BACKGROUND Pelvic pain is a common gynecologic problem. We report a case of a noncommunicating accessory uterine cavity as a cause of pelvic pain in a young adolescent. CASE A 17-year-old nulligravida presented with worsening pelvic pain. Transvaginal ultrasound revealed a 3-cm cavity within the myometrium. Hysteroscopy revealed a normal uterine cavity. Surgical excision of the accessory cavi...

We report a rare case of a 30-year-old breastfeeding woman who presented to our surgical outpatient department with complaints of a gradually enlarging lump in her left breast for the last 2 months. She also complained of difficulty in breastfeeding for 1 week. On examination, the right breast was normal but there was a 4 cm × 4 cm retroareolar soft lump in her left breast. Examination of the b...

Arguably the most important step in the prognosis of prostate cancer is early diagnosis. More than 1 million transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided prostate needle biopsies are performed annually in the United States, resulting in the detection of 200,000 new cases per year. Unfortunately, the urologist's ability to diagnose prostate cancer has not kept pace with therapeutic advances; currently, ...

BACKGROUND Historically, the prostate was evaluated for cancer by simple digital rectal examination, and biopsy to obtain a tissue diagnosis of cancer was performed blindly. The advent of ultrasound technology offered a new way to evaluate the prostate, and biopsy techniques were soon developed to incorporate ultrasound guidance. METHODS The authors review the role of transrectal ultrasound (...

The impact of pressure regulator noise on the performance of ultrasonic meters has been discussed for several years now. This is one of the problems still to be solved in ultrasonic flow metering technology. Engineers have so far attempted to solve the problem by installing complex spatial pipe arrangements at high costs to reduce interfering noise levels. The issue has been examined systematic...

Ultrasonic tissue characterization has shown promise for clinical diagnosis of diseased bone (e.g., osteoporosis) by establishing correlations between bone ultrasonic characteristics and the state of disease. Porous (trabecular) bone supports propagation of two compressional modes, a fast wave and a slow wave, each of which is characterized by an approximately linear-withfrequency attenuation c...

In data mining, classification is one o f the significant techniques with applications in fraud detection, Artificial intelligence, Medical Diagnosis and many other fields. Classification of objects based on their features into predefined categories is a widely studied problem. Decision trees are very much useful to diagnose a patient problem by the physicians. Decision tree classifiers are use...