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Use of amplified Mycobacterium tuberculosis direct test (Gen-probe Inc., San Diego, CA, USA) in the diagnosis of tubercular synovitis and early arthritis of knee joint
The diagnosis of knee joint tuberculosis, especially in early stages of synovial disease, has more often been based on clinicoradiological suspicion, with no single test claiming to be a dependable rapid diagn...
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Pediatric Dysraphism and Scoliosis: Evidence-Based Neuroimaging
Spinal dysraphism or neural tube defects encompass a heterogeneous group of congenital spinal anomalies that result from the defective closure of the neural tube early in gestation with anomalous development o...
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Imaging
Ultrasound is the frontline imaging modality in any child with a clinically evident or suspected abdominal mass. Formal staging relies on computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which bot...
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Open AccessGout in a 15-year-old boy with juvenile idiopathic arthritis: a case study
Joint pain is a common complaint in pediatrics and is most often attributed to overuse or injury. In the face of persistent, severe, or recurrent symptoms, the differential typically expands to include bony or...
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Neurofibromatosis 1 vasculopathy manifesting as a peripheral aneurysm in an adolescent
Arterial vasculopathy is a well-recognized but uncommon manifestation of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1). It can manifest as stenoses, aneurysms or arteriovenous malformations. NF-1 vasculopathy typically invo...
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Extracardiac applications of MR blood pool contrast agent in children
Magnetic resonance (MR) angiography has significantly reduced the need for diagnostic conventional angiography and is preferred over CT angiography in children because of its lack of ionizing radiation. The av...
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Comparison of diagnostic performance of CT and MRI for abdominal staging of pediatric renal tumors: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group
CT and MRI are both used for abdominal staging of pediatric renal tumors. The diagnostic performance of the two modalities for local and regional staging of renal tumors has not been systematically evaluated.
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Whole-body magnetic resonance imaging in children: technique and clinical applications
Whole-body MR imaging is being increasingly used in children to evaluate the extent of various oncologic and non-oncologic entities. The lack of exposure to ionizing radiation, excellent soft-tissue contrast (...
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Evaluation of diagnostic performance of whole-body simultaneous PET/MRI in pediatric lymphoma
Whole-body 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is the standard of care for lymphoma. Simultaneous PET/MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) is a promising new modalit...
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Rapid non-contrast magnetic resonance imaging for post appendectomy intra-abdominal abscess in children
Acute appendicitis, especially if perforated at presentation, is often complicated by postoperative abscess formation. The detection of a postoperative abscess relies primarily on imaging. This has traditional...
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Imaging of renal medullary carcinoma in children and young adults: a report from the Children’s Oncology Group
Renal medullary carcinoma is a rare renal malignancy of childhood. There are no large series describing the imaging appearance of renal medullary carcinoma in children.
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PET/MRI for Clinical Pediatric Oncologic Imaging
PET/MRI has significant potential advantages over PET/CT for use in pediatric populations including decreasing radiation dose, reducing exposure to sedation and anesthesia, reducing the need for gadolinium-bas...
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Pediatric hepatoblastoma and hepatocellular carcinoma: lessons learned in the last decade
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Diagnostic performance of Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) v2017 in predicting malignant liver lesions in pediatric patients: a preliminary study
Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) has standardized the evaluation of hepatic lesions in adults at risk of develo** hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). There is no accepted imaging algorithm for d...
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Imaging of Wilms tumor: an update
Wilms tumor is the most common pediatric renal tumor, accounting for approximately 7% of all childhood cancers. Imaging plays an important role in the detection, staging, post-therapy evaluation and surveillan...
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Open AccessProton MR spectroscopy in characterization of focal bone lesions of peripheral skeleton
The aim of our study was to determine the value of single-voxel proton MR spectroscopy (1HMRS) in distinguishing benign from malignant focal bone lesions in the peripheral skeleton. MRI and 1HMRS was performed in...
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Rate of gadoxetate disodium (Eovist®) induced transient respiratory motion in children and young adults
Gadoxetate disodium (Eovist®, Bayer Healthcare, Wayne, NJ) is the preferred MR contrast agent for pediatric hepatobiliary imaging. A known limitation of this contrast agent is transient severe respiratory arti...
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Atypical pulmonary metastases in children: pictorial review of imaging patterns
Pulmonary metastases typically present as well-circumscribed solid nodules, often with a basilar and peripheral distribution due to hematogenous spread. When an atypical pattern of metastasis occurs, a lack of...
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Clinico-Radio-Histopathological Correlation by C-Arm Image-Guided Biopsy in Spinal Tuberculosis
C-arm-guided biopsy is a safe and effective technique for evaluating TB spine and is useful in planning therapy. The purpose of this study was to find a correlation between clinically and radiologically suspec...
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Bone Neoplasms: Osteosarcoma and Ewing Sarcoma
Malignant primary bone tumors in children are most often osteosarcoma or Ewing sarcoma. These two entities make up approximately 90% of all pediatric bone malignancies, with chondrosarcoma being infrequent in ...
