Background: To investigate the morphometric characteristics of lacrimal sac fossa in Anatolian population using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) images surgical aspect.Materials and Methods: A total 77 cranial MDCT scans were evaluated. The dimensions maxillary bones forming measured 3 axial planes (up-per, middle, lower planes).Results: mean maximum thickness bone at upper, middle were...

Two mediastinal masses were incidentally detected at high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of a 72 year-old male patient, former smoker, affected by chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with worsening dyspnea and 2-year medical history of polycythemia secondary to hypoxia. Integration with a multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) scan after administration of intravenous injection contra...

A 67-year-old woman presented in the emergency room with abdominal pain for 2 hours. Physical examination showed abdominal distension and diffuse pain without signs of peritoneal irritation. A plain abdominal radiography showed distension of cecum located ectopically in the left upper quadrant, with little aeration of the distal colon. Given these findings, an intravenous contrast enhanced mult...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the diagnostic efficiency of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) in the detection of blunt bowel and mesenteric injuries (BBMI), and the role of different experience levels in using MDCT. METHODS This study included a test group of twenty-seven patients with surgically important BBMI in whom the diagnoses were confirmed after surgic...

Ureteropelvic junction UPJ obstruction is caused by the presence of an aperistaltic dysplastic segment at the UPJ. Besides this intrinsic etiology, extrinsic factors, mainly crossing vessels, maybe the causative factor. The controversy regarding the functional significance of vessels crossing at the UPJ is not a new one, though this debate has been resurrected in recent years because of improve...

The diagnosis of cardiovascular malformations (CVM) is based on the echocardiographic evaluation. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are performant, necessary techniques for the pre- and postoperative assessment of complex malformations, especially of cyanogenic malformations, in which anomalies of the right side of the heart and of the pulmonary circu...

Although large bowel obstruction (LBO) is less common than small bowel obstruction, it is associated with high morbidity and mortality due to delayed diagnosis and/or treatment. Plain radiographs are sufficient to diagnose LBO in a majority of patients. However, further evaluation with multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) has become the standard of care to identify the site, severity, and e...

Both echocardiography (specifically transesophageal echocardiography [TEE]) and multidetector row computed tomography (MDCT) have played an integral role in preprocedural planning for transcatheter aortic valve replacement, heavily influencing the moniker of “multimodality imaging.” The strengths of each modalities are complementary (Table), although there is overlap between the preprocedural a...

THE RISING NUMBEROF PATIENTSWITH ADVANCED HEART FAILUREWHO RECEIVE DURABLE MECHANICAL CIRCULATORY SUPPORT (MCS) DEVICES requires improved recognition of device complications (1). Imaging is invariably needed because the clinical presentation is nonspecific. In our institution, we perform both a baseline echocardiographic study and a pump speed optimization test when left ventricular assist devi...

The present series describes a group of adults with left-to-right shunts including partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR) and/or an atrial septal defect (ASD) evaluated with ECG-gated 128-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT). PAPVR is defined as a left-to-right shunt where one or more, but not all, pulmonary veins drain into a systemic vein or the right atrium. PAPVR involv...