1481 Is Imaging for the Evaluation of Anosmia Really Necessary?

Abstract Aim Although it is rare for anosmia to be caused by olfactory lesions, it is commonplace for some form of imaging to be undertaken to investigate olfactory loss in patients. This study aimed to identify the pick-up rate of pathology in patients who had an isolated complaint of anosmia. Method We undertook a retrospective study over a 2-year period between 2018 to 2020 in a teaching hospital. The cases were identified using the hospital radiology database for patients referred for CT or MRI of their head or sinuses due to anosmia. Patients referred with symptoms other than olfactory loss were excluded. Results Out of the 132 scans undertaken in this period, 52 were included with 47 being MRI scans. There were 5 (10%) patients who had intracranial pathology identified and these were all on MRI scans. Only 2 (4%) cases had actual olfactory tract-related abnormalities. This included absent olfactory bulbs and a soft tissue lesion within the region of the olfactory apparatus. Conclusions This study suggests a 4% pick up rate of olfactory tract-related pathology which demonstrates some value when investigating anosmia. However, with the large number of scans that do not alter management and the ever-increasing burden on our health system, large scale studies are needed to develop an evidence-based risk stratification approach.

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Cardiovascular Disease Risk Stratification in Wrist Wearable Devices and e-Health App Users: A Large-Scale Retrospective Study

Telemedicine Journal and e-Health ◽

10.1089/tmj.2021.0347 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Erdong Chen ◽

Jie Jiang ◽

Jing Zhou ◽

Hui Wang ◽

Guangxin Sun ◽

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Keyword(s):

Cardiovascular Disease ◽

Retrospective Study ◽

Risk Stratification ◽

Large Scale ◽

Disease Risk ◽

Cardiovascular Disease Risk ◽

Wearable Devices

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Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumour in Antimesenteric Border of Descending Colon of Children: A Case Report

Journal of Paediatric Surgeons of Bangladesh ◽

10.3329/jpsb.v3i1.23908 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 47-50

Author(s):

Shahnoor Islam ◽

AKM Amirul Morshed ◽

Afiqul Islam

Keyword(s):

Soft Tissue ◽

Spindle Cell ◽

Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumour ◽

Pathological Findings ◽

Soft Tissue Lesion ◽

Soft Tissue Tumours ◽

Inflammatory Pseudotumour ◽

Erythrocyte Sedimentation ◽

Antimesenteric Border

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour (IMT) occurring at intraabdominal sites in children has rarely been described. Inflammatory pseudotumour is a soft tissue lesion that may be confused with a sarcoma. It is abbreviated as IMT. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour, also known as soft tissue tumours, atypical fibromyxoid tumours, pseudosarcomatous fibromyxoid tumour, plasma cell granuloma, pseudosarcomatous myofibrotic proliferation, post-operative spindle cell nodules. In this paper, we describe a case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour (IMT) with an unusual constellation of clinical, pathological findings. A 10-year-old girl had an 7-cm intraabdominal mass accompanied by severe anemia, fever, constipation, weight loss, thrombocytosis, elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Laparotomy was performed. The final pathologic diagnosis was IMT. At the most recent follow up (12months) after excision of the tumour, the patient was symptom-free and there was no evidence of tumour recurrence.J. Paediatr. Surg. Bangladesh 3(1): 47-50, 2012 (January)

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Soft-tissue changes after Class II malocclusion treatment using the Sander bite-jumping appliance: a retrospective study

Minerva Stomatologica ◽

10.23736/s0026-4970.19.04197-9 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michele Tepedino ◽

Maria V. Della Noce ◽

Domenico Ciavarella ◽

Patrizia Gallenzi ◽

Massimo Cordaro ◽

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Keyword(s):

Retrospective Study ◽

Soft Tissue ◽

Class Ii ◽

Class Ii Malocclusion ◽

Tissue Changes ◽

Soft Tissue Changes

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Risk stratification of systemic reactions to subcutaneous immunotherapy: A retrospective study

Allergy and Asthma Proceedings ◽

10.2500/aap.2019.40.4238 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (5) ◽

pp. 338-342 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sonam Sani ◽

Ratika Gupta ◽

Luz Fonacier ◽

Marcella Aquino

Keyword(s):

Retrospective Study ◽

Risk Stratification ◽

Subcutaneous Immunotherapy ◽

Systemic Reactions

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Implications of Laboratory Tests in Disease Grading and Death Risk-Stratification of COVID-19: A Retrospective Study in Wuhan, China

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3722066 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yang Bai ◽

Enxin Wang ◽

Shoujie Zhao ◽

Jing Li ◽

Yejing Zhu ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Retrospective Study ◽

Risk Stratification ◽

Laboratory Tests ◽

Death Risk

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Editorial on “Grading Soft Tissue Involvement in Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Using Network and Survival Analyses: A Two‐Center Retrospective Study”

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging ◽

10.1002/jmri.27552 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Eric K. van Staalduinen

Keyword(s):

Retrospective Study ◽

Soft Tissue ◽

Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma ◽

Survival Analyses ◽

Soft Tissue Involvement

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Categories of intrauterine growth retardation

Fetal and Maternal Medicine Review ◽

10.1017/s0965539500000899 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 203-212 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Roger A Fay ◽

David A Ellwood

Keyword(s):

Soft Tissue ◽

Fetal Growth ◽

Gestational Age ◽

Growth Retardation ◽

Large Scale ◽

Intrauterine Growth Retardation ◽

Low Birthweight ◽

Ponderal Index ◽

Intrauterine Growth ◽

Different Types

Originally all low birthweight infants were considered to be premature. When prematurity was redefined in terms of gestational age (SGA) and not preterm. With the large scale collection of obstetric data the distributions of birthweight at different gestational ages were described and from these, infants who were SGA could be defined. SGA became synonymous with terms such as growth retardation, but it soon became appearent that the two were not necessarily interchangeable. Scott and Usher found that it was the degree of soft tissue wasting rather than birthweight that related to poor perinatal outcome. Miller and Hassanein stated that: “birthweight by itself is not a valid measure of fetal growth impairment”. They used Rorher’s Ponderal Index (weight (g) × 100/length (cm)) to diagnose the malnourished or excessively wasted infants with reduced soft tissue mass. Most studies of intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) still use low birthweight for gestational age centile as their only definition of IUGR or only study infants who have a low birthweight. Altman and Hytten expressed disquiet about this definition and stated: “There is now an urgent need to establish true measures of fetal growth from which deviations indicating genuine growth retardation can be derived” and that “it is particularly important that some reliable measures of outcome should be established”. In large series of term deliveries published recently, two groups of IUGR infants with different growth patterens have been identified. These studies confirm that birthweight alone is inadequate to define the different types of IUGR. They established that low Ponderal Index (PI) is a measure of IUGR associated with an increased incidence of perinatal problems and that it is time to re-evaluate IUGR in terms of the different types of aberrant fetal growth.

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