Publications by authors named "Mahinur Cerit"
Objective: Endogenous cortisol excess is known to affect body fat distribution. Ectopic fat is the accumulation of triglycerides in non-adipose tissue regions that normally contain little fat. The aim of study was to investigate the amount of ectopic fat in aortic perivascular and renal sinus fat of patients with endogenous cortisol excess and its relationship with their comorbitidies and laboratory findings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To investigate the effectiveness of 2-dimensional shear wave elastography (2D-SWE) in the assessment of lacrimal gland involvement in primary Sjögren's syndrome (pSS) and to determine the association between ultrasonographic findings and clinical activity measures.
Method: Forty-six patients who fulfilled the 2016 American College of Rheumatology/European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) classification criteria of pSS and 23 age and gender-matched healthy control subjects were enrolled. Clinical, laboratory and labial biopsy histopathologic characteristics of patients were recorded.
Rationale And Objectives: To investigate the efficacy of the advanced imaging methods, superb microvascular imaging (SMI) and shear wave elastography (SWE) in predicting molecular subtypes in invasive breast carcinomas.
Materials And Methods: A total of 210 biopsy-proven breast carcinomas in 200 patients who underwent ultrasound (US) imaging with SMI and SWE were included in this study. Quantitative analyses were performed using mean elasticity (E) score by SWE and vascular index (VI) by SMI.
Background: Although several studies proved that SM could substitute for FFDM, the efficacy of SM in microcalcification evaluation remains controversial.
Aims: To investigate the diagnostic performance of synthetic mammography (SM) in the evaluation of microcalcifications in comparison with full-field digital mammography (FFDM).
Methods: In this retrospective study, 76 mammograms of 76 patients who underwent FFDM and digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) acquisitions concomitantly between 2018 and 2019 and whose final mammography interpretation revealed microcalcifications (28 malignant microcalcifications and 48 benign microcalcifications) were included.
Purpose: To evaluate the contribution of CT Bone Unfolding software to the diagnostic accuracy and efficiency for the detection of osteoblastic pelvic bone lesions in patients with prostate cancer.
Methods: A total of 102 consecutive (January 2016-September 2019) patients who underwent abdominopelvic CT with prostate cancer were retrospectively evaluated for osteoblastic pelvic bone lesions, using commercially available the post-processing-pelvic bone flattening-image software package "CT Bone Unfolding." Two radiologists with 3 and 15 years of experience in abdominal radiology evaluated CT image data sets independently in 2 separate reading sessions.
Background: Pregnancy and lactation associated osteoporosis (PLO) is a rare condition that may present with fragility fractures occurring for the first time in pregnancy or postpartum period while breastfeeding. Here, we report a rare case of PLO in the 3rd pregnancy treated with teriparatide.
Case Report: A 35-year-old woman who presented with back pain (visual analogue scale; VAS = 10/10) two months after her third delivery.
Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of attenuation measurement function (ATT), a newly developed quantitative ultrasonography(US) method based on measurement of the attenuation coefficient, using unenhanced computerized tomography(CT) attenuation values as a reference standard, for the detection and measurement of hepatosteatosis.
Material And Methods: A total of 98 patients were analyzed. The diagnostic ability of ATT was evaluated using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis, and the correlation between liver attenuation index (LAI), the liver-to-spleen attenuation ratio (CT), liver attenuation value (CT), and ATT was determined.
Objectives: In this study, we aimed to determine reference values for normal breast and areolar skin elasticity using shear wave elastography.
Methods: The right breasts of 200 female participants were evaluated. The age, weight, body mass index, menopausal status, and parity number of all participants were noted.
Objectives: The purposes of our study are to determine the quantitative elasticity values of normal common extensor tendon (CET) and to assess the interobserver variability of stiffness measurements using shear wave elastography (SWE).
Materials And Methods: A total of 60 CETs of 30 (15 female, 15 male, mean age 30.2 years) healthy volunteers without any symptoms of lateral epicondylitis were examined by two radiologists.
Introduction: The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic adequacy of thyroid samples obtained by aspiration or capillary biopsy techniques, with 22 or 27 gauge needles, and with or without on-site cytological analysis (OCA).
Material And Methods: Four hundred patients with thyroid nodules underwent ultrasound (US)-guided fine-needle biopsies. Patients were divided into eight groups according to needle size (22 vs.