BACKGROUND Bone stress reaction is prevalent among cricket fast bowlers. Few studies have addressed the sensitivity and specificity of imaging for diagnosis, and follow up assessment has been poorly investigated. OBJECTIVE To determine whether there was an association between back pain and bone stress reaction as measured by computed tomography (CT) scan in young cricket fast bowlers. METHO...

Incidental extra-osseous uptake of 99mTc-MDP on bone scintigraphy has been frequently reported in the literature; however, calcification of the psoas muscle is a rare condition, which has been reported on magnetic resonance (MR) and computed tomography (CT) imagings. Here we report a 67-year-old woman with acute paraplegia and low back pain who was referred for a 99mTc-MDP...

N.F.S., 76, black, complained of dizziness that did not improve with medication, pulsatile tinnitus and progressive hearing loss for the past 3 years in his right ear, as well as left side neck bulging for 30 years, of slow growth, painless, of fibroelastic material, non-pulsatile. On CT scan we noticed an extensive solid mass with ill-defined lobulated contours, occupying the carotid space in ...

There are various modalities of joint imaging e.g. conventional radiography (CR), computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), bone scintigraphy, positron emission tomography (PET), ultrasonography (US), bone densitography. CR shows only bone lesions, while CT demonstrate both bone and soft-tissue changes. MRI is the best modality at showing soft tissue contrast than CT scan and ...

Cerebral palsy (CP) is one of the non-progressive neurological diseases caused by damage to the brain tissue at birth, which leads to physical, cognitive and perceptive symptoms. Even after lifelong medical and therapeutic management there are residual deficits which affect the quality of life of the patients and their families. We examined a maximally rehabilitated, 20 year old male suffering ...

We report the progressive otic capsule demineralization around the membranous labyrinth and facial nerve in an adult patient with osteogenesis imperfecta tarda. Whereas the initial CT scan showed bandlike, undermineralized pericochlear areas, 2 years later, repeat CT performed because of hearing deterioration showed progression of these findings to the promontory, the round window niche, and th...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cornelia de Lange syndrome is a rare developmental malformation syndrome with a high prevalence of hearing impairment. The purposes of this study were to describe the characteristic temporal bone CT findings in patients with Cornelia de Lange syndrome and to correlate audiometric data with radiologic findings in these patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten children (6 girl...

Skull base metastases from primary malignant tumors are relatively uncommon lesions. They usually originate from the breast, lung, prostate, skin, liver and cervix. We report a case of a 76 years old female complaining of dizziness, mild left hearing loss, tinnitus and recurring left facial paresis. A computed tomography scan of the temporal bones documented a much extended osteolytic lesion of...

Otologic surgery often involves a mastoidectomy, which is the removal of a portion of the mastoid region of the temporal bone, to safely access the middle and inner ear. The surgery is challenging because many critical structures are embedded within the bone, making them difficult to see and requiring a high level of accuracy with the surgical dissection instrument, a high-speed drill. We propo...

bone scanning using the 99mtc-phosphate analogs is an established diagnostic modality and a commonly requested radioisotope examination for a variety of pathologies involving the skeleton, such as osteomyelitis, bony metastases, and occult fractures. the bone scan is one of the most commonly requested procedure in most nuclear medicine department. the images show areas of increased and decrease...