Dear Editor-in-Chief, The inspissated meconium pellets are a cause or effect of ileocolic obstructions. The present study aimed at explaining our experience of ultrasound-based approach for differentiation and treatment of the inspissated meconium pellets. This study was conducted at Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran, from 2017-2020...

key features covered by this talk are, choice of transducers and needles; patient positioning; joint injections and aspirations; tendon sheath injections; cyst aspirations; biopsies.

background : a transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy is currently the gold standard procedure to detect prostatic adenocarcinoma. there is little information on the clinical utility of this technique for the detection of prostate adenocarcinoma in men with suspected prostate cancer in pakistan. this study seeks to determine the frequency of prostatic adenocarcinoma by using a transrecta...

introduction: distal radius fractures are a common traumatic injury, particularly in the elderly population. in the present study we examined the effectiveness of ultrasound guidance in the reduction of distal radius fractures in adult patients presenting to emergency department (ed). methods: in this prospective case control study, eligible patients were adults older than 18 years who presente...

occipital neuralgia is a condition manifested by chronic occipital headaches and is thought to be caused by irritation or trauma to the greater occipital nerve (gon). treatment for occipital neuralgia includes medications, nerve blocks, and pulsed radiofrequency ablation (prfa). landmark-guided gon blocks are the mainstay in both the diagnosis and treatment of occipital neuralgia. ultrasound is...

Background: Long-term central venous access is used in children for various reasons specially for delivering chemotherapy. Since vessels in children have smaller diameters, they are more prone to injury and complications such as thrombosis. Different methods are used for implantation of port-a-cath in children. We aimed to compare the complications of insertion of central venous access ports be...

Office-based ultrasonography has become increasingly available in many settings, and its use to guide joint and soft tissue injections has increased. Numerous studies have been conducted to evaluate the use of ultrasound-guided injections over traditional landmark-guided injections, with a rapid growth in the literature over the past few years. A comprehensive review of the literature was condu...

BACKGROUND There are a growing number of thyroid ultrasound courses to train endocrinologists, pathologists, and surgeons to perform ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA). However, there are limited data to support the efficacy of ultrasound-guided FNA performed by nonradiologists. METHODS We compared the efficacy of ultrasound-guided FNA performed by surgeons newly trained in thyroi...

Image-guided procedures, such as computed tomography (CT)-guided stereotactic and ultrasound-guided methods, can assist neurosurgeons in localizing the relevant pathology. The characteristics of image-guided procedures are important for their appropriate use, especially in brain biopsy. This study reviewed the results of various image-guided brain biopsies to ascertain the advantages and disadv...