Clinical data of 6 children with retrocaval ureter were retrospectively analyzed.Diagnoses were mainly based on ultrasound-guided high-dose venous urography,computed tomography(CT)or renal dynamic imaging(single photon emission computed tomography).Surgical operation was the optimal treatment of choice,resulting in different improvement in hydronephrosis but no anastomotic stenosis.

BACKGROUND: The abnormal changes of hemorrheologic indexes are closely correlated with vascular injury, disorder of microcirculation, thrombosis and its development.OBJECTIVE: To investigate the changes of 25 indexes of hemorheology and whole hemocytes in patients with acute cerebral infarction.DESIGN: A controlled case study.SETTING: Department of Medical Laboratory, Xinxiang Medical College.PARTICIPANTS: Cerebral infarction group: Totally 127 patients with the first attack of acute cerebral infarction were selected from the Department of Neurology, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xinxiang Medical College from January to December in 2002. The onsetof disease ranged from 4 to 12 hours, and the lesions were confirmed by cranial CT, the diagnostic standard accorded with the diagnostic guidelines for various cerebrovascular diseases formulated by the Fourth National Academic Conference for Cerebrovascular Diseases. Normal control group: Fifty-three healthy physical examinees with normal blood pressure and without diseases of heart,brain and kidney, as well as diabetes mellitus. There were no sigmficant differences in ages and male to femaleratios between the two groups.METHODS: ① Patients in the cerebral infarction group received fibrinogen reduction therapy, they were injected with two pieces of 10 u defibrin on the day of admission, and injected with one piece of 10 u defibrin again on the 3rd, 5th and 7th days respectively. ② Fasting venous blood (5 mL) was drawn with thromboliquine anticoagulated vacuum blood collecting tube,and 2 mL blood was coagulated with EDTA-K2. The whole blood viscosity,whole blood high-sheafing reduction viscosity, whole blood low-shearing reduction viscosity, whole blood high-sheafing relative index, whole blood lowsheafing relative index, equation K value of erythrocyte sedimentation, plasma viscosity, hematocrit, erythrocyte sedimentation, aggregation index of red blood cells (RBC), rigidity index of RBC, deformation index of RBC, counts of while blood cells (WBC) and RBC, mean volume of RBC, mean corpuscular volume (MCV), RBC distribution width (RDW), content of hemoglobin,mean corpuscular hemoglobin content (MCH), mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCHC), platelet count, mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) were detected when the shear rate was 200 s-1, 30 s-1, 5 s-1 and 1 s-1 respectively. ③ The above indexes of the patients with cerebral infarction were detected within 24 hours after attack (exacerbation) and at two weeks after treatment (recovery period) respectively.MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The hemorrheologic and whole hemocyte indexes were compared between the two groups.RESULTS: All of the 127 cases in the cerebral infarction group entered the analysis of results at exacerbation, and 5 of them were not reexamined because of discharge and 122 cases entered the analysis of results at recovery period. All the 53 cases in the normal control group were involved in the analysis of results. ① Except RDW and MCHC, all the other indexes in the patients with cerebral infarction at exacerbation were significantly different from those in the normal control group (P＜0.05, 0.01). As compared with the normal control group, the whole blood low-shearing viscosity, whole blood low-shearing reduction viscosity, whole blood high-sheafing relative index, whole blood low-shearing relative index, plasma viscosity,hematocrit, aggregation index of RBC, WBC count and MCH all returned to normal in the patients with cerebral infarction at recovery period (P＞0.05).② As compared with the exacerbation, the RBC count and MPV were obviously decreased in the patients with cerebral infarction at recovery period (P ＜ 0.05), while the other indexes were similar (P ＞ 0.05).CONCLUSION: Abnormalities of hemorrheologic indexes commonly exist in patients with acute cerebral infarction, which indicates that the abnormalities of hemorrheologic and whole hemocyte parameters may be related to the occurrence of acute cerebral infarction.

Objective:The clinical features,maternal and fetal outcomes and management of pregnant women with uterine malformation during the pednatal period were investigated.Methods:99 pregnant patients with uterine malformation as research group and 100 pregnant patients without uterine malformation as control group were recruited in Peking Union Medical College hospital from January 1 st in 2000 to September 30th in 2008.A retrospective study was done to compare the clinical features,matemal and fetal outcomes in these two groups.Clinical management of pregnancy with uterine malformation.Results:In the research group,the incidence of caesarean section,threatened abortion,preterm rupture of membrane,abnormal presentation,and placenta accrete were higher than those in the control group.The average fetal weight was smaller than that of control group.There were no significant differences in postpartum hemorrhage and perinatal child death in these two groups.Conclusions:Patients with uterine malformations more likely undergo C-section.Postpartum hemorrhage and other pregnant complications should be paid more attention.

Objective To investigate the effects of pediatric subclinical hypothyroidism on bone age and height and their treatment outcome.Methods Ninety-seven children with subclinical hypothyroidism were served as this study group and 80 children with normal thyroid function as control group.Bone age and height were detected.Patients in study group were treated with thyroid hormone replacement therapy.The efficacy and lipid changes were evaluated before and after treatment.Results The height and bone age in patients of study group were (1.31 ± 0.06) m and (8.29 ± 0.35) years,significantly lower than the control group ((1.41± 0.09) m,(10.02 ± 1.45) years; t =13.532,P ＜ 0.001 and t =14.590,P ＜ 0.001).Thyroid-stimulating hormone showed a significant negative correlation with bone age (r =-0.783,P ＜ 0.001).In a total of 97 children with subclinical hypothyroidism,71 cases were cured,24 cases with improvement and 2 cases with ineffective,and the total effective rate was 97.9％.Before treatment total cholesterol ((3.45 ±0.42) mmol/L),low density lipoprotein cholesterol((2.50 ± 0.35) mtmol/L) in the study group were significantly higher than those of control group((3.33 ± 0.26) mmol/L,(2.24 ±0.22) mmol/L;t =4.378,5.103 ;P =0.036,0.002).After treatment,the level of low density lipoprotein cholesterol in children with subclinical hypothyroidism was significantly lower than before treatment((2.34 ±0.36) mmol/L vs (2.50 ±0.35) mmol/L,t =4.389,P =0.033),but there was no significant difference in terms of other parameters.Contusion Children with subclinical hypothyroidism can lead to lower bone age and shorter height and it may also lead to changes in lipid levels.More attention should be paid on this disease and early intervention should be provided.

Objective:To investigate the changes of radiosensitivity and growth features of the surviving progeny from the irradiated bile duct cancer cells.Methods:To cultivate human bile duct cancer cell and the progeny of irradiated bile duct cancer,population doubling time(PDT),plating efficiency(PE),radiosensitivity index SF2 and the detection of bile duct cancer cell lines.Results:The PDT of bile duct cancer was (120.0?2.8)hrs,PE(14.0?0.6)%,SF2 0.62?0.05.The PDT of the irradiated bile duct cancer cells was(152.8?11.2) hrs (t=3.124,P

Objective To evaluate MRI characteristics of solid papillary carcinomas (SPCs) in situ of the breast.Methods A retrospective study included 5 patients with pathologically confirmed SPC in situ was performed.MRI data before operation including conventional MRI,dynamic contrast enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) and DWI were analyzed.Results All the lesions showed iso/hypointensity on T1 FSPGR sequence,iso/hyperintensity on FSE T2WI sequence and STIR sequence.Mass enhancements were observed for all lesions with oval or irregular shapes on DCE-MRI.The margin of lesions were circumscribed,and internal enhancements were homogeneous or heterogeneous.Time intensity curve appeared a rapid increase in initial contrast phases and platform or outflow types in delayed phases.All the lesions on DWI showed slightly hyperintensity with the ADC value range from 1.34 × 10-3 mm2/s to 1.96)× 10-3 mm2/s.Conclusion MRI manifestations of SPC are characteristics,which may provide valuable information to distinguish SPC in situ from other invasive breast carcinomas.

Objective To evaluate MR diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI)and MR perfusion-weighted imaging(PWI) in differentiating benign from malignant soft tissue tumors by comparing the related parameters. Methods Fifty patients with soft tissue tumors verified by pathology( benign 24, malignant 26) underwent DWI and dynamic contrast-enhanced T2 * -weighted PWI. DWI and PWI data of benign and malignant soft tissue tumors were acquired at the workstation and their difference was analyzed with t-test. The diagnostic accordance rate was verified with x2-test. Subjective overall performance of two techniques were evaluated with receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis. Results ADC values of benign and malignant tumors were (2. 03±0. 36) × 10-3 mm2/s, ( 1.52±0. 39) × 10-3 mm2/s,respectively. The signal intensity decrease of them during the first-pass perfusion (SIdecrease ) were ( 13.54 ± 3.37 )%, (47. 57 ± 5. 21 ) % ,respectively. The maximum linearity slope rate of TIC ( SSmax ) of them were ( 5.51 ± 2. 54 ) %, (7.94 ± 3. 33) %, respectively. There were significant differences between benign and malignant tumors of ADC value and SIdecrease ( t = 2. 515,2. 938 ;P < 0. 05 ), while there was no significant difference in SSmax (t = 1. 272,P >0. 05). When the threshold of ADC value was 1. 866 × mm2/s, sensitivity and specificity for determining malignant tumors were 84. 6% (22/26)and 83.3% (20/24). When the threshold of SIdecrease was 40. 33% ,sensitivity and specificity for determining malignant tumors were 88. 5% (23/26)and 75.0% (18/24). In type Ⅰa of TIC,the proportion of benign soft tissue tumor was 3/24 and malignant tumor was 20/26. In type Ⅰb , benign tumor was 14/24 and malignant tumor was 3/26. In type Ⅰc, malignant tumor was 3/26. In type Ⅱ ,benign tumor was 7/24. The diagnostic accordance rate of DWI and PWI were 84. 0% (42/50) and 82. 0% (41/50), respectively. There was no significant difference between them ( x2 = 0. 8, P >0. 05). The accuracies of them were 81.7% , 83. 6% respectively by the area under the ROC curve (AUC). The sensitivity of PWI in diagnosing malignant soft tissue tumors was higher. Conclusions ADC value and SIdecrease are Valllable diagnostic parameters in differentiating benign and malignant soft tissue tumors. The threshold of these parameters for diagnosing malignant soft tissue tumors are 1. 866 × 10-3 mm2/s and 40. 33%, respectively. The type of TIC can help to distinguish malignant tumors from benign tumors, while the SSmax can not. The accuracies of DWI and PWI in the diagnosis of malignant soft tissue tumors are moderate. Compared with DWI, PWI should be selected firstly because of its higher sensitivity in diagnosing malignant tumors.

Objective To evaluate multiple magnetic resonance (MR) imaging techniques in the differentiation of benign and malignant soft tissue tumors by comparing different information from MR perfusion-weighted Imaging (MR-PWI) and 1 HMR spectroscopy (1 H-MRS).Methods Forty patients with soft tissue tumors underwent conventional MR imaging,dynamic contrast-enhanced T2*-weighted MR-PWI and 1 H proton MR spectroscopy.The differences of perfusion and 1 H-MRS parameters of benign and malignant tumors were analyzed with t test.Results There was significant difference between benign and malignant tumoral tissues of BF value and Cho/Cr ratio(t=2.531,2.927,P < 0.05),while BV,MTT,Cho,Cr or Lip peak value were not.TIC was different between benign group (Ib) and malignant group (Ia).When the threshold value of BF was 4.35 ml ·100 mg-1·min-1,sensitivity and specificity for determining malignant tumors were 81.8%(18/22),72.2%(13/18),respectively.When the threshold value of Cho/Cr ratio was 3.22,Sensitivity and specificity for determining malignant tumors were 86.4% (19/22),88.9% (16/18),respectively.The abnormal wave crest is detected at 2.0-2.1ppm in 5 malignant tumors (2 malignant schwannoma and 3 malignant fibrous histiocytoma),while the other 35 cases were not.Conclusion The BF value and Cho/Cr ratio were both valuable diagnostic parameters in differentiating benign and malignant soft tissue tumors.TIC was helpful to distinguish malignant tumors from benign tumors,while the sensitivity and specificity of 1 H-MRS in diagnosing malignant soft tissue tumors were both higher.