ectasia

07 Which of the following findings could indicate corneal ectasia based on the Pentacam images shown?

Duct ectasia (peri-ductal mastitis or dilated ducts associated with inflammation) occurs in 5-9% of non-lactating women (13).

Tubular ectasia of the rete testis: a potential pitfall in scrotal imaging.

Usually there is no pain and the discharge caused by ectasia can be creamy, brown, grey or green.

It might be inferred that the risk of corneal ectasia will increase if the IOP exceed the normal values after the corneal refractive surgery.

Keratoconus was first described as a noninflammatory ectasia. On the contrary, multiple recent studies published evidence that highlight a possible inflammatory etiology [8-11] marked through the presence of proinflammatory cytokines such as IL-6, IL-1 beta, IFN gamma, and TNF alpha in the tear film of keratoconus patients.

Waltenberger, "Novel insights into an old controversy: Is coronary artery ectasia a variant of coronary atherosclerosis?" Clinical Research in Cardiology, vol.

Coronary artery ectasia (CAE) is characterized by abnormal dilatation of a localized or diffuse segment of epicardial coronary arteries, and its presence results in alterations in blood flow and stasis, predisposing to adverse coronary events [2].

Histologic evaluation with hematoxylin and eosin stain demonstrated diffuse gallbladder wall thickening with lymphatic ectasia (Figure 5).

This revealed massive ectasia and aneurysmal dilatation of the right coronary artery, left main artery, left anterior descending artery, and circumflex arteries, as seen in Figure 1.

Despite being first described in 1953, gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) was more clearly defined in 1984 by Jabbari et al.

Histologically, the lesion is represented by a cavernous hemangioma, with venulo-capillary ectasia, most frequently involving the small intestine and the descending colon.

Ductal Ectasia Plasma cell mastitis Subareolar granuloma Periductal mastitis 4.

has marked the one year anniversary of the US commercial availability of Photrexa Viscous (riboflavin 5'-phosphate in 20% dextran ophthalmic solution) and Photrexa (riboflavin 5'-phosphate ophthalmic solution), the drugs used in corneal cross-linking with the KXL System, for the treatment of progressive keratoconus and corneal ectasia following refractive surgery, the company said.

Mural organizing thrombosis with lamination may be seen along with vascular muscular degeneration and ectasia (Figures 1 and 2).