ABSTRACT
Three patients with localized polycystic kidney infections are presented with the pertinent clinical, laboratory, and radiographic findings. Gallium-67 citrate and angiography play an important role in evaluation of these patients. Angiography in particular is valuable in the diagnosis and the exact localization of the inflammatory disease. Localization is extremely important in planning surgical treatment should conservative therapy fail.
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Escherichia coli Infections/complications , Polycystic Kidney Diseases/complications , Adult , Escherichia coli Infections/diagnosis , Escherichia coli Infections/diagnostic imaging , Escherichia coli Infections/therapy , Female , Humans , Kidney/diagnostic imaging , Male , Middle Aged , Polycystic Kidney Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Radiography , Radionuclide ImagingABSTRACT
A splenic abscess developed in a 16-year-old boy following a supposed viral illness and left lower thoracic trauma. Preoperative diagnosis was at first obscured, but a spleen scan suggested fractured spleen and a splenic arteriogram showed a "subcapsular hematoma" and an aneurysm of the left hepatic artery. A 1,800-gm spleen containing one large abscess and one small one was removed. Splenic abscess is rare and, before modern methods of spleen scan and arteriography, rarely diagnosed.
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Abscess/diagnostic imaging , Splenic Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Abscess/etiology , Abscess/surgery , Adolescent , Aneurysm, Infected/complications , Hepatic Artery , Humans , Male , Radiography , Splenic Diseases/complications , Splenic Diseases/etiology , Splenic Diseases/surgeryABSTRACT
An unusual egg-shell calcification was found in the thyroid gland on a routine radiograph. The 99mTc-pertechnetate thyroid image showed a cold nodule in the inferior pole of the left lobe which proved to be mixed papillary-follicular carcinoma. There was no characteristic pattern of calcification in the thyroid gland which would permit precise diagnosis of cancer; however, psammomatous calcification frequently occurs in papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.
