Objectives: The purpose of our study was to assess the role of multi slice computed tomography (CT) in the evaluation of patients with blunt injury abdomen and describe the frequency, type of injury to visceral organs and aid in accurate management of the patients. Subjects And Methods: The study included 31 patients suspected of blunt abdominal injury referred from emergency unit of PESIMSR, Kuppam. All the patients subjected to contrast enhanced multi slice (CT) in axial cuts and images are transferred to workstation then coronal and sagittal reconstruction obtained . Data included were age, sex, mode of injury and scan results. Organs injures were graded according to AAST organ injury scale guidelines. Results: There were 26 male and 6 female patients having blunt injury abdomen. Majority of the patients between the age group of 18 to 40. Most common mode of injury was road trafc accident (RT). Most commonly injured organ was spleen (18) followed by liver (17) followed by kidney injury (10). Hemoperitoneum is seen in most of the individuals (27). Pelvic bone fracture was seen in 6 patients,rib fracture seen in 5 patients and spinal fracture seen in 3 patients. Pancreatic body contusion was seen in one individual. Paralytic ileus and pneumoperitoneum seen in one each. Vascular injury was seen in 7 patients with IVC thrombus (1 patient) and portal vein thrombus (1 patient). Adrenal hematoma was seen in 4 patients. Conclusion: Contrast enhanced multi slice CT is a useful modality in identifying organ injury in blunt injury abdomen. Most commonly involved organ being spleen, liver and kidney. Majority of the trauma is due to RTA.

Background: Infertility is a major problem throughout the world. In a country like India, it is associated with a social stigma. The cause can be multifactorial and many couples are seeking medical help for infertility nowadays. As part of the female infertility workup, hysterosalpingography plays an important role. Methods And Material: A retrospective study was done in the department of Radiodiagnosis of a rural tertiary care hospital, India. All patients who were referred for hysterosalpingography study as part of infertility workup between January 2018 and December 2020 to the department of Radiodiagnosis were included in the study. Results: A total of 173 patients are included in the study. Out of these 173 patients, 3 women had repeat Hysterosalpingography studies. 43.2% of these studies are abnormal. 56.8% cases showed normal ndings. Tubal abnormalities were the most common accounting for 34.6% of the total studies. Uterine abnormalities were seen in 6.8% of the total studies. Both fallopian tube and uterine abnormalities were seen in 1.7%. Post-operative follow-up imaging was available for 3 patients. All three patients had a bilateral tubal block in the rst study and showed tubal patency in post recanalization HSG study. Conclusion: Hysterosalpingography is a lesser invasive procedure, cost-effective, and does not require anesthesia compared to laparoscopy. This is a huge advantage, especially in a rural setup. It can be considered as a screening investigation along with an ultrasound examination. Tubal blockage is the most common abnormality accounting for nearly one-third of the causes of infertility in our study. Tuberculosis should always be ruled out as a cause of tubal blockage in India where it is more prevalent.

Objective: The purpose of our study was to assess the role of Multidetector Computerized tomography in the evaluation of maxillofacial fractures and to describe the frequency and types of fractures that underwent CT scans. Subjects And Methods: The study included 50 patients suspected of facial trauma referred from the emergency unit from PESIMSR ,Kuppam. All patients were subjected to non contrast MDCT in axial cuts and images are transferred to workstation then coronal and sagittal reconstruction obtained. Results: There were 37 male and 13 female patients. The maximum number of patients fall into 21-40 years followed by 41 to 60 years .50 patients had total 170 fractures. It was found that the maxillary sinus is the most common to be fractured (found in 24 cases) followed by nasal bone (18) , zygomatic arch (17), mandible (13) ,greater wing of sphenoid (9), sphenoid sinus (8), frontal sinus (7) ,pterygoid plates (7), bony nasal septum (6) ,ethmoid sinus (3).Among complex facial fractures orbital fractures are the most frequent (found in 47 cases), followed by zygomatico-maxillary junction fractures (4) ,Tripod fractures( 4) , and Naso-orbito-ethmoid region fractures (3). Conclusion: Maxillofacial trauma is one of the most common emergency requiring accurate and early diagnosis. MDCT is useful diagnostic tool for the identication and classication of maxillofacial region fractures and aiding in surgical planning.

Introduction Trigeminal neuralgia is a neuropathic pain that occurs in the sensory supply region of the trigeminal nerve (V cranial nerve). The common etiology of trigeminal neuralgia is said to be vascular compression on the trigeminal nerve root. In our day-to-day practice, we see many asymptomatic patients having vascular loops around the trigeminal nerve root. We undertook this study to see the significance of nerve root compression by the vascular loop as a cause for trigeminal neuralgia. Materials and methods A total of 67 classical trigeminal neuralgia patients with NVC involving the trigeminal nerve as diagnosed on MRI brain sequences including FIESTA sequence were included in the study. NVC in all the patients were studied for the side, site of neurovascular contact of cisternal segment of the trigeminal nerve from the brainstem, deviation of nerve at NVC, atrophy of nerve, nature and origin of vascular loop causing NVC and correlated with TGN symptoms. Results Out of 67 patients studied, all of them (100%) had NVC on ipsilateral side and 26 patients (34%) had NVC at contralateral trigeminal nerve. Incidence of trigeminal neuralgia was most commonly seen between the 41 and 60 years age (64%) followed by 61–80 years with mean age of 55.6 years. Incidence in females (64%) was found to be more common than in males (35%). NVC was observed at the root entry zone (< 7 mm from brain stem) in 63 trigeminal nerves on symptomatic side and 5 trigeminal nerves on the asymptomatic side. NVC occurring at REZ on symptomatic side was found to be statistically significant with P < 0.001. Mean distance of NVC from brain stem at symptomatic side was 3.4 mm and was 8.4 mm in asymptomatic side NVCs. Atrophy was seen in 8 trigeminal nerves, all on symptomatic side and NVC occurring at root entry zone. No displacement of nerve root at the point of neurovascular contact was observed in our study. Most common vessel causing was found to be ipsilateral superior cerebellar artery followed by the ipsilateral anterior inferior cerebellar artery. Conclusions Neurovascular contact of trigeminal nerve occurring at the nerve root entry zone has a strong association with ipsilateral trigeminal neuralgia symptoms. In addition, the presence of the trigeminal nerve thinning is also associated with ipsilateral trigeminal neuralgia. With the increase in age, there are higher chances of association of NVC with ipsilateral trigeminal neuralgia symptoms.