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Chylothorax is a rare cause of pleural effusion in children, and it is usually difficult to identify the location of chyle leakage due to the small size of the thoracic duct in children. Herein we report an infant case with chylothorax whose leakage of the thoracic duct was successfully located by magnetic resonance lymphangiography (MRL) using pre-contrast MR cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) and gadodiamide-enhanced spectral presaturation inversion recovery (SPIR) T-weighted imaging, which demonstrate the imaging method is easy and effective for detecting the focal disruption of the thoracic duct in children with chylothorax and younger than 8 months old.
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Objective To investigate intradermal injection and subcutaneous injection of Gadodiamide MR lymphangiography (MRL) in evaluation on the central conducting lymphatics in rabbits.Methods T1 weighted three-dimendional fast low angle shot (fl3d) sequence was used before and after administration of Gadodiamide to undertake MRL.Gadodiamide was administed intrademally in the left and right footpad in 8 rabbits,and then undertake MRL in 1.5T MRI system (intradermal injection group).Three days later,Gadodiamide was administered subcutaneously in the left and right footpad in 8 rabbits,and MRL were underdone with the same sequence (subcutaneous injection group).The degree of contrast enhancement within the lumbar lymphatic trunk and thoracic duct were evaluated using a 3-point scoring system.Results Intradermal injection group showed the popliteal lymph nodes,sacral lymph node and inferior aortic lymph node enhanced obviously in all 8 rabbits,and the enhancement duration time was about 30 90 mini the lumbar lymphatic trunk and cisterna chyli were detected in 6 rabbits,and part of the thoracic duct were detected in 5 rabbits.Subcutaneous injection group showed the popliteal lymph nodes enhanced obviously in all 8 rabbits,but the lumbar lymphatic trunk and the thoracic duct were not detected.The score of contrast enhancement within the lymphatic system of intradermal injection group and subcutaneous injection group had statistical difference (t=100.00,P=0.0002).Conclusion MRL with intradermal injection Gadodiamide are better than subcutaneous injection in evaluation of the lumbar lymphatic trunk.
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Objective To evaluate the diagnostic value of the spectral CT imaging on the complications after breast augmentations with silicone implants.Methods A lot of 22 cases with breast implants were scanned by the Gemstone spectral imaging (GSI) CT.The original data were loaded in processed workstation, analyzed by GSI analysis software, and then stored the series we needed.The features of the complications after breast augmentations with silicone implants were reviewed retrospectively on the spectral CT images.Results A lot of 44 breast implants scanned in our study and there were 23 breast implants with complications, including 7 breast implants with capsular rupture (6 breast implants with endometrial rupture detected by spectral CT, including 4 breast implants with endometrial rupture, 3 breast implants with outer membrane rupture and leakage), 13 breast implants with capsular contracture (classification according to Baker's classification, 6 in grade Ⅰand 7 in grade Ⅱ), 8 breast implants were moved and 2 breasts had foci of calcification.Conclusions The spectral CT imaging play important role in detecting the complications after breast augmentations with silicone implants by GSI analysis software.
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Objective To explore the diagnostic value of the dual-energy technique with dual-source in the evaluation of therapeutic effect of interventional therapy for hepatocarcinoma.Methods 8 rabbits with tumor growing well were treated with intervention operation,paralleled with double energy CT scan and focal area image,CT and color order change were measured by dual energy liver OVERLAY workstation.Meanwhile,The necrosis and survival of tumor were evaluated by dual energy CT after hepatocarcinoma intervention therapy.Results Taking pathologic diagnosis as gold standard,compared with imaging and pathological results in the order of black,red,orange and red,accuracies were 87.2％,72.3％,71.5％ and 83.6％ respectively.Sensitivities were 95.1％,37.4％,54.7％ and 63.8％ respectively.Specificities were 85.4％,86.3％,81.5％ and 85.8％ respectively.Positive predictives value were 61.4％,54.2％,62.4％ and 55.6％ respectively.Negative predictive values were 96.3％,76.2％,79.7％ and 91.3 ％ respectively.According to the Spearman relevance analysis,there was strong positive correlation between survival of tumor cells and image color scale (r =12.35,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusion The necrosis and survival of tumor cells in rabbit VX2 liver tumor model can be preliminarily reflected by dual source CT dual energy enhancement scanning.The results provide good reference to the application of dual-source and dual-energy in clinical diagnosis and treatment.
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Objective To analyze the reliability of MRI malignant signs of soft tissue masses in extremities.Methods MRI features of soft tissue masses were analyzed retrospectively with emphasis on 30 cases with malignant MRI signs based on pathologic results,and these 30 cases were divided into two groups(benign lesions and malignant tumor group).The reliability of malignant signs for malignant tumor was evaluated.Results(1)The qualitative diagnostic accurate rate for benign and malignant masses was 89.7% and the histopathologic qualitative diagnostic accurate rate was 66.2% by MRI;(2)The findings of invasion and edema around the masses in diagnosis of malignant tumors had a remarkable statistical significance among five malignant signs(P0.05);(3)The sign of indefinite sturcture of muscular fibrosis had statistical significance between benign and malignant tumor diagnosis(P