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L Rovighi

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PubMed1981

High contrast enhancement of the liver in CT by repeated doses of contrast medium.

A technique consisting of repeated injections of contrast medium has been used in 530 cases of upper abdominal CT studies for evaluation of hepatic and pancreatic disease. Out of 530 cases, 105 patients had hepatic lesions, 62 metastatic, 3 adenomas, 4 haemangiomas and 6 hepatomas. The remaining 30 patients had cystic lesions involving the liver. Using a repeat dose technique and rapid scanning, the accuracy rate ranged about 90%. Th authors feel that this technique should be employed routinely for evaluation of hepatic problems and that other techniques should be abandoned.

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PubMed1979

Emergency transhepatic obliteration of bleeding varices.

Transhepatic obliteration of gastroesophageal varices was performed in 18 actively bleeding patients. The success of the procedure was related to the complete obliteration of the varices, as demonstrated by their disappearance at angiography. In 13 of the 14 patients in whom obliteration was complete, bleeding did not recur. Three of the 13 died of hepatic insufficiency within 18 days of embolization, and three refused surgery and were lost to follow-up. The remaining seven patients had portacaval or mesocaval shunts, and are doing well at a follow-up of 12 months. Transhepatic obliteration has, therefore, proved to be an effective emergency procedure in patients who will be acceptable surgical candidates at a later date.

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Infectious spondylodiscitis: magnetic resonance imaging in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected patients.

OBJECTIVE: We retrospectively reviewed 21 infections of the spine to correlate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with etiology of spondylodiscitis according to HIV status. CONCLUSION: MRI allowed the differentiation between tuberculous and pyogenic spondylodiscitis in the chronic stage. Typical findings were not observed in HIV+ as compared with HIV- patients, either concerning etiology or characteristic features of the spondylodiscitis.

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