PET/MRI is a new hybrid imaging modality and has the potential to become a powerful imaging tool. It is currently one of the most active areas of research in diagnostic imaging. The characterisation of an incidental renal lesion can be difficult. In particular, the differentiation of an oncocytoma from other solid renal lesions such as renal cell carcinoma (RCC) represents a diagnostic challeng...

Introduction. MRgHIFU is a hybrid technology which aims to offer efficient and safe thermal ablation of targeted tumors or other pathological tissues, while preserving healthy surrounding structures unaltered. Theoretically MRgHIFU has no limitation regarding lesion size [1]. The main challenge is to avoid near and far field heating [2]. We demonstrate here that reflection at tissue-to-air exit...

A pseudoaneurysm of the proximal right subclavian artery is rare and most commonly caused by penetrating or blunt trauma. We report a case of a Marfan patient with a large iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm of the right subclavian artery, induced by a puncture lesion during central venous catheter placement for an elective endovascular thoracic aortic procedure. The patient was successfully treated with...

Endocardial atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation techniques enable one to characterize the underlying substrate in order to tailor the ablation procedure but these ablation lesions are not always transmural nor long lasting. Surgical AF ablation techniques, on the other hand, create reliable linear lesions but the lesion set is based on empirical assumptions rather than specific patient characteri...

Anterior chest wall giant basal cell carcinoma (GBCC) is a rare skin malignancy that requires a multidisciplinary treatment approach. This case report demonstrates the challenges of anterior chest wall GBCC reconstruction for the purpose of palliative therapy in a 72-year-old female. Surgical resection of the lesion included the manubrium and upper four ribs. The defect was closed with bilatera...

background & aim: according to presence of immune system factors in chronic periapical lesions, hypersensitivity reactions may have some role in pathogenesis of these lesions. up to now, among the factors participating in type i hypersensitivity reaction, only one of them has been studied. so the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the presence of ige & number of mast cel...

objective(s): there are many reports about the role of rostral ventromedial medulla (rvm) in modulating stress-induced analgesia (sia). in the previous study we demonstrated that temporal inactivation of rvm by lidocaine potentiated stress-induced analgesia. in this study, we investigated the effect of permanent lesion of the rvm on sia by using formalin test as a model of acute inflammatory pa...