In a recent article by Lausten, J#{248}rgensen and Boesen (1989) anteversion (AV) of the femoral neck was measured directly, by ultrasound, and by computerised tomography (CT). The authors reported poor correlation between the angles measured by ultrasound and the two other methods, and concluded that ultrasound at present seemed unsuitable for the measurement of femoral anteversion. We believe...

A 39-year old gentleman presented with cough and haemoptysis for 5 years. A chest radiograph showed a large left retrocardiac opacity (Fig. 1). A contrast enhanced computerised tomography of the thorax showed a hypertrophied aberrant systemic artery from the descending thoracic aorta, leading to a large saccular, partially thrombosed aneurysm in the left lower lobe (Fig. 2). The patient underwe...

Three cases of morning glory syndrome are described and some new electrofunctional and tomodensitometric findings are reported. The amplitude of the waves of the electroretinogram is reduced and correlates with the extension of the retinal changes. The visually evoked potentials elicited with bright flashes have normal latencies but generally subnormal amplitudes. The amplitude of the potential...

A 30-year-old woman presented with dilated episcleral vessels in the right eye which were found to be associated with an underlying ciliary body tumour. Contact lens examination, transpupillary transillumination, ultrasonography, computerised tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and fine needle aspiration biopsy produced apparently conflicting and inconclusive results, and the eye was enucle...

A case of choroidal osteoma presenting in a 22-year-old girl is reported. The tumour, unilateral and in a juxtapapillary site, appeared markedly elevated on the retinal plane, not flat or slightly elevated as in previous reports. Visual acuity was not affected, and there was a complete absence of subjective symptoms. Echography, fluorangiography, computerised tomography, and visual field tests ...

We present the case of a 73-year-old woman who presented with lethargy and a nonproductive cough. Computerised tomography of her abdomen revealed a 38-mm mass in the lower pole of her left kidney. She underwent a partial nephrectomy, with final histopathological analysis confirming the presence of a concomitant oncocytoma and papillary cell carcinoma. To our knowledge, this is the only case rep...

A 59-year-old lady was referred for an open-access endoscopy with a history of dyspepsia. The endoscopy showed a 5 mm sessile nodule in the fundus of the stomach. The histology report suggested that this represented a metastatic deposit from renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Following this, a computerised tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed an 18 × 15 cm RCC. Here we provide a short review on gastr...

All patients with end stage renal disease on chronic haemodialysis in the Nephrology Department were included in th is review, including patients who were subsequently transplanted. Patients suspected of developing encephalopathy had a neurological assessment, and investigations including lumbar puncture, brain scan,skull X-rays, EEG and where considered appropriate, carotid angiography and com...

We present a case of a middle-aged man who was incidentally found to have right renal solid mass while investigating for his left eye proptosis. Computerised tomography (CT) scan confirmed the diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma and the tumour was successfully excised via open surgery. The histopathology examination revealed the 10x7x8 cm mass to be a clear cell type renal cell carcinoma. The rar...

Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is an uncommon tumor of the lung which usually occurs in young individuals without any known risk factor. It is non-small cell lung cancer of salivary gland type. Clinical presentation is often confused with that of bronchial asthma or pneumonia. Computerised tomography of chest and bronchoscopy establish the diagnosis. Most often it is low grade subtype with excellent ...