Original Articles

AN Sy, WK Tso, KS Tai, JCW Tsang, KS Tung, L Leong

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:20-5

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of renal angiography and transarterial embolisation in the management of major iatrogenic renal vascular injuries.

Patients and Methods: Records of 9 patients with major renal vascular complications (pseudoaneurysm or arteriovenous fistula) after percutaneous renal procedures

LF Cheng, EPY Fung, TYW Hon, TKL Loke, SS Lo, JCS Chan

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:15-9

Objective: To assess the efficacy and safety of bronchial artery embolisation in the treatment of acute massive haemoptysis.

Patients and Methods: Records of 34 consecutive patients (28 males and 6 females) who presented to the United Christian Hospital from

TK Au Yong, CP Wong, YK Leung, KS Chu, WCM Tong

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:9-14

Objective: To study the value of positron-emission tomography using 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-Dglucose labelled with fluorine 18 in locating unknown primary tumour sites in patients presenting with metastases.

Patients and Methods: Between November 2003 and December 2004, a total of 62 consecutive

WW Yao, MH Li, SX Yang, LL Zhu

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:4-8

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of qualitative diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in differentiating between acute benign and pathological vertebral compression fractures.

Patients and Methods: A total of 71 patients with vertebral fractures, comprising 33 with benign fractures

FCS Wong, KK Yuen, SH Lo, TY Ng, KC Lee, WK Sze, SK O

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:87-92

Objective: To identify prognostic factors that could predict the outcomes of patients with cerebral metastasis and to study the application of the factors in management decisions.

Patients and Methods: The outcomes of 106 consecutive patients with radiological documentation of

AT Monroe, CG Morris, E Lee, WM Mendenhall

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:83-6

Objective: To describe the University of Florida experience in treating small cell carcinoma of the head and neck with radiotherapy as the primary local treatment modality.

Materials and Methods: Five patients with small cell carcinoma of the head and neck

WK Tso, S Wong, J Tsang, H Tung, KS Tai, PC Tam, L Leong

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:78-82

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of embolotherapy with a mixture of lipiodol and absolute ethanol for renal angiomyolipoma.

Patients and Methods: Twelve patients underwent transcatheter embolisation for 13 symptomatic renal angiomyolipomas between November 1997 and May 2005. Of these, 2 patients

A Li, CC Chan, TW Ng, CF Lo, TKL Loke, SS Lo, JCS Chan

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:72-7

Objective:To evaluate the application of a parallel imaging technique — generalised autocalibrating partially parallel acquisition — in peripheral contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography.

Patients and Methods: This was a retrospective review of 17 consecutive patients with peripheral vascular disease who underwent lower-extremity