Pseudoaneurysms of the inferior gluteal artery (IGA) are rare and are often caused by trauma. Treatment options vary and include surgery, ultrasound-guided percutaneous thrombin injection, and endovascular procedures such as stent-graft placement, coil embolization, and glue injection. We report a 70-year-old male who presented to the hospital after a road accident with a posttraumatic pseudoaneurysm that was treated by endovascular thrombin embolization. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of inferior gluteal artery false aneurysm treated by this method.
Absence of the suprarenal segment of the inferior vena cava with a coexisting absence of the right brachiocephalic vein in a 22-year-old Caucasian male with arterial hypertension (Folia Morphol 2015; 74, 1: 122-126)
Purpose:The aim of the study was to analyse the value of 2 different diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) techniques (echo-planar imaging [EPI] and on-echo-planar imaging [non-EPI]) in the diagnosis of cholesteatoma.
Material and methods:Our material consisted of 32 subjects suspected of cholesteatoma, who underwent magnetic resonance imaging of the temporal bone using both EPI and non-EPI DWI. Two independent readers retrospectively analysed magnetic resonance images. Intra-and interobserver agreements as well sensitivity, specificity, and negative (NPV) and positive (PPV) predictive values of both DWI sequences were assessed.
Results:Using non-EPI DWI all cholesteatomas were correctly diagnosed by both readers with no false negative nor inconclusive cases and with only one false positive result. Non-EPI DWI revealed high interobserver agreement (k = 1) and high correlation with histopathological results (r = 0.895). EPI DWI misdiagnosed 27-31% of cholesteatomas (false negative results), showing also significantly low interobserver agreement (k = 0.373) and low correlation with histopathological results (r = 0.328 for reader 1 and r = 0.267 for reader 2). Non-EPI DWI revealed very high sensitivity (100%), specificity (83.3%), NPV (100%), and PPV (96.3%) in comparison to EPI DWI, which showed lower sensitivity (69.2%), specificity (66.6-83.3%), .
Conclusions:Non-EPI DWI with high sensitivity, specificity, and interobserver agreement is a very reliable technique in detecting middle ear cholesteatoma regardless of the pre-or postoperative state of the ear, and it should entirely replace EPI DWI in clinical practice.
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