European radiology

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of a bisacodyl micro-enema on rectal physio-morphology, image quality, and patient acceptance when used as preparation before MRI of rectal tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this prospective single-center …

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the safety, feasibility and imaging outcomes of percutaneous image-guided cryoablation as a minimally invasive treatment for umbilical endometriosis (UE). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Between March 2017 and December 2024,…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the reproducibility and the diagnostic accuracy of MRI for the assessment of (#)ENZIAN classification in patients with deep endometriosis by means of a meta-analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: MEDLINE and EMBASE databases…

Acute pelvic pain (APP) is a common presentation in women of all ages and has both gynaecological and non-gynaecological causes. In the emergency department, the suspected differential diagnosis dictates the chosen imaging modality. For pre…

OBJECTIVE: To propose an update of ESUR endometriosis guidelines to reflect advances in MRI indications, reporting, and classifications. METHODS: The ESUR Research Committee appointed two chairs (I.T.N., L.M.) to supervise the development …

OBJECTIVE: To propose an update of ESUR endometriosis guidelines to reflect advances in MRI protocol and lexicon. METHODS: A literature search was followed by a DELPHI process among 20 experts. RESULTS: Pre-imaging preparation, including …

OBJECTIVE: To provide up-to-date European Society of Urogenital Radiology (ESUR) guidelines for staging and follow-up of patients with ovarian cancer (OC). METHODS: Twenty-one experts, members of the female pelvis imaging ESUR subcommittee…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the prognostic factors for clinical and radiological responses to percutaneous image-guided cryoablation (CA) in treating venous malformation (VM) and fibro-adipose vascular anomaly (FAVA). MATERIALS AND METHODS: Fifty…

OBJECTIVES: With SARS-CoV-2 evolving, disease severity and presentation have changed due to changes in mechanisms of entry and effector site as well as due to effects of vaccination- and/or infection-acquired immunity. We re-assessed fetal …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the diagnostic efficacy of an MRI protocol and patient preparation in detecting deep pelvic endometriosis (DPE). MATERIAL AND METHODS: The cohort is from the ENDOVALIRM database, a multicentric national retrospective …

OBJECTIVE: To retrospectively evaluate the long-term outcomes after percutaneous cryoablation of abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE). METHOD: The Institutional Review Board approved this retrospective observational review of 40 consecutive …

In light of the rising number of patients referred for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) due to suspected endometriosis and the high expectations of these patients, there is a need for new imaging guidelines to optimally protocol and indicat…

OBJECTIVES: Large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in radiology, but their ability to aid radiologists in interpreting imaging studies remains unexplored. We investigated the effects of a state-of-the-art LLM (GPT-4) on the radio…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate MRI features of bowel endometriosis (BE) and verify its clinical significance compared with pathological diagnosis. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Since 2018, patients clinically diagnosed with deep endometriosis (DE) and pl…

OBJECTIVE: Catheter-directed ethanol sclerotherapy (CDS) is known to less affect the ovarian function, with comparable efficacy. This study aims to investigate the change in ovarian reserve after catheter-directed ethanol sclerotherapy in p…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate uterine arteries (UA) of potential living donors for uterus transplantation (UTx) by comparison of CT angiography (CTA), digital subtraction angiography (DSA), and MR angiography (MRA) with care taken to minimize radi…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the accuracy of interpretation of a non-contrast MRI protocol in characterizing adnexal masses. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Two hundred ninety-one patients (350 adnexal masses) who underwent gynecological MRI at our inst…

OBJECTIVE: To determine the efficacy and safety of ultrasound (US)-guided sclerotherapy for the treatment of ovarian endometrioma through a systematic review and meta-analysis. METHODS: MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were searched for studie…

OBJECTIVES: To compare the efficacies of catheter-directed sclerotherapy (CDS) with 99% ethanol and surgery for ovarian endometrioma and their impact on the ovarian reserve. METHODS: From January 2011 to June 2019, 71 patients who underwen…

Early detection is the only way to achieve a high cure rate in women with ovarian cancer. Unfortunately, to date, there is no effective strategy for early detection, despite rapidly emerging biomarkers. The low prevalence of ovarian cancer,…

OBJECTIVES: The use of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging in differentiation between benign and malignant adnexal masses in children and adolescents might be of great value in the diagnostic workup of sonographically indeterminate masses, sinc…

OBJECTIVE: To develop imaging guidelines for the MR work-up of female genital tract congenital anomalies (FGTCA). METHODS: These guidelines were prepared based on a questionnaire sent to all members of the European Society of Urogenital Ra…

OBJECTIVES: To qualitatively and quantitatively compare the image quality between single-shot echo-planar (SS-EPI) and multi-shot echo-planar (IMS-EPI) diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) in female pelvis METHODS: This was a prospective study …

OBJECTIVE: To retrospectively determine the accuracy of MRI rectal and pararectal signs in predicting the necessity for segmental resection in the case of lesions located in the rectum. METHODS: MR images of consecutive patients treated fo…