Objective To approach the enhancing patterns of hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) under contrast-enhanced ultrasound, and improve the recognition on diagnosis for FNH by contrast-enhanced ultrasound. Methods The clinical data of 12 patients with histologically proved FNHs having accepted contrast-enhanced ultrasound examination from May 2007 to February 2009 in West China Hospital of Sichuan University were retroptectively analyzed, and related literatures were reviewed. Results All FNHs were rapidly enhanced in arterial phase and spoke-wheel-like sign was detected in 9/12 lesions. Slightly hyper-enhancement or iso-enhancement were showed in 11/12 lesions, while 1/12 lesions showed hypo-enhancement in late phase. Conclusion Contrast-enhanced ultrasound can display the dynamic blood perfusion of FNH, especially spoke-wheel-like arterial flow in early arterial phase, which is of great value for the diagnosis of FNH.
OBJECTIVE To explore a simple and effective method for the treatment of ischemic necrosis of femoral head. METHODS The anterior region of hip joint was exposed by anterior hip route, a 1.5 cm x 1.0 cm hole was made at the upper region of the femoral neck just below the head. The necrotic bone and sclerotic bone were completely cleaned by drill and curettage until the fresh cancellous bone was exposed. After irrigation, the bone cavity was filled tightly by iliac bone graft until the collapsed femoral head recovered its normal shape. Traction and continuous passive motion(CPM) were performed at the early stage after operation. RESULTS Twenty cases with 29 femoral head ischemic necrosis (Marcus III to IV stage) were treated by above methods. After 1 to 3 years follow-up, the results were all satisfactory. The pain disappeared, and the functions of the hip joint were all excellent with almost normal walking and squatting. CONCLUSION The necrotic bone and the sclerotic bone can be removed by this method, thus optimal conditions for the reconstruction of blood supply is obtained. Abundant cancellous bone graft in the residual bone cavity can support the round shape of the femoral head. CPM is very important in the repair of hyaline cartilage and prevention of joint stiffness. It is a simple and effective method in treating femoral head ischemic necrosis.
Objective To study the clinical results of focal debridement and primary internal fixation with CD rod in treatment of multisegmental spinaltuberculosis.Methods From July 1999 to November 2002, 16 patients with multisegmental spinal tuberculosis were given focal debridement and primary internal fixation with CD rod trans sick vertebra. There were 9 males and 7 females, aging from 21 to 59 years. The course of disease was 2 to 11 months. The locations of lesion were T 6T 11 in 11 patients and T 10 -L2 in 5 patients.The involved vertebral bodies were 3 segments in 13 patients, 4 or more than 4 segments in 3 patients. There were 5 cases of Pott’s paralysis (according to Frankel classification system: 3 cases of degree C, 2 cases of degree D) and 4 cases of kyphosis and 2 cases of collapse. Focal debridement and internal fixation was performed in 1 or 2 incisions according to concrete conditions. Results All patients were followed up 11 months (6 months-3years), spinal tuberculosis was completely cured and the grafted bones were fused in all 16 patients. All patients obtainedprimary healing of the incision. Postoperative complication met with cerebrospinal fluid leakage in 1 case. After 6 months, 5 cases of paraplegia recovered. The kyphosis was corrected partly. No loose and dislocation of the nails and rods was found. Conclusion Focal debridement and primary internal fixation with CD rod can stabilize involved spinal segments, prevent and correct local deformity,and improve its curative ratio and fused ratio of grafted bone.
Objective To investigate the application of Magnetoencephalograph (MEG), Wada test combined with neuronavigation in the surgical treatment of frontal and temporal epilepsy caused by focal cortical dysplasia (FCD ). Methods The epileptogenic focus and IQ, memory and language examination were performed in 34 patients with frontal and temporal epilepsy caused by FCD. MEG and Wada test were conducted to determine the language and memory advantage hemisphere, and to clarify the scope and memory function of language function areas. Operation was guided by the Medtronic stealhealth 7 surgical navigation system (USA) to remove the FCD and protect nerve function. IQ, memory and language examination were measured 1 year after operation, and the difference was observed before and after operation. The postoperative follow-up was 23 ~ 46 months, curative effect of epilepsy was determined according to the international anti-epilepsy union Engel’s standard. Results Thirty-four patients with epilepsy (21 temporal lobe epilepsy and 13 frontal lobe epilepsy) were included in this study. The examination process of MEG and Wada test was smooth. MEG can accurately locate the position of language function area. Twenty-eight patients’ dominant hemisphere of language was on the left and 6 was on the right side. Wada test can evaluate the patient’s memory function. Twenty-three patients’ dominant hemisphere of memory was located on the left, 8 on the right and 3 on the bilateral hemisphere. Compared with the dominant hemisphere and nondominant hemisphere, the memory score was significantly different (P<0.05). Statistics showed that the verbal IQ and total IQ increased (P<0.05)1 year after operation, but there was no significant change in memory IQ and Performance IQ (P>0.05). FCD patients recovered well without language, memory and limb impairment. The curative effect of epilepsy: 15 cases of Engel’sⅠgrade, 14 cases of Engel’sⅡgrade and 5 cases of Engel’s Ⅲ grade. Conclusion MEG, Wada test combined with neuronavigation was of important value in locating and guiding the surgical resection of FCD in patients with refractory frontal and temporal epilepsy, protecting cortical function, avoiding severe postoperative complications, and improving the therapeutic effect of epilepsy.
Objective To investigate the value of a new double action MR contrast agent——Gd-BOPTA in the diagnosis of focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) of the liver with correlation of pathology. Methods Dedicated MRI scans were performed for 5 patients suspected to have liver FNH on clinical and imaging basis (six lesions). The MR imaging protocol included axial T1W and T2W plain scan, coronal T2 weighted imaging, 3D MRCP, Gd-BOPTA enhanced LAVA dynamic tri-phasic acquisitions (scanning at 15 s, 55 s and 90 s respectively), enhanced 2D T1W scan, enhanced LAVA in delay phase (at 5 and 10 min) and in the hepatobiliary phase (at 40 and 80 min). The imaging features on each MR sequence were compared with surgical and pathological findings. Results Six lesions in 5 FNH patients were all correctly diagnosed (5 conformed by surgery and 1 by needle biopsy). ①The hemodynamic phase: The parenchyma of 5 lesions were markedly enhanced in the arterial phase, being isointense or slight hypointense in both the portal venous and delay phases, while 1 lesion was isointense in all phases except being slight hyperintense in the arterial phase; The central scar of 5 lesions were not enhanced in the dynamic phase, but showed delayed enhancement. ②The hepatobiliary (excretory) phase: The parenchyma of all 6 lesions were slight hyperintense or isointense, and tree-like bile ducts with hyperintensity were seen within one lesion. The scar showed no enhancement. ③Pathology: The parenchyma was consisted of disarranged normal hepatocytes but with cytoedema, lack of portal tracts and cholestatic change. The central scar showed rich fibrous tissue, a very thick-walled arteriole, proliferative bile ducts, infiltration of inflammatory cells and myxomatous changes. Conclusion As a dual-phase MR contrast agent capable of depicting both the hemodynamic attributes and hepatobiliary excretion, Gd-BOPTA enhanced MRI can reflect the pathological features of FNH and reach a high diagnostic accuracy.
【Abstract】ObjectiveTo investigate the diagnostic value of a fast gradient-echo (GRE) three-dimensional contrastenhanced volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination (3D-VIBE) MR sequence in evaluating focal liver lesions. MethodsConventional spin-echo T2W, 2D GRE T1W plain scan and Gd-enhanced 3D-VIBE multi-phasic（early arterial, late arterial and portal venous phases） acquisitions were prospectively performed for 51 consecutive patients suspected of having focal liver lesions on CT or ultrasound imaging. Native T2W and 2D GRE T1W were acquired first, then 3D-VIBE fast scanning at early arterial, late arterial and portal venous phases respectively. The SNR and CNR of the liver lesions on plain scan and the enhancement patterns on contrast-enhanced 3D-VIBE images were carefully observed with correlation of the clinical and surgical pathological findings. ResultsThere exited certain differences in SNR, CNR, and the enhancement patterns of different kinds of focal hepatic lesions in plain scan and Gd-enhanced multi-phasic 3D-VIBE acquisitions. Conclusion3D-VIBE MR sequence is helpful in the detection and characterization of focal liver lesions.
ObjectiveTo explore the clinical features and sum up the laws of the hepatic focal nodular hyperplasia (FNH) in its diagnosis and treatment. MethodsFNH was an uncommon benign hepatic tumor that often posed diagnostic dilemmas. We analyzed retrospectively the clinical, imaging of ultrasound, imaging of computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance images (MRI), and pathological materials of 21 patients with FNH proven by the pathological diagnosis during 5 years from April 1996 through April 2001 in two hospitals. ResultsThe diagnosis of FNH remained a challenge for clinicians and surgeons. Rate of correct diagnosis of FNH was low preoperatively (19.0%). The lesions of FNH were seen in males and females (m/f: 14/7). Only three female patients (3/7) had the history of taking oral contraceptive. Patients with FNH were largely young and middle age persons (81.0% under 50 years), discovered by accident (57.1%), without infection of the hepatitis B virus (95.2%) and with normal liver functions (100%) and serum AFP levels (100%). Color Doppler ultrasound showed blood vessels passing through the lesion (80.0%) and there was abundant in blood (66.7%). CT scan showed that the lesion had transient immediate enhancement in 60.0% of patients and had homogeneous signal in 60.0% after bolus injection. MR imaging demonstrated early vigorous enhancement (64.3%), homogenous signal (57.1%) and having central scar (35.7%) in the lesion. The demonstration of a central scar in the lesion was very helpful for the diagnosis of FNH. MRI was more helpful for the diagnosis of FNH using liver specific contrast agents: superparamagnetic iron oxide（SPIO）. All patients underwent focus resection (18 cases) or segmentectomy (2 cases), except one having no treatment. ConclusionFNH shows some typical clinical and imaging features. We could increase the rate of correct diagnosis by comprehensively analyzing the clinical and imaging materials. It is very important and necessary to determine a definite diagnosis of FNH, hepatic adenoma (HA) and primary liver cancer (PLC) preoperatively, because the HA and PLC must be surgically resected, FNH can only be followed up.
ObjectiveTo analyze the causes of unrelieved epilepsy thoroughly in children with isolated focal cortical dysplasia (FCD) based on MRI.MethodsRetrospective analysis of MRI and clinical data of 21 children with isolated FCD during July 2014 to January 2018, which confirmed by pathology and unrelieved thoroughly after operation performed, the pathological types and MRI signs were analyzed, as well as the frequency of different MRI signs in FCD of each pathological type. Analyzed the possible factors of surgical failure.ResultsAmong the 21 cases, there were 15 males and 6 females, with an average age of (5.7±0.3) years and an average course of disease of (3.4±0.5) years.MRI signs of this part of the children were mainly manifested by blurred focal gray matter boundaries, abnormal cortical structure changes (thickening and/or thinning), transmantle signs (abnormal cone signals extending from subcortical white matter to the ventricle) and abnormal gray matter signals, which were similar to MRI signs of FCD with satisfactory postoperative epilepsy control. 17 cases (80.9%) appeared epileptic discharge after operation in the EEG monitoring area 2 weeks to 6 months, FCD type I and type Ⅱ accounted for 35.3%, 64.7% respectively. During intraoperative EEG monitoring, no epileptiform discharge was observed in the transmantle sign region in 6 cases, and the region was retained, and only the surrounding abnormal discharge cortex was removed, complete removal of the tansmantle sign and surrounding abnormal discharge area was performed in 2 cases, and different degrees of epileptic epilepsy were observed in both methods.ConclusionMRI signs of isolated FCD with unrelieved epilepsy after operation were nonspecific, there were still epilepsy of varying degrees after all epileptogenic lesions have been removed, the cause may be related to potential epileptic factors.
Electrocardiogram (ECG) can visually reflect the physiological electrical activity of human heart, which is important in the field of arrhythmia detection and classification. To address the negative effect of label imbalance in ECG data on arrhythmia classification, this paper proposes a nested long short-term memory network (NLSTM) model for unbalanced ECG signal classification. The NLSTM is built to learn and memorize the temporal characteristics in complex signals, and the focal loss function is used to reduce the weights of easily identifiable samples. Then the residual attention mechanism is used to modify the assigned weights according to the importance of sample characteristic to solve the sample imbalance problem. Then the synthetic minority over-sampling technique is used to perform a simple manual oversampling process on the Massachusetts institute of technology and Beth Israel hospital arrhythmia (MIT-BIH-AR) database to further increase the classification accuracy of the model. Finally, the MIT-BIH arrhythmia database is applied to experimentally verify the above algorithms. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively solve the issues of imbalanced samples and unremarkable features in ECG signals, and the overall accuracy of the model reaches 98.34%. It also significantly improves the recognition and classification of minority samples and has provided a new feasible method for ECG-assisted diagnosis, which has practical application significance.
ObjectiveTo investigate the status of newly diagnosed adult epilepsy in the General Hospital of Jilin Province, in order to improve the prevention and treatment of epilepsy. MethodsTo collect the clinical data of newly diagnosed adult epilepsy from October 2016 to February 2017, and to follow up 6 months. ResultsA total of 81 patients were included. At the last clinic visit, 73 cases origined from focal, 74 cases were positive in EEG examination, 56 cases were unknown etiology, 12 cases had hippocampal sclerosis, 48 cases were mildly declined cognitive function, and 30 cases were poor compliance. ConclusionThe newly diagnosed epilepsy were focal origin, delayed treatment, mildly declined cognitive function and poor compliance.