Inferior petrosal sinus sampling
Bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling in the diagnosis of Cushing disease
... Bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling (BIPSS) is sensitive and specific, and is therefore the gold standard assay for diagnosing ...
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A pitfall of bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling in cyclic Cushing’s syndrome
... bilateral inferior petrosal sinus sampling (BIPSS) per- formed in the off-phase was indicative of central ACTH production because of a strong ACTH increase after cor- ticotrophin release ...
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Neurologic Complications of Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling
... after either an equivocal work-up or after previous failed sur- gery. The initial 35 consecutive patients sustained no compli- cations as a result of the procedure, and the 8 most recent procedures have also been free of ...
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Inferior petrosal sinus sampling in healthy subjects reveals a unilateral corticotropin releasing hormone induced arginine vasopressin release associated with ipsilateral adrenocorticotropin secretion
... We cannot definitively determine the etiology of lateral- ized AVP and OT secretion. It is conceivable that parvocellu- lar and/or magnocellular nerve terminals are distributed in an asymmetric fashion in the ME and the ...
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Adrenocorticotropic hormone–dependent Cushing's Syndrome: Sensitivity and Specificity of Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling
... IPS sampling procedures for ACTH that was performed in 92 patients be- tween January 1990 and February ...IPS sampling for ACTH. Indications for IPS sampling include the following: 1) no discrete ...
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An unusual case of ectopic corticotrophin-releasing hormone syndrome caused by an adrenal noncatecholamine-secreting pheochromocytoma: a case report
... We prepared to do inferior petrosal sinus sampling (IPSS) for ACTH assays, adrenal vein sampling for ACTH assays to make out the origin of ACTH. But the patient ’ s general condition ...
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Bilateral simultaneous cavernous sinus sampling using corticotropin releasing hormone in the evaluation of Cushing disease
... cavernous sinus sampling after corti- cotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) stimulation offers as accurate detection and lateralization of Cushing disease as inferior petrosal sinus ...
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Cannulation of Occluded Inferior Petrosal Sinuses for the Transvenous Embolization of Cavernous Sinus Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas: Usefulness of a Frontier Wire Probing Technique
... to advance the microguidewire to probe the occluded IPS into the CS. On the basis of our previous experience with cannulating the IPS for petrosal sinus blood sampling with regular diagnostic ...
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Anatomy of the junction of the inferior petrosal sinus and the internal jugular vein
... We describe an uncommon variant anatomy, incomplete type IV, found in 4.5 % of our subjects six of 133, that may cause incorrect results of petrosal sinus sampling, CONCLUSION: Bilateral[r] ...
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Morphologic Evaluation of the Caudal End of the Inferior Petrosal Sinus Using 3D Rotational Venography
... ous anastomoses with surrounding veins, the major one being that of the vertebral venous plexus (VVP). The IPS is also an important transvenous access route in the treatment of dural arteriovenous fistula of the ...
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Pituitary Targeted Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Multisection CT for Detecting MR Imaging–Occult Functional Pituitary Microadenoma
... For example, one report has claimed that venous sampling of ACTH at the inferior petrosal sinus is Comparison of Contrast-Enhancement Dynamics informative for determining adenoma locatio[r] ...
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Assessment of Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas of the Cavernous Sinuses on 3D Dynamic MR Angiography
... The other 12 patients (7 men and 5 women; age range, 22– 89 years; mean age, 55.8 years) were clinically diagnosed as follows: 2 each had traumatic optic neuropathy and glaucoma; and 1 each had Tolosa-Hunt syndrome, ...
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Cerebral Venous Thrombosis: MR Black Blood Thrombus Imaging with Enhanced Blood Signal Suppression
... that its blood-suppressing capacity is insufficient for slow or even stagnant venous blood flow in the sinuses. Such image artifacts can mimic thrombus (isointense), resulting in false- positives or overestimation of ...
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Percentage of positive outcome of symptoms in patients undergoing functional endoscopic sinus surgery
... According to Draf 1, Hirschmann performed the first attempts at nasal and sinus endoscopy in 1907 using a modified cystoscope. It was Maliz i n New York who introduced the term sinoscopy and layed the methods for ...
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Original Article Construction of a three-dimensional interactive digital atlas of the dural sinus and deep veins based on human head magnetic resonance images by a comprehensive modeling protocol
... dural sinus model was outputted in the SLT format and imported into 3-matic viewer for format ...dural sinus model was exported from the 3-matic viewer into Adobe Acrobat 11 Pro ...
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CHONDROECTODERMAL DYSPLASIA (ELLIS—VAN CREVELD SYNDROME) WITH A COMPLEX CARDIAC MALFORMATION
... flee of common trunk of left inferior and superior pulmonary veins; 2, right inferior pulmonary vein; 3, inferior vena cava; 4, dilated coronary sinus; 5, left hepatic vein; 6, left auri[r] ...
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Study of Cerebral Venous Thrombosis in Males.
... 2 (3.3%) of the patients had thrombosis in sinuses adjacent to a malignant infiltration. One patient had a lesion suggestive of an embryonal cell carcinoma in the left mastoid bone with thrombosis of the left sigmoid ...
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Imaging of perineural tumor spread from palatal carcinoma
... cavernous sinus mass was resected and histologically confirmed to be adenoid cystic carcinoma, for which the patient received ...cavernous sinus disease, multiple right-sided cranial neuropathies developed, ...
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A Non-healing Ulcer with Unilateral Facial Palsy
... MRI of brain with contrast confirmed mucosal thickening in all the above mentioned sinuses. Extension of soft tissue was seen into the right orbit through medial wall of the orbit with its extension into right cavernous ...
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The arrangement of muscle fibres in the region of the subthebesian fossa in the aspect of atrial flutter
... coronary sinus orifice ...cava inferior ostium (supe- riorly and ...the inferior vena cava, but only below this structure and we observed many irregularities in muscle fibre arrangement in the ...
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