As children are prone to be more radiosensitive than adults, it is imperative assess the Entrance Skin Doses (ESDs) for patients being examined by X-rays, in order ensure optimization of dose while considering a number other fickles. The ESD received 50 paediatrics (aged 1-13 years) undergoing 8 types X-ray examinations were measured at Federal Teaching Hospital, Ido-Ekiti, Ekiti, Nigeria, with...

bilateral femoral agenesis is a rare anomaly.  to the best of our knowledge, only three cases of simple congenital anomaly and three cases associated with femoral facial syndrome have been reported.  here, we describe a simple form of bilateral femoral agenesis observed in one of the 2 dead fetuses delivered after termination of a 24-week twin pregnancy of a normal mother.  post-mortem x-ray ex...

During a medical radioscopic examination, the X-ray dose needs to be adjusted continuously to the body region examined. In current systems, this adjustment is based on the mean grayvalue of the central part of the current image. Basing the control of the X-ray dose on this parameter alone leads to incorrect exposure, if direct radiation enters the central part of the image. We present the appli...

A 51-YEAR-OLD white man with a 45-year history of smoking was noted to have an abnormality on a routine chest x-ray. He denied any history of cough, sputum production, chest pain, dyspnea, weight loss, weakness, or tuberculosis. There was no previous chest x-ray available for comparison. The patient’s physical examination results were unremarkable. His chest x-ray is shown in Figure 1 and a com...

Barium granuloma of the colon and rectum is a rare complication of X-ray examination of the digestive tract using barium. The authors report 5 new cases occurring in the last 3 years. Histological examination revealed a granulomatous reaction with greyish finely granular refractile PAS-negative material located in the cytoplasm of histiocytes and in the interstitial space. The radiographic stud...

BACKGROUND Pelvic x-ray is a routine part of the primary survey of polytraumatized patients according to Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) guidelines. However, pelvic CT is the gold standard imaging technique in the diagnosis of pelvic fractures. This study was conducted to confirm the safety of a modified ATLS algorithm omitting pelvic x-ray in hemodynamically stable polytraumatized patients...

INTRODUCTION Cayler cardio-facial syndrome is a rare syndrome associated with asymmetric crying faces with congenital heart disease. We report a newborn that was diagnosed as case of Cayler Cardio-facial syndrome based on clinical features and was confirmed with FISH analysis. CASE PRESENTATION A term male baby, born to non-consanguineous couple through normal vaginal delivery was diagnosed t...

*北 畠隆 ,佐 藤 俊郎:新 潟大学医学部放射線医学教室,新 潟市旭町1,〒951 **竹 内正七:新 潟大学 医学部産科婦人科学教室,新 潟市旭町1,〒951 Frequency of prenatal X-ray examination in 1,701 parturient women was surveyed in 19 Japanese hospitals in 1974. Of 1,701 women, 470 or 27.6% have received maternal X-ray examination during the pregnant period. There is no significant difference in frequency of prenatal X-rays between in the primipara and multipar...