OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to compare the cost-effectiveness of sonography and CT for the evaluation of renal masses discovered at excretory urography. MATERIALS AND METHODS The records of 225 patients with a renal mass shown by urography who then had either sonography or CT within 3 months were reviewed retrospectively. The number, location, and size of lesions; initial and subs...

conclusions the aspirates from the hypovascular and hypervascular sites of solid nodules are complementary and should be performed consecutively. results when only hypervascular site was used, adequate sampling was limited to 65% of the cases. when both sites were evaluated together, overall adequate sampling was 91%. adding a sample from the hypervascular site to hypovascular aspirate increase...

background: suppressive therapy with levothyroxine for reducing the size of thyroid nodules has not been really accepted. the purpose of this study was to assess the effect of levothyroxine on the size of benign thyroid nodules. methods: forty patients with confirmed benign nodule were randomly divided into two groups. group i received 50?g/day levothyroxin for six months but group ii did not t...

INTRODUCTION Sonography has found a role in the evaluation of patients with abdominal injury. However, the accuracy of sonography as performed by non-radiologists remains controversial. This study aims to determine the accuracy of focused abdominal sonography for trauma when performed by surgeons. MATERIALS AND METHOD Over a 1-year period, 48 patients with abdominal injury were initially eval...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to evaluate whether high-resolution sonography can provide additional information concerning rib lesions compared with radiography or bone scintigraphy. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty-eight patients with high-uptake rib lesions seen on bone scintigraphy were selected. Radiography and rib high-resolution sonography were performed on these patients. High-resolution sonography...

background some sonographic positions for detection of abdominal wall hernias needed .in this paper we described the sonographic technique of abdominal wall hernia. methods from june 2013 to july 2016, three hundred seventy four patients referred in our department for evaluation of abdominal wall hernia (median age, 38 years; range 2 - 86 years). one hundred and ninety patients had abdominal he...

BACKGROUND/AIM To review the sonographic views of paratracheal lymph nodes (PLNs) in the diagnosis and during different stages of autoimmune thyroiditis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Features of the PLNs (left and right), thyroid sonography, and laboratory data were investigated in 126 cases. Patients were divided into three groups by using thyroid sonographic criteria in the literature (group 1: co...

BACKGROUND The goal of ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration (USFNA) is to obtain most cellular specimen that represents the nodule. However, there is substantial variability in specimen cellularity depending on the obtaining techniques. While performing USFNA, it is not clear whether the needle tip should be placed at hypovascular or hypervascular site of the nodule to obtain more cells for...