BACKGROUND Fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) has been shown to be the diagnostic procedure of choice for superficial lymphadenitis in tuberculosis endemic regions. METHODS We conducted a retrospective laboratory-based study to determine the bacteriological yield of clinically suspected mycobacterial tuberculous lymphadenitis following FNAB in adults, and specifically HIV-positive patients,...

Following PET/CT, PET/MR is the newest diagnostic whole-body hybrid imaging modality. Simultaneous PET and MR data acquisition requires novel technical solutions and offers new diagnostic opportunities. Attenuation correction (AC) and motion correction (MC) of PET data are current hot topics in PET/MR hybrid imaging research. The added diagnostic value of PET/MR in whole-body imaging is current...

The diagnostic of degenerative disc disease should be reached with the help of various diagnostic studies. This article briefly review the information gained by the following tests: radiographs, computed tomography, magnetic resonance, and discography. The article explains how each modality provides a piece of the diagnostic puzzle and how discography confirms the origin of the patient's pain.

ultislice computed tomography (MSCT) coronary aniography (CA) has emerged as a powerful noninvasive iagnostic modality to visualize the coronary arteries and the anifestations of coronary atherosclerosis (1). Many reports ave demonstrated that 64-slice computed tomography CT) CA is a viable diagnostic modality to detect or rule out he presence of significant coronary stenoses, but the precise o...

The future of diagnostic imaging will rely, in large part, on the digital revolution that is currently affecting all technologydriven disciplines. Superimposed on the digital substrate, however, are a variety of wide-ranging developments that are modality-specific advancements in image receptor technology and modality-specific image data reduction. Diagnostic imaging is classically divided into...

Background Valvular heart disease (VHD) has an incremental prevalence worldwide independent from its etiology. Currently, a variety of imaging modalities exists and are used as diagnostic tools to guide the decision between medical and surgical treatment; however, and “ideal” method does not exists and there is certain degree of discrepancy between the findings of each modality and the surgery,...