Abdominal imaging
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Review Case Reports
Abdominal imaging findings in gastrointestinal basidiobolomycosis.
To describe the abdominal imaging findings of patients with gastrointestinal Basidiobolus ranarum infection. ⋯ Radiologists should consider GIB when a patient from an arid climate presents with abdominal pain, weight loss, and an inflammatory abdominal mass on CT. Abdominal masses of the colon or liver, bowel wall thickening, and abscesses are the most common imaging findings.
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To determine whether a navigator-gated three-dimensional T1-weighted gradient-echo sequence (T1W-GRE, navigated LAVA) can improve diagnostic performance for the detection of focal liver lesions (FLLs) compared to standard breath-hold (BH) T1W-GRE breath-hold LAVA (BH-LAVA) during the hepatobiliary phase (HBP) of gadoxetic acid liver magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with limited breath-holding capacity. ⋯ The navigated LAVA sequence could provide better image quality and diagnostic performance in detecting FLLs than BH-LAVA in patients with limited breath-holding capacity during HBP of gadoxetic acid MRI.
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Assess the utility of CT and MRI in patients with acute pancreatitis (AP) presenting to emergency department (ED). ⋯ Early imaging is common in patients with AP, even when the diagnosis can be established based on non-imaging criteria, rarely demonstrating pancreatic necrosis. Reducing overuse of early imaging in patients with confident diagnosis of AP may improve quality and reduce waste.