ABSTRACT Objectives: To describe the complications following ultrasound guided foam sclerotherapy, and outcomes at 2 and 6 months following treatment. Methods: Patients with primary or secondary varicose veins and treated with UGFS were followed up at 1 week and 2 months by Duplex Doppler Ultrasound to assess the effectiveness of the procedure and to document …
ABSTRACT Background: Intraosseous meningiomas are extradural meningiomas, which are rare lesions arising in the skull. They are likely to originate from intraosseous entrapment of arachnoid cells. They are often asymptomatic, but may cause symptoms depending on the location and size. Surgical resection is usually used to treat patients. Radiation therapy and chemotherapy may be needed …
ABSTRACT Renal lymphangiectasia is a rare disorder characterized by ectasia of perirenal, peripelvic and intrarenal lymphatic vessels. A disturbance in the drainage of renal sinus lymphatics results in ectasia of peripelvic, intrarenal and perirenal lymphatics, and leads to the formation of renal lymphangiectasia. Multiple cysts with various sizes are seen in the perinephric space, renal …
ABSTRACT Brainstem gliomas constitute 10-20% of all pediatric CNS tumors. Brain stem astrocytomas are usually fibrillary. Based on their appearance they can be focal, exophytic, cervico-medullary and focal tectal gliomas. Malignant gliomas are characterized by the infiltrative growth of malignant cells and they grow along the white matter tracts. Rarely, an extension of a tumor …
Abstract Objective: to evaluate the importance of patient preparation for diagnostic quality of PET-CT images. Methods: prospective study of 188 patients‘ who underwent PET-CT examination at our Nuclear medicine department has been carried out. Patients were asked to fill in questionnaire about preparation for PET-CT. Then PET-CT images were analysed and attributed to one of …
Abstract Background. The diagnosis of epilepsy is mostly based on clinical features of seizures and the results of electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods. Unluckily, there is no single imaging technique that can provide all the needed information: to confirm the etiology of seizures, to prognose the outcome of the disease and provide both structural and functional …
ABSTRACT Introduction: The incidence of brain tumor in pregnant women is estimated to be 1 in 1000–2000 pregnancies and it is similar for pregnant and not pregnant women. Incidence of malignant brain tumors is 3.6 per 1 million live births. Treatment and diagnostic of malignant brain tumor during pregnancy has a lot of specificity and …
The aim: To determine the role of CT in the evaluation of the spread of ovarian cancer. Methods: The data of 64 female patients who underwent abdominal and pelvic CT examinations due to the suspicion of ovarian cancer during 2014–2015 in HLUHS CK were analyzed. All patients were operated and ovarian cancer was confirmed histologically. …
ABSTRACT Aim: to evaluate the frequency and results of applying uterine artery embolization for uterine fibroids treating. Research material and methods: The research retrospectively analyses the medical history of women (n=180), who were treated in 7 hospitals of Latvia and Lithuania. Uterine artery embolization (UAE) was applied for these women to treat symptomatic uterine …
Abstract Introduction. Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is not a common type of thyroid cancer but a dangerous one. Therefore, early diagnosis is of utmost importance. That in mind, we decided to determine how well thyroid ultrasound (US) and fine-needle aspiration (FNA) perform in detection of MTC. Methods. A total of 76 MTC cases from 2004 …