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{"title":"Evaluating the Outcome of an Unnecessary Request for CT Scan in Be'sat Hospital of Hamadan.","authors":"Hossein Khosravi,&nbsp;Mohammad Hamidi,&nbsp;Safoora Nikzad,&nbsp;Leili Tapak","doi":"10.1155/2023/3709015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/3709015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study aimed to investigate the frequency of unnecessary tests requested in Be'sat Hospital in Hamadan.</p><p><strong>Materials and methods: </strong>This descriptive research was conducted in order to investigate the frequency of unnecessary requests for CT scan and radiography of patients referring to the imaging department of Be'sat Hospital in Hamadan in a 4- to 6-month period. Patient information, including gender, age, type of CT scan test, the reason for requesting the test, the expertise of the requesting physician, and the result of the radiologist's report on each test, was extracted and collected.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 1000 CT scans were evaluated. The mean age of these patients was about 36 years and most of them were men. The highest and lowest percentages of unnecessary cases were related to CT scans of the brain (42.3%) and facial bones (2.3%), respectively. The most and the least unnecessary CT scans based on the reason given for the request were related to multiple physical trauma (30.7%) and chronic kidney disease (1.5%), respectively.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In all tests, over 74% of the reports were unnecessary and less than 26% were necessary. Therefore, it is necessary to reduce unnecessary requests to reduce the radiation dose of patients. Also, the knowledge of doctors should be increased in the field of appropriate evaluation of CT scan tests based on clinical guidelines.</p>","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":"2023 ","pages":"3709015"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9977522/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10854184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ultrasound Diagnostics of Diseases of the Parotid Salivary Glands in the Practical Work of a Polyclinic Doctor: Pilot Results","authors":"N. V. Nikolaeva, V. S. Barashkina, M. Sokolova, L. Nizovtsova","doi":"10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-22-32","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-22-32","url":null,"abstract":"Between January 2019 and May 2022 parotid salivary glands were examined in 130 patients who were directed for ultrasonographic evaluation to the Radiology Department of State Budget-Funded Healthcare Institution of the City of Moscow «City Polyclinic № 191 of Moscow Healthcare Department» or were self-motivated to screening in medical project «Zdorovaya Moskva». Of the 130 patients, 71 were directed to ultrasonographic evaluation with provisional diagnosis «Tumor of parotid salivary gland». The ultrasonographic features were compared with diagnostic patterns of parotid salivary glands in medical literature.","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82378520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Radiodiagnostics in Shoulder Joint Arthroplasty (Literature Review)","authors":"E. .. Egorova, P. O. Koshelev","doi":"10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-33-46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-33-46","url":null,"abstract":"Shoulder joint replacement is becoming an increasingly common procedure for severe injuries and diseases of the proximal humerus, which in turn requires a thorough and purposeful preoperative examination of patients, respectively, expansion and improvement of the diagnostic program used by them, one of the most important elements of which are radiation diagnostic methods, in particular standard radiography and multisection computed tomography.Analyzing the given literature data, it can be noted that the use of multisection computed tomography allows to ensure the most accurate position of the components of the endoprosthesis at the preoperative stage, allows the use of digital planning programs for a specific patient and significantly increases the reliability of the results of long-term follow-up of patients at the postoperative stage in the detection of signs of aseptic instability.However, despite the fact that multisection computed tomography is widely used in patients at the preoperative stage, a number of parameters for the placement of endoprosthesis components, in particular the glenoid component of the endoprosthesis, still do not have a single standard for planning, in addition, it requires refinement of the algorithm for the use of multisection computer tomography at the postoperative stage, due to artifacts that reduce the quality of images and preventing a reliable analysis of the fixation of the components of the endoprosthesis.","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78005918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Сondylar Hyperplasia. Modern Approaches to Diagnostics on the Example of a Clinical Case","authors":"S. Prokhorov, N. Kochergina, A. Ryzhkov, A. Krylov, G. Karachunskiy, A. Bludov","doi":"10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-60-67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-60-67","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the work was to demonstrate of the possibilities of SPECT/CT in the diagnosis of condylar hyperplasia in a 17-year-old patient. According to the results of bone scan and SPECT/CT, anatomical and metabolic abnormalities were found, confirming the clinical diagnosis. The use of modern diagnostic methods, in particular SPECT/CT, is justified and recommended for suspected condylar hyperplasia.","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":"137 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86283926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Current Approaches for Image Fusion of Histological Data with Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.","authors":"Philipp Nolte,&nbsp;Christian Dullin,&nbsp;Angelika Svetlove,&nbsp;Marcel Brettmacher,&nbsp;Christoph Rußmann,&nbsp;Arndt F Schilling,&nbsp;Frauke Alves,&nbsp;Bernd Stock","doi":"10.1155/2022/6765895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/6765895","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Classical analysis of biological samples requires the destruction of the tissue's integrity by cutting or grinding it down to thin slices for (Immuno)-histochemical staining and microscopic analysis. Despite high specificity, encoded in the stained 2D section of the whole tissue, the structural information, especially 3D information, is limited. Computed tomography (CT) or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans performed prior to sectioning in combination with image registration algorithms provide an opportunity to regain access to morphological characteristics as well as to relate histological findings to the 3D structure of the local tissue environment. This review provides a summary of prevalent literature addressing the problem of multimodal coregistration of hard- and soft-tissue in microscopy and tomography. Grouped according to the complexity of the dimensions, including image-to-volume (2D ⟶ 3D), image-to-image (2D ⟶ 2D), and volume-to-volume (3D ⟶ 3D), selected currently applied approaches are investigated by comparing the method accuracy with respect to the limiting resolution of the tomography. Correlation of multimodal imaging could position itself as a useful tool allowing for precise histological diagnostic and allow the a priori planning of tissue extraction like biopsies.</p>","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":" ","pages":"6765895"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9668453/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40700259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Benign Sphenoid Sinus Fungal Ball in a Mask of Sphenoid Non-specific Sinusitis by Means of Computer Tomography Imaging (Clinical Case)","authors":"T. Malysheva, V. Viktorov, S. V. Fedorov, D. Shcherbakov, N. Klimova","doi":"10.52560/2713-0118-2022-5-78-85","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52560/2713-0118-2022-5-78-85","url":null,"abstract":"A clinical case of sphenoid sinus fungal ball was presented and interested for non-typical computer tomography imaging features, resulting in the patient was threatening from nonspecific sphenoid sinusitis throughout the year. A long persisted fungal ball became malignant. The imaging data of sphenoid sinus fungal ball in the onset and manifestation of the disease was analyzed. By presentation of the clinical case the importance of analyzing sinus bone wall remodeling by means of computer tomography and using of magnetic resonance imaging in a case of a timely fashion diagnosis of sphenoid fungal ball was shown.","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80956509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ultrasound diagnosis of dirofilariasis: case reports","authors":"M. A. Asriyants, O. Astafieva, A. V. Pomortsev, E. K. Gordeeva","doi":"10.52560/2713-0118-2022-5-69-77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52560/2713-0118-2022-5-69-77","url":null,"abstract":"Dirofilariasis is a transmissible zoonotic biohelminthiasis caused by nematodes that parasitize the lymphatic system and subcutaneous tissue. This paper presents cases of dirofilariasis lesions of the soft tissues of the face and eyes.Purpose: to demonstrate the possibility of ultrasonic diagnosis of dirofilariasis of soft tissues of the face.Materials and methods. Dirofilaria can affect the soft tissues of the face, eyes, mammary glands, buttocks. Patients complained of swelling, induration and hyperemia in the soft tissues of the face. Ultrasound was performed, which determined echoes characteristic of helminthic parasites, parasites were removed, the belonging of the macropreparation to dirofilaria type Dirofilaria repens was confirmed by the laboratory of the SES of Krasnodar.Results: the possibilities of ultrasound examination of the eyes and soft tissues were demonstrated, and the characteristic echo signs in dirofilariasis were identified.","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73253189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Diagnostic Aspects of X-ray Examination of the Cervical Spine of Children with Complaints on Headache","authors":"I. O. Erenkov, R. O. Zorina, V. A. Voronin","doi":"10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-10-21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-10-21","url":null,"abstract":"Purpouse – to define of diagnostic significance of x-ray examination of the cervical spine of children with complaints on headache.Retrospective comparative study was conducted. During the research, 159 medical histories of children from 5 to 17 years were analyzed: patients had complaints on headache and standard and functional x-ray examination of the cervical spine was prescribed and performed. 59 of those patients also had sonography examination of the vertebral arteries, and in 38 medical histories contained results of functional sonography test (examination of vertebral arteries in the middle and rotation positions of the head).All medical histories of children were divided in 3 groups based on the curvature of the cervical spine (p ≤ 0,01). Assessment of values of mobility indicators in the cervical spine, based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov criteria, revealed normal distributions in all three groups. Comparative analysis of values of the segmental mobility in the cervical spine in all 3 groups didn’t reveal statistically significant differences (p > 0,05). The significant correlation between values of sonography examination of the vertebral arteries, values of functional sonography tests and values of the segmental mobility in the cervical spine was not revealed.The x-ray examination of the cervical spine is not prioritized method of diagnostics in children with headache. Found cases of increasing segmental mobility in the cervical spine had not demonstrated significant change in blood flow in vertebral arteries in children.Prescription of X-ray of the cervical spine must be strictly justified recommendation if patients are children with complaints on headaches.","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76965961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Atypical Case of Testicular Torsion in a Child (Clinical Observation)","authors":"E. B. Olkhova, M. V. Topol’nik, A. Rudin, V. I. Runenko","doi":"10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-68-75","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52560/2713-0118-2022-6-68-75","url":null,"abstract":"Epididymal cysts in children are rare, and, as a rule, their detection is an incidental finding, the course is asymptomatic, the surgical treatment is not carried out. Isolated torsion of these cysts is extremely rare in both children and adults, causing acute pain syndrome and swelling of the scrotum. Due to its rarity and lack of specificity of clinical and echographic manifestations, this condition leads to a delay in the accurate diagnosis of the disease, which is carried out only intraoperatively. The rare case of combined testicular torsion and torsion of a large appendage cyst in a 12-year-old teenager is presented in the publication.","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86466235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Comparison of the Celiacomesenteric Trunk in the Caribbean with Global Prevalence Calculated by a Systematic Review.","authors":"Shamir O Cawich,&nbsp;Maurice Fortune,&nbsp;Rahul Deshpande,&nbsp;Michael Gardner,&nbsp;Neil Pearce,&nbsp;Peter Johnson,&nbsp;Vijay Naraynsingh","doi":"10.1155/2022/1715631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1715631","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Typically, the celiac trunk and superior mesenteric artery branch off separately from the anterior aspect of the abdominal aorta. The celiacomesenteric trunk (CMT) is a rare variant in which those arteries share a common origin. We sought to compare the prevalence of CMT in the Caribbean with the global prevalence as calculated by a systematic review.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this study, we evaluated all consecutive patients who had multiphase contrast-enhanced CT scans at two major referral centres in the Caribbean from August 30, 2017, to September 1, 2019. In patients with a CMT, we recorded demographic and anatomic details. We then conducted a systematic literature search and retrieved raw data to calculate the global prevalence (number of individuals with a CMT divided by the sum total of study samples). We compared CMT prevalence in our sample with the global prevalence using Pearson's chi-square and Fisher's exact tests. Statistical significance was considered to be present when the <i>P</i> value was <0.05.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>From 832 CTs, 665 scans met the inclusion criteria. There were 16 (2.41%) CMTs: 3 (0.45%) classic CMTs, 12 (1.8%) hepato-mesenteric trunks, and 1 (0.15%) hepato-spleno-mesenteric trunk. Forty-two studies reported on CMTs in a total of 74,320 persons. The global CMT prevalence was comparable (3.88%; <i>P</i> = 0.054), but the incidence of hepato-mesenteric variants was significantly lower in our sample (1.8% vs. 3.24%; <i>P</i> = 0.0352).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There was no difference in the prevalence of a classic CMT in the Caribbean compared to the global prevalence. However, the hepato-mesenteric trunk (incomplete CMT variant) was significantly less prevalent in the Caribbean. Advances in Knowledge: Healthcare professionals performing hepatobiliary interventions must be aware of these differences in order to minimize morbidity during their interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":51864,"journal":{"name":"Radiology Research and Practice","volume":" ","pages":"1715631"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2022-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9578919/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40559802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}