OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether admission day of the week affects the length of stay (LOS) and health care costs for failure to thrive (FTT) admissions. METHODS Administrative data were obtained for all children aged <2 years (N = 23 332) with a primary admission diagnosis of FTT from 2003-2011 from 42 freestanding US hospitals. Demographic characteristics, day of admission, LOS, costs per stay...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this pictorial review is to present imaging findings of angioedema involving the various organs. CONCLUSION The role of imaging for patients with angioedema includes the evaluation of the upper airway for obstruction and the exclusion of other possible aetiologies, such as neoplastic or infectious processes. Glossomegaly is a common finding of head and neck angioedem...

A 65-year-old recently retired surgeon in good health developed disinhibited behavior over the course of a few months , followed by onset of unintentional, forceful flinging movements of his right arm and leg. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a 1-cm rimenhancing mass in the left subthalamic region , which was of high signal intensity on T2-weighted images (Figs 1A-E). Positive serum huma...

From the Department of Radiology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA (VBH); Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD (VBH, JGS); Department of Radiologic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC (JGS); Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Hospital; Washington, DC (FMM); Department of...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The possibility of using MR imaging as a sensitive marker of the structural changes in Parkinson's disease has been a long-sought goal. We describe a new method for imaging and quantifying the morphologic changes of the substantia nigra in Parkinson's disease and compare radiologic findings with clinical evaluation. METHODS Using a combination of two MR imaging inversio...

We evaluated the pain and radiologic response, time to progression, and dose-response relationship after palliative radiotherapy for bone metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma. We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 91 patients between January 2004 and August 2012. The reviewed medical records included data on changes in pain, local tumor progression, and radiologic response eval...