Japanese journal of radiology
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Meckel's diverticulum is the most common congenital abnormality of the gastrointestinal tract. It is a true diverticulum containing all layers of the intestinal wall and identified as a saccular, blind-ending structure located on the antimesenteric border of the distal ileum. ⋯ Symptomatic cases are nonspecific and can present as small-bowel obstruction, diverticulitis, perforation, gastrointestinal bleeding, and rarely, a neoplasm. Therefore, the radiological diagnosis is of paramount important for proper patient management.
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The objective of this article is to provide an illustrative tutorial highlighting the utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging to detect the spectrum of manifestations in patients with Langerhans cell histiocytosis. FDG PET/CT is a powerful tool for making an early diagnosis; it allows higher diagnostic confidence with regard to lesions, measuring the extent of disease (staging) and assessing disease activity, and is consequently useful for evaluating the response to therapy in patients with Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
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Comparative Study
Comparison between borderline ovarian tumors and carcinomas using semi-automated histogram analysis of diffusion-weighted imaging: focusing on solid components.
This study aimed to evaluate whether histogram analysis of the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) of a solid tumor component could distinguish borderline ovarian tumors from ovarian carcinoma. ⋯ ADC histograms of solid tumor components facilitated the distinction between borderline ovarian tumors and carcinoma. The 10th percentile ADC values had the best diagnostic performance.
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Cystic-form, intraductal papillary neoplasms of the bile ducts (IPNBs) usually manifest as a multilocular cystic mass or unilocular cystic mass with papillary mural nodules. To our knowledge, cystic IPNBs forming single, unilocular cystic lesions without a visible papillary tumor and mimicking a simple hepatic cyst or mucinous cystadenoma have never been reported. Here, we report a case of cystic IPNB that initially appeared as a simple cyst and subsequently became a unilocular cystic mass with a papillary mural nodule on follow-up CT.