BACKGROUND Primary mucinous carcinoma of the thyroid gland is a rare disease; only 6 cases of primary mucinous carcinoma of the thyroid have been previously reported. Primary mucinous carcinoma of the thyroid gland with incomplete tumor resection tends to be associated with a poor prognosis, resulting in death within a few months. An early and appropriate diagnosis may contribute to improvement...

PURPOSE To describe the imaging and pathologic findings of malignant rhabdoid tumor (MRT), a rare primary brain neoplasm affecting children. METHODS The CT and/or MR features, pathologic findings, and clinical records of three children with primary MRT of the brain were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS The tumors, large, left-sided cerebral masses, were intraventricular in two cases. MR im...

AIMS The main focus of this study is to illustrate the importance of the statistical analysis in the evaluation of the accuracy of malaria diagnostic tests, without admitting a reference test, exploring a dataset (n=3317) collected in São Tomé and Príncipe. METHODS Bayesian Latent Class Models (without and with constraints) are used to estimate the malaria infection prevalence, together with ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Rhabdoid meningioma (RM) is a recently described variant of malignant meningioma, with radiologic features currently not well characterized in the medical literature. The purpose of this study was to describe and characterize clinical features and imaging findings associated with RM. MATERIALS AND METHODS CT (n = 8) and MR (n = 15) images of 15 patients (4 men and 11 wo...