Publications by authors named "Ziad Maksoud"

To evaluate whether incorporating CT perfusion imaging can significantly enhance diagnostic CT accuracy in stroke detection. Two 3rd-year residents (3rd of 5 years of residency) reviewed CT scans of 200 patients with suspected stroke, consisting of 104 patients with a proven stroke and a control group with 96 patients. They analyzed each patient in a blinded and randomized manner in two runs.

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The apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) is a candidate marker of treatment response in osteoblastic metastases that are not evaluable by morphologic imaging. However, it is unclear whether the ADC meets the basic requirement for reliable treatment response evaluation, namely a low variance of repeated measurements in relation to the differences found between viable and nonviable metastases. The present study addresses this question by analyzing repeated in vivo ADC measurements of 65 osteoblastic metastases in nine patients, as well as phantom measurements.

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To investigate the occurrence of pseudoprogression/transient enlargement in meningiomas after stereotactic radiotherapy (RT) and to evaluate recently proposed volumetric RANO meningioma criteria for response assessment in the context of RT. Sixty-nine meningiomas (benign: 90%, atypical: 10%) received stereotactic RT from January 2005-May 2018. A total of 468 MRI studies were segmented longitudinally during a median follow-up of 42.

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