Occult spinal dysraphism
Occult Spinal Dysraphism in the Presence of Rare Cutaneous Stigma in a Neonate: Importance of Ultrasound and Magnetic Resonance Imaging
... for occult dysraphic ...of occult spinal dysraphism has demonstrated good results; however, the physicians should be aware of neonates with cutaneous stigma because of high incidence of ...
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A Cross Sectional Study to Estimate the Prevalence of Occult Spinal Dysraphism using Ultrasound in Children Aged below 2 Years for Urogenital and Anorectal Surgeries in Operating Room of a Tertiary Care Hospital
... The presence of skin marker over the lumbosacral region is a relative contraindication for performing a neuraxial block. Anaesthesiologists are usually hesitant in proceeding with any central regional blocks in those ...
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A Rare Case of Complex Occult Spinal Dysraphism with Association of Asymptomatic Tethered Cord Syndrome
... with occult spinal dysraphism are often overlooked, even though their disease is usually far from occult given the cutaneous manifestations in many of them with early diagnosis of these ...
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Newborns With Suspected Occult Spinal Dysraphism: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Diagnostic Strategies
... Controversy exists in regard to the most appropri- ate neuroimaging modality to assess occult spinal dysraphism in the newborn. We used the methods of decision analysis to compare the long-term costs ...
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Occult Spinal Dysraphism: A Series of 73 Cases
... the volume of Pantopaque and the choice of cistemal or lumbar puncture depend largely on personal preference.’3 As Gryspeerdt clearly demonstrated,’2”4 the prone position allows visualiz[r] ...
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MR imaging of spinal dysraphism
... Examples of spina bifida aperta spina bifida cystica-including myelomeningocele, myelocystocele, and lipomyelomeningocele-and those of occult spinal dysraphism-such as dorsal dermal sinu[r] ...
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Lumbar Cutaneous Hemangiomas as Indicators of Tethered Spinal Cords
... Physicians often suspect a tethered spinal cord in children with the common stigmata of occult spinal dysraphism-a subcutaneous lipoma, a hairy tuft, a prominent dimple, or a midline sin[r] ...
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Currarino syndrome and microcephaly due to a rare 7q36.2 microdeletion: a case report
... In our patient, despite toilet training and oral medication, the symptoms persisted. We decided to complete the diag- nostic process with blood tests and abdominal X ray to in- vestigate the presence of fecal impaction ...
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Occult Hepatitis B virus infection in previously screened, blood donors in Ile Ife, Nigeria: implications for blood transfusion and stem cell transplantation
... tween occult HBV and the variables tested such as age, sex, alcohol use, smoking, sharing of sharps scarification marks/tattoos and number of lifetime sexual ...
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Cervical lymph node metastases in salivary gland adenoid cystic carcinoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... of patients without the number of patients with neck dis- section. Seven studies involved the cases of patients with neck dissection, 4 of which included occult metastases. The overall metastases rate was defined ...
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A New Understanding of Dorsal Dysraphism with Lipoma (Lipomyeloschisis): Radiologic Evaluation and Surgical Correction
... Bifid lam inae L; lucent dorsal lipoma Li; ventral pial surface facing opacified subarac hno id space SAS; paired dorsal small black arrowheads and ven tral large black arrowheads nerve [r] ...
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The Default Art of Classifying the Occult
... Research, the one shading into the other without presenting any marked line of cleavage.” 3 An application of Wiley’s class synopsis to our “browsing” tour equally mirrors the unclear demarcation between Psychology and ...
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Fecal occult blood testing
... fecal occult blood testing (FOBT) as the initial test in the ...Fecal occult blood testing would be followed by colonoscopy for those receiving positive FOBT ...
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Dissemination and clinical impact of minimal metastatic disease in gastrointestinal cancer
... It is estimated that routine H&E analysis has only a 1% chance of identifying a focus of cancer cells less than three cells in diameter (17). This level of sensitivity implies the finding that about 25% of patients ...
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Multiple Spinal Intradural Intramedullary Involvement by Metastatic Carcinoma with Neuroendocrine Differentiation with Occult Primary—An Unusual Case Report and Review of Literature
... also normal. Ultrasound abdomen and pelvis showed no mass or any other abnormal finding. MRI of whole spine done with following findings: MRI dorsolumbar spine revealed nodular intradural and intramedullary le- sions in ...
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Diffuse Leptomeningeal Oligodendrogliomatosis: Radiologic/Pathologic Correlation
... intermittent encephalopathy. Biopsy samples of the meninges of the posterior fossa, obtained on two separate occasions, re- vealed a fibrocellular proliferation of unclear origin. MR im- aging studies obtained 1 month ...
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Occult HBV infection among Egyptian hepatocellular carcinoma patients
... infections. Occult HBV during the non-replicative phase is there- fore expected to be more frequent in areas where geno- types A, D, and E are prevalent ...
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Evaluation for Occult Fractures in Injured Children
... for occult fractures in children , 2 years old diagnosed with physical abuse across 112 ...of occult fracture evaluation as a function of the log of the mean annual hospital volume of patients , 2 years ...
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MR and CT of Occult Vascular Malformations of the Brain
... Since angiography failed to reveal the pathologic blood vessels of the lesions, and no arteriovenous shunting was evident, these lesions were termed vascular malformations occult to angi[r] ...
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Hypoglycemia Controlled by Prednisone in an Occult Insulinoma or a Nesidioblastosis
... Insulinoma is a pancreatic endocrine tumor lower in size than 20 mm in 80% of the cases and is clinically manifested by hypoglycemias. Its incidence is 3 to 5 cases for millions of inhabitants per year. Its treatment is ...
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