Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510046

Treatment of Caustic Ingestion Associated Esophageal Stricture with Budesonide

Marisa L Gallant, Sabina A Mir and Steven N Lichtman

Article Type: Case Presentation | First Published: June 13, 2016

We present the images from the upper endoscopy of a 5 year-old patient who developed an esophageal stricture from caustic ingestion. These images are from before and after a two-week course of topical budesonide....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510045

Subcutaneous Scar Retraction Release after Breast Reduction Using Percutaneous Needle Cordotomy

T Wagner, N Slater, M Hameeteman and D Ulrich

Article Type: Clinical Case | First Published: June 08, 2016

Hypertrophic scarring with scar retraction is a well known problem in breast reduction mammaplasty with occasional unpleasant results for both the patient and surgeon. Even with many different therapeutic options, success can be limited in some cases....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510044

Supratentorial Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumor in an Adult

Ali Cengiz, Hasan Erdogan, Vefa Oner and Arzu Cengiz

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: May 17, 2016

A 53-year-old man admitted to our emergency service with symptoms of intermittent vomiting and headache for a week. In the hospital the patient swiftly deteriorated to coma....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510043

Pseudothrombus - An Echocardiographic Illusion

Rishi Vinod Lohiya and Sunil Washimkar

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: May 16, 2016

Cardiovascular complications like hypertension, premature atherosclerosis, coronary arteritis and myocarditis are not infrequent in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510042

Pancreatitis Gone Nuts: Scrotal Hydrocele as a Complication of Severe Acute Pancreatitis

Ryan R Gaffney and Matthew T Moyer

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: May 12, 2016

A 33-year-old male with acute gallstone pancreatitis complicated by pancreatic fluid collection formation developed intense right-sided scrotal pain and swelling one week into his hospitalization....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510041

High-Resolution 7T EPI Magnitude/Phase Cortex Image Co-localization

Zikuan Chen, Jennifer Robinson, Arvind Caprihan and Vince Calhoun

Article Type: Image | First Published: May 07, 2016

A gradient-recalled echo (GRE) echo-planar imaging (EPI) sequence was used to acquire ultra high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from a healthy volunteer on a 7T Siemens MAGNETOM system....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510040

Aortobiiliaca Endoprosthesis Inflammation Diagnosed with 18F-FDG PET/CT

Maria del Puig Cozar Santiago, Raul Sanchez Jurado, Jose Enrique Aguilar Barrios, Rocio Brisa Vazquez and Jose Ferrer Rebolleda

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: April 27, 2016

A 79 year-old man arrived at emergency department because of having abdominal pain for several months (almost one year). Abdominal pain was located in mesogastrio, it was late postpandrial, associated with paresthesias in the left lower limb and irradiated through both iliac fosses getting to the back....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510039

Reducing Corneal Astigmatism Using Cataract and LRI Incisions

Noel Alpins

Article Type: Image | First Published: April 22, 2016

Astigmatism analysis of corneal incisions can be used to reduce the amount of corneal astigmatism at the time of surgery....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510038

Exstrophy of Bladder

Birendra Rai and Prof Farhana Sharif

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: April 17, 2016

A male infant was born at 38 weeks of gestation by normal delivery. Physical examination revealed exteriorly lying bladder with deformed penis and low lying umbilicus....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510037

PET Molecular Imaging of the Dopaminergic System in Parkinson's Disease

A Avendano-Estrada, I Madrazo, O Kopyov, H Carrasco-Vargas, J Altamirano-Ley and MA Avila-Rodriguez

Article Type: Clinical Cases | First Published: March 28, 2016

It is well known that the dopaminergic system plays a major role in Parkinson's disease (PD). Current technological developments in molecular imaging have made it possible to evaluate the dopaminergic system in vivo....