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

JSY Lam, YL Chan

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:172-4

Objectives: The visibility and size of the nodes of Rouviere have not been studied in healthy children. The objectives of the present study were to study the size of these nodes in children on magnetic resonance imaging and its relation

KH Wong, C Gaffney, SM Chow, TM Chan

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:162-71

Objective: A prospective phase II study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness in pain palliation and toxicity of a 2-fractionated half-body irradiation.

Patients and Methods: From 25 December 2000 to 16 January 2002, 30 patients receiving half-body irradiation for pain

M Philip, CG Morris, JW Werning, WM Mendenhall

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:157-61

Objective: To determine the efficacy of radiotherapy in the treatment of ameloblastoma and ameloblastic carcinoma.

Patients and Methods: Two patients with ameloblastoma and 3 patients with ameloblastic carcinoma were treated with radiotherapy alone (1 patient) or surgery and postoperative

CKK Choi, RTT Chan, GKH Au, LCY Lui

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:150-6

Objective: To determine the efficacy, toxicity and prognostic factors associated with adriamycin x 4 cycles plus cyclophosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil x 6 cycles in the adjuvant treatment of high-risk breast cancer.

Patients and Methods: The records of patients who

K Wang, A Li, WH Luk, EPY Fung, TKL Loke, JCS Chan

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:146-9

Objective: To determine the feasibility of hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid in the evaluation of small bowel obstruction in adults.

Patients and Methods: This was a pilot study of the feasibility of technetium 99m hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid in the

VWK Au, E Veitch, S Gustafson, F Kermeen, MR Sage

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:141-5

Objective: Since the introduction of computed tomography pulmonary angiography, radiological investigation of pulmonary embolism has been revolutionised. Escalating numbers of computed tomography pulmonary angiography have been performed in the past 5 years in our institution. The purpose of this study

GC Gan, BJJ Abdullah, G Kumar, SI Bux, KL Goh, R Vijeyasingam

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:244-9

Objective: To compare superparamagnetic iron oxide-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging with 5-phase computed tomography in the detection and characterisation of focal liver lesions.

Patients and Methods: We prospectively performed 5-phase computed tomography scans followed by magnetic resonance imaging of the liver

JJ Kasthoori, G Kumar, ML Wastie

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:233-43

Aim: The purpose of this study was to compare volumetric high-resolution computed tomography of the lungs, which can be reconstructed in different planes and subjected to various post-processing techniques, to standard high-resolution computed tomography of the lungs.

Patients and Methods: Sixty

JP Coffey, JC Hill

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:226-32

Objective: To assess prospectively the overall prevalence of abnormal cardiac index values in a symptomatic group of patients from gated single photon emission computed tomography perfusion studies and to compare cardiac index of patients with body mass index <30 and

KW Yang, WH Luk, DHY Cho, TKL Loke, JCS Chan

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:222-5

Objective: To compare the clinical response and outcome for direct gallbladder puncture and transhepatic puncture techniques in ultrasound-guided percutaneous cholecystostomy for critically ill and non-surgically fit patients with acute calculous cholecystitis.

Patients and Methods: Twenty seven consecutive critically ill and high

EKC Lee, KK Yuen, WK Sze, OC Li, MK Yuen

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:218-21

Objective: To evaluate the outcome of malignant pleural effusion drainage using small bore catheters.

Patients and Methods: This retrospective study was conducted at the Palliative Care Centre at Tuen Mun Hospital, a regional hospital in Hong Kong. Patients with malignant

SF Lee, YL Chan, B Tomlinson, S Ho, NWY Leung, BSP Fok

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:214-7

Objective: To assess the reliability of quantitative measurement of signal intensity change in the liver on breath-hold gradient echo in-phase and opposed-phase imaging in hepatic steatosis.

Patients and Methods: The study population comprised 19 subjects with previous sonographic diagnosis of

KH Yu, M Chua, AC Vlantis, MKM Kam, WY Lee, RKY Tsang, HY Yuen, EP Hui, ATC Chan

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:207-13

Objective: To investigate swallowing function outcome in patients with head and neck cancer who received altered fractionation radiotherapy.

Patients and Methods: Forty nine patients with bulky T2 tumours or American Joint Committee on Cancer stage III/IV disease were treated with

EYL Kan, IYC Wong, SPC Lau

Hong Kong J Radiol 2005;8:202-6

Objective: To assess the appropriateness and outcomes of computed tomography brain scanning for headaches in a paediatric population.

Materials and Methods: Medical records and radiological reports for all computed tomography brain scans performed on paediatric patients aged 18 years or younger