OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the value of endometrial blood flow assessment in predicting type 2 endometrial carcinoma. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty-five consecutive post-menopoausal women who had vaginal bleeding were enrolled in the study. All subjects were directed to transvaginal sonography to determine endometrial blood flow and underwent endometrial biopsy. Doppler...

Theessen H, Karakaya M, Daniel WG, Bautz W, Kalender WA, Anders K. Contrast-enhanced coronary artery visualization by dual-source computed tomography–initial experience. Eur J Radiol 2006;57:331–335. 9. Johnson TR, Nikolaou K, Wintersperger BJ, Leber AW, von Ziegler F, Rist C, Buhmann S, Knez A, Reiser MF, Becker CR. Dual-source CT cardiac imaging: initial experience. Eur Radiol 2006;16:1409–14...

This article reviews the anatomy and physiology of the uterine circulation, with emphasis on the remodeling of spiral arteries during normal pregnancy, and the timing and anatomical pathways of trophoblast invasion of the spiral arteries. We review the definitions of the placental bed and basal plate of the placenta, their relevance to the study of the physiologic transformation of the spiral a...

The spiral modiolar artery with its proximal branches and the microvessels in the spiral ligament and the stria vascularis were microdissected from the guinea pig cochlea. After incubation with proteolytic and collagenolytic enzymes the mixed cell suspension was fractionated by gradient centrifugation. The cells migrated according to their buoyant densities into the fractions of 1.04 g/ml (endo...

Ischemic placental disease is a concept that links intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) and preeclampsia (PE) back to insufficient remodeling of uterine spiral arteries. The rheological consequences of insufficient remodeling of uterine spiral arteries were hypothesized to mediate the considerably later manifestation of obstetric disease. However, the micro-rheology in the intervillous space ...

PURPOSE To determine whether spiral CT angiography allows accurate, quantitative evaluation of anatomic abnormalities, including detection of additional lesions, delineation of plaque morphology, and estimation of degree of internal carotid artery stenosis. METHODS Spiral CT angiography with a maximum intensity projection technique was compared with selective digital subtraction angiography (...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the utilization of 256-slice spiral computed tomography (CT) angiography in preoperative assessment of perigastric vascular anatomy in patients with gastric cancer. METHODS In this study, 80 gastric cancer patients were included. The medical procedure of 256-slice spiral CT angiography was performed on each of these patients consecutively. Thereafter, these patients were...

BACKGROUND Dialysis patients have increased vascular calcification of the coronary arteries and aorta by electron beam CT scan. The purpose of the present study was to utilize an alternative machine, spiral CT, to assess calcification in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. METHODS Two groups of patients with ESRD were evaluated: group 1, those receiving a renal transplant (n=38); and gro...