Publications by authors named "Jennifer Callan"
Article Synopsis
- Pseudocirrhosis mimics cirrhosis on imaging but lacks the associated pathological features, commonly observed in metastatic breast cancer (MBC) patients.
- In a study of 120 MBC patients with pseudocirrhosis between 2002 and 2021, most had hormone receptor-positive cancer and extensive liver lesions.
- The findings showed that pseudocirrhosis is linked to various complications and significantly shorter survival rates, especially for those with radiographic ascites.
Objective: To evaluate if baseline pathological knee conditions as assessed via single features of the MR-based Whole-Organ Magnetic Resonance Imaging Scoring (WORMS), standard T2, and T2 gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) texture parameters of knee cartilage can serve as potential long-term radiological predictors of incident total knee arthroplasty (TKA) 4-7 years later.
Materials And Methods: Baseline 3-T knee MRIs of 309 subjects from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (n = 81 TKA cases, with right-knee TKA 4-7 years after enrolment, and n = 228 TKA-free matched controls) were evaluated for the presence and severity of pathological knee conditions via modified WORMS. Knee cartilage was segmented and standard T2 cartilage and T2 GLCM texture measures (contrast, variance) were computed.