Reconstruction of the Occipital and Parietal Congenital Defect with 3D Custom-Made Titanium Prosthesis: A Case Report with Four and a Half Years of Follow-Up and a Brief Review of... by Farnoush Mohammadi, Abbas Azari, Nariman Nikparto, Heliya Ziaei

“…A 13-year-old female patient presented with congenital defects at the superior third of occipital bone and posterior thirds of the bilateral parietal bones. On CT scan, the exact size and shape of the defect were determined. …”
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Transient Ischemic Attack and Ischemic Stroke in Danon Disease with Formation of Left Ventricular Apical Thrombus despite Normal Systolic Function by Takeshi Tsuda, Amanda J. Shillingford, Jane Vetter, Vinay Kandula, Badal Jain, Joel Temple

“…Subsequently, her neurological manifestation progressed to transient ischemic attack (TIA) and eventually to ischemic stroke confirmed by CT scan with 1-day history of expressive aphasia followed by persistent left side weakness and numbness. …”
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Iliac Crest Avulsion Fracture in a Young Sprinter by L. Casabianca, R. Rousseau, P. Loriaut, A. Massein, G. Mirouse, A. Gerometta, F. Khiami

“…Then a total loss of function of the lower limb appears forcing him to stop the run. X-ray and CT scan confirmed the rare diagnosis of avulsion of the quasitotality of the iliac crest apophysis, corresponding to Salter 2 fracture. …”
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Monostotic Fibrous Dysplasia of the Rib: A Case Report by Asha Mahadevappa, Sapna Patel, Sunila Ravishankar, Gubbanna V. Manjunath

“…Radiologically, X-ray and CT scan showed an expansible lesion of the medullary cavity with a ground-glass centre and thinning of cortex of the 5th rib. …”
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Fatal Hemoptysis due to Chronic Cavitary Pulmonary Aspergillosis Complicated by Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Tuberculosis by Ioannis Kokkonouzis, Ioannis Athanasopoulos, Nikolaos Doulgerakis, Grigorios Tsonis, Ioannis Lampaditis, Nikolaos Saridis, Vasilios Skoufaras

“…A 51-year-old man, with a history of severe COPD and bilateral pneumothorax, who was under treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis due to mycobacterium avium, was admitted due to high-grade fever, weight loss, cough, and production of purulent sputum, for almost one month without any special improvement despite adequate antibiotics treatment in outpatient setting. A CT scan revealed multiple consolidations, fibrosis, scaring, and cavitary lesions in both upper lobes with newly shadows which were fungus balls inside them. …”
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Acute Pulmonary Aspergillosis as a Severe Complication of Influenza, Pneumococcal Pneumonia, and Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia in ICU by Tamara Seitz, Wolfgang Hoepler, Stephanie Neuhold, Christoph Wenisch

“…The patient improved at first due to antimicrobial therapy; nine days after admission, her clinical condition deteriorated again, and she was transferred to ICU due to septic shock accompanied by respiratory failure, necessitating mechanical ventilation and high-dose catecholamine support. A CT scan showed a resolving inflammatory infiltrate bilateral caverns with markedly thickened walls. …”
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The Role of Silymarin in Mitigating Inflammation and Cognitive Impairment Induced by Ovariectomy in Wistar Rats by Razieh Moalefshahri, Hossein Javid, Fatemeh Gheybi, Somaye Fallahnezhad, Seyed Isaac Hashemy

“…After ovariectomy, rats underwent CT scan, and some of them were administered silymarin via gavage for 2 months. …”
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Hypercalcemia, Anemia, and Acute Kidney Injury: A Rare Presentation of Sarcoidosis by Neeraj Sharma, Hassan Tariq, Kalpana Uday, Yevgeniy Skaradinskiy, Masooma Niazi, Sridhar Chilimuri

“…Noncontrast computed tomography (CT) scan of chest showed bilateral apical bronchiectasis, but did not show any lymphadenopathy or evidence of malignancy. …”
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Evaluation of the Economic Efficiency of Radiology Units in Hospitals Affiliated with Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd by Ebrahim Bahrami Nia, Reza Shams Allahi, Sedigheh GHolamrezaee, Mohamad mehdi Zare shahne

“…Input variables included the number of expert staff, the number of radiologists, the number of radiology devices, and the number of CT scan devices. Output variables comprised the number of admitted patients, the number of registered radiological images, and the total revenue generated. …”
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Retropharyngeal Abscess in Adults: Five Case Reports and Review of the Literature by A. Harkani, R. Hassani, T. Ziad, L. Aderdour, H. Nouri, Y. Rochdi, A. Raji

“…The radiography of cervical spine showed prevertebral thickening in all cases, this thickening was associated with an aspect of vertebral lysis of the fourth cervical vertebra in one case. A CT scan was performed in all our cases and showed features of retropharyngeal abscess which was associated, in one case, with spondylodiscitis. …”
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Enhancing Medical Image Classification With Context Modulated Attention and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion by Renhan Zhang, Xuegang Luo, Junrui Lv, Junyang Cao, Yangping Zhu, Juan Wang, Bochuan Zheng

“…The experimental results demonstrate that MSFF significantly outperforms existing methods in multiple performance metrics (including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), Kappa coefficient, Area Under the Curve (AUC), balanced accuracy, and geometric mean) on four datasets (Endoscopic Bladder Tissue, Kvasir, SARS-COV-2 Ct-Scan, and Thyroid Nodule), showing its excellent performance in the task of medical image classification.…”
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Didelphys Uterus: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Shadi Rezai, Pameela Bisram, Isamarie Lora Alcantara, Ruchi Upadhyay, Carla Lara, Malvina Elmadjian

“…There were no renal anomalies on subsequent abdominal CT scan. Patient presented with the second pregnancy and had uncomplicated prenatal care and did not have signs of preterm labor; fetus showed appropriate growth and the pregnancy was carried in the left uterus. …”
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Mechanical behavior of external root resorption cavities restored with different materials: a 3D-FEA study by H. Akgün, E. Kalyoncuoğlu

“…Methods In this study, a Micro-CT scan was conducted on a prepared maxillary central tooth. …”
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Bulky Pulmonary Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma Treated with Yttrium-90 Ibritumomab Tiuxetan by Shinobu Tamura, Tokuji Ikeda, Toshio Kurihara, Yoshiteru Kakuno, Hideki Nasu, Yoshio Nakano, Koichi Oshima, Tokuzo Fujimoto

“…Computed tomography (CT) scan revealed extensive consolidation in the right lung. …”
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Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia after first dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine: a case report by K. Kolodynskaja, S. Stankevičiūtė, A. Krikščionaitienė, N. Balčiūnienė

“…After deterioration of the state of consciousness, CT scan of the head showed a massive intracerebral hemorrhage, and laboratory tests revealed severe thrombocytopenia, high D-dimer level, and a low fibrinogen concentration. …”
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A Case of Large Perianal Mucinous Adenocarcinoma Arising from Recurrent Abscess and Complex Fistulae by Fahmi Pramaditto Azmi, Nur Afdzillah Abdul Rahman, Luqman Mazlan, Normala Basiron, Farrah-Hani Imran

“…Contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan showed a localized perianal growth which involves the internal and external sphincter as well as suspicious involvement in the posterior aspect of the levator ani/puborectalis sling, which was further confirmed with colonoscopy (see figures). …”
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The Diagnostic Performance of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Recurrent Pancreatic Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis by Gu A, Yuezhan Shan, Huasong Huo, Chao Ding, Caixia Sun

“…Purpose. The CT scan is the best common screening test for pancreatic cancer recurrence after surgery. …”
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Pulmonary Hypertension due to a Pulmonary Artery Leiomyosarcoma: A Case Report by Seyyed Hassan Adeli, Bardia Nemati, Mahboubeh Jandaghi, Mohammad Mahdi Riahi, Fatemeh Hosseinzadeh, Fatemeh Salarvand

“…She was initially diagnosed with chronic pulmonary thromboembolism and chest computed tomography (CT) scan revealed that lobulated heterogeneous left hilar mass extended to precarinal and subcarinal space. …”
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Adjacent Segment Infection after Lumbar Fusion: A Case Report and the Literature Review by Wenlong Wang, Zheng Liu, Sijun Wu

“…The computed tomography (CT) scan showed obvious bony endplate destruction at the adjacent segment space. …”
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The impact of quantitative platform on candidacy for bronchoscopic lung volume reduction: a multi-center retrospective cohort study by Max Wayne, Suchitra Pilli, Hee Jae Choi, Nathaniel Moulton, Praveen Chenna, Allen Cole Burks, Alexander Chen

“…Two commercially available platforms exist to help determine candidacy for BLVR via quantitative analysis of computed tomography (CT) scans. Objectives: To determine if the two commercially available quantitative platforms identified the same patient population that may benefit from BLVR. …”
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