İclal Erdem Toslak

Health Sciences University Antalya Training and Research Hospital · Radiology

To compare the effects of low level laser therapy (LLLT) and corticosteroid injection in patients with moderate carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). Eighty-seven patients (143 wrists) with moderate CTS were randomized to the corticosteroid or LLLT groups. 40 mg of triamcinolone acetate solution was applied to carpal tunnel of 44 patients (74 wrist). LLLT...

Objectives After traumatic Sacroiliac (SI) joint injury, follow up radiographic imaging can demonstrate subchondral bone resorption resembling inflammatory sacroiliitis. No studies have described the incidence of marginal SI post-traumatic osteitis, the probable temporal relationship to the initial traumatic injury, or the possible effect of unilat...

A 20-year-old female patient was presented with a bilateral epiphora. She had no history of infection or trauma related to the sinus areas. On examination, her facial appearance was abnormal and fullness on the face was observed. The fluorescein dye disappearance test was positive in both eyes. The lacrimal system irrigation was patent nasolacrimal...

Objectives To investigate the B‐mode ultrasound (US) features and elasticity of the Achilles tendon in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) using US elastography and to compare them with those of healthy individuals. Methods From March 2019 through May 2019, 30 consecutive patients with variable stages of CKD and 30 healthy individuals were...

Purpose To evaluate diagnostic performance of PACS-based quantitative gray-scale ultrasound as an objective method in evaluation of pediatric thyroiditis. Methods Quantitative measurements of the echo-intensity level of the thyroid were obtained from ultrasound images, retrospectively using a PACS-based tool in 37 children with the tissue-proven d...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to assess the diagnostic performance of the American College of Radiology (ACR) Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System (TIRADS) for malignancy risk in pediatric thyroid nodules. Materials and methods: Two radiologists reviewed ultrasound images of 74 tissue-proven thyroid nodules in 62 children. Points...

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of weight loss on the retrobulbar hemodynamics in patients who had undergone bariatric surgery for obesity using color Doppler ultrasound (CDU) and to evaluate correlations with intraocular pressure (IOP) changes measured using Goldman applanation tonometry. Methods: Thirty-two patients were included in this prosp...

Background Recent studies have reported that low-level laser therapy (LLLT) reduces pain and improves function in carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). However, to the best of our knowledge, there exist no studies that compares the effectiveness of LLLT and steroid injections in moderate CTS. Objectives Is to evaluate the effectiveness of LLLT and steroid...

Kaposiform hemangioendothelioma (KHE) is a rare vascular tumor of early childhood and infancy. Kasabach–Merritt phenomenon, a common complication of KHE, is characterized by life-threatening thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and consumption coagulopathy. There may be atypical cases that do not present with Kasabach–Merritt phenomenon and do have...

Objectives To evaluate the efficacy of a picture archiving and communication system (PACS)‐based ultrasound (US) quantification technique for diagnosis of hepatic steatosis in a pediatric population. Methods Abdominal US images of 49 pediatric patients (≤18 years) with histopathologically proven diagnoses of hepatic steatosis (n = 17), nonsteatoti...

Purpose To evaluate extraocular orbital vessels with color Doppler ultrasound (CDU) and investigate the effects of severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) on retrobulbar blood flow. Methods Between February 2014 and September 2015, 30 patients with severe OSA (apnea–hypopnea index (AHI) > 30) and 28 controls were prospectively included in this study....

Background and purpose: Small echogenic foci within pediatric thyroid nodules are commonly seen by ultrasound and are one of the features used to determine the level of suspicion for malignancy. These are sometimes termed "microcalcifications," but their relation with malignancy is controversial due to the lack of standard terminology. Our aim was...

Background: The most common malignant thyroid neoplasm in children is papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). In 2015, the Endocrine Pathology Society introduced the terminology "noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features" (NIFTP) to replace the noninvasive follicular variant of PTC. The objective of the current study...

Objectives: To determine if visual spinal canal percentage of facet overlap could be used as a rapid visual pre-screening test to detect developmental bony spinal canal narrowing on lateral cervical radiographs. Methods: Lateral cervical spine radiographs with radiology report documenting developmental narrowing of the spine canal were retrospec...

Purpose: Our aims were to evaluate using testicle apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) values in patients with varicocele, and compare them with those of healthy individuals, to identify an optimal ADC threshold level to predict abnormal semen analysis using DWI. Materials and Methods: 31 patients with the diagnosis of varicocele and 20 healthy co...

m: The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the values of strain index ratio as measured by real-time ultrasound elastography in healthy subjects and in adolescent patients with Hashimoto Thyroiditis (HT). Our aim is also to determine cut-off value of strain index ratio, obtain reference values and evaluate if we can use this values in diag...

The objectives of this study are to measure femur head echogenicity in newborns with physiologic immature hips (type 2a), to compare it with cases with mature type 1a hips and to reveal the value of femur head echogenicity in the evaluation of physiologically immature hips. This study consisted of 65 type 1a and 65 type 2a physiologically immature...

Purpose of study: The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the values of strain index ratio as measured by real-time ultrasound elastography in healthy subjects and in adolescent patients with Hashimoto Thyroiditis (HT). Our aim is also to determine cut-off value of strain index ratio, obtain reference values and evaluate if we can use thi...

Hirayama disease (HD) was first reported by Hirayama et al. in 1959. The disease is considered as a type of benign focal motor neuron disease that primarily affects upper limbs of young males. In this case report, we present a man aged 40-years with rapidly progressive weakness and atrophy in his left hand. The findings of nerve conduction studies...

Giriş: Hashimato Tiroiditi( HT), Otoimmin tiroiditlerin en sık görülen tipi olup hipotiroidinin başlıca sebebidir. Tiroid ultrason incelemesi HT tanısında yardımcı bir yöntem olup kantitatif bir değer verememektedir. Bu çalışmamızın amacı HT tanılı adölesan hastalarda B-mod gri skala histogram yöntemini kullanarak tiroid parankim ekojenitesi değişi...

Purpose: The goal of this study was to investigate the strain elastography imaging characteristics of idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) and compare strain ratio values of IGM with those of breast cancer. Material and methods: Twenty-three consecutive women with IGM (mean age, 37.9±6.6 [SD] years; range: 26-52 years) and 45 women with malig...

Objective: The purpose of this article is to differentiate exudative from transudative ascites using B-mode gray-scale ultrasound histogram analysis. Subjects and methods: Sixty-two consecutive patients with ascites were prospectively studied from June 2014 through June 2015. All underwent ultrasound (US) and paracentesis in the radiology depart...

Purpose: To evaluate intraocular pressure (IOP) and extraocular orbital vessels with color Doppler ultrasound (CDU) and investigate the effects of obesity on retrobulbar blood flow. Methods: Fifty-nine patients were included in this prospective study. Patients were divided into two groups according to body mass index: Group 1 (31 obese patients) a...

Disclosures: All authors have disclosed no financial interests, arrangements or affiliations in the context of this activity. Purpose or Case Report: To determine the feasibility of a PACS-based measuring tool for quantitative gray-scale analysis of abdominal ultrasound (US) images for the diagnosis of diffuse liver disease in the pediatric populat...

Purpose: Central serous retinopathy (CSR) is associated with leakage of fluid into the subretinal space through the retinal pigment epithelium due to hyperpermeability of the choroid. Changes are most often confined to the macula and result in visual impairment (Nicholson, 2012). Recently several studies have changed the initial beliefs that CSR is...

PURPOSE: To evaluate intraocular pressure (IOP) and extraocular orbital vessels with color Doppler ultrasound (CDU) and investigate the effects of obesity on retrobulbar blood flow. METHODS: Fifty-nine patients were included in this prospective study. Patients were divided into two groups according to body mass index: Group 1 (31 obese patients) an...

AMAÇ: Bu çalışmadaki amacımız; Barietrik cerrahi uygulanmış, vücut kitle indeksinde (VKİ) azalma olan Morbid Obes hastalarda, İntraoküler basıncın (İOP) ve retrobulbar göz akımındaki değişikliklerin Renkli Doppler Ultrasonografi (RDUS) ile araştırmaktır. MATERYAL-METOD: Çalışmamıza 2014 aralık-2105 aralık tarihleri arasında hastanemiz Genel Cerrahi...

Background The 2015 American Thyroid Association (ATA) Management Guidelines for Children with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer provides selection criteria for nodules prior to ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy. Objective To evaluate the diagnostic performance of pediatric thyroid nodule risk stratification for predic...

Epitheloid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare, locallyaggressive, malignant vascular tumor of endothelial origin.EHE may arise from variable anatomic sites including liver,lung, bone, soft tissue and skin [1—3]. No higher prevalencefor a particular age group or no gender predilection wasreported in the literature. We herein present the magneticre...

Citation info: "Yagci, B. (2016). The Use of Sonoelastographic Strain Ratio in Differentiating Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis from Malignant Breast Lesions. European Congress of Radiology. https://doi.org/10.1594/ECR2017/C-0043"

Purpose: Our aims were to determine the feasibility of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) in the detection of bone marrow edema (BME) and explore the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) alterations in patients with osteitis pubis (OP). Materials and methods: Fourty two consecutive patients clinically suspected to have athletic...

Purpose: To evaluate ocular hemodynamic changes using color Doppler ultrasonography imaging (CDI) with an emphasis on unaffected eyes of patients with central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC). Methods: Twenty-seven patients with active CSC and 25 controls were analyzed using spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and CDI for choroid...

Purpose * To assess the changes in chorioretinal thickness using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography ( SD-OCT ) in patients with internal carotid artery stenosis. We hypothesize that; on the same side with the stenotic carotid artery, the choroidal thickness may be affected because of ocular hypoperfusion due to the carotid artery stenosis...

Objective: In this study, emergency physicians and on-call radiologists were compared regarding identification of fatal injuries on computed tomographic (CT) scans in patients with trauma. Materials and methods: Multiply injured patients who were older than 18 years and underwent CT scanning were included in the study. The CT scans were interpre...

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the role of diffusion-weighted imaging in detection of active sacroiliitis and compare the apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and normalized relative ADC (r-ADC) values by using vertebra and iliac wings as reference organs. Patients and methods: The study included 56 patients (26 males, 30 females; mean...

Aim: Hirsutism is the male type terminal hair growth in androgen sensitive body areas of the female gender. There is a limited number of studies that involves only hirsutic adolescents. In this study, clinical and laboratory characteristics of hirsutism in Turkish adolescents were evaluated. Material and Method: 174 hirsutic adolescent girls were a...

Osteoblastoma is a rare, solitary benign tumor that is usually situated in axial skeleton mainly in vertebra. It is rarely seen in ethmoid and frontal sinuses. A 40-year-old man who had osteoblastoma originated from frontal and ethmoidal sinuses that extends up to frontal lobe and gave rise to personality disorders by compressing the frontal lobe,...

The aim of our study was to determine the incidence of developmental hip dysplasia (DHD) in the Western Mediterranean Region of Turkey and evaluate follow-up results of physiologically immature hips classified as type 2 according to Graf classification. Ultrasononographic examinations of the hips were performed using Graf's technique on 1162 infant...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the best predictive radiographic measurement method to identify the presence of osteoporosis and test the inter-observer and intra-observer reliability and validity of these methods in postmenopausal women. Materials and Methods: Ninety-two elderly female patients who presented with hip pain wer...

Objective To demonstrate utility and safety of the puncture aspiration injection and reaspiration (PAIR) technique for outpatients. Methods Percutaneous treatment with US guidance was applied to 33 patients for 44 cysts. Patients treated with the PAIR technique, were outpatients. PAIR and catheterization technique were evaluated for efficacy and s...

There is some concern that over a period of years, diving may produce cumulative neurological injury even in divers who have no history of decompression sickness. We evaluated asymptomatic divers and controls for cerebral white-matter lesions using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The study enrolled 113 male military divers (34.4 +/- 5.6 yr) and 6...

We present a case of malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of multicentric origin, an extremely rare condition. A 25-year-old man was admitted to hospital with presenting symptoms of cough, dyspnea and left lateral back pain. Computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging revealed extrapleural masses in the left hemithorax in addition to sync...

Polyorchidism is a very rare developmental anomaly, in which more than two testes are present. The literature on polyorchidism was reviewed and variability of this rare anomaly is discussed. A 21-year-old man presented with a long history of a left scrotal lump that was otherwise asymptomatic. MRI shows isointensity of the scrotal lump with the two...