The "fairy ring": a new radiographic finding in sarcoidosis.
A patient who had the "fairy ring" finding shows another new radiographic presentation of pulmonary sarcoidosis that clinicians can add to the list of signs of the disease.
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T J Marlow
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"Tower vertebra": a new observation in sickle cell disease.
BACKGROUND: Skeletal abnormalities are common in sickle cell anemia. Ischemia, infarction, and growth disturbance of the thoracic and lumbar vertebral bodies are among the most common abnormalities, and can suggest the diagnosis radiographically. DESIGN AND PATIENTS: We recently encountered two adult patients in whom vertebrae had grown abnormally in height adjacent to infarcted short vertebrae. We then reviewed the thoracic and lumbar spine radiographs of 54 more adult patients with sickle cell anemia. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: A total of eight patients (14%) displayed infarcted vertebrae with compensatory vertical growth of at least one adjacent vertebrae. These resemble the elongated vertebral bodies associated with other conditions. We can find no prior report of this finding in association with sickle cell anemia.
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Ectopic cranium: postoperative abdominal wall skull fragments.
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Intracranial placement of a nasotracheal tube after facial fracture: a rare complication.
Extensive facial trauma is often associated with fractures to the skull base, cribriform plate, and sphenoid sinus. Attempted intubation of patients with facial trauma may result in intracranial penetration and placement of nasogastric or nasotracheal tubes into the brain. Such a complication carries significant morbidity and mortality. Intracranial placement of nasogastric tubes has been reported multiple times in the literature. Intracranial placement of a nasotracheal tube, however, has been reported only twice. Such a case is presented, along with a review of the literature and a discussion.
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Endobronchial cockroach: an unusual foreign body aspiration.
Foreign-body aspiration is a frequent and potentially lethal occurrence in children. It is associated with a variety of symptoms including choking, coughing, and wheezing. These symptoms differ in severity and are sometimes absent, and chest radiograph findings are often nonspecific. Thus, the diagnosis of foreign body aspiration is occasionally missed or delayed. A multitude of aspirated objects have been reported in the literature. In the present report, we describe the aspiration of a cockroach by a child with a delay in diagnosis of 3 d.
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