Abstract BACKGROUND Differentiating neoplastic and non-neoplastic brain lesions is essential to make management recommendations convey prognosis, but the distinction between tumors their mimics in practice may prove challenging. The aim of this study provide incidence tumor neuro-oncology setting describe patient subset. METHODS Retrospective adult patients referred Division Neuro-oncology for ...

The ameloblastoma is a benign ectodermal tumor of odontogenic origin and is considered to be the most common epithelial odontogenic neoplasm. It represents only 1% of all tumors or cysts of the jaw 1,2 . About 75% of ameloblastomas occur in the mandible, especially in the regions of the bicuspids and molars and in the angle of the mandible. The remaining 25% of ameloblastomas occur in the maxil...

THIS is the eleventh in a series of monographs dealing with various aspects of radiology. The book is of special interest since Dr. Davidson from Mount Zion Hospit-al, San Francisco, an authority on renal disease, wrote most of the text while on sabbatical leave in London, under the critical eye of his British contemporaries. The radiologic assessment of renal parenchymal disease is discussed o...

D espite the pivotal role of abnormal chest radiographic findings in alerting clinicians to the possibility of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), the accuracy of radiographic interpretation has received little research interest. Autopsy and clinical data have documented many other causes of abnormal findings, adversely affecting specificity.8,18,83 In addition, sensitivity may be overestima...

Asbestosis is the most important change noted in the lung parenchyma after environmental and occupational exposure to asbestos fibers. It is characterized by diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. In Korea, the incidence of asbestosis will continue to increase for many years to come and the government enacted the Asbestos Damage Relief Law in 2011 to provide compensation to those suffering fr...

A 53-year-old woman presented with a complaint of a sore throat. Examination showed a left-sided atrophy of the tongue. Upon protrusion, the tongue deviated to the left, suggestive of a unilateral hypoglossal nerve palsy. Computed tomography revealed enlarged hypoglossal canals. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated bilateral hypoglossal canal masses, with enhancement following gadolini...

 Abstract Background: Enchondroma, is the most frequent bone tumor of the hand , but chondrosarcoma is rare at this location .There is a high possibility of correct diagnosis of enchondroma and differentiating from its malignant counterpart by precise clinical and radiologic assessment without biopsy, a subject of debate in the literature . At the present study we substantially investigate this...

the study was aimed to investigate the diagnostic differences between male and female patients in pulmonary tuberculosis in a tertiary 660 bedded educational respiratory medicine hospital, istanbul, turkey. a retrospective study was conducted with the new diagnosed, 50 men and 50 female pulmonary tuberculous patients. age, symptoms, personal history, radiologic and sputum smear findings were co...

we reported ct of a case of giant organized hematoma originating from the inferior turbinate without any paranasal sinuses involvement, with an emphasis on different patterns of enhancement of the tumor on enhanced ct scans. this case was exceptional because of unusual location and difficulties in diagnosis. moreover, organized hematoma of nasal cavity should be considered in the differential d...