background: so far, non-invasive diagnostic approaches such as ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, or blood tests do not have sufficient diagnostic power for endometriosis disease. lack of a non-invasive diagnostic test contributes to the long delay between onset of symptoms and diagnosis of endometriosis. objective: the present study focuses on the identification of predictive biomarkers i...

calcifying aponeurotic fibroma (caf) is a rare, benign fibroblastic tumor that typically occurs in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet, in children and adolescents. due to its infiltrative nature, this tumor can mimic malignancy on preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (mri) and has a predilection for local recurrence. there are very few reports in the literature that describe featur...

how to cite this article: shetty g, avabratha k.s, rai b.s. ring-enhancing lesions in the brain: a diagnostic dilemma. iran j child neurol. 2014 summer;8(3): 61-64. abstract the most common radiological abnormality seen in young indian patients with epilepsy is single small enhancing (ring/disc) computed tomographic (ct) lesions. the two most common differential diagnosis of this lesion in clin...

The year of 2012 has seen many significant publications in cardiac imaging, particularly in the modalities of cardiovascular magnetic resonance and cardiac computed tomography. This article will review in brief some of the most important studies with a particular emphasis on the new evidence base for perfusion imaging both by cardiovascular magnetic resonance and computed tomography.

This article is an invited editorial comment on the paper entitled "In vivo cardiovascular magnetic resonance diffusion tensor imaging shows evidence of abnormal myocardial laminar orientations and mobility in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy" by Ferreira et al., and published as Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 2014; 16:87.

Citation Abbasi, Siddique A, Andrew Ertel, Ravi V Shah, Vineet Dandekar, Jaehoon Chung, Geetha Bhat, Ankit A Desai, Raymond Y Kwong, and Afshin Farzaneh-Far. 2014. “Correction: Impact of cardiovascular magnetic resonance on management and clinical decision-making in heart failure patients.” Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 16 (1): 20. doi:10.1186/1532-429X-16-20. http://dx.doi.org/1...

*Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Representative. The American College of Cardiology requests that this document be cited as follows: Kramer CM, Hundley WG, Kwong RY, Martinez MW, Raman SV, Ward RP. COCATS 4 task force 8: training in cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging. J Am Coll Cardiol 2015;65:1822–31. Matthew W. Martinez, MD, FACC Subha V. Raman, MD, FACC* R. Parker Ward, ...

Cardiac-specific overexpression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF)-B167 is known to induce left ventricular hypertrophy due to altered lipid metabolism, in which ceramides accumulate to the heart and cause mitochondrial damage. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare different imaging methods to find the most sensitive way to diagnose at early stage the progressive left vent...

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance is a non-invasive imaging modality which is emerging as important tool for the investigation and management of pediatric cardiovascular disease. In this review we describe the key technical and practical differences between scanning children and adults, and highlight some important considerations that must be taken into account for this patient population. Usin...

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was performed in 14 patients with intracavitary cardiac tumors diagnosed by echocardiography. Except in the patients whose echocardiograms were diagnostic of atrial myxomas, this modality contributed important additional anatomic information regarding the tumor's relationship to the normal intracardiac structures and/or its extension to the adjacent vascular and ...