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[en] To evaluate the usefulness of sonography as an initial study in patients with suspected ureteral stone. We have undertaken a prospective study for 106 patients with suspected ureteral stone during 15 months. All the patients subsequently underwent urography at a mean interval of 1.8 days after the abdominopelvic sonography. We had only a clinical impression at the sonography and didn't refer to the other study such as KUB. We observed the degree of hydronephrosis using a grading system by Ellenbogen et aland location and size of stone. Seventy four patients had ureteral stone disease. The sonographic findings of these 74 patients showed a stone with hydronephrosis in 61 patients, a stone without hydronephrosis in 9, only hydronephrosis without stone in 2, and unremarkable finding in 2. In 3 of the remaining 32 patients, sonography showed hydronephrosis without stone. Locations of stone were 9 patients of ureteropelvic junction(UPJ), 19 of proximal ureter, 30 of distal ureter, and 16 of ureterovesical junction(UVJ). The sensitivity of sonography for stone was 95% and the specificity was 100%. When a ureteral stone was present, ipsilateral hydronephrosis was detected in 85% of cases on sonography. When only hydronephrosis without stone was detected on sonography, a ureteral stone was diagnosed in 2(40%) of 5 patients. Mean discrepancy of stone size between sonography and KUB was 3.1mm and stone size on sonography was larger. Grade of hydronephrosis between sonography and urography was the same in 32(59%) of 54 patients, whose stones were not expelled until urography after sonography. Sonography could be used as an initial study in patients with suspected ureteral stone.
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19 refs, 4 figs, 4 tabs
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Journal of the Korean Radiological Society; ISSN 1738-2637;
; v. 18(1); p. 17-24

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[en] Percutaneous nephrostomy was performed in 82 patients under the fluoroscopic guidance for recent 3 years. The cause of hydronephrosis were as follows: unknown origin of stricture (N=37), stone (N=20), tumor (N=14), tuberculosis (N=8), postoperative ureteral injury (N=1), postoperative anastomotic stricture(N=1)and renal transplantation complication (N=1). Successful nephrostomy was achieved in 79 patients (96%). Causes if failure were minimal dilatation of pelvocaliceal system (N=2) and staghorn calculi (N=1). Follow up laboratory test shows high BUN and creatinine level returned to normal limit within 1 or 3 weeks in 73 patient. Major complication was not found, but temporary hematuria (N=4) or fever (N=1) was noted. In conclusion, percutaneous nephrostomy is the safe and effective method for the temporary and permanent relief of urinary obstruction and maintenance of ureteral patency
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23 refs, 4 figs, 3 tabs
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Journal of the Korean Radiological Society; ISSN 1738-2637;
; v. 26(6); p. 1090-1095

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[en] We report 10 kidney allografted patients treated for 11 ureteral strictures with standard endourlogic balloon catheter dilatation and internal stenting between August 1979 and December 1991. They have been followed until 2 to 140 months (mean 42). We compared and analyzed the 6 successful strictures (54%) and 5 unsuccessful strictures. There was no statistically significant difference of demographic, clinical and radiologic interventional techniques between two groups. But there was slightly higher success rate in abruptly narrowed shorter fibrotic strictures in ureteroneocystomy sites than smoothly taped longer ones in other sites of the ureter. Longterm stenting by the transplantation team with cystoscopic removal of internal ureteral stents by urologists resulted in 3 cases of stent occlusion, encrustation or fracture. Exact early diagnosis of ureteral stricture with continued close follow up and proper radiologic interventional procedure with optimal stenting period may increase the success rate and still provide an alternative to surgery
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Journal of the Korean Radiological Society; ISSN 1738-2637;
; v. 29(5); p. 935-943

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[en] The identification of potential tumor markers will help improve therapeutic planning and patient management. Thrombomodulin (TM) is a sensitive urothelial marker. TM was reported to be one of the endogenous anti-metastatic factors and has diagnostic and prognostic values for the progression of carcinoma. In the present study, we examine the role of TM in bladder cancer. We studied the role of TM in tumor behavior and related signaling pathways in vitro using the human bladder cancer cell lines HT1376, HT1197, J82 and T24, and in vivo using animal models. We also selected clinical specimens from 100 patients with bladder cancer for immunohistochemical staining to evaluate the predictive capacity of TM in tumor invasiveness. The data revealed that positive immunoreactivity for TM was inversely correlated with clinical stage and DNA methyltransferase 1 immunoreactivity. Decreased TM expression could predict the aggressive tumor growth and advanced clinical stage in bladder cancer. When TM was inhibited, tumor growth rate and invasion ability were augmented in vitro and in vivo. The underlying changes included increased cell proliferation, enhanced epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and angiogenesis. Moreover, inhibition of NF-κB activation significantly increased TM expression and attenuated tumor aggressiveness in bladder cancer. TM plays an important role in bladder cancer tumor aggressiveness in vitro and in vivo and is a clinically significant predictor that may represent a suitable therapeutic target for bladder cancer
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-375; Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4051376; PMCID: PMC4051376; PUBLISHER-ID: 1471-2407-14-375; PMID: 24886404; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4051376; Copyright (c) 2014 Wu et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.; This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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BMC cancer (Online); ISSN 1471-2407;
; v. 14; p. 375

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Perez, A.; Giannone, C.; Cabrejas, M.; Galli, R.
Proceedings of the 5. Latin American Meeting on Medical Physics; 2. Workshop on Medical Physics; 1. Workshop on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering1990
Proceedings of the 5. Latin American Meeting on Medical Physics; 2. Workshop on Medical Physics; 1. Workshop on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering1990
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[en] Published in summary form only
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Metodo de filtrado digital para remover fuentes intensas en estudios de SPECT, implementacion y evaluacion
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Associacao Brasileira de Fisicos em Medicina, Rio de Janeiro, RJ (Brazil); 61 p; 1990; p. 2; 5. Latin American Meeting on Medical Physics; Ribeirao Preto, SP (Brazil); 7-11 Oct 1990; 2. Workshop on Medical Physics; Ribeirao Preto, SP (Brazil); 7-11 Oct 1990; 1. Workshop on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering; Ribeirao Preto, SP (Brazil); 7-11 Oct 1990
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[en] Endoscopic biliary stenting is well known as an optimal method of management of malignant hilar obstruction, but sometimes the result is not satisfactory, with early stent failure. Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) has a distinct advantage over endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatoscopy in that with ultrasound guidance one or more appropriate segments for drainage can be chosen. We evaluated the effectiveness of percutaneous transhepatic stenting as a rescue of early failure of endoscopic stenting. Ten patients (4 men, 6 women; age range, 52-78 years; mean age, 69 years) with inoperable biliary obstruction (2 patients with gall bladder cancer and hilar invasion, and 8 patients with Klatskin tumor) and with early endoscopic stent failure were included in our study. All of the patients underwent PTBD and percutaneous transhepatic biliary stenting. Metallic stents were placed in all patients for internal drainage. Percutaneous rescue stenting was successful in all the patients technically and clinically. Mean time for the development of biliary obstruction was 13.5 days after endoscopic stenting. The mean patency of the rescue stenting was 122 days. The mean survival time for percutaneous transhepatic rescue stenting was 226.3 days. In early failure of endoscopic biliary stenting, percutaneous transhepatic recanalization can be a possible solution.
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Journal of the Korean Radiological Society; ISSN 1738-2637;
; v. 69(5); p. 385-390

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[en] Bladder cancer results from complex interactions between many genetic and environment factors. The polymorphism Ser326Cys in hOGG1 gene has been reported to be associated with bladder cancer in some studies, though the results remain inconclusive. To explore this relationship of hOGG1 polymorphism and the susceptibility for bladder cancer and the impact of smoking exposures, a cumulative meta-analysis was performed in this study. We extracted the data from the Pubmed database up to January 9, 2012 using the search phrases “hOGG1, Ser326Cys polymorphism and bladder cancer”. Seven case–control studies were identified, including 2474 patients and 2408 controls. Four of them provided the analysis of smoking effects, with 1372 smokers and 947 non-smokers. The odds ratios (ORs) and associated 95 % confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated using fixed- or random- effects models. Regarding the overall association between the hOGG1 326Cys allele and bladder cancer risk, the meta-analysis did not reveal a significant effect in the additive model (OR: 1.06, 95 % CI: 0.96-1.26; p = 0.49), the recessive genetic model (OR: 1.05, 95 % CI: 0.65-1.70; p = 0.85) or the dominant genetic model (OR: 1.07, 95 % CI: 0.87-1.32; p = 0.53). Similarly, no significant relationship was observed in the stratified analysis by ethnicity, study design and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (all p > 0.05). In the non-smokers, however, hOGG1 326Cys allele significantly increased the risk for bladder cancer and the ORs in the additive model, homozygote contrast and recessive genetic model were 1.59 (p = 0.02), 2.53(p = 0.003) and 2.41(p = 0.0005), respectively. Nevertheless, in the smoker subgroup, similar findings could not be found in all genetic models (all p > 0.05). The association between the hOGG1 326Cys allele and bladder cancer was significant in non-smoker population, while was non-detectable in common or smoker populations. This meta-analysis suggests that the hOGG1 Ser326Cys polymorphism may be a risk factor for bladder cancer without exposure to smoking. Further functional studies are needed to elucidate the gene polymorphism-bladder cancer relationship and gene-environment interactions
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-12-335; Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3487852; PMCID: PMC3487852; PUBLISHER-ID: 1471-2407-12-335; PMID: 22857644; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3487852; Copyright (c)2012 Ji et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.; This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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BMC cancer (Online); ISSN 1471-2407;
; v. 12; p. 335

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[en] This book contains 10 chapters. Some of the chapter titles are: Radiologic considerations; Physiochemistry of urinary stone formations; Nutritional aspects of stone disease; Prevention of recurrent nephrolithiasis; Struvite stones; and Contemporary approaches to removal of renal and ureteral calculi
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1987; 273 p; Martinus Nujhoff Publishing; Hingham, MA (USA)
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Ivanov, Z.
Fourth scientific practical conference of the roentgenologists, radiologists and radiobiologists from North Bulgaria1983
Fourth scientific practical conference of the roentgenologists, radiologists and radiobiologists from North Bulgaria1983
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Kym vyprosa za metodikata na ekskretornata urografiya. Ima li diagnostichna stoynost prilaganeto na kompresiya na uretetite
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Ministerstvo na Narodnoto Zdrave, Sofia (Bulgaria); Syyuz na Nauchnite Meditsinski Druzhestva v Bylgariya, Sofia; 145 p; 1983; p. 23; 4. scientific practical conference of the roentgenologists, radiologists and radiobiologists from North Bulgaria; Gabrovo (Bulgaria); 4 Jun 1983; Published in summary form only.
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[en] Double-J ureteral stents and antegrade stenting have been performed by radiologists for years. Various methods have been described, dependent on available equipment as well as technical expertise. As such, there is no definite consensus with regards to deployment of these stents. We describe an innovative technique, which would improve this procedure and highlight its advantages.
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Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1754-9485.12022; 2 figs.
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Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology; ISSN 1754-9477;
; v. 57(2); p. 198-201

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