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Esophageal involvement in epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica: Clinical and roentgenographic manifestations
(Springer-Verlag, 1983-12)
Epidermolysis bullosa is a rare hereditary mechanobullous skin disorder. Four patients with esophageal involvement are reported. These cases and review of reported cases of epidermolysis bullosa dystrophica-recessive (EBD-R) ...
Staphylococcal esophagitis causing giant ulcers
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1993-06)
A 29-year-old woman with Hodgkin disease developed odynophagia while receiving chemotherapy. Large esophageal ulcers due to staphylococcal infection of the mucosa were visualized by endoscopy and radiography. This unusual ...
Endoscopic identification and removal of an unusual symptomatic colonic foreign body
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Digestive Disease Systems, Inc. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-03)
The discovery and removal of a life-threatening colonic wire suture using the flexible fiberoptic colonoscope has been described. Such reports demonstrate the versatility and usefulness of diagnostic and therapeutic ...
Computed tomography as an adjunct to ultrasound in the diagnosis of acute acalculous cholecystitis
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1991-12)
The sonographic and computed tomographic (CT) findings were reviewed in 17 patients with acute acalculous cholecystitis (AAC) over a 6-year period from 1984 to 1989. Of the six patients in whom both ultrasound and CT were ...
Comparison of rubidium-82 positron emission tomography and thallium-201 SPECT imaging for detection of coronary artery disease
(Elsevier, 1991-06-15)
The diagnostic performance of rubidium-82 (Rb-82) positron emission tomography (PET) and thallium-201 (TI-201) single-photon emission-computed tomography (SPECT) for detecting coronary artery disease was investigated in ...
Percutaneous transhepatic embolization as treatment for bleeding ileostomy varices
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1995-05)
We report two patients with bleeding stomal varices following total colectomy and ileostomy. The varices were demonstrated by superior mesenteric angiography and percutaneous transhepatic mesenteric venography; dilated ...
Intratumoral injection of BCNU in ethanol (DTI-015) results in enhanced delivery to tumor – a pharmacokinetic study
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2005-07)
Solvent facilitated perfusion (SFP) has been proposed as a technique to increase the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents to tumors. SFP entails direct injection of the agent into the tumor in a water-miscible organic ...
Cardiovascular MR angiography
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-04)
Diagnosing fibrotic lung disease: When is high-resolution computed tomography sufficient to make a diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?
(Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2009-09)
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), a progressive and fatal diffuse parenchymal lung disease, is defined pathologically by the pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). Unfortunately, a surgical lung biopsy cannot ...