focal lesion

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focal lesion

A lesion of a small definite area.

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Patients with deranged renal functions, extra hepatic malignancy, pregnancy, known history or showed hypersensitivity to contrast agent and patients whose focal lesions was cyst or abscess were excluded from study.

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY OF QUANTITATIVE WASHOUT CALCULATED ON TRIPHASIC CT SCAN FOR DIAGNOSIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA KEEPING HISTOPATHOLOGY AS GOLD STANDARD

The sonographic findings showed homogenous thyroid gland with no focal lesion or abnormal vascularity seen.

Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma as a Lateral Neck Cyst: A Cystic Metastatic Node versus an Ectopic Thyroid Tissue

This focal lesion has alternating concentric layers of T2 weighted hypo- and hyperintensities [4].

Concentric and Eccentric Target MRI Signs in a Case of HIV-Associated Cerebral Toxoplasmosis

A control utrasound was performed 10 days later (Aplio SSA-770A; Toshiba Medical, Tokyo, Japan), still showing a focal lesion in the left liver lobe, about 4 cm in diameter, with irregular and spiky margins, oval in shape, with a thin hyperechogenic capsule, with an inhomogeneous structure and a few smaller lesions of different echogenicity (characterized as a nodule within a nodule) (Figure 5).

Hepatocellular carcinoma presenting with pyrexia and leukocytosis: a case report/hepatocelularnikarcinom udruzensa pireksijomileukocitozom: prikaz slucaja

Poole, "The pathobiology of focal lesion development in aging human articular cartilage and molecular matrix changes characteristic of osteoarthritis," Arthritis & Rheumatism, vol.

Focal Defects of the Knee Articular Surface: Evidence of a Regenerative Potential Pattern in Osteochondritis Dissecans and Degenerative Lesions

A paternally inherited ABCC8 mutation was identified in the patient with a focal lesion (case 4).

Clinical and Genetic Characteristics, Management and Long-Term Follow-Up of Turkish Patients with Congenital Hyperinsulinism

Look out for a focal lesion which is up to 2mm in diameter.

Corneal infiltrative events

In 41 of the 72 (57%) lesions vascular occlusion was noted, which was defined as an interruption of a vessel at the border of a focal lesion (without depiction of the vessel) or peripheral to the lesion (Figure 2A,B).

The role of multidetector computed tomography in the early diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis in patients with febrile neutropenia undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation / Hematopoetik Kok Hucre Transplantasyonu Sonrasi Gelisen Febril Notropenide Invaziv Pulmoner Aspergillozis Erken Tamsinda Multidedektor Bilgisayarli Tomografinin Rolu

Vagus nerve stimulation is used for cases where a focal lesion or focal epilepsy cannot be established.

Surgery: can this be a cure for epilepsy?

In focal HI, which accounts for approximately 40% to 60% of all cases of [K.sub.ATP]-HI, there is a loss of heterozygosity involving a paternally derived mutation of the ABCC8 or KCNJ11 gene and a specific loss of maternal alleles of the imprinted chromosome region 11p15 resulting in a focal lesion (focal adenomatosis) (18).

Hyperinsulinism in infancy and childhood: when an insulin level is not always enough