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Organ-specific hemosiderosis and functional correlation in Chinese patients with thalassemia intermedia and hemoglobin H disease
We performed MRI assessment in 37 adult Chinese patients with thalassemia intermedia and hemoglobin H disease. Despite abnormal ferritin and liver T2*, only 5% of patients had cardiac hemosiderosis. The two pa...
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Post-operative magnetic resonance evaluation of children after laparoscopic anorectoplasty for imperforate anus
Laparoscopic anorectoplasty (LAR) is a relatively new procedure in the treatment of imperforate anus. Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), we evaluated the anatomical features of the anorectal region of chi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Cerebral blood flow (CBF)-directed management of ventilated head-injured patients
Ischaemic brain damage has been shown to be an important contributing factor causing head injury fatality. Maintenance of an adequate cerebral perfusion pressure is difficult in patients with elevated intracra...
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Albuminuria is a marker of increasing intracranial and extracranial vascular involvement in Type 2 diabetic Chinese patients
Albuminuria has been reported to be a marker of cardiovascular risk factors and disease morbidity and mortality, but its relationship with intracerebral atherosclerotic disease is less clear. The aim of this s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Is Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography (TCD) Good Enough in Determining CO2 Reactivity and Pressure Autoregulation in Head-Injured Patients?
Disturbance of cerebral haemodynamic status, cerebral vasoreactivity (CVR) to carbon dioxide (CO2) and pressure autoregulatory response (PAR) have been shown to be associated with severity of head injury and to c...
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H-type tracheo-oesophageal fistula: appearance on three-dimensional computed tomography and virtual bronchoscopy
H-type tracheo-oesophageal fistula (TOF) is a rare type of fistula without oesophageal atresia. The symptoms are usually present at birth, but the diagnosis is often delayed. Traditionally, contrast oesophago...
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1H MR spectroscopy of the basal ganglia in childhood: a semiquantitative analysis
Proton MR spectra of the basal ganglia were obtained from 28 patients, 24 male and 14 female, median age 16.3 months (5 weeks to 31 years). They included 17 patients with normal MRI of the basal ganglia witho...
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The etiological role of concha bullosa in chronic sinusitis
The etiological role of concha bullosa in chronic sinusitis is controversial. Previous investigators have not studied the relationship between the location of concha bullosa and different chronic sinusitis pat...
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Another CT sign of sinonasal polyposis: truncation of the bony middle turbinate
In order to study the features of sinonasal polyposis (SNP) on CT, 100 consecutive coronasal sinus CT examinations done for chronic inflamamtory sinonasal disease were reviewed. The CT findings of the 27 fully...
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Detection of axillary lymph node metastases in breast carcinoma by technetium-99m sestamibi breast scintigraphy, ultrasound and conventional mammography
Axillary lymph node status is important in the staging of breast carcinoma. To evaluate the accuracy of technetium-99m sestamibi breast scintigraphy in detecting metastatic axillary lymph nodes as compared wit...
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Paediatric thymoma: Unusual occurrence in two siblings
Invasive cystic thymoma is reported in two siblings (an 11-year-old girl and a 9-year-old boy) and the radiographic, CT and ultrasonographic features are described. The tumours were removed by thoracotomy. Fam...