Endometrial carcinoma with cervical stromal invasion: Three case reports.

Background: Endometrial cancer is a kind of well-known tumors of female genitourinary system. Cervical stromal invasion is an adverse factor for poor prognosis of endometrial cancer. There is still controversy regarding the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of cervical stromal invasion of endometrial cancer.

Imaging Features and Risk Factors of Pancreatic Cystic Lesions Complicating Autoimmune Pancreatitis: A Retrospective Study.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the imaging features and risk factors of PCLs complicating AIP, and investigate its prognosis through continuous imaging follow-up.

Patients And Methods: Patients who were diagnosed with AIP from January 2014 to December 2020 in our hospital were recruited. We analyzed the CT and MRI features of PCLs complicating AIP, and investigated its prognosis through imaging follow-up.

Assessment of liver fibrosis with liver and spleen magnetic resonance elastography, serum markers in chronic liver disease.

Background: The accurate assessment of liver fibrosis is essential for patients with chronic liver disease. A liver biopsy is an invasive procedure that has many potential defects and complications. Therefore, noninvasive assessment techniques are of considerable value for clinical diagnosis.

Locally advanced rectal cancer: predicting non-responders to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy using apparent diffusion coefficient textures.

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate whether apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) textures could identify patient with locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) who would not respond to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NCRT).

Method: Twenty-six patients who underwent MRI including diffusion-weighted imaging at a 3.0 T system before NCRT were enrolled.

CT findings of persistent pure ground glass opacity: can we predict the invasiveness?

Background: To investigate whether CT findings can predict the invasiveness of persistent cancerous pure ground glass opacity (pGGO) by correlating the CT imaging features of persistent pGGO with pathological changes.

Materials And Methods: Ninety five patients with persistent pGGOs were included. Three radiologists evaluated the morphologic features of these pGGOs at high resolution CT (HRCT).

Characterization of resting-state fMRI-derived functional connectivity in patients with deficiency versus excess patterns of major depression.

Objective: Patients with major depression (MD) experience a variety of emotional and mental problems accompanied by characteristic clinical symptoms. Based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) notions, the clinical appearance of MD can be divided into two syndromes, namely a deficiency pattern (DP) and an excess pattern (EP), depending on the patient's clinical symptoms, pulse, and lingual signs. Brain functional neuroimaging has demonstrated cerebral activity abnormalities in MD patients.

Combining automatic tube current modulation with adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction for low-dose chest CT screening.

Objective: To reduce radiation dose while maintaining image quality in low-dose chest computed tomography (CT) by combining adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR) and automatic tube current modulation (ATCM).

Methods: Patients undergoing cancer screening (n = 200) were subjected to 64-slice multidetector chest CT scanning with ASIR and ATCM. Patients were divided into groups 1, 2, 3, and 4 (n = 50 each), with a noise index (NI) of 15, 20, 30, and 40, respectively.

Hashimoto encephalopathy: a case report with proton MR spectroscopic findings.

A 52-year-old female patient with Hashimoto encephalopathy was admitted to hospital for clinical treatment, and the findings on MR spectroscopy (MRS) and MR imaging (MRI) in the brain were reported. MRS revealed the decreases in N-acetylaspartate (NAA/Cr=1.19) and myo-inositol peaks, and the elevations in lipid, lactate, glutamate/glutamine multiplet and choline (Cho/Cr=1.