Aim To evaluate the role of dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) and diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in characterizing suspicious lesions in dense breasts compared to ultrasonography (USG). Materials and methods Eighty-two consecutive female patients with suspicious lesions in dense breast parenchyma showing the American College of Radiology Breast Imaging Reporting And Data System (ACR BI-RADS) c/d composition on mammography underwent USG, where 63 lesions of 63 patients were suspicious. They underwent multiparametric MRI, followed by histopathological evaluation (HPE) of the lesions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 53-year-old man with diabetes came to the emergency department with fever and dry cough for 5 days, swelling of the left leg for 2 days, shortness of breath and chest pain for 1 hour. He had raised temperature, tachycardia, tachypnoea, reduced oxygen saturation and swollen tender left leg on examination. The frontal chest radiograph showed bilateral ground-glass opacities; he tested positive for COVID-19 with elevated D-dimer.
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