Case presentation: A 12-year-old child with a history of varicella infection for 7 days. On the seventh day, patient presented prostration, inappetence, gait ataxia, dysdiadochokinesia, bilateral eye movement decomposition, pupils equal, round and reactive to light, no focal deficit absence fever. Clinical support, laboratory tests, CSF analysis, imaging exams were initiated. test hemogram norm...

A 56-year-old male was admitted to an outpatient clinic five months after feeling a snap in his right heel while walking the yard. Clinical and imaging evaluation demonstrated discontinuity of Achilles tendon (AT). The measured gap between insertion proximal stump 13cm. patient underwent reconstruction using bio-absorbable synthetic graft associated with Flexor Hallucis Longus (FHL) transfer. G...

M edicare spending on medical imaging services reached $14 billion in 2006, more than double the 2000 spending, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released in June. The GAO also found that the proportion of spending on imaging services performed in physician offices rose from 58% to 64%, whereas the proportion of spending on imaging performed in hospitals drop...

results stereoscopic displays of the nerves were obtained in all 24 elbows by vr, mip, and fiber tractography post-processing methods. the vr/mip post-processing methods were easier to perform compared to fiber tractography. there was no significant difference among the scores of fiber tracking and vr/mip reconstruction for single direction. the imaging quality scores of fiber tractography and ...

rhabdomyosarcoma is a common primary childhood malignancy that rarely metastasizes to the breast. we report a patient with a primary sinonasal rhabdomyosarcoma metastasizing to the breast, with no distant spread. we describe the imaging appearance of rhabdomyosarcoma on magnetic resonance imaging (mri), particularly on diffusion-weighted imaging (dwi) and apparent diffusion coefficient (adc) se...