Interventional angiography in management of liver neoplasms

30 patients with primary liver neoplasms were subjected to one or more settings of chemoembolisation using adriamycin with lipiodol ultrafluid and gelfoam powder. Chemoembolisation of primary liver neoplasms proved powder. Chemoembolisation of primary liver neoplasms proved to give better survival than the non-treated patients as well as to patients treated by ordinary chemotherapy, intraarterial infusion therapy and embolisation in all stages. Chemoembolisation gave rather better results than surgery in cases of stage II, yet surgical procedures proved to give the best results in patients of stage I

Evaluation of routine early pregnancy ultrasonography

Study of 750 pregnant woman who were subjected to routine early pregnancy sonography scan is presented. The ultrasonic scan calculated accurately [to within + 14 days] the date of delivery in about 90% of women who were unsure of their dates. Clinical estimation of gestational age compared well with ultrasonic calculation in singleton pregnancies. Sonography diagnosed all the lethal congenital anomalies met with in the early pregnancy sonography scan. The early pregnancy scan proved of value for the women who are uncertain of their last menstrual period and for those with known early pregnancy risks as well. Optimal information is obtained when the procedure is done between the 14th and 18th weeks of gestation

Evaluation of the fetal binocular distance as a new biometry for estimation of the gestational age

This study was carried out on 300 pregnant women, for the evaluation of a rather new fetal biometry, the binocular distance, in the prediction of the gestational age, to plot a curve and put a nomogram for its value at various weeks of gestation. Its accuracy was 76.3% to within + 1week

Clinico-pathologic and sonographic study of liver secondaries from known primary tumours

This work was done to patients with liver secondaries from known primary tumors for metastatic work-up, to try to find out a relationship between the sonographic pattern of liver metastasis and the different types of primary tumors, so that the diagnostic approach to an unknown primary could be directed. Seventy cancer patients having liver secondaries were examined by ultrasonography, 34.3% of them showed an echogenic type of deposits, 44.3% showed the echolucent type, 12.8% had the bulls-eye type, and 8.6% showed the mixed type. 60% of cases having the echodense secondaries were adenocarcinomas, while 34% of adenocarcinoma cases showed echodense secondaries. So, it seems right that when echodence type or bulls-eye type of liver secondaries in a case of unknown primary were met with, the primary is most likely an adenocarcinoma elsewhere