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Can positron emission tomography–computed tomography-based three target lesions' total lesion glycolysis predict therapeutic response in Hodgkin Lymphoma?

Universally maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) are used as tools for response assessment in Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) patients. Our objectives are to evaluate the predictive...

Authors: Hend Yehia Ali, Shaimaa Abdelsattar Mohammad, Ali Hagag Ali, Ahmed Mohamed Monib and Mennatallah Hatem Shalaby

Radiographic–histopathologic correlation case report of a benign intraductal papilloma upstaged to invasive lobular carcinoma

Intraductal papilloma is a common breast lesion that may be associated with malignancy. While there is general agreement regarding surgical excision of intraductal papilloma with atypia, the management of beni...

Authors: Mariam Hanna, Peter Vonu, Ruth Asirvatham, Lisa Spiguel and Irina Gruzinova

Prediction of the relationship of cesarean section scar niche and postmenstrual spotting: is there any relation?

Postmenstrual spotting has recently been related to a discontinuation of the myometrium at the site of a previous cesarean section called "CS scar niche". There was no consensus regarding the gold standard met...

Authors: Kirollos Wagdy Bandry, Hisham Abou-Taleb, Gehan S. Seifeldein, Mohamad Gaber Taha and Omran Khodary Qenawy

Qualitative and quantitative strain and shear wave elastography paradigm in differentiation of breast lesions

Breast cancer is the most common life-threatening cancer in women worldwide. A high number of women are going through biopsy procedures for characterization of breast masses every day and yet 75% of the pathol...

Authors: Roaa M. A. Shehata, Mostafa A. M. El-Sharkawy, Omar M. Mahmoud and Hosam M. Kamel

Neuroimaging findings in hospitalized patients with COVID-19

Variable neuroimaging findings have been reported in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In addition to respiratory symptoms, many neurologic manifestations of COVID-19 are increasingly reported...

Authors: Ahmed Abdelzaher, Mohammad AlQatam, Lamyaa Alsarraf, Mohamed H. Beheiri, Shehata Farag Shehata and Nermeen A. Elsebaie

Effectiveness of virtual teaching of diagnostic and interventional imaging fundamentals to Egyptian medical students: an analytical cross-sectional study

There is a worldwide deficit in teaching and training in the field of radiology for undergraduate medical students. This educational gap is prominent in many medical schools as most radiology curricula are a p...

Authors: Ahmed S. Negm, Ahmed Elhatw, Mohamed Badawy, Meredith L. Gioe, Sana Khan, Mahmoud F. Hammad, Nada Shalaby, Ferial Choucair, Mariam Ahmed Saad, Amany Elfeel, Mariam Elbatal, Florentino Saenz, Mostafa Ahmed Shehata, Parth Patel, Muhammad Aly, Islam Khalifa…

Contribution of advanced neuro-imaging (MR diffusion, perfusion and proton spectroscopy) in differentiation between low grade gliomas GII and MR morphologically similar non neoplastic lesions

Non-neoplastic brain lesions can be misdiagnosed as low-grade gliomas. Conventional magnetic resonance (MR) imaging may be non-specific. Additional imaging modalities such as spectroscopy (MRS), perfusion and ...

Authors: Mohamed Saied Abdelgawad, Mohamed Hamdy Kayed, Mohamed Ihab Samy Reda, Eman Abdelzaher, Ahmed Hafez Farhoud and Nermeen Elsebaie

The role of MR venography with time-resolved imaging in diagnosis of pelvic congestion syndrome

Pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS) represents a diagnostic challenge due to its variable clinical presentation, complex anatomy, and pathophysiology. Accurate delineation of the venous anatomy, detection of veno...

Authors: Noha M. Attia, Mohamed AbuDeif Sayed, Hossam ElDin Galal Mohamed and Mahmoud Ahmed AbdelAleem

The rising burden of invasive fungal infections in COVID-19, can structured CT thorax change the game

The occurrence of invasive fungal infections in COVID-19 patients is on surge in countries like India. Several reports related to rhino-nasal-sinus mucormycosis in COVID patients have been published in recent ...

Authors: Roopak Dubey, Kamal Kumar Sen, Sudhansu Sekhar Mohanty, Sangram Panda, Mayank Goyal and Sreedhar Mohan Menon

The diagnostic value of digital breast tomosynthesis with complementary ultrasound in comparison with magnetic resonance imaging in assessment of postoperative changes and locoregional recurrence of breast cancer

Digital breast tomosynthesis with complementary ultrasound is a powerful imaging modality in detection of breast cancer. Magnetic resonance imaging has many limitations due to its low specificity multiple pitf...

Authors: Mai M. K. Barakat, Eman K. A. E. Mohamed, Lobna A. E. Habib and Mortada Elsayed Ahmed

The F-18 FDG PET/CT evaluation of the metastatic adrenal lesions of the non-lung cancer tumors compared with pathology results

The aim of this study was to evaluate the role of F-18 FDG PET/CT imaging in the diagnosis of primary and metastatic adrenal tumors that originate from non-lung cancer primary tumors.

Authors: Zehra Pınar Koç, Pınar Pelin Özcan, Emel Sezer, Kadir Eser and Tuba Kara

Teaching radiology in Egyptian medical schools: Where do we stand and how can we start?

Radiology serves in the diagnosis and management of many diseases. Despite its rising importance and use, radiology is not a core component of a lot of medical school curricula. This survey aims to clarify cur...

Authors: Mohamed Badawy, Scott Rohren, Ahmed Elhatw, Ahmed S. Negm, Amr Ahmed, Islam Khalifa, Mostafa Ahmed Shehata, Yara ElHefnawi, Florentino Saenz, Serageldin Kamel, Mariam Ahmed Saad, Mohamed Ismael Fahmy, Sammar Ghannam, Abdelrahman Abusaif, Mohamed Yasser Hussein, Mariam Elbatal…

Agreement between low-dose and ultra-low-dose chest CT for the diagnosis of viral pneumonia imaging patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic

Chest CT scan has an important role in the diagnosis and management of COVID-19 infection. A major concern in radiologic assessment of the patients is the radiation dose. Research has been done to evaluate low...

Authors: Hooman Bahrami-Motlagh, Yashar Moharamzad, Golnaz Izadi Amoli, Sahar Abbasi, Alireza Abrishami, Mehdi Khazaei, Amir H. Davarpanah and Morteza Sanei Taheri

Diagnostic accuracy of double inversion recovery (DIR) in detection of cortical gray matter lesions in patients with MS

Conventional imaging techniques have a low sensitivity for detection of cortical and deep grey matter lesions in MS which hinder accurate assessment of the total lesion burden. Aim of this work was to assess t...

Authors: Mahmoud M. Higazi, Hosny Sayed Abd El Ghany, Alaa Wagih Fathy, Muhammad Mamdouh Ismail and Manal F. Abu Samra

Negative renal angiography with subsequent denied angioembolization: findings in a series of 180 patients at a tertiary interventional uroradiology unit

Renal arterial embolization (RAE) is considered to be a safe and effective method for treating a variety of renal lesions and pathology. It is the optimal method not only to stop bleeding, but to preserve rena...

Authors: Hashim Mohamed Farg, Mohamed Mohamed Elawdy, Karim Ali Soliman, Mohamed Ali Badawy, Ali Elsorougy, Tarek Mohsen, Tarek El-Diasty and Abdalla Abdelhamid

Diffusion tensor imaging of dorsal stream language areas in patients with post-stroke aphasia

Aphasia complicating stroke occurs due to language deficits that decrease communication abilities and functional independence. Our study aims to assess fractional anisotropy (FA) and mean diffusivity (MD) para...

Authors: Azza Elmongui, Ahmed AbdelRazek, Tamer Abou-Elsaad, Tamer Belal, Noha Ibrahim and Eman Alnaghy

Cystic retroperitoneal metastasis from testicular seminoma, radiologically mimicking as lymphangioma

Retroperitoneal nodal metastasis in a primary testicular tumor is not uncommon and usually presents as solid or solid-cystic nodal masses. A completely cystic appearance with fluid attenuation or fluid signal ...

Authors: Biswajit Sahoo, Mahesh Sultania, Shilpy Jha, Ranjan Kumar Patel and Alamelu Alagappan

Correlation between the initial CT chest findings and short-term prognosis in Egyptian patients with COVID-19 pneumonia

The recent pandemic of COVID‐19 has thrown the world into chaos due to its high rate of transmissions. This study aimed to highlight the encountered CT findings in 910 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia in Egypt...

Authors: Mohamed Mohamed Hefeda, Dalia Ezzat Elsharawy and Tamer Mahmoud Dawoud

Brain magnetic resonance imaging surface-based analysis and cortical thickness measurement in relapsing remission multiple sclerosis

Damage occurs in the brain tissue in MS which appears normal on standard conventional imaging (normal appearing brain tissue). This slow, evolving damage can be monitored by nonconventional advanced MR imaging...

Authors: Michael Baghdadi, Manal Ezzat Badwey, Mohamed Khalil and Rasha Mahmoud Dawoud

The value of inflow inversion recovery MRI for the diagnosis of transplant renal artery stenosis: comparison with digital subtraction angiography

To date, few data on the assessment of transplant renal artery stenosis (TRAS) by using inflow inversion recovery (IFIR) are available. The aims of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of IFIR in the ass...

Authors: Hongxia Li, Guangrui Shao, Yuan Zhao and Hai Zhong

Imaging spectrum of acquired uterine vascular abnormalities with angiographic correlates, a pictorial review

Acquired uterine arterial anomalies, including uterine artery pseudoaneurysms (UAP), arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) and arteriovenous fistulae (AFVs), are rare presenting causes of abnormal uterine bleedin...

Authors: Laiba Masood, Atif I. Rana, Zahid A. Khan, Saman Nosheen, Haider Ali and Jamshed Anwar

Improvement prostate cancer detection rate of suspicious lesions through MRI/TRUS fusion guided biopsy by a multiteam of radiologists

The objective of our study was to analyze the data of our biopsies, determine a detection rate (DR), compare it with the data in the literature and draw possible deductions, so as to offer the patient the poss...

Authors: Nicolò Fiorello, Andrea Mogorovich, Andrea Di Benedetto, Daniele Summonti, Carlo Tessa, Laura Turturici, Andrea Mannini, Michele Bellucci, Claudio Vignali and Carlo Alberto Sepich

Role of portal color Doppler ultrasonography as noninvasive predictive tool for esophageal varices in cirrhotic patients

Esophageal varices (EV) is the most common apprehensive complication of portal hypertension in patients with cirrhotic liver. Guidelines recommend Upper gastro-intestinal endoscopic screening for EV in patients w...

Authors: Mohamed Alaa ELdin Nouh, Mohamed Kamel Abd-Elmageed, Amany Abas Mohamed Amer and Moamena Said ELhamouly

Is combined MDCT and echocardiography needed to guarantee accuracy in diagnosis and surgical planning of DORV and associated anomalies?

The term of Double-outlet right ventricle (DORV) is used to describe a spectrum of complex congenital cardiac malformations where anomalies of the ventriculo-arterial alignment are noted where both great arter...

Authors: Samira Saraya, Yousra Mahmoud Ahmad, Ragab Hani Donkol, Hazem Hamed Soliman, Reem Ibrahim Ismail, Mahmoud Saraya and Iman Hamdy Ibrahim

Radiological manifestations of benign mesenteric lipoma that presented with acute intestinal obstruction: A case report

Intestinal obstruction is a common surgical emergency that is presented to the hospital with various aetiologies. Among all, mesenteric lipoma is one of the uncommon extraluminal causes of intestinal obstructi...

Authors: David Eng Yeow Gan, Wei Woon Teng, Theva Darshini Surenthiran, Chiak Yot Ng and Firdaus Hayati

Performance evaluation of digital mammography, digital breast tomosynthesis and ultrasound in the detection of breast cancer using pathology as gold standard: an institutional experience

Mammography is the primary imaging modality for diagnosing breast cancer in women more than 40 years of age. Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), when supplemented with digital mammography (DM), is useful for i...

Authors: Pranjali Joshi, Neha Singh, Gaurav Raj, Ragini Singh, Kiran Preet Malhotra and Namrata Punit Awasthi

Correction to: Role of magnetic resonance imaging on fingers in diagnosis of post-traumatic tendon and ligament injuries

Authors: Hayam Abdelmonsif Abdellatif, Mohammed Abd El Aziz Maaly, Belal Said Hefny Ibrahim Soltan and Mohammed Shawky Abduallah

Assessment of superior cavo-pulmonary anastomoses (Glenn shunt) by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in comparison with multi-slice computed tomography

Multi-slice computed tomography (MSCT) angiography is the gold standard imaging modality to evaluate the patency of Glenn shunt and the presence of veno–veno collaterals. The goal of this study is to evaluate ...

Authors: Marwa Ali Gamal El-Deen, Ahmed Samir Ibrahim, Emad H. Abdeldayem, Remon Zaher Elia and Soha Romeih

Value of ultrasound in grading the severity of sarcopenia in patients with hepatic cirrhosis

Ultrasound is emerging as an efficient significant method for measuring muscle mass in patients with liver cirrhosis. It has been applied in numerous studies as an accurate measuring tool for the muscles of th...

Authors: Nevien Ezzat El-Liethy and Heba Ahmed Kamal

Tissue stiffness in BPH patients from magnetic resonance elastography

BPH is commonly found in older men which can lead to lower urinary tract symptoms. Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) is an innovative, noninvasive imaging technique used to evaluate tissue stiffness. There...

Authors: Chalida Aphinives, Watcharaphon Kiatsayompoo, Kulyada Eurboonyanun, Prin Twinprai and Saranya Jaruchainiwat

Automated quantification of COVID-19 pneumonia severity in chest CT using histogram-based multi-level thresholding segmentation

Chest computed tomography (CT) has proven its critical importance in detection, grading, and follow-up of lung affection in COVID-19 pneumonia. There is a close relationship between clinical severity and the e...

Authors: Hazem Abuzeid Yousef, Ehab Mansour Mohmad Moussa, Mohamed Zidan Mohamed Abdel-Razek, Maha Mohamed Said Ahmed El-Kholy, Lamiaa Hasan Shaaban Hasan, Alaa El-Din Abdel-Moneim El-Sayed, Medhat Araby Khalil Saleh and Mohamed Karim Mahmoud Omar

Multidisciplinary approach of teaching radiology to medical students in Egypt: Is this an effective method?

In multidisciplinary education, different perspectives from more than one discipline are used to illustrate a certain topic. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an online, multidisciplin...

Authors: Yasmeen Nabhani, Victoria K. Xie, Mohamed Badawy, Rehan Karim, Umayma Abdullatif, Ahmed S. Negm, Hrishabh Bhosale, Scott Rohren, Ahmed Elhatw, Sammar Ghannam, Abdelrahman Abusaif, Mazzin Elsamaloty, Nada Shalaby, Ferial Choucair, Islam Khalifa, Mariam Ahmed Saad…

Role of PET/CT in initial evaluation of lymphoma patients

Accurate radiologic assessment of treatment response in lymphoma patients is important to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment and consequently predict the relapse; the value of PET/CT for post-treatment pr...

Authors: Manar Mohamed Naguib, Samer Malak Botros, Amir Louis Louka and Rasha S. Hussein

Diagnosis of adult ALCAPA with computed tomography coronary artery

Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare congenital anomaly where the left main coronary artery arises from the pulmonary artery, instead of the coronary sinus of the ascendi...

Authors: Yew Eng Tan, Kok King Chia and Noor Khairiah Abdul Karim

FDG PET/CT in follow UP patients with colorectal carcinoma after adjuvant chemotherapy

18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is a method of imaging that assesses and measures metabolic avidity in cancer cells, acting as a proxy for underl...

Authors: Remon Zaher Elia, Rafik Abdelazem Elbastawessy, Hanaa Abdelkader Abdelmgeguid and Ahmed Mohamed Bassiouny

Assessment of venous Doppler ultrasound findings of acute unilateral lower limb swelling in a tertiary facility in central Ghana: a retrospective analytical study

Unilateral lower limb swelling has wide differential diagnoses with varying treatment plans, requiring an early and accurate diagnosis. Doppler ultrasound offers an extensive examination of the vascular system...

Authors: Emmanuel Kobina Mesi Edzie, Klenam Dzefi-Tettey, Edmund Kwakye Brakohiapa, Philip Narteh Gorleku, Frank Naku Ghartey, Adu Tutu Amankwa, Peter Appiah-Thompson, Michael Kofi Amedi, Ewurama Andam Idun, Madison Adanusa, Obed Cudjoe, Evans Boadi, Joshua Mensah Kpobi, Frank Quarshie, Richard Ato Edzie and Abdul Raman Asemah

A rare cause of postpartum vaginal bleeding

Invasive mole is a trophoblastic disease (GTD) caused by trophoblast cells invading the myometrium during pregnancy. The GTD range also includes mole hydatidiform, choriocarcinoma, and placental site trophobla...

Authors: Oğuzhan Tokur, Sonay Aydın, Erdem Fatihoğlu and Fatma Dilek Gökharman

Non-functional urinary bladder paraganglioma with negative Ga-DOTA-NOC PET/CT uptake

Paraganglioma of the urinary bladder is a very rare benign tumor that constitutes less than 0.5% of all bladder tumors. It can be functional and non-functional. Functional tumors present with symptoms of catec...

Authors: Linda Kalliath, D. Karthikeyan, Banumathi Ramakrishna, Gokul Kripesh and Nivedita Chandran

Comparison between subtraction and dynamic MRI in assessing treatment response following radiofrequency ablation in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide, and if left untreated, one of the most lethal. Ablative therapies including radiofrequency ablation (RFA) play increasingly import...

Authors: Ahmed Elshenawy Gabr, Hisham S. Wahba Mikhael and Samar M. El-Maadawy

FDG avid cerebellar atypical meningioma masquerading as solitary brain metastases in a recently diagnosed breast malignancy: a toss between MR and CT

SUV Max is a glycolytic index obtained from PET imaging, relates to tumour cell proliferation. FDG uptake (i.e. SUV max) is found to be high in aggressive tumours and is used to identify malignant from benign ...

Authors: Shanmuga Sundaram Palaniswamy and Padma Subramanyam

Bilateral subdiaphragmatic kidneys with right-sided renal malrotation

The subdiaphragmatic kidney is a positional variant of the uncommon cephalad renal ectopia, whereas renal malrotation refers to the anomalous renal hilar position. Both anomalies are rare, possibly under-repor...

Authors: Al Shaimaa Fathi Elshetry

Do automated breast ultrasound and tomosynthesis have an effective role in dense breast evaluation?

Mammography plays a great role in reducing breast cancer mortality as it is the standard method of breast imaging and screening. But the accuracy of mammography performance reduces in cancer detection in women...

Authors: Engy A. Ali, Fatma Saeed and Lamiaa Adel

CT perfusion for response evaluation after interventional ablation of hepatocellular carcinoma: a prospective study

Computed tomography (CT) perfusion was found to be useful in assessing treatment response in a variety of cancers through the evaluation in the arterial perfusion changes. We investigated the performance of CT...

Authors: Mohamed Fouad Osman, Islam H. Shawali, Lamiaa I. A. Metwally, Ahmed Hosni Kamel and Mohamed El Sherbiny Ibrahim

Hepatic adrenal rest tumor in a patient with multifactorial liver cirrhosis: a case report with CT and MRI findings and pathologic correlation

Adrenal rest tumor is an ectopic collection of adrenocortical cells in an extra-adrenal site, more frequently located around the kidney, retroperitoneum, spermatic cord, para-testicular region and broad ligame...

Authors: Piero Boraschi, Francesca Turini, Francescamaria Donati, Francesca Peruzzi, Annamaria Bartolucci, Niccolò Roffi, Piero Colombatto and Lucio Urbani

Role of magnetic resonance imaging on fingers in diagnosis of post-traumatic tendon and ligament injuries

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is a powerful method for evaluating acute and chronic lesions of the stabilizing articular elements (volar plate and collateral ligaments) of the fingers and thumbs, the conditi...

Authors: Hayam Abdelmonsif Abdellatif, Mohammed Abd El Aziz Maaly, Belal Said Hefny Ibrahim Soltan and Mohammed Shawky Abduallah

Use of diffusion-weighted imaging and diffusion tensor imaging in assessment of myometrial invasion in patients of endometrial carcinoma and its correlation with histopathological grading (Prospective study)

Endometrial cancer (EMC) is considered one of the most common gynecological cancers worldwide. In particular, the depth of myometrial invasion and histological grade of endometrial cancers (EMCs) are strong pr...

Authors: Mahmoud Abdel-Latif and Hebatullah Safwat Mosaad

Radio Frequency MRI coils and safety: how infrared thermography can support quality assurance

The safety controls in Resonance Magnetic Imaging (MRI) diagnostic site are numerous and complex. Some of these are contained in international directives and regularly conducted by medical physics expert after...

Authors: Barbara Testagrossa, Elisa Ruello, Sergio Gurgone, Lucia Denaro, Carlo Sansotta, Francesca Maria Salmeri and Giuseppe Acri

Stroke, spinal cord ischemia and upper limb ischemia in patients undergoing TEVAR with coverage of the left subclavian artery: a case series study

We performed routine spinal fluid drainage for patients who underwent TEVAR for thoracic aortic pathology together with left subclavian artery coverage, which was needed for achievement of a safe proximal seal...

Authors: Mohamed Abd El-Monem Abd El-Salam Rizk, Mohamed Ismail Mohamed Ismail and Kareem Sabry Gohar

FDG-PET/CT in predicting aggressiveness of rectal cancer

Treatment response varies significantly among rectal cancer patients. Tumor can show complete regression, stationary appearance, or even tumour progression during the treatment. It is also widely known that th...

Authors: Iman Sherif Ahmed, Saher Mohamed El Gaafary, Remon Zaher Elia and Rasha S. Hussein

Utility of shear wave ultrasound elastography in evaluation of testicular stiffness in patients with varicocele

Testicular varicocele is the most frequent cause of male infertility. The study aimed at evaluation of testicular stiffness in patients with varicocele measured by shear wave ultrasound elastography (SWE) in c...

Authors: Ahmed Tohamy Ahmed