An 11-year-old female German Shepherd dog was presented for investigation of progressive enlargement of the abdomen, periodic bloody discharge from the vulva and rapid exhaustion. Transabdominal ultrasonography and lateral abdominal radiography demonstrated an echogenic formation with anechogenic cavities located cranial to the urinary bladder and a homogeneous shadow with an elliptical shape w...

Objective: Despite major advances in imaging techniques, correct diagnosis of acute aortic dissection is frequently missed. Although as many as one-third of acute cases of aortic dissection involve the abdominal aorta, emergency physicians rarely suspect this lethal disease in patients presenting with abdominal pain. Transabdominal sonography is typically employed by emergency physicians, but t...

A 33-year-old nulligravid Filipino woman was admitted to the gynaecology ward of Princess Margaret Hospital in April 2014, with lower abdominal pain and recurrent retention of urine. Her pregnancy test was positive. Per-vaginal examination revealed a 4-cm firm, fixed, and wide-based vaginal mass with smooth wall over the upper anterior vagina. Bedside transabdominal ultrasonography confirmed a ...

A 47-year-old woman with regular menstrual cycle had no remarkable history in the past. She was diagnosed invasive ductal carcinoma of right breast and received imaging survey for cancer staging. In transabdominal ultrasonography, a 6-cm hypoechoic cystic mass with an echogenic globular nodule, 2 cm in diameter containing some hyperechoic dots, was identified in the pelvis by accident (Figure 1...

BACKGROUND Normal morphological features of the maternal pelvis are an important prerequisite to vaginal delivery. OBJECTIVES We aimed to evaluate the association between obstetric conjugate diameter (OCD) measured by ultrasonography and the type of delivery, vaginally (V) or by cesarean (C) section. PATIENTS AND METHODS Pelvimetry was performed in 200 primigravid women for fetal cephalic p...

disorder. At clinical examination, the patient demonstrated a development of secondary sexual characteristics compatible with her chronological age. At gynecological examination a grooved urethra with elevated edges was observed. Speculum examination was not performed. Transabdominal ultrasonography did not demonstrate the presence of uterus and ovaries in their habitual site, but the study was...

Ultrasound has its well-established role in the diagnosis guidelines of abdominal pathology, being widely used in the internal medicine, gastroenterology and emergency services. Its use in surgery is best known trough FAST protocols (focused abdominal sonogram for trauma) [13], very important in the management of patients presenting with abdominal trauma or suspected acute abdomen. Under electi...

In a study of 102 women (Arabs and Asians) with hirsutism, polycystic ovary syndrome was diagnosed in 93 patients (91%) including 26 cases with hirsutism and regular menstrual periods. In more than half of the cases the diagnosis was made on the basis of transabdominal ultrasonography, which was the single test with the highest yield. Luteinising hormone hyperresponsiveness to gonadotropin-rele...

Urinary bladder cancer (UBC) is dominantly the cancer of the elderly occurring primarily in the 6h, 7!h and 81h decade of life. The aim of this study was to evaluate diagnostic accuracy of ultrasound T-staging (UTS) of UBC in dhe group of elderly patients. In 152 elderly patients referred to transabdominal ultrasound examination in two different facilities (76 each) due to various symptoms (pri...

Erdheim-Chester disease is a rare form of non-Langerhans cell histiocytosis characterized by the migration and infiltration of lipid-laden CD68, CD1a and S100 histiocytes to various target organs, which leads to the disruption of physiological tissue architecture and reactive fibrosis, and thus impairs organ function.We describe the first case of a patient with Erdheim-Chester disease with mult...