Publications by authors named "Funda Barlık"
Background/aims: Neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia is a non-neoplastic proliferation of enterochromaffin-like cells and is considered a premalignant lesion because of their potential to progress to neuroendocrine tumor. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the demographic and clinical features, laboratory, radiological and endoscopic findings, gastric biopsy histopathological features, follow-up frequency, and histopathological findings of patients diagnosed with gastric neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia as well as to investigate the factors that play a role in the development of neuroendocrine tumors on the basis of neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia.
Materials And Methods: The study has been conducted in 2 centers with 282 patients that were grouped as those with and without neuroendocrine tumor.
Purpose: Preoperative evaluation of donor liver volume is indispensable in living donor liver transplantation to ensure sufficient residual liver and graft-to-recipient weight ratio. This study aims to evaluate the accuracy of two computed tomography (CT) volumetry programs, an interactive manual and a semi-automated one, in the preoperative estimation of the right lobe graft weight.
Methods: One hundred and nine right liver lobe living donors between January 2008 and January 2020 were enrolled in this retrospective study.
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the diagnostic performance of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in predicting the pathologic stage of locally advanced rectal cancer (LARC) after neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (CRT) and the role of MRI in selecting patients with a pathologic complete response (ypCR).
Methods: Restaging MRI (yMRI) examinations of 136 patients with LARC treated with neoadjuvant CRT followed by surgery were retrospectively analyzed by two radiologists. All examinations were performed on a 1.
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated abdominal CT findings in COVID-19 patients and their relationship with demographic, clinical, and lab data.
- Ischemic findings were present in 20.3% and non-ischemic in 27.7% of the 1,181 reviewed cases, with bowel wall thickening being the most common ischemic finding.
- Patients with CT findings had longer hospital stays and higher mortality rates, indicating that abdominal symptoms in COVID-19 are significant and often linked to adverse outcomes.