42 research outputs found
Patologie espansive dell'area di controllo reno-surrenalica. Possibilità dell'ADS arteriosa.
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Vantaggi nell'impiego della DSA arteriosa nello studio dei aspetti particolari della patologia intracranica.
No full textRisultati comparativi nel distretto carotideo. Angiografia digitale venosa o arteriosa?
No full textA comparative evaluation between Digital Venous (DV) and Arterial (DA) studies of carotid arteries has been carried out in our institution in the last two years. DV study, in our experience, only in fourty percent of the cases shows good details (i.e. of true diagnostic value); this rate decreases to fifteen-twenty of intracranial sector, while DA offers optimal results in eighty percent and more of the patients. DV studies, highly invasive on a pharmacological point of view, based on the contrast medium amount, must be reserved only to surgical follow-up studies and patients with femoral/brachial bilateral occlusion, that involves technical impossibility for arterial catheterization
Bilateral orbital Erdheim-Chester disease treated with 12 weekly administrations of VNCOP-B chemotherapy: a case report and a review of literature.
No full textErdheim-Chester disease (ECD) is a non-Langerhans' cells histiocytosis of unknown etiology, which generally presents with long bones involvement, even if extraskeletal lesions may be frequently recognized. As a consequence of its rarity, there is no consensus concerning the best standard of care for affected patients. We present the case of a 53-year-old woman with bilateral orbital histologically documented ECD, presenting with an important thickening and swelling of the periorbital tissue and massive involvement of lateral rectal muscles, as documented by magnetic resonance. The patient was successfully addressed to 12 cycles of a weekly lymphoma-designed chemotherapy regimen, including etoposide, mitoxantrone, cyclophosphamide, vincristine, bleomycin, and prednisone (VNCOP-B regimen). Periorbital lesions reduced during the courses of chemotherapy, along with a regression to normal appearance of the extrinsic ocular musculature. This appears as an effective and well-tolerated first-line treatment option for ECD patients, due to the possibility of maintaining an adequate dose intensity, with also a concomitant continuous steroid administration
Adult onset hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia and hemiatrophy complicating post traumatic epilepsy.
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