The pelvic finger is a rare anatomical abnormality characterized by the development of a bony structure in the soft tissues adjacent to the pelvis. Its origin is still unknown, but the theory suggests an abnormality occurring at the stage of mesenchymal bone growth during the first six weeks of embryogenesis. We present the case of a 40-year old patient, very athletic seeing the doctor for mech...

Creating a large-scale dataset of abnormality annotation on medical images is labor-intensive and costly task. Leveraging weak supervision from readily available data such as radiology reports can compensate lack for anomaly detection methods. However, most the current methods only use image-level pathological observations, failing to utilize relevant anatomy mentions in reports. Furthermore, N...

BACKGROUND 2-D Echo is often performed in patients without history of coronary artery disease (CAD). We sought to determine echo features predictive of CAD. METHODS 2-D Echo of 328 patients without known CAD performed within one year prior to stress myocardial SPECT and angiography were reviewed. Echo features examined were left ventricular and atrial enlargement, LV hypertrophy, wall motion ...

Introduction Cholecystectomy is the surgical removal of gallbladder for symptomatic gallstones disease or where exist the risk of gallbladder malignancy. Its performed routinely across the globe often as day surgery. In this case report, we describe an incidental intra operative finding of a left sided gallbladder creating a technical challenge for the surgeon. Case We describe the case of 35...

BACKGROUND Secretin-enhanced magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (S-MRCP) facilitates better visualization of the pancreaticobiliary ductal system but its role in patients with acalculous biliary pain (ABP) is yet to be established. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic yield and the role of S-MRCP in the investigation of ABP patients. METHODS This is a retrospective anal...

PURPOSE The purpose of this work was to describe the choroidal structure in patients with oculocutaneous albinism (OCA). METHODS 20 eyes of 10 patients with OCA and 14 eyes of 7 healthy controls were recruited for the study. Enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (OCT) images of the subjects were taken. The choroidal thickness (CT) was measured from the outer boarder of the retin...

Anomaly detection (AD) is the identification of data samples that do not fit a learned distribution. As such, AD systems can help physicians to determine presence, severity, and extension pathology. Deep generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), be exploited capture anatomical variability. Consequently, any outlier (i.e., sample falling outside distribution) detected an...

The sphincter of Oddi disorder (SOD) has been a controversial subject for many years, about which a lot has been written. However, new findings mainly using Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) and sphincter of Oddi manometry (SOM) demonstrate the fact of this diagnostic. SOD is just a part of a larger pathology, the tfunctional gastrointestinal disorders, which have been recon...

The last 15 years have witnessed a very remarkable change in the attitude of the clinician towards cyanotic congenital heart disease. It is within the memory of many that it was the custom to make a simple diagnosis of congenital heart abnormality with cyanosis, and express the opinion that little or nothing could be done about it. Then there appeared the pioneer work of Abbott and others which...

Vein of Galen abnormality is a rare congenital malformation of blood vessels of the brain and while often referred to as "Vein of Galen aneurysm" its is really not an aneurysm but usually an arteriovenous (AV) malformation. The following case report will be of interest to sonographers as it demonstrates early prenatal diagnosis of this intracranial vascular abnormality causing cardiac overload ...