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Caroli’s disease is a rare congenital disorder characterized by segmental, nonobstructive dilatation of intrahepatic bile ducts. The terminology of Caroli’s syndrom is used for the association of Caroli’s disease with...
Ultrasonography is commonly used in the diagnosis and management of kidney-related disease. Most of the renal masses are found incidentally by ultrasound, computed tomography or magnetic resonance imaging. The renal...
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory disease and mainly affects the joints. The characteristic intra-articular manifestations of RA are joint effusion, synovial hypertrophy, synovitis and bone erosion. Musculoskeletal ultrasound...
Simple hepatic cysts are the most common hepatic cystic lesion, which does not require treatment unless symptomatic. The preferred treatment for symptomatic hepatic cysts is alcohol-retention sclerotherapy. Unlike simple hepatic...
A 46-year-old female was referred for gallbladder (GB) mass and intrahepatic duct dilatation. There was no abdominal pain in the patient’s examination, and there was no specific finding other than...
Chronic liver disease is one of the leading causes of significant morbidity and mortality. Accurate evaluation of liver fibrosis is important because management and prognosis depend on the degree of...
Neurilemmoma is a benign, slow-growing neoplasm originating in any nerve that has a Schwann cell sheath. They rarely occur in the digestive tract, but when they do, the most common...
Macrofollicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma (MFV-PTC) is rare variant of PTC, and is a well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma with large, follicular architecture and with nuclear characteristics of PTC. Fine needle aspiration...
Background/Aims: The evaluation of liver fibrosis is important in the management of chronic liver disease. Because of limitations of liver biopsy in clinical use, ultrasound base elastographies to estimate liver...