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A Single Baseline Ultrasound Assessment Of Fibroid Presence And Size Is Strongly Predictive Of Future Uterine Procedure: 8-Year Follow-Up Of Randomly Sampled Premenopausal Women Aged 35-49 Years., Donna D. Baird, T M Saldana, D L Shore, Michael C. Hill, J M Schectman

Radiology Faculty Publications

STUDY QUESTION: How well can a single baseline ultrasound assessment of fibroid burden (presence or absence of fibroids and size of largest, if present) predict future probability of having a major uterine procedure?

SUMMARY ANSWER: During an 8-year follow-up period, the risk of having a major uterine procedure was 2% for those without fibroids and increased with fibroid size for those with fibroids, reaching 47% for those with fibroids ≥4 cm in diameter at baseline.

WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY: Uterine fibroids are a leading indication for hysterectomy. However, when fibroids are found, there are few available data to help clinicians …

Functional Properties Of Resting State Networks In Healthy Full-Term Newborns., Josepheen De Asis-Cruz, Marine Bouyssi-Kobar, Iordanis Evangelou, Gilbert Vezina, Catherine Limperopoulos

Radiology Faculty Publications

Objective, early, and non-invasive assessment of brain function in high-risk newborns is critical to initiate timely interventions and to minimize long-term neurodevelopmental disabilities. A prerequisite to identifying deviations from normal, however, is the availability of baseline measures of brain function derived from healthy, full-term newborns. Recent advances in functional MRI combined with graph theoretic techniques may provide important, currently unavailable, quantitative markers of normal neurodevelopment. In the current study, we describe important properties of resting state networks in 60 healthy, full-term, unsedated newborns. The neonate brain exhibited an efficient and economical small world topology: densely connected nearby regions, sparse, but …

Case 213: Primary Spenic Angiosarcoma, John J. Krol, Vera V. Krol, Adrian Dawkins, Halemane S. Ganesh

Radiology Faculty Publications

A 75-year-old woman with a medical history of gastroesophageal reflux disease and type II diabetes presented to the hospital with a 3-month history of gradually worsening headaches, vague upper abdominal pain, and lower back pain. The patient denied fevers, night sweats, contact with sick individuals, occupational exposure to infection, bleeding, immunodeficiency, intravenous drug use, alcohol or tobacco abuse, history of malignancy, family history of genetic disorders, and international travel. Physical examination revealed a skin-colored mass protruding from the right side of her forehead, but there were no other notable abnormalities. Her diabetes was managed with diet, and the only prescription …