Abdomen

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Doctor, I hurt right here!" The single digit sign. 
  • 'Here's looking at you, kid' … again? Revisiting multiphase CT in children. 
  • A Comparison of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Bipedicled Total Abdominal versus Unipedicled Hemiabdominal Free Flaps for Unilateral Breast Reconstruction. 
  • A Novel 3D Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Framework for Cross-Modality Medical Image Segmentation. 
  • A comparison of Depodur, a novel, single-dose extended-release epidural morphine, with standard epidural morphine for pain relief after lower abdominal surgery. 
  • A methodology for co-registering abdominal MR images over multiple breath-holds. 
  • A multisite phase III study of the safety and efficacy of a new manganese chloride-based gastrointestinal contrast agent for MRI of the abdomen and pelvis. 
  • A prospective clinical and pathological examination of injection site reactions with the HIV-1 fusion inhibitor enfuvirtide. 
  • A switch in the control of growth of the wing imaginal disks of Manduca sexta. 
  • A unique abdominoplasty approach in management of "buried" penis in adulthood. 
  • AIUM practice guideline for the performance of an ultrasound examination of the abdomen and/or retroperitoneum. 
  • Abdominal MR imaging at 3T. 
  • Abdominal and obstetric applications of a dynamically focused phased array real time ultrasound system. 
  • Abdominal and pelvic adipose tissue distribution and risk of prostate cancer recurrence after radiation therapy. 
  • Abdominal fat pad aspiration biopsy for tissue confirmation of systemic amyloidosis: specificity, positive predictive value, and diagnostic pitfalls. 
  • Abdominal magnetic resonance imaging at 3.0 T what is the ultimate gain in signal-to-noise ratio? 
  • Abdominal muscle activity during speech production. 
  • Abdominal pain and weight loss in a patient with well controlled diabetes. 
  • Abdominal pain resembling acute appendicitis in Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 
  • Abdominal percutaneous interventional procedures: comparison of CT and US guidance. 
  • Abdominal repair of vesicovaginal fistula. 
  • Abdominopelvic and lower extremity deep venous thrombosis: evaluation with contrast-enhanced MR venography with a blood-pool agent. 
  • Abdominoperineal Resection for Rectal Cancer in the Twenty-First Century: Indications, Techniques, and Outcomes. 
  • Accurate fatty acid composition estimation of adipose tissue in the abdomen based on bipolar multi-echo MRI. 
  • Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging of the abdomen: demonstration of feasibility and utility. 
  • Acoustic radiation force impulse imaging: in vivo demonstration of clinical feasibility. 
  • Acute and late toxicity of patients with inflammatory bowel disease undergoing irradiation for abdominal and pelvic neoplasms. 
  • Adhesive Small Bowel Obstruction: Early Operative versus Observational Management. 
  • Adiposity and Incident Heart Failure and its Subtypes: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). 
  • Adrenal hemorrhage in patients with primary antiphospholipid syndrome: imaging findings. 
  • Adult abdomen-pelvis CT: Does equilibrium dose-pitch product better account for the kVp dependence of organ dose than conventional CTDI? 
  • Anuria resulting from extrinsic ureteral compression. 
  • Are there patients with stage I rectal carcinoma at risk for failure after abdominoperineal resection? 
  • Arterial blood flow of all abdominal-pelvic organs using Doppler ultrasound: range, variability and physiological impact. 
  • Asynchronous thoraco-abdominal motion contributes to decreased 6-minute walk test in patients with COPD. 
  • Biomechanical response targets for physical and computational models of the pediatric trunk. 
  • Body weight and fat deposition in prolactin receptor-deficient mice. 
  • CT angiography with spiral CT and maximum intensity projection. 
  • Campylobacter enteritis: clinical and epidemiologic features. 
  • Can virtual monochromatic images from dual-energy CT replace low-kVp images for abdominal contrast-enhanced CT in small- and medium-sized patients? 
  • Case report of Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis after navel piercing. 
  • Challenges in screening for hepatocellular carcinoma in the glycogen storage disease type 1a population. 
  • Characteristics of abdominal vein thrombosis in children and adults. 
  • Characterization of neuronal protein phosphatases in Aplysia californica. 
  • Clinico-pathologic conference: 12-year-old girl with fatigue, anemia, weight loss, abdominal distention, and occasional nausea and vomiting. 
  • Colonic uptake of Tc-99m MDP in pseudomembranous colitis. 
  • Comparison of postoperative pain outcomes after vertical or Pfannenstiel incision for major gynecologic surgery. 
  • Comparison of sonographic and CT guidance techniques: does CT fluoroscopy decrease procedure time? 
  • Comparison of the Viability and Yield of Adipose-Derived Stem Cells (ASCs) from Different Donor Areas. 
  • Compound scanning with a phased array. 
  • Contrast material for combined abdominal and pelvic CT: can cost be reduced by increasing the concentration and decreasing the volume? 
  • Correction of hysteretic respiratory motion in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: Simulation and patient studies. 
  • Current practice of abdominal fascial closure: a survey of Ontario general surgeons. 
  • Development and longitudinal validation of the overall benefit of analgesia score: a simple multi-dimensional quality assessment instrument. 
  • Diabetes mellitus in long-term survivors of childhood cancer. Increased risk associated with radiation therapy: a report for the childhood cancer survivor study. 
  • Diabetic thoracoabdominal neuropathy. 
  • Diagnosis of metastatic renal cell carcinoma on fine-needle aspiration cytology. 
  • Dietary patterns and the metabolic syndrome in obese and non-obese Framingham women. 
  • Differences in morbidity and mortality with percutaneous versus open surgical drainage of postoperative intra-abdominal infections: a review of 686 cases. 
  • Does preoperative topical antimicrobial scrub reduce positive surgical site culture rates in men undergoing artificial urinary sphincter placement? 
  • Does this adult patient have a blunt intra-abdominal injury? 
  • Donor-Derived Neuroendocrine Carcinoma Transmission to Two Kidney Transplant Recipients Demonstrated by Short Tandem Repeat Analysis: A Case Report. 
  • Dose coefficients in pediatric and adult abdominopelvic CT based on 100 patient models. 
  • Ectopic pregnancy: 'classic' vs common presentation. 
  • Effects of automatic tube potential selection on radiation dose index, image quality, and lesion detectability in pediatric abdominopelvic CT and CTA: a phantom study. 
  • Effects of dose ranging of adenosine infusion on electrocardiographic findings during and after general anesthesia. 
  • Endovascular stent graft repair of an infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm with a horseshoe kidney. 
  • Enhanced recovery and the changing landscape of major abdominal surgery. 
  • Estimated fetal weight: applicability to small- and large-for-gestational-age fetus. 
  • Estrogen receptor-beta expression in extraabdominal fibromatoses: an analysis of 40 cases. 
  • Evaluating the Benefit of Elevated Acoustic Output in Harmonic Motion Estimation in Ultrasonic Shear Wave Elasticity Imaging. 
  • Evaluation of integrated respiratory gating systems on a Novalis Tx system. 
  • Examining reoperation and readmission after hepatic surgery. 
  • Expansion and evaluation of data characterizing the structural behavior of the pediatric abdomen. 
  • Experimental effects of hyperbaric oxygen on selected clostridial species. II. In-vitro studies in mice. 
  • Exploratory electrocardiography: use of isopotential surface maps. 
  • Extraperitoneal gas following nephrectomy: patterns and duration. 
  • FRODO pulse sequences: a new means of eliminating motion, flow, and wraparound artifacts. 
  • Failure of cerebrospinal fluid shunts: part II: overdrainage, loculation, and abdominal complications. 
  • Fast spin-echo imaging of the abdomen during breath-holding: an alternative to RASE and other fast imaging techniques. 
  • Fetal anthropometry at term: effect of menstrual age and relative fetal size. 
  • Fetal biometry in the Brachmann-de Lange syndrome. 
  • Fine-needle biopsy: prospective comparison of aspiration versus nonaspiration techniques in the abdomen. 
  • Fluid management in abdominal surgery: what, when, and when not to administer. 
  • Free-breathing abdominal MRI improved by repeated k-t-subsampling and artifact-minimization (ReKAM). 
  • Gain in signal-to-noise for first-pass contrast-enhanced abdominal MR angiography at 3 Tesla over standard 1.5 Tesla: prediction with a computer model. 
  • Gene transfer and expression in rat cardiac transplants. 
  • Hand-assisted laparoscopic surgery (HALS) with the HandPort system: initial experience with 68 patients. 
  • Handoscopic surgery: a prospective multicenter trial of a minimally invasive technique for complex abdominal surgery. Southern Surgeons' Club Study Group. 
  • Hemodynamic relationships among upper-abdominal aorta and femoral arteries: basis for measurement of arterial blood flow to abdominal-pelvic organs. 
  • Hemostatic agent and concomitant abdominal abscess. 
  • IV Fluids for Major Surgery: Reply. 
  • Identification of progesterone receptor in human subcutaneous adipose tissue. 
  • If the Patient Is Frail, Emergency Abdominal Surgery Is High Risk. 
  • Images in cardiovascular medicine: in vivo imaging of the adult Drosophila melanogaster heart with real-time optical coherence tomography. 
  • Implementation of graphic user interface screen capture solution for workflow assessment of abdominal MR examinations valuable tool to analyze discrepancies in expected and experienced MR table time. 
  • Improving Patient-Centered Transitional Care after Complex Abdominal Surgery. 
  • Incorporation of a left ventricle finite element model defining infarction into the XCAT imaging phantom. 
  • Inhibition of sympathetic pathways restores postoperative ileus in the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. 
  • Insulin and glucose homeostasis in childhood cancer survivors treated with abdominal radiation: A pilot study. 
  • Integrated parallel reception, excitation, and shimming (iPRES) with multiple shim loops per radio-frequency coil element for improved B0 shimming. 
  • Integration of the vertical medial thigh lift and monsplasty: the double-triangle technique. 
  • Intra-abdominal venous thrombosis after colectomy in pediatric patients with chronic ulcerative colitis: incidence, treatment, and outcomes. 
  • Intratumoral consumption of indium-111 labeled platelets in a patient with hemangiomatosis and intravascular coagulation (Kasabach-Merritt syndrome). 
  • Intravascular Ultrasound-Guided Transvenous Biopsy of Abdominal and Pelvic Targets Difficult to Access by Percutaneous Needle Biopsy: Technique and Initial Clinical Experience. 
  • Iodine quantification using dual-energy multidetector computed tomography imaging: phantom study assessing the impact of iterative reconstruction schemes and patient habitus on accuracy. 
  • Laparoscopic management of persistent Müllerian duct remnants associated with an abdominal testis. 
  • Laparoscopy Is Safe in Infants and Neonates with Congenital Heart Disease: A National Study of 3684 Patients. 
  • Left upper quadrant laparoscopic placement: effects of insertion angle and body mass index on distance to posterior peritoneum by magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Lesion detection and assessment of extrahepatic findings in abdominal MRI using hepatocyte specific contrast agents--comparison of Gd-EOB-DTPA and Gd-BOPTA. 
  • Leukopenia is associated with worse but not prohibitive outcomes following emergent abdominal surgery. 
  • MR-PET co-registration in upper abdominal imaging: quantitative comparison of two different T1-weighted gradient echo sequences: initial observations. 
  • Magnetic resonance angiography with hyperpolarized 129Xe dissolved in a lipid emulsion. 
  • Magnetic resonance microscopy of the rat thorax and abdomen. 
  • Management of primary squamous cell carcinoma at the mucocutaneous junction of an ileal conduit. 
  • Management of the open abdomen: A systematic review with meta-analysis and practice management guideline from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma. 
  • Maximizing the aesthetic result in panniculectomy after massive weight loss. 
  • Monitoring needs and goal-directed fluid therapy within an enhanced recovery program. 
  • Multi-label annotation of text reports from computed tomography of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis using deep learning. 
  • Neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by transanal local excision for T2 rectal cancer confers equivalent survival benefit as traditional transabdominal resection. 
  • No Cytokine Is an Island: IL-6 Alone Is Not Sufficient to Predict Morbidity After a Major Abdominal Surgery. 
  • Obstruction after Burch colposuspension: a return to retropubic urethrolysis. 
  • On System-Dependent Sources of Uncertainty and Bias in Ultrasonic Quantitative Shear-Wave Imaging. 
  • On the Relationship between Spatial Coherence and In Situ Pressure for Abdominal Imaging. 
  • Oncology-specific radiation dose and image noise reference levels in adult abdominal-pelvic CT. 
  • Optimal body temperature in transitional extremely low birth weight infants using heart rate and temperature as indicators. 
  • Optimal pressure of abdominal gas insufflation for bleeding control in a severe swine splenic injury model. 
  • Options for closure of the infected abdomen. 
  • Outcome of patients undergoing transabdominal cerclage: a descriptive study. 
  • Over-scanning in chest CT: Comparison of practice among six hospitals and its impact on radiation dose. 
  • Overview of spontaneous intraabdominal tumor hemorrhage: etiologies, imaging findings, and management. 
  • POCS-based reconstruction of multiplexed sensitivity encoded MRI (POCSMUSE): A general algorithm for reducing motion-related artifacts. 
  • Patient preferences of cosmesis for abdominal incisions in gynecologic surgery. 
  • Patient-based Performance Assessment for Pediatric Abdominal CT: An Automated Monitoring System Based on Lesion Detectability and Radiation Dose. 
  • Pediatric abdominal CT angiography. 
  • Pediatric thoracoabdominal biomechanics. 
  • Perfusion and function at rest and treadmill exercise using technetium-99m-sestamibi: comparison of one- and two-day protocols in normal volunteers. 
  • Pharmacokinetics and tissue penetration of cefoxitin in obesity: implications for risk of surgical site infection. 
  • Postoperative Abdominal Adhesions: Clinical Significance and Advances in Prevention and Management. 
  • Postoperative Pulmonary Complications, Early Mortality, and Hospital Stay Following Noncardiothoracic Surgery: A Multicenter Study by the Perioperative Research Network Investigators. 
  • Predicting the Risk of Postoperative Respiratory Failure in Elective Abdominal and Vascular Operations Using the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) Participant Use Data File. 
  • Preoperative enoxaparin versus postoperative semuloparin thromboprophylaxis in major abdominal surgery: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Principles and applications of a dynamically focused phased array real time ultrasound system. 
  • Progress in MR imaging of the venous system. 
  • Prospective assessment of quality of life in ovarian cancer patients receiving whole abdomen hyperthermia and liposomal doxorubicin. 
  • Prospective estimation of organ dose in CT under tube current modulation. 
  • Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy. Clinical experience in twenty-five patients. 
  • Quantifying Image Quality Improvement Using Elevated Acoustic Output in B-Mode Harmonic Imaging. 
  • Quantifying the Effect of Abdominal Body Wall on In Situ Peak Rarefaction Pressure During Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging. 
  • RNA interference targeting hypoxia inducible factor 1α reduces post-operative adhesions in rats 
  • Real-time MRI motion estimation through an unsupervised k-space-driven deformable registration network (KS-RegNet). 
  • Recovery of the fetal electrocardiogram for morphological analysis from two trans-abdominal channels via optimal shrinkage. 
  • Relationship between reduced lower abdominal blood flows and heart rate in recovery following cycling exercise. 
  • Reperfusion injury is reduced in skeletal muscle by inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase. 
  • Respiratory effects in two-dimensional Fourier transform MR imaging. 
  • Respiratory motion artifact affecting hepatic arterial phase MR imaging with gadoxetate disodium is more common in patients with a prior episode of arterial phase motion associated with gadoxetate disodium. 
  • Selection factors for local excision or abdominoperineal resection of early stage rectal cancer. 
  • Separation of Thoraco-Omphalo-Ischiopagus Conjoined Twins: Surgical Planning, Management, and Outcomes. 
  • Simultaneous Photoacoustic Imaging and Cavitation Mapping in Shockwave Lithotripsy. 
  • Small lymph nodes of the abdomen, pelvis, and retroperitoneum: usefulness of sonographically guided biopsy. 
  • Sources of image degradation in fundamental and harmonic ultrasound imaging: a nonlinear, full-wave, simulation study. 
  • Spatial coherence in human tissue: implications for imaging and measurement. 
  • Sphincter preservation in rectal cancer. Local excision followed by postoperative radiation therapy. 
  • Spike aftercurrents in R15 of Aplysia: their relationship to slow inward current and calcium influx. 
  • Study of Spinal Cord Substructure Expansion Margin in Esophageal Cancer. 
  • Symptom complaints and health care seeking behavior in subjects with bowel dysfunction. 
  • Symptoms and outcome measures of pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Technical note: Controlling the attenuation of 3D-printed physical phantoms for computed tomography with a single material. 
  • The Impact of Acoustic Clutter on Large Array Abdominal Imaging. 
  • The Trials and Tribulations of Assembling Large Medical Imaging Datasets for Machine Learning Applications. 
  • The clinical and metabolic effects of rapid weight loss in obese pet cats and the influence of supplemental oral L-carnitine. 
  • The effect of sarcopenia on perioperative complications in abdominally based free-flap breast reconstruction. 
  • The immune response of the human brain to abdominal surgery. 
  • The independent effects of obesity and body fat distribution on blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County study. 
  • The relationship between ionized and total serum magnesium concentrations during abdominal surgery. 
  • The role of CT-guided percutaneous drainage of loculated air collections: an institutional experience. 
  • Three-dimensional spiral CT angiography of the abdomen. 
  • Three-dimensional spiral CT angiography of the abdomen: initial clinical experience. 
  • Transition to post-operative epidural or patient-controlled intravenous analgesia following total intravenous anaesthesia with remifentanil and propofol for abdominal surgery. 
  • Transvaginal endoscopic removal of eroded mesh after abdominal sacral colpopexy. 
  • Tuberculosis of the abdomen. 
  • Ultrasonographic identification of the macrosomic fetus. 
  • Ultrasound and gallium for the diagnosis of abdominal and pelvic abscesses. 
  • Understanding the "Weekend Effect" for Emergency General Surgery. 
  • Urethroplasty with abdominal skin grafts for long segment urethral strictures. 
  • V-Y fasciocutaneous flap closure technique is a safe and efficacious alternative to primary closure of the perineal wound following abdominoperineal resection. 
  • Vascular artifact mimicking thrombosis on MR imaging using ferumoxytol as a contrast agent in abdominal vascular assessment. 
  • Venous filling defects on portal venous phase CT of the abdomen and pelvis: clinical implications and positive predictive value for diagnosing deep venous thrombosis. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology