aims and objectives: We present our experience about the improvement of a free DICOM medical imaging software Osirix (OsiriX 32-bit; GNU General Public License) for the evaluation of dimensional and densitometric changes of hepatic metastases on CT multislice...

The current gold standard for the diagnosis of myocardial bridging is conventional coronary angiography; however, it shows only indirect signs of the disease, due to the systolic compression of the artery caused by the myocardial bridge with narrowing of the lumen and diastolic relaxation. On the other hand, computed tomography coronary angiography, even though exposing to radiation, clearly demonstrates the intramural course, the overlying muscular bands and the surrounding tissues also in asymptomatic patients and in absence of systolic compression. The prognosis of patients with myocardial bridge is usually good, but further studies are needed to evaluate the long-term prognosis of these patients, the adequate diagnostic and preventive approach and to better discern which patients should be candidate to medical, percutaneous or surgical treatment.

Learning objectives Background Imaging findings OR Procedure details Conclusion References Personal Information, Learning objectives: Paleoanthropology studies the development of ancient cultures also by morphometric evaluation of cadaveric specimens, often using advanced diagnostic imaging. In fact, modern technologies allow, often with minimally invasive approach, an accurate...