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Added value of contrast-enhanced spectral mammogram in assessment of suspicious microcalcification and grading of DCIS

Breast microcalcifications are one of the most difficult mammographic findings to assess. The purpose of this study is to assess the ability of contrast-enhanced spectral mammography in the assessment of suspi...

Authors: Ola Magdy Mohamed Shetat, Amr Farouk Ibrahim Moustafa, Sara Zaitoon, Mohamed Ibrahim Ibrahim Fahim, Ghada Mohamed and Mohammed Mohammed Gomaa

The diagnostic accuracy of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging and shear wave elastography in comparison to dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI for diagnosing BIRADS 3 and 4 lesions

Breast cancer is one of the leading causes of female morbidity and mortality. Management options vary between lesions of BIRADS categories 3 and 4. Therefore, reliable differentiation would improve outcome. Al...

Authors: Rasha Wessam Abdel Rahman, Reham Mohammed Abd ElHai Refaie, Rasha Mohammed Kamal, Shaimaa Farouk Lasheen and Dalia Salaheldin Elmesidy

Added value of diffusion-weighted MRI in assessment of pleural lesions

There are many causes of pleural disease including variable benign and malignant etiologies. DWI is a non-enhanced functional MRI technique that allows qualitative and quantitative characterization of tissues ...

Authors: Youssriah Yahia Sabri, Ikram Hamed Mahmoud, Lamis Tarek El-Gendy, Mohamed Raafat Abd El-Mageed and Sally Fouad Tadros

Contrast-enhanced spectral mammography: successful initial clinical institute experience

Contrast-enhanced spectral mammography (CESM) is a relatively newly developed advanced application with modification of digital mammography by the use of a contrast agent, but still has little known efficacy a...

Authors: Nivine Abdel Moneim Chalabi, Amal Amin AbuElMaati and Momena Essam Ibrahim Elsadawy

Additive value of magnetic resonance neurography in diagnosis of brachial plexopathy: a cross-section descriptive study

Management of brachial plexopathy requires proper localization of the site and nature of nerve injury. Nerve conduction studies and electrophysiological studies (ED) are crucial when diagnosing brachial neurop...

Authors: Sara Mohamed Mahmoud Mabrouk, Hossam Abd El Hafiz Zaytoon, Ashraf Mohamed Farid and Rania Sobhy Abou Khadrah

Intracranial calcification in venous congestion

Intracranial calcification is a common finding on brain imaging which can be non-specific. The calcification can be physiological or pathological. Likewise, subcortical calcification is a non-specific finding ...

Authors: Hairuddin Achmad Sankala and Hilwati Hashim

Role of diffusion-weighted MRI in diagnosis and post therapeutic follow-up of colorectal cancer

The colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the deadliest cancers in the world. Local tumor stage, vascular or lymphatic invasion, and tumor grade are essential for accurate management. The main imaging modality for...

Authors: Mina Sameh Sabry, Amany Emad Eldeen Rady, Gamal Eldeen Mohamed Niazi and Susan Adil Ali

Comparison of ^99mTc-PSMA SPECT/CT and ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA PET/CT in patients with prostate cancer: a protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis

A wide range of nuclear imaging probes have been developed to address different metabolic processes and cell receptors in prostate cancer patients using positron emission techniques to aid diagnosis, staging, ...

Authors: Garba Haruna Yunusa, Aminu Umar Kaoje, Akintunde Taiwo Orunmuyi, Stuart S. More, Zabah Muhammad Jawa and Abdullahi Khalid

Herniation of ureter: a rare cause of hydroureteronephrosis

Omentum and bowel loops are commonly seen in inguinal hernia. An unusual case of extraperitoneal herniation of ureter was detected in hernial sac with other contents, on computed tomography (CT) urography.

Authors: Preeti Gupta, Pankaj Sharma, Vinay Maurya and Mukul Bhatia

Role of multislice computed tomography 3D volumetric analysis in the assessment of the therapeutic response of hepatocellular carcinoma after transarterial chemoembolization

Volumetric analysis is a novel radiological technique used in the measurement of target lesions in three dimensions in order to estimate the lesion’s volume. Recently, it has been used for evaluation of the re...

Authors: Mohamed Fouad Osman, Ahmed Shawky Ali Farag, Haney Ahmed Samy, Tamer Mahmoud El-Baz and Shaima Fattouh Elkholy

Axillary lymph node status in BIRADS 4-5 female patients: can shear wave and strain ultrasound elastography help?

The status of axillary nodes is a determining factor of management and prognosis for patients having a recent diagnosis of breast cancer. Axillary nodes are usually evaluated by ultrasonography (US) and biopsy...

Authors: Dalia Salaheldin Elmesidy, Menna Allah Gaber Ahmed Mohamed Eissa, Soha Talaat Hamed, Omar Zakaria Youssef, Omnia Mokhtar Nada and Lamiaa Mohamed Bassam Hashem

Bilateral proptosis: an unusual primary presentation of scurvy—a case report

Scurvy is a nutritional vitamin C deficiency disease which shows classical signs on radiographs most commonly along long bones with subperiosteal hemorrhage being a classical finding. Primary presentation of s...

Authors: Damini S., Rashmi Dixit, Tamanna Khullar and K. Rajeshwari

Axillary fibromatosis with radiological-pathological correlation: a case report and literature review

The term fibromatosis refers to a spectrum of soft tissue tumors resulting from the unbridled proliferation of fibroblasts, with high infiltrative power. It is a rare neoplasm, with an incidence of about 3 cas...

Authors: Flávia Sprenger, Sofia Tokars Kluppel, Valmir Vicente Filho, Ana Carolina Staats, Raul Alberto Anselmi Junior and Maria Helena Louveira

Impact of lung-RADS classification system on the accurate diagnosis of pulmonary nodular lesions in oncology patients

Lung assessment is highly recommended in the management of oncology patients as it is the commonest affected site in metastatic dissemination. The low-dose CT with nodule reporting system based on Lung Reporti...

Authors: Hoda Abdel Kareem Ahmed and Mohamed FarghalyAmin

Breast involvement of hematological malignancies: imaging and clinical findings

Breast involvement of hematological malignancies is a very rare entity. Accurate diagnosis is essential for appropriate treatment. The aim of this study was to clarify the clinical and radiological findings of...

Authors: Gamze Durhan and Figen Demirkazık

Correlation of primary tumor metabolic parameters with clinical, histopathological and molecular characteristics in breast cancer patients at pre-operative staging FDG-PET/CT study

The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate the correlation of primary tumor metabolic activity parameters; maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) and tumor SUVmax/liver average SUV ratio (TLR) with ...

Authors: Asmaa A. AbdElaal, Ahmed M. Zaher, Marwa I. Abdelgawad, Mohamed A. Mekkawy and Lamiaa M. Eloteify

Fetal imaging of a rare case of dural sinus malformation: a case report

Dural sinus malformations (DSM) are rare congenital anomalies, accounting for less than 2% of all intracranial vascular malformations. Fetal MRI plays an important role in the confirmation of the diagnosis, pr...

Authors: Kavya S. Kaushik, Ullas V. Acharya, Rupa Ananthasivan, Bhavana Girishekar, Priyanka Kalidindi and Pooja G. Patil

Imaging findings and 4 years follow-up of adrenal cavernous hemangioma: a case report

Adrenal hemangioma is a rare and non-functional benign tumor. Since the first case in 1955, approximately 90 cases have been reported in literature frequently presenting as a large and incidentally discovered ...

Authors: Valentina Testini, Laura Eusebi, Willy Giannubilo, Vincenzo Ferrara, Francesco Bartelli and Giuseppe Guglielmi

COVID-19 in Egypt after a year: the first and second pandemic waves from the radiological point of view; multi-center comparative study on 2000 patients

One year has passed since the announcement of COVID-19 as a pandemic and two waves had already stricken Egypt. The authors witnessed several atypical radiological features through the second pandemic wave, eit...

Authors: Ahmed Samir, Amr Magdy Elabd, Walid Mohamed, Ayman Ibrahim Baess, Rania Ahmed Sweed and Mohamed Saied Abdelgawad

Grading of meningioma tumors based on analyzing tumor volumetric histograms obtained from conventional MRI and apparent diffusion coefficient images

Our purpose was to evaluate the application of volumetric histogram parameters obtained from conventional MRI and apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) images for grading the meningioma tumors.

Authors: Meysam Haghighi Borujeini, Masoume Farsizaban, Shiva Rahbar Yazdi, Alaba Tolulope Agbele, Gholamreza Ataei, Korosh Saber, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini and Razzagh Abedi-Firouzjah

Efficacy of chest X-ray in the diagnosis of COVID-19 pneumonia: comparison with computed tomography through a simplified scoring system designed for triage

There is no consensus on the imaging modality to be used in the diagnosis and management of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. The purpose of this study was to make a comparison between computed to...

Authors: Akın Çinkooğlu, Selen Bayraktaroğlu, Naim Ceylan and Recep Savaş

COVID-19-associated rhino-orbital mucormycosis (CAROM)—a case report

There has been a rapid rise in the number of COVID-19-associated rhino-orbital mucormycosis (CAROM) cases especially in South Asian countries, to an extent that it has been considered an epidemic among the COV...

Authors: Humsheer Singh Sethi, Kamal Kumar Sen, Sudhansu Sekhar Mohanty, Sangram Panda, Kolluru Radha Krishna and Chayasmita Mali

Early CT features of COVID-19 pneumonia, association with patients’ age and duration of presenting complaint

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a respiratory syndrome with a variable degree of severity. Imaging is a vital component of disease monitoring and follow-up in coronavirus pulmonary syndromes. The study of te...

Authors: Reem M. EL Kady, Hosam A. Hassan, Tareef S. Daqqaq, Rania Makboul and Hanan Mosleh Ibrahim

Intrusion of maxillary molar roots into the maxillary sinus in a sample of the Egyptian population using cone beam computed tomography

The proximity of the maxillary sinus floor to the maxillary molar roots increases the probability of oroantral communication on conducting any surgical or endodontic procedure in the involved area. The aim of ...

Authors: Esraa Ahmed Eid, Fatma Mostafa El-Badawy and Walaa Mohamed Hamed

Correlation of clinical staging and MRI staging for cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is a major public health problem for women. Accurate staging may lead to proper management of cervical cancer. We retrospectively reviewed all patients with cervical cancer who underwent pre-tr...

Authors: Supajit Nawapun, Chalida Aphinives, Wiranya Srisitthiprapha, Komsan Thamronganantasakul and Amornrat Temtanakitpaisan

Pulmonary mucormycosis presenting as central bronchopleural fistula—a case report with review of literature

Bronchopleural fistula (BFF) is a fistulous communication between the trachea or bronchus and the pleural space. Central type of bronchopleural fistula is usually post-surgical. Infective cause for central bro...

Authors: Elamparidhi Padmanaban, Preethi Kannan, Umamageswari Amirthalingam, Sudhakar Pitchumani and Padma Rekha

Endovascular management of middle cerebral artery aneurysms (single-center case series study)

Middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms were usually subjected to treatment by surgery, while endovascular treatment (EVT) was performed only in chosen patients. We assessed the efficacy, safety, and durability...

Authors: Mostafa Mohamed Mostafa Elian, Ahmed Sayed Ibrahim Issa, Mohamed Ahmed Ibrahim, Osama Abd El Wadood Khalil and Farouk Hassan Youssef

Role of preoperative ultrasound mapping in the surgical management of deep infiltrating endometriosis: a prospective observational study

Endometriosis is a challenging gynecological condition that has a profound influence on the quality of life of affected women. Transvaginal ultrasound is considered the first-line imaging method in preoperativ...

Authors: Samar M. El-Maadawy, Nesreen Alaaeldin and Charles B. Nagy

Can initial chest CT scan predict status and clinical outcomes of COVID-19 infection? A retrospective cohort study

We aimed to investigate the association of initial chest CT scan findings with status and adverse outcomes of COVID-19 (including ICU admission, mortality, and disease severity).

Authors: Iman Abdollahi, Mehrdad Nabahati, Mostafa Javanian, Hoda Shirafkan and Rahele Mehraeen

Small bowel obstruction due to internal herniation through a defect in the falciform ligament: a rare case report and review of the literature

The falciform ligament hernia is a type of internal herniation, caused by a defect in the falciform ligament of the liver. The etiology for this defect may be congenital or iatrogenic, created after the laparo...

Authors: Habib Ahmad Esmat and Mohammad Wali Naseri

Recognition of phrenic paralysis as atypical presentation during CT chest examination of COVID-19 infection and its correlation with CT severity scoring: a local experience during pandemic era

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. COVID-19 infection is considered a multi-system disease with neurological, digestive, and ...

Authors: Emad H. Abdeldayem, Ahmed S. Abdelrahman and Mohamed G. Mansour

Dural carotid-cavernous fistulas: our experience with endovascular management

Indirect carotid-cavernous fistulas (CCF) are dural arteriovenous fistula of the cavernous sinus and generally present with ocular symptoms. High index of clinical suspicion and radiological work up is require...

Authors: Surya Nandan Prasad, Alok Pratap Singh, Vikas Kanaujia, Vivek Singh, Rajendra Vishnu Phadke and Kumudini Sharma

Transverse testicular ectopia with inguinal hernia in an adult—a case report

Transverse testicular ectopia (TTE) is a rare congenital anomaly in which both the testis are in the same hemiscrotum or one testis in the inguinal canal of the same side. It is usually associated with other a...

Authors: Sudhakar Pitchumani, Elamparidhi Padmanaban, Yash Kumar Achantani, Rajasree Dhinadhayalan and Avinesh Varadane

Late presentation of unilateral lung agenesis in adulthood

Pulmonary agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly with a reported prevalence of about 1 in 100,000 births. It may be bilateral or unilateral. Among the unilateral form, left lung agenesis is more common (70%); h...

Authors: Arshed Hussain Parry, Mujahed Abdulsattar Ibrahim Raheem, Hussam Hassan Ismail and Osama Sharaf

Rhino-orbital mucormycosis in COVID-19 patients—a new threat?

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is known to be associated with a myriad of viral, fungal, and bacterial co-infections. Rhino-orbital mucormycosis is a rare angio-invasive fungal infection which has shown a...

Authors: Sandeep Singh Awal, Som Subhro Biswas and Sampreet Kaur Awal

Common computed tomography artifact: source and avoidance

Artifacts have significantly degraded the quality of computed tomography (CT) images, to the extent of making them unusable for diagnosis. The types of artifact that could be used are as follows: (a) streaking...

Authors: Amel F. Alzain, Nagwan Elhussein, Ibtisam Abdallah Fadulelmulla, Amna Mohamed Ahmed, M. E. Elbashir and Badria Awad Elamin

Assessment of interobserver reliability and predictive values of CT semiquantitative and severity scores in COVID lung disease

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and first reported in December 2019 at Wuhan, China, has since then progressed into an ongoing global...

Authors: Dhilip Andrew, Karthik Shyam, Soumya Cicilet and Jovis Johny

A simple chest CT score for assessing the severity of pulmonary involvement in COVID-19

A major role of CT in COVID-19 pneumonia is to assess disease severity and progress. In this study, we aimed to assess the validity, reliability, and survival outcomes of simple chest computed tomography (CT) ...

Authors: Mohamed Abdel-Tawab, Mohammad Abd Alkhalik Basha, Ibrahim A. I. Mohamed and Hamdy M. Ibrahim

Role of CT scan thorax in nCovid19—a case-based review

Most of the morbidity and mortality in nCovid19 is due to pneumonia which can be reduced by early diagnosis and treatment. Chest CT scan plays an important role in the early diagnosis and management of respira...

Authors: Vishnu sharma Moleyar, Anupama Noojibail, Nagaraj shetty I, Harsha D S and Nithish Bhandary M

Lymphangioma of popliteal fossa masquerading as Baker’s cyst

Lymphatic malformations are the second most common vascular malformations after venous malformations. These slow-flow lesions occur most often in the paediatric population and seldom in the extremities. We rep...

Authors: Elamparidhi Padmanaban, Sanika Suryawanshi, Umamageswari Amirthalingam, Thara Keloth and Rintu George

Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor with high-grade features masquerading as tubercular meningitis—a case report

Diffuse leptomeningeal glioneuronal tumor (DLGNT) has been recently described in the literature. The complete neuroimaging spectrum and histopathological characteristics of this entity are yet to be elucidated...

Authors: Sameer Peer, Vivek Murumkar, Karthik Kulanthaivelu, Chandrajit Prasad, Shilpa Rao and Vani Santosh

Detecting COVID-19 in chest images based on deep transfer learning and machine learning algorithms

This study aimed to propose an automatic prediction of COVID-19 disease using chest CT images based on deep transfer learning models and machine learning (ML) algorithms.

Authors: Seyed Masoud Rezaeijo, Mohammadreza Ghorvei, Razzagh Abedi-Firouzjah, Hesam Mojtahedi and Hossein Entezari Zarch

Lung perfusion findings on perfusion SPECT/CT imaging in non-hospitalized de-isolated patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 infection

The aim of this retrospective study is to assess the incidence and type of lung perfusion abnormalities in non-hospitalized patients diagnosed with mild COVID-19 infection after de-isolation. Data from 56 non-...

Authors: Osayande Evbuomwan, Gerrit Engelbrecht, Melissa V. Bergman, Sello Mokwena and Oluwatosin A. Ayeni

Patterns of central nervous system complications of post-hematopoietic stem cell transplant in pediatric oncology patients: a single institute experience

Hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) has been increasingly used in the last few decades, with improved success in offering a cure. CNS complications are an important contributor to morbidity and mortality...

Authors: Samar Ahmed Hussein, Mahmoud Hammad, Amr Abdalla, Khaled Alsheshtawi, Iman Mohamed Zaky and Ayda Youssef

Can intraoperative ultrasound replace the frozen section in the assessment of ex vivo sentinel lymph node biopsy in early breast cancer in countries with limited resources?

Accurate staging and proper management of axillary lymph nodes (ALNs) in breast cancer patients are important for treatment. Surgical management of the axilla has evolved greatly in the last 20 years. Sentinel...

Authors: Rasha Wessam Abdel Rahman, Emad Salaheldin Khallaf, Lamia Adel Salaheldin, Mohamed Nasr Hafez, Mohannad Aly Fayed and Somia Abdulatif Mahmoud Soliman

Correction to: Comparative evaluation of semi-quantitative CT-severity scoring versus serum lactate dehydrogenase as prognostic biomarkers for disease severity and clinical outcome of COVID-19 patients

Authors: Ahmed M. Magdy, Mohammad A. Saad, Ahmed F. El Khateeb, Mona I. Ahmed and Dina H. Gamal El-Din

Role of multidetector computed tomography in evaluation of resectability of pancreatic cancer

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most significant causes and one of the most lethal malignant neoplasms in the world of cancer death in the developed nations. It was named the “silent killer” for its quiet cour...

Authors: Hossam Elsayed Mohammed Azzaz, Mohamed Shawky Abdullah and Rehab Mohammed Habib

Chest CT features of COVID-19 pediatric patients presented with upper respiratory symptoms

An outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection caused by a novel coronavirus began in December 2019 in Wuhan in central China that affect the children and adult and causes respiratory disease. Th...

Authors: Marwa Samy and Lamiaa M. R. Khalaf

Can DWI-MRI be an alternative to DCE-MRI in the diagnosis of troublesome breast lesions?

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) has always been a problem solver in troublesome breast lesions. Despite its many advantages, the encountered low specificity results in unnecessar...

Authors: Lamiaa Mohamed Bassam Hashem, Sherihan W. Y. Gareer, Aya Mohamed Bassam Hashem, Sherihan Fakhry and Yasmin Mounir Tohamey

Cases of thyroid cartilage metastasis as abnormal findings seen in prostate cancer patients visualized by ⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT

⁶⁸Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT is increasingly being used worldwide in prostate cancer patients. Accordingly, there is a pressing need for educational resources on the proper interpretation criteria that need to be used, i....

Authors: Ayman M. Gaber, Rodolfo Núñez and Ebrahim Delpassand