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The “botryoid sign”: a characteristic feature of rhabdomyosarcomas in the head and neck
We investigated nine patients with rhabomyosarcoma in the head and neck (6–53 years of age), using CT and MRI. The tumours originated in the paranasal sinuses (3), cheek (2), soft palate (1), orbit (1), stern...
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Syringomyelia associated with adhesive spinal arachnoiditis: MRI
We reviewed the MRI of seven patients with syringomyelia associated with surgically proven adhesive spinal arachnoiditis to describe clinical and MRI findings in this condition. Using 0.5, 1.0 or 1.5 tesla un...
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Rathke's cleft cyst associated with hypophysitis: MRI
We report a symptomatic Rathke's cleft cyst associated with hypophysitis in a 61-year-old woman. We demonstrate the MRI features and discuss the pathophysiology. To the best of our knowledge this is the first...
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Lymphocytic adenohypophysitis: skull radiographs and MRI
We report the skull radiograph, CT and MRI findings in three patients with lymphocytic adenohypophysitis mimicking pituitary adenoma. All cases were associated with pregnancy. CT demonstrated a pituitary mass...
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A case of a vascular anomaly with peculiar venous drainage
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MRI in ankylosing spondylitis: abnormal contrast enhancement in the thoracic spine
We performed Gd-DTPA enhanced MRI in two patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), and noticed interesting long T1 and T2 lesions and enhancement in the cephalad and caudal portions of the vertebral bodies in...
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Intradural chordoma: case report and review of the literature
Chordomas are rare neoplasms arising from notochordal remnants found predominantly in the clivus and the sacrococcygeal regions. Most clivus chordomas show extradural extension and bone destruction. Such a tum...
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Lateral sacral artery supply to an intramedullary arteriovenous fistula at the conus medullaris
In this 25-year-old woman, severe low back pain, flaccid paraparesis, sensory disturbance of both legs and sphincter dysfunction resulted from an intramedullary conal arteriovenous malformation fed by an anter...
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Magnetic resonance images of tuberous sclerosis
The cerebral lesions in tuberous sclerosis are of three kinds: subependymal nodules, cortical tubers, and cluster of heterotopic cells in the white matter. Understanding of these hamartomas is still incomplete...
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MR imaging of intraspinal tumors—Capability in histological differentiation and compartmentalization of extramedullary tumors
Magnetic resonance (MR) images of 29 consecutive patients with intraspinal neoplasms (9 intramedullary tumors, 20 extramedullary tumors) were reviewed to evaluated the utility of MR imaging in distinguishing t...
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MR appearance of Rathke's cleft cysts
Two of three patients who proved to have symptomatic Rathke's cleft cysts presented with visual field deficit and all with diabetes insipidus. CT showed intra- and suprasellar cystic low density lesions with r...
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Chapter
MR imaging: normal and invaded cavernous sinus studied with and without Gd-DTPA
Clinical efficacy of MR imaging for demonstrating the normal and abnormal cavernous sinus (CS) was evaluated. Six normal CS and six CS invaded by pituitary adenomas were studied with a 0.5 T MR scanner using T...
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Occult cranium bifidum
Six cases of congenital subscalp nodule associated with underlying cranium bifidum are reported. A plain skull roentgenogram showed a midline bone defect in the parieto-occipital region near the lambda. CT sca...