Objective: We retrospectively investigated the feasibility of using pre-operative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings to diagnose broad ligament myoma. Design: We examined the presence of elongated uterine arteries, evidenced by MRI, in nine cases of broad ligament myoma among the 257 cases of hysterectomy or myomectomy for uterine myoma performed at our institution from April 2015 to November 2017. Results: In five of seven cases (excluding two cases of myoma of 2.5-cm diameter, growing vertically) an elongation of the uterine artery around the myoma was detected using MRI. Conclusion: Findings of elongation of the uterine artery surrounding the myoma via MRI was effective in diagnosing broad ligament myomas and may help to reduce the risk of operative complications.
Wolf and Bowers (1999) proposed the double-deficit hypothesis of developmental dyslexia in which, in addition to phonological deficit, they put forward naming speed deficit as a second core factor of developmental dyslexia. They also reported the double deficit group showing both phonological and naming speed deficits manifested in the most severe reading difficulty. In this study, we investigated the adaptation of the double-deficit hypothesis to 94 Japanese third grade children attending public school. For the sake of comparisons with foreign studies, we used the same criteria as Sunseth and Bowers (2002) for English speakers and the same as Wimmer et al (2000) for German-speaking third graders. The results indicated that, for both sets of criteria, Japanese-speaking children can be classified into three subgroups based on the double-deficit hypothesis. However, the double deficit group was not the most severe group in all tasks. Our findings suggest that the double-deficit hypothesis applies only partly in the case of Japanese third grade children.
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