A Systematic Review of Double Low-dose CT Pulmonary Angiography in Pulmonary Embolism.
CONCLUSION: This review shows that double low-dose CTPA is feasible in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism with significant reductions in both radiation and contrast medium doses, without compromising diagnostic image quality.
PMID: 32008552 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Three Dimensional Analysis of SPECT Images for Diagnosing Early Parkinson's Disease using Radial Basis Function Kernel - Extreme Learning Machine.
CONCLUSION: The proposed system has a great potential to assist the clinicians in the early diagnosis process of PD.
PMID: 32008553 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Brain Structural Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Joint Independent Component Analysis in Schizophrenic Patients.
CONCLUSION: These results strongly support previous studies regarding brain volume in schizophrenic patients. The connection networks in frontal and temporal lobes evidently did not differ between normal participants and schizophrenia patients.
PMID: 32008554 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
The Diagnostic Value of CT-guided Percutaneous Co-axial Trans-thoracic Biopsy (PCTTB) and Evaluation of the Pathologic Examination.
CONCLUSION: CT-guided PCTTB is a safe method to utilize for lung biopsies. Co-axial method increased the diagnostic accuracy of CT-guided percutaneous trans-thoracic biopsies. A single cut also decreased the complication rates.
PMID: 32008555 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Nodule Size Effect on Diagnostic Performance of Ultrasonography and Computed Tomography for Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.
CONCLUSION: Our results showed that US detected calcifications and predicted the malignancy of all nodule sizes of thyroid papillary carcinoma equally well, while the performance of CT declined with the reduction of nodule size.
PMID: 32008556 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Comparison Between Computed Tomography Angiography and Digital Subtraction Angiography in Critical Lower Limb Ischemia.
CONCLUSION: Multidetector CT angiography was found to be a reliable alternative mean for pathoanatomical description of the arterial lesions in critical lower limb ischemia and its subsequent management in comparison to digital subtraction angiography.
PMID: 32008557 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
MRI Combined with Magnetic Resonance Cholangiopancreatography for Diagnosis of Benign and Malignant Pancreatic Intraductal Papillary Mucinous Neoplasms.
CONCLUSION: MRI combined with MRCP is useful in the evaluation of the benign and malignant pancreas IPMN.
PMID: 32008558 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Carotico-vertebral Doppler Ultrasonography in Patients with Idiopathic Vertigo.
CONCLUSION: We concluded that a decrease in the right CCA were linked with higher VSS-SF scores and increasing vertigo symptoms. Whereas, a decrease in the left CCA area and left crabial blood supply are more important related to the left hemispheric dominance in right-handed people. Moreover, an increase in the intima media thickness was also detected in the vertigo patients and it probably causes a decrease in the central blood flow.
PMID: 32008559 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Tuberculous Tenosynovitis of the Wrist: A Report of Two Cases with Special Reference to Magnetic Resonance Findings.
CONCLUSION: This article presents the cases of two patients with wrist tuberculous tenosynovitis and the respective MRI findings. It also includes a literature review.
PMID: 32008560 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Diffusion Tensor Imaging in Preclinical and Human Studies of Huntington's Disease: What Have we Learned so Far?
CONCLUSION: Diffusion tensor imaging can be related to specific structural anomalies in specific cellular populations. However, some differences between animal and clinical studies could derive from the contrasting neuroanatomy or connectivity across species. Such differences should be considered before generalizing preclinical results into the clinical practice. Moreover, current limitations of this technique to accurately represent complex multicellular events at the single micro scale are real. Future work applying complex diffusion models should be considered.
PMID: 32008561 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Curre...
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Impact of Diabetes Mellitus on Radiological Presentation of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Otherwise Non-Immunocompromised Patients: A Systematic Review.
CONCLUSION: While there is no difference in localization of lung lesions between patients with diabetes and non-diabetes, our review found that the risk of cavitary disease is relatively higher in diabetes patients. It is essential for researchers to unify the criteria for diabetes diagnosis, patient selection, and radiographic severity and stratify the results by the potentially confounding factors.
PMID: 32008562 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
An Intensity Variation Pattern Analysis Based Machine Learning Classifier for MRI Brain Tumor Detection.
CONCLUSION: From the analysis, it is observed that the proposed IVPA-WML techniques provide the better results compared than the existing techniques.
PMID: 32008563 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Visualization of Cartilage from Knee Joint Magnetic Resonance Images and Quantitative Assessment to Study the Effect of Age, Gender and Body Mass Index (BMI) in Progressive Osteoarthritis (OA).
CONCLUSION: The developed methods can be used as helping tool in the assessment of cartilage degradation in OA affected knee joint patients and treatment planning.
PMID: 32008564 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Surgical Clips in Breast-conserving Surgery: Do they Represent the Tumour Bed Accurately?
CONCLUSION: A clip displacement of greater than 10 mm was found in 64.5% of cases on MLO views. Therefore, we believe that the reliability of these clips for accurate delineation of the tumour bed in radiotherapy planning is controversial and other methods must be added.
PMID: 32008565 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
Schwannomas of Uncommon Peripheral Locations: Analysis of Imaging Findings of 21 Cases.
CONCLUSION: In this study, we present clinical findings and MRI characteristics of schwannomas with a rare localization involving the peripheral, lower and upper extremity and intramuscular regions.
PMID: 32008566 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews)
Source: Current Medical Imaging Reviews - February 6, 2020 Category: Radiology Tags: Curr Med Imaging Rev Source Type: research
