Vanishing Gastroschisis with a Favorable Outcome after a 3-Year Follow-Up: A Case Report and Literature Review by Elise Abi Rached, N. Sananes, I. Kauffmann-Chevalier, F. Becmeur

“…A 26-year-old primigravida woman was referred to Strasbourg University Hospital because her fetus was diagnosed with an isolated gastroschisis at 13-week gestation. The ultrasound evolution was marked by a progressive closure of the abdominal wall defect from 19-week gestation and the appearance of dilated intra-abdominal loops. …”
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Abdominal Wall Desmoid during Pregnancy: Diagnostic Challenges by Johnny Awwad, Nadine Hammoud, Chantal Farra, Farah Fares, George Abi Saad, Ghina Ghazeeri

“…Due to its close proximity to the enlarged uterus, it was misdiagnosed to be a uterine leiomyoma by ultrasound examination. Final tissue diagnosis and radical resection were done at the time of abdominal delivery. …”
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Features of clinical presentation, diagnostics and treatment of idiopathic gastroparesis (<i>Review of literature and case presentation</i>) by Yu. V. Yevsyutina, O. S. Lyashenko, Ye. A. Poluektova, Z. A. Lemeshko, A. A. Sheptulin, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Psychoemotional factors represent one of its principal causes. Ultrasound and roentgenologic investigations, scintigraphy, 13С-octanoic acid breath test play important role in diagnostics of gastroparesis. …”
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Evaluation of the core muscles of children and adolescents with nocturnal enuresis using shear wave elastography: a preliminary study by Muhammed Selçuk Sinanoğlu, Nurullah Dağ, Berçem Sinanoğlu, Filiz Özdemir

“…The thickness of both muscles was measured by gray scale ultrasound and muscle stiffness was measured by SWE. …”
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Does the Movement Competency Screen Correlate with Deep Abdominals Activation and Hip Strength for Professional and Pre-professional Dancers? by Justine Benoît-Piau, Mélanie Morin, Sylvie Fortin, Christine Guptill, Nathaly Gaudreault

“…The activation of deep abdominals was evaluated using ultrasound imaging and the hip strength was evaluated using a handheld dynamometer. …”
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Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Strategy for Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection of Left Main Coronary Artery with Extensive Intramural Hematoma in the Main Side Branch by Makio Muraishi, Kosuke Maeda, Takuya Okada, Masahiko Noguchi

“…Emergency coronary angiography showed total occlusion of the left anterior descending artery (LAD) and intermediate stenosis of the left main coronary artery (LMCA). The intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) revealed an intramural hematoma (IMH) from the LMCA to the LAD, extending to the left circumflex artery (LCX) ostium. …”
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An Unusual Extremely Distant Noncommunicating Uterine Horn with Myoma and Adenomyosis Treated with Laparoscopic Hemihysterectomy by Michele Morelli, Roberta Venturella, Rita Mocciaro, Daniela Lico, Fulvio Zullo

“…A 41-year-old woman referred to us with dysmenorrhea and severe pelvic pain although she was previously submitted to right laparotomic adnexectomy for ovarian endometrioma and to a subsequent operative laparoscopy for pelvic adhesions. After ultrasound examination, the patient underwent diagnostic hysteroscopy and operative laparoscopy which confirmed the clinic suspect of an unicornuate uterus. …”
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Role of intestinal probiotics in the modulation of lipid metabolism: implications for therapeutic treatments by Xiaoran Song, Yanan Liu, Xin Zhang, Peifang Weng, Ruilin Zhang, Zufang Wu

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Gall bladder duplication: A rare biliary malformation by Hari Om Joshi, MBBS, MD, Dipesh Poudel, MBBS, MA, Prashant Khatiwoda, MBBS, MD, Bikash Bikram Adhikari, MBBS, MD, Laxman Kunwar, MBBS, MD

“…This case report discusses a 35-year-old female who presented with intermittent lower abdominal pain, with initial imaging revealing a complex left adnexal cyst. Follow-up CT and ultrasound examinations revealed 2 distinct gallbladder-like structures in the gallbladder fossa, each with a cystic duct draining into the common bile duct. …”
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A Case of a Chronic Pancreatic Pseudocyst Causing Atraumatic Splenic Rupture without Evidence of Acute Pancreatitis by P. Moori, E. J. Nevins, T. Wright, C. Bromley, Y. Rado

“…His abdominal pain progressed, and he became haemodynamically unstable. An emergency ultrasound scan (USS) at this time revealed intra-abdominal haemorrhage. …”
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Improving The Physical Stability Of Virgin Olive Oil Mayonnaise by Melis Coskun, Sinem Argun, Emrah Kırtıl

“…For this purpose, two different stabilizer sodium alginate and gellan gum at two different concentrations (0.1% and 0.2%) were added to mayonnaise formulations, additionally ultrasound was applied at two different powers (40% and 70%) for 2 min. …”
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Sonoelectrochemical Synthesis of Antibacterial Active Silver Nanoparticles in Rhamnolipid Solution by Mariana Shepida, Orest Kuntyi, Martyn Sozanskyi, Yuriy Sukhatskiy

“…The results of studies of the synthesis of AgNPs colloidal solutions by cyclic voltammetry (E from +1.0 to −1.0 V) in rhamnolipid (RL) solutions and the use of soluble anodes in the ultrasound field (22 kHz) are presented. It is shown that the algorithm of anodic dissolution—reduction of Ag(I)—nucleation, and formation of AgNPs makes it possible to obtain nanoparticles with the size from 1 nm to 3 nm. …”
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Duodenal Obstruction during Pregnancy by Mansooreh Haghiri, Sedigheh Borna, Kamran Hessami, Ali Sharifi, Seyed Mohsen Ahmadi Tafti, Mahrooz Malek, Nasim Pourdamghan, Sedigheh Hantoushzadeh, Abolfazl Shirdel Abdolmaleki, Maasoumeh Saleh

“…Considering the lab data and normal abdominopelvic ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging was performed which revealed dilation of the D1-3 and collapse the D4 sections of duodenum. …”
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False-Positive 18F-FDG PET/CT Uptake in Unilateral Lactation by Joshua Wei Liang Yip, Han Loh, Chuong Bui, Veronica Chi Ken Wong, Robert Mansberg

“…This was reinforced by the fact that subsequent investigations including serial bilateral breast ultrasound and percutaneous biopsy demonstrated no definite evidence of malignancy in the bilateral breasts. …”
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Torsion of Hydrosalpinx with Concurrent Acute Cholecystitis: Case Report and Review of Literature by Preeti R. John, Amelia M. Pasley

“…We describe a 34-year-old premenopausal woman who presented with right sided upper and lower abdominal pain and nausea. Abdominal ultrasound (US) revealed acute cholecystitis. Vaginal US was suggestive of right hydrosalpinx. …”
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Spontaneous Regression of Uterine Arteriovenous Malformations with Conservative Management by Keiko Mekaru, Sugiko Oishi, Kozue Akamine, Chiaki Heshiki, Yoichi Aoki

“…We present three women diagnosed with postmiscarriage AVM on color Doppler by transvaginal ultrasound imaging. They had no genital bleeding and a small mass, measuring 16–22 mm. …”
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Gender Differences of Plaque Characteristics in Elderly Patients with Stable Angina Pectoris: An Intravascular Ultrasonic Radiofrequency Data Analysis by Tomohiro Nakamura, Manabu Ogita, Junya Ako, Shin-ichi Momomura

“…The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relation between gender and plaque characteristics assessed by virtual histology-intravascular ultrasound (VH-IVUS) in patients with stable angina pectoris. …”
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Fluid–structure interaction in a follow-up study of arterio-venous fistula maturation by Daniel Jodko, Tracie Barber

“…This study presents fluid–structure interaction (FSI) modelling of non-Newtonian blood flow through an end-to-side radio-cephalic AVF, investigated weekly during a 15-week follow-up period and 1.5 years postoperatively using ultrasound methods. The aim was to collect qualitative and quantitative data regarding changes in hemodynamics and alterations in the walls of AVF vasculature. …”
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Psoas abscess secondary to atypical appendicitis in pregnancy. A case report by Viviana de la Caridad Sáez Cantero, Mario Joel Arroyo Díaz, Leonel Hernández Torres, María Teresa Medel Agüero

“…The findings of the abdominal ultrasound and MRI allowed the diagnosis of an appendiceal plastron with a retrocecal appendix, as well as a right psoas abscess, which were treated with antibiotic therapy and percutaneous drainage of the abscess, with satisfactory results. …”
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Traumatic Testicular Dislocation Associated with Lateral Compression Pelvic Ring Injury and T-Shaped Acetabulum Fracture by Daniel Howard Wiznia, Mike Wang, Chang Yeon-Kim, Paul Tomaszewski, Michael P. Leslie

“…The testicular dislocation was noted during the emergency department primary survey, and its location and viability were verified with ultrasound. The testicle was isolated during surgical stabilization of the left acetabulum through a Pfannenstiel incision and modified-Stoppa approach and returned through the inguinal canal to the scrotum. …”
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