Current Medical Imaging - Volume 19, Issue 6, 2023

Malignancy, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, accounts for 9.6 million deaths in 2018. Around 1 out of 6 deaths are the direct result of the malignancy. Clinicians claim that age and breast density are two preliminary factors increasing the risk of cancer. The mortality rate brought about by malignant growth in low and high income countries is, for the most part, around 70%. Imaging techniques play a vital role in th Read More

Background: In recent years, Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has received more attention in the field of medical imaging, which leads to cognitive disorders. Physicians mainly rely on MRI imaging to examine memory impairment, thinking skills, judge functional abilities, and detect behavioral abnormalities for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. Objective: Early diagnosis of AD has become a challenging and strenuous task with co Read More

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy and the second most common cause of death in women worldwide. Axillary lymph node metastasis (ALNM) is the most significant prognostic factor in breast cancer. Under the current guidelines, sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the standard of axillary staging in patients with clinically-node negative breast cancer. Despite the minimally invasive nature of SLNB, i Read More

Background: Primary breast lymphoma (PBL) is a rare malignant breast tumor. The literature concerning PBL ultrasound is based primarily on case reports, with only a few cases reported to date. Purpose: This study aimed to elucidate the sonographic characteristics of PBL and explore the value of ultrasonography in the preoperative diagnosis of PBL using the Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System (BI-RADS). Methods: Read More

Background: This study is focused on establishing a relationship between poor muscle activity faced by obese individuals due to the change in stiffness of the intramuscular mass of the lower limb. This issue is also common among athletes and physically active teenagers. Objective: The study is aimed at a subject assessment diagnosis technique named as Strain Elastography (SE) to measure muscle strain. Further, Finite Read More

Objective: Accurate preoperative prediction of sinonasal inverted papilloma (SNIP) malignant transformation is essential and challenging. In this study, 3.0T magnetic resonance was used for qualitative, quantitative, and multi-parametric analysis to evaluate the predictive value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in malignant transformation. Methods: The data of patients with SNIP (n=83) or SNIP-transformed squamous c Read More

Background: Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a common cranial nerve disease. Objective: To investigate the relationship between the trigeminal nerve and the responsible blood vessel in patients with unilateral vascular trigeminal neuralgia (VTN). Methods: Thirty patients with unilateral VTN were confirmed by microvascular decompression. Results: Among the 30 patients, the responsible blood vessels were present in 30 cases on t Read More

Background: Colorectal cancer is a malignancy that affects the gastrointestinal tract. Clinical diagnosis has routinely been done with colonoscopy in conjunction with digital rectal and histological examinations. Objective: We show that CT, MRI, and MRI-DWI are all effective in T-staging colorectal adenocarcinoma when compared to pathology examination. However, differences in the detection and diagnostic agreement rates bet Read More

Objective: To investigate the effect of mesioangular impaction of the mandibular third molars on distal caries and distal bone loss (DBL) in the adjacent mandibular second molars to provide a basis for prophylactic impacted third molar extraction. Methods: We retrospectively analyzed panoramic radiographs of 736 patients with mesioangularly impacted mandibular third molars at the Department of Stomatology, Shan Read More

Background: The most common etiology of shoulder pain in adults is rotator cuff tear. Elastography is an imaging method that can report the strain and elastic modulus of the biological tissue. We think acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI) elastography can effectively assess rotator cuff tendinopathy. Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the usefulness of ARFI elastography in evaluating supraspinatus tendinopathy. Ma Read More

Background: Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) is a disorder of eye movements caused by a lesion involving the medial longitudinal fasciculus (MLF) within the brainstem, and it is characterized by adduction impairment combined with contralateral dissociated abduction nystagmus. The frequency of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) presenting with INO as a predominant symptom is very low, and many patients suffering from t Read More

Background: Splenosis refers to the autotransplantation of splenic tissue in a heterotopic location throughout different anatomic compartments, such as the peritoneal and pelvic cavities and even the thoracic cavity. Intrahepatic splenosis is very rare and usually mistaken for a neoplasm. The lack of typical radiological features makes it difficult to distinguish splenosis from liver tumors. Case Report: A 33-year-old female patient Read More

Introduction: Limited experience exists regarding the clinical features of focal lipogranuloma inflammation of the lung, and there are no supporting guidelines for the diagnostic approach. Case Description: We present the case of a 20-year-old man who was found to have a pulmonary nodule with a smooth margin during a health examination. He underwent wedge resection of the left lower lung to achieve a tissue diagnosis; t Read More

Background: Benign lesions cause ovarian torsion more commonly than malignant ovarian tumors. Further, Krukenberg tumors have rarely been reported to cause ovarian torsion. Case Presentation: Herein, we present the case of a patient with an incidentally discovered ovarian mass, which was finally diagnosed as a Krukenberg tumor accompanying ovarian torsion with primary stomach cancer. We further review the clinical Read More

Introduction: Hemangioblastomas are highly vascular benign tumors that may increase in size during pregnancy. The concurrence of cerebellar hemangioblastoma in high-risk pregnancy is extremely rare and the treatment in this situation can be challenged. Case: Here, we report a case of a 30-year-old woman in the 33rd PW who had experienced a severe headache, dizziness, vomiting, and limb weakness. Cesarean sectio Read More

Background: Fetal ultrasonographic evaluation is a routine part of pregnancy follow-up, and examination of orbital structures is also part of the routine evaluation. Although orbital developmental anomalies are common in the neonatal period, diagnosis in the intrauterine period is not common. To our knowledge, three cases with a diagnosis of congenital orbital epidermal cysts have been reported in the literature, and Read More

Introduction: Subdural hematoma without subarachnoid hemorrhage secondary to intracranial aneurysm rupture is rare and may complicate patient management due to delay in diagnosis and subsequent treatment. Herein, we describe a case presenting with pure SDH secondary to the rupture of a posterior communicating artery infundibular dilatation (PcoA-ID). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of ruptu Read More