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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Andrea Ponsiglione, Arnaldo Stanzione, Gaia Spadarella, Agah Baran, Luca Alessandro Cappellini, Kevin Groot Lipman, Peter Van Ooijen, Renato Cuocolo
Summary: The overall methodological rigor of radiomics studies in the ovarian field is not ideal, with a lack of prospective design and formal validation of results. This limits the reproducibility of results and potential translation to clinical setting.
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Igino Simonetti, Piero Trovato, Vincenza Granata, Carmine Picone, Roberta Fusco, Sergio Venanzio Setola, Mauro Mattace Raso, Corrado Caraco, Paolo A. Ascierto, Fabio Sandomenico, Antonella Petrillo
Summary: Interval metastasis is a specific type of lymph node metastasis in patients with melanoma. Imaging techniques such as ultrasound, CT, MRI, lymphoscintigraphy, and PET are used for evaluation. Understanding these methods and collaborating with clinicians are essential for treatment and survival.
JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
(2022)
Review
Oncology
Trinh Nguyen, Priya R. Bhosale, Lorena Cassia, Venkateswar Surabhi, Sanaz Javadi, Andrea Milbourne, Silvana C. Faria
Summary: With the increasing average age of pregnancy and the use of prenatal fetal noninvasive screening techniques, more cases of cancer are being diagnosed in pregnant women. This poses complex challenges in terms of imaging, diagnosis, staging, and treatment, requiring specialized interdisciplinary management. This report discusses the use of multimodality imaging and safety considerations, reviews current guidelines for ionizing radiation imaging techniques, and presents diagnostic imaging guidelines for common and uncommon cancers in pregnancy.
Review
Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Laura E. Mantella, Kiera Liblik, Amer M. Johri
Summary: Atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease that can lead to cardiovascular complications. Imaging techniques play a crucial role in identifying and quantifying atherosclerotic burden. Recent advances in microvascular imaging have proven to be important in atherosclerosis research.
Review
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Trinh Nguyen, Akshya Gupta, Shweta Bhatt
Summary: Lymphomatous involvement of the genitourinary system, particularly the kidneys, is often underestimated and underreported on conventional diagnostic imaging. This is due to its variable imaging appearance and overlapping features with other conditions. By presenting a spectrum of typical and atypical appearances of renal lymphoma using multimodality imaging, this article highlights the importance of imaging in the detection, diagnosis, staging, and surveillance of patients with lymphoma.
INSIGHTS INTO IMAGING
(2022)
Review
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Ting Duan, Han-Yu Jiang, Wen-Wu Ling, Bin Song
Summary: Hepatic dysfunction represents a wide range of pathological changes that are often clinically silent until advanced stages. There is a need to identify affected patients at early stages for individualized intervention. Current passive liver function tests provide limited information, while imaging techniques have great potential for noninvasive assessment of hepatic dysfunction.
WORLD JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY
(2022)
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Molly E. Roseland, Man Zhang, Elaine M. Caoili
Summary: A high level of clinical suspicion is necessary in diagnosing and managing suspected adrenal masses during pregnancy and the peripartum period. However, concerns and confusion about the safety risks of imaging examinations and radiation exposure have led to anxiety and avoidance of these exams, potentially delaying diagnosis and treatment.
REVIEWS IN ENDOCRINE & METABOLIC DISORDERS
(2023)
Review
Medicine, General & Internal
Katarzyna Rutka, Adam Garkowski, Katarzyna Karaszewska, Urszula Lebkowska
Summary: Systemic sclerosis is a connective tissue disease characterized by fibrosis in skin and internal organs, vascular obliteration, and autoantibody production. Diagnostic imaging plays a crucial role in diagnosing and monitoring patients, with MRI and ultrasonography being important tools in the evaluation process.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
(2021)
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Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Sevtap Tugce Ulas, Katharina Ziegeler, Sophia-Theresa Richter, Sarah Ohrndorf, Robert Biesen, Fabian Proft, Denis Poddubnyy, Torsten Diekhoff
Summary: This study compared the performance of dual-energy CT and CT subtraction in detecting arthritis, with CT-S having the highest diagnostic accuracy. Both iMap and MRI showed good correlation and interreader reliability. Musculoskeletal ultrasound remains the most available modality for arthritis imaging and served as the gold standard in this study.
EUROPEAN RADIOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Oncology
Patricia Pinto, Andrea Burgetova, David Cibula, Ingfrid S. Haldorsen, Tereza Indrielle-Kelly, Daniela Fischerova
Summary: For advanced-stage ovarian cancer, maximal-effort debulking surgery is recommended. The role of imaging is to provide a systematic and structured preoperative report on tumor dissemination, with special emphasis on key sites affecting resectability in ovarian cancer surgery. While imaging methods cannot reliably detect small volume carcinomatosis, they are highly effective in detecting bulky disease at critical sites for cytoreduction, making them useful in avoiding unnecessary explorations.
Review
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Ali Pirasteh, Petra Lovrec, Lisa Bodei
Summary: Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are complex tumors occurring in various organs, often metastatic at diagnosis. Accurate staging is crucial for therapy planning. Imaging plays a key role in disease detection, diagnosis, staging, and follow-up, with various techniques developed and optimized to assess and monitor tumor burden in patients with NETs.
REVIEWS IN ENDOCRINE & METABOLIC DISORDERS
(2021)
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Oncology
Laura Maria Cacioppa, Federico Crusco, Francesco Marchetti, Michele Duranti, Matteo Renzulli, Rita Golfieri
Summary: Imaging findings play a crucial role in early and accurate identification of ovarian dysgerminoma. MRI has been proven to be superior to CT in characterizing adnexal masses, and specific imaging features can help differentiate dysgerminomas from other ovarian neoplasms.
Review
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging
Giulio Cocco, Andrea Delli Pizzi, Raffaella Basilico, Stefano Fabiani, Alessio Lino Taraschi, Luca Pascucci, Andrea Boccatonda, Orlando Catalano, Cosima Schiavone
Summary: Gallbladder metastasis is a rare condition often diagnosed late, with melanoma being the most common primary tumor; clinical presentation includes abdominal pain from cholecystitis due to cystic duct obstruction; diagnosis usually requires a combination of multiple imaging modalities for early detection.
INSIGHTS INTO IMAGING
(2021)
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Medicine, General & Internal
Francesca Buonomo, Clarice de Almeida Fiorillo, Danilo Oliveira de Souza, Fabio Pozzi Mucelli, Stefania Biffi, Federico Romano, Giovanni Di Lorenzo, Sofia Bussolaro, Giuseppe Ricci
Summary: This paper discusses a case of uterine artery pseudoaneurysm, emphasizing the importance of color Doppler ultrasound in diagnosis and guiding interventional procedures, and reviews the selection principles for manipulators used in gynecological surgeries.
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Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems
Kevin R. An, Charles de Mestral, Derrick Y. Tam, Feng Qiu, Maral Ouzounian, Thomas F. Lindsay, Harindra C. Wijeysundera, Jennifer C-Y Chung
Summary: This study found poor adherence to guideline-directed imaging surveillance following ATAAD repair, while long-term mortality and reinterventions rates remained high. Further research is needed to determine if guidelines should be modified.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY
(2021)
