Diagnostic and interventional radiology : official journal of the Turkish Society of Radiology
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Diagn Interv Radiol · Jun 2011
Case ReportsAcute abdomen caused by a small bowel perforation due to a clinically unsuspected fish bone.
We report the case of a 78-year-old woman with a three-day history of abdominal pain and vomiting. An abdominal plain film showed a distended small bowel loop and no signs of free intra-abdominal gas. ⋯ A laparotomy revealed a jejunal perforation and an omental granuloma containing a fish bone. Accidentally ingested foreign bodies should always be suspected in cases of acute abdomen, and ultrasonography remains a firstline examination tool for preoperative diagnoses of unsuspected foreign bodies and their complications.
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Diagn Interv Radiol · Jun 2011
The value of diffusion-weighted MRI for prostate cancer detection and localization.
The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of prebiopsy T2-weighted imaging (T2WI), quantitative diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), and the combination of these magnetic resonance (MR) techniques (T2WI+DWI) in the detection and localization of peripheral zone prostate cancer. ⋯ Prebiopsy DWI is valuable in detecting, localizing, and grading prostate cancer within the peripheral zone, and the lowest ADC values can indicate the regions to be biopsied.