Publications by authors named "I Merli"
Purpose: Spinal lesion differential diagnosis remains challenging even in MRI. Radiomics and machine learning (ML) have proven useful even in absence of a standardized data mining pipeline. We aimed to assess ML diagnostic performance in spinal lesion differential diagnosis, employing radiomic data extracted by different software.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To summarise systematic reviews that assess the effects of different interventions for implant prosthetic rehabilitation in partially edentulous patients with the presence of bone atrophy.
Materials And Methods: Only systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) dealing with partially edentulous adult patients presenting bone defects were included. Treatments of interest were bone augmentation procedures, use of short, tilted or zygomatic implants, sinus lift and transposition of the inferior alveolar nerve.
Background: To demonstrate whether the distance between the middle point of the patellar tendon and posterior cruciate ligament (PT-PCL) calculated on a single axial MR image could be an alternative measure to tibial tubercle-PCL (TT-PCL) distance for TT lateralization without the need of imaging processing. To show that normalization of PT-PCL (nPT-PCL) against the maximum diameter of the tibial plateau may help to identify patients with patellar instability (PI).
Methods: MR scans of 30 patients (13 females, age 32 ± 13 years) with known PI and 60 patients (31 females, age 39 ± 19 years) with no history of PI were reviewed.
Background: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease of the central nervous system. As an association between MS and reduced cerebral venous blood drainage was hypothesised, our aim was to compare the size of the jugular foramina in patients with MS and in control subjects.
Methods: Ethics committee approval was received for this retrospective case-control study.
Article Synopsis
- This study assessed the occurrence of greater trochanter pain syndrome (GTPS) in patients undergoing hip magnetic resonance arthrography (MRA) for suspected femoroacetabular impingement (FAI).
- It analyzed data from 189 patients, finding that 39.2% were diagnosed with GTPS, with a higher incidence in those with normal hip morphology compared to those with FAI.
- Results indicated that younger patients (under 40) with normal hip anatomy or pincer-type FAI had a greater likelihood of developing GTPS compared to older patients.