Journal of computer assisted tomography
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To evaluate, in the spine, the relationship between the amount of epidural fat to body weight, height, body mass index (BMI), presence of obesity, depth of posterior subcutaneous fat, as well as gender and age. ⋯ Weight but not body habitus is associated with specific, usually posterior, patterns of epidural fat deposition. Overall obesity is unrelated to epidural fat.
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J Comput Assist Tomogr · Jan 2005
Differential diagnosis between cerebral tuberculosis and neurocysticercosis by magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
Single enhancing brain lesions (SELs), mostly as a result of neurocysticercosis or tuberculosis, are a common cause of seizures. Ten patients with SELs caused by neurocysticercosis (n=6) or tuberculosis (n=4) were examined by proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy. ⋯ The choline/creatine ratio was greater than 1 in all tuberculomas but in none of the cysticerci. Magnetic resonance spectroscopy differentiates SELs caused by cysticercosis or tuberculosis and may avoid brain biopsies or unnecessary antituberculosis treatments.