Current Medical Imaging - Volume 18, Issue 7, 2022

Shoulder pain is an extremely common condition. The painful shoulder may be the result of a wide spectrum of underlying pathological conditions, including calcific tendinopathy of the rotator cuff, subacromial-subdeltoid bursitis, acromioclavicular or glenohumeral arthritis, tenosynovitis of the long biceps tendon, rotator cuff lesions, and many other less common conditions. Ultrasound imaging is an effective tool for the diagnosi Read More

Radiology has undeniably played a pivotal role in the COVID-19 pandemic. Radiologists as well as radiographers have relentlessly put their best foot forward in serving the people. Till date there are relatively few articles which describe the A-to-Z role of radiology in COVID pandemic and what a radiologist must know, suggest and report in such times. This article is a comprehensive narrative Review article with pictorial illustration Read More

Background: Seizure control (SC) is often poor in cases of magnetic resonance imaging- negative epilepsy after resection surgery. Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of depth-electrode-guided stereotactic radiofrequency thermocoagulation (RFTC) applied to the amygdalohippocampal complex (AHC) for the treatment of patients with MRI-negative medial temporal lobe epilepsy. Methods: A total o Read More

Background: Dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) plays an important role in cardiac perfusion and functional clinical exams. However, further applications are limited by the speed of data acquisition. Objective: A low-rank plus sparse decomposition approach is often introduced for reconstructing dynamic magnetic resonance imaging (dMRI) from highly under-sampling K-space data. In this paper, the reconstruction Read More

Objective: To investigate the role of whole-brain volume computed tomography (CT) perfusion in assessing early ischemic cerebrovascular diseases. Materials and Methods: Seventy-two patients with early ischemic cerebrovascular diseases who had undergone routine CT scan and 320-row volume CT whole-brain perfusion imaging within 8 h after admission were retrospectively enrolled in this one-center case-sectional Read More

Objective: This study aimed at exploring the impact of patient-related, vessel-related, image quality-related and cardiovascular risk factors on coronary computed tomographic angiography (CCTA) interpretability using 256-detector row computed tomography (CT). Methods: One hundred ten patients who underwent CCTA and Invasive Coronary Angiography (ICA) were consecutively, retrospectively enrolled from January 2 Read More

Background: Since the emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), several journals have established a dedicated resource center for all the articles published on COVID-19. Our study compared the altmetric impact captured by articles published in journals having a COVID-19 resource center. Methods: We used the Web of Science database to assess radiology journals publishing the most common articles on C Read More

Background and Aim: The study aims to investigate the feasibility of further radiation dose reduction via the application of a high iodine delivery rate combined with automatic current modulation technology (high noise index) in head and neck computed tomography angiography. Methods: Sixty-four patients who underwent routine head and neck computed tomographic angiography were randomly divided into two groups: Read More

Background: Klippel-Trénaunay-Syndrome (KTS) is characterized by a triad of varicose veins, port-wine stain and soft tissue or bony hypertrophy, and the diagnosis of KTS can be made if any two of these three features are present. Hemangiomas in various locations, e.g., skull, brain, epidural and vertebral hemangioma, mediastinal, colonic hemangioma, intraneural/intramuscular hemangiomas, are reported with KTS. Case Pr Read More

Background: Cardiac tumors have heterogeneous and unspecific clinical presentations which is why their diagnosis is difficult. Case Report: A middle-aged woman presented to the emergency department with unspecific symptoms developing over 2 weeks. Multimodality imaging revealed a large mass filling the left atrium with a large base adherent to the fossa ovalis and flow obstruction. After surgical extraction, the anat Read More

Background: Mycosis fungoides (MF) is the most common form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma with many clinicopathological variants, thus difficult to diagnose in its early stages. Case Presentation: This case report is about a 76 years old Chinese woman presented with 2 years history of erythematous plaque on the lateral right thigh; after combining clinical manifestations with results of pathological examinations, it is con Read More

Background: Anti-synthetase syndrome is a rare autoimmune disorder characterized by autoantibodies against aminoacyl-tRNA-synthetases. Inflammatory myopathy and interstitial lung disease could be present among other manifestations. Anti-Jo-1 is the most common antisynthetase antibody and is the most likely to present with the classic triad (interstitial lung disease, myositis, and arthritis), and includes more muscl Read More

Background: Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia remains a matter of concern. Chest CT findings of COVID-19 pneumonia have been reported widely, while there is relatively rare research on chest X-ray (CXR). Objective: The study was aimed to compare the CXR and chest CT findings of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection and to explore their respective clinical values. Methods: 28 inpatients with CO Read More

Objective: The objective of the study is to determine the role of Lateral Pterygoid Muscle LPM in the articular disc displacement ADD, which is considered controversial due to the variations in the pattern of insertion of the Superior Lateral Pterygoid Muscle SPLM. Background: It is well understood that the superior head of the lateral pterygoid muscle has only a single insertion pattern among individuals, in which the mu Read More