Purpose: To investigate the age-related changes in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings of lobular endocervical glandular hyperplasia (LEGH) during long-term follow-up.
Materials And Methods: This multicenter study included 91 patients who underwent preoperative MRI and had a histopathological diagnosis of LEGH, atypical LEGH, or adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS) with LEGH after surgical resection. Thirty patients underwent follow-up MRIs at intervals of more than 3 months.
Int J Gynaecol Obstet
February 2025
Objective: Adenomyosis, a common gynecologic disease, can cause infertility. Uterine peristalsis (UP) is a wave-like contraction. Abnormal UP has been linked to infertility.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPlacental insufficiency is a critical condition in perinatal medicine, clinically manifesting as fetal growth restriction or preeclampsia. In addition to ultrasound and Doppler velocimetry, MRI has been assessed intensively for its potential to evaluate placental function directly. Several methods investigated to date include anthropometry, visual assessments using T2-weighted images, and quantitative evaluations based on T2 values, hypoxia indicators (T2* values and blood oxygenation level-dependent imaging), and perfusion metrics (intravoxel incoherent motion and arterial spin labeling).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: When antispasmodics are unavailable, the periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction (PROPELLER; called BLADE by Siemens Healthineers) or half Fourier single-shot turbo spin echo (HASTE) is clinically used in gynecologic MRI. However, their imaging qualities are limited compared to Turbo Spin Echo (TSE) with antispasmodics. Even with antispasmodics, TSE can be artifact-affected, necessitating a rapid backup sequence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The purposes of the study are to assess the diagnostic performance of preoperative imaging for staging factors in gastric-type endocervical adenocarcinoma (GEA) and to compare the performance for GEA with that of usual-type endocervical adenocarcinoma (UEA) among patients preoperatively deemed locally early stage (DLES) (< T2b without distant metastasis).
Materials And Methods: For this multi-center retrospective study, 58 patients were enrolled. All had undergone MRI with or without CT and FDG PET-CT preoperatively and had been pathologically diagnosed with GEA at five institutions.
Background And Purpose: The main feeding artery of a dural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) involving the superior sagittal sinus (SSS) is the middle meningeal artery (MMA). MMA extends continuously from the proximal part to SSS in DAVF involving SSS. It is possible to diagnose DAVF involving SSS by evaluating the proximal part of MMA on routine three-dimensional time-of-flight MR angiography (MRA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Magn Reson Imaging
October 2024
The staging of endometrial cancer is based on the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) staging system according to the examination of surgical specimens, and has revised in 2023, 14 years after its last revision in 2009. Molecular and histological classification has incorporated to new FIGO system reflecting the biological behavior and prognosis of endometrial cancer. Nonetheless, the basic role of imaging modalities including ultrasound, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography, as a preoperative assessment of the tumor extension and also the evaluation points in CT and MRI imaging are not changed, other than several point of local tumor extension.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The aim of this study was to assess the prognostic value of pretreatment Positron emission tomography / computed tomography using F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG-PET/CT) in cervical cancer according to two major histologic types.
Methods: Eighty-three squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) patients and 35 adenocarcinoma (AC) patients who underwent pretreatment FDG-PET/CT were retrospectively analyzed. Maximum standardized uptake value (SUV), mean standardized uptake value (SUV), metabolic tumor volume (MTV), and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) of the primary tumor were calculated.
Background: This study aimed to establish an evaluation method for detecting uterine sarcoma with 100% sensitivity using MRI and serum LDH levels.
Methods: One evaluator reviewed the MRI images and LDH values of a total of 1801 cases, including 36 cases of uterine sarcoma and 1765 cases of uterine fibroids. The reproducibility of the algorithm was also examined by four evaluators with different imaging experience and abilities, using a test set of 61 cases, including 14 cases of uterine sarcoma.
Objective: While a basic understanding of pelvic size and typology is still important for obstetricians, pelvic measurement data for Japanese women are very scarce. To our best knowledge, no large-scale pelvimetry studies of Japanese women have been made for the past 50 years. This study aimed to investigate the accurate size, particularly the obstetric conjugate (OC) and transverse diameter of the pelvic inlet (TD), of modern Japanese women, using three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT), and to obtain their reference values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPara-ovarian cysts are occasionally encountered in clinical practice; however, malignant tumors derived from them are rare. Due to its rarity, the characteristic imaging findings of para-ovarian tumors with borderline malignancy (PTBM) are largely unknown. Herein, we report a case of PTBM, along with imaging findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aimed to develop a versatile automatic segmentation model of bladder cancer (BC) on MRI using a convolutional neural network and investigate the robustness of radiomics features automatically extracted from apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps. This two-center retrospective study used multi-vendor MR units and included 170 patients with BC, of whom 140 were assigned to training datasets for the modified U-net model with five-fold cross-validation and 30 to test datasets for assessment of segmentation performance and reproducibility of automatically extracted radiomics features. For model input data, diffusion-weighted images with b = 0 and 1000 s/mm, ADC maps, and multi-sequence images (b0-b1000-ADC maps) were used.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Diagnosis of fetal growth restriction (FGR) entails difficulties with differentiating fetuses not fulfilling their growth potential because of pathologic conditions, such as placental insufficiency, from constitutionally small fetuses. The feasibility of placental MRI for risk stratification among pregnancies diagnosed with FGR remains unexplored.
Purpose: To explore quantitative MRI features useful to identify pregnancies with unfavorable outcomes and to assess the diagnostic performance of visual analysis of MRI to detect pregnancies with unfavorable outcomes, among pregnancies diagnosed with FGR.
Polypoid endometriosis is a benign, rare variant of endometriosis that forms polypoid nodules mimicking malignant tumors. For three cases of polypoid endometriosis of female genital organs, this report presents characteristic MR imaging features reflecting the histopathological findings. The solid and microcystic pattern or the multilocular pattern both reflecting dilated endometrial glands, and characteristic morphology of the nodules, multilobulated or polypoid-shaped, were helpful diagnostic clues present in these three cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndometriosis, a common chronic inflammatory disease in female of reproductive age, is closely related to patient symptoms and fertility. Because of its high contrast resolution and objectivity, MRI can contribute to the early and accurate diagnosis of ovarian endometriotic cysts and deeply infiltrating endometriosis without the need for any invasive procedure or radiation exposure. The ovaries, which are the most frequent site of endometriosis, can be afflicted by multiple related conditions and diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Early identification of placental insufficiency can lead to appropriate treatment selections and can improve neonates' outcomes. Possible contributions of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been suggested.
Purpose: To evaluate the prognostic capabilities of placental intravoxel incoherent motion (IVIM) parameters and T2-relaxation time, and their correlation with fetal growth and adverse outcomes, comparing umbilical artery (UmA) pulsatility index (PI).
Objectives: Imaging evaluation is an essential part of treatment planning for patients with ovarian cancer. Variation in the terminology used for describing ovarian cancer on computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging can lead to ambiguity and inconsistency in clinical radiology reports. The aim of this collaborative project between Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR) Uterine and Ovarian Cancer (UOC) Disease-focused Panel (DFP) and the European Society of Uroradiology (ESUR) Female Pelvic Imaging (FPI) Working Group was to develop an ovarian cancer reporting lexicon for CT and MR imaging.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate radiomic machine learning (ML) classifiers based on multiparametric magnetic resonance images (MRI) in pretreatment assessment of endometrial cancer (EC) risk factors and to examine effects on radiologists' interpretation of deep myometrial invasion (dMI).
Methods: This retrospective study examined 200 consecutive patients with EC during January 2004 -March 2017, divided randomly to Discovery (n = 150) and Test (n = 50) datasets. Radiomic features of tumors were extracted from T2-weighted images, apparent diffusion coefficient map, and contrast enhanced T1-weighed images.