Quantitative Imaging in Medicine and Surgery

Quant Imaging Med Surg · ISSN (print) 2223-4292 · ISSN (e) 2223-4306 · 64 papers in corpus
observational 2022
doi:10.21037/qims-21-731 ·PMID:35284283

BACKGROUND: Neuroimaging studies have confirmed that functional connectivity (FC) disruption of pain-related brain networks may contribute to the cerebral pathophysiology of primary dysmenorrhea (PDM). However, it remains unclear whether FC…

2022
doi:10.21037/qims-22-158 ·PMID:36060575

BackgroundThe aim of this study was to develop a new model constructed by logistic regression for the early prediction of the severity of acute pancreatitis (AP) using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the Acute Physiology and Chronic He…

observational 2022
doi:10.21037/qims-21-812 ·PMID:35371941

BACKGROUND: To determine differences in endometrial cavity anteroposterior diameter, thickness, volume, and diameter lines of uterine body and thickness, and volume of upper, middle, and lower regions of the endometrium in infertile women u…

other 2021
doi:10.21037/qims-21-177 ·PMID:34737935
other 2021
doi:10.21037/qims-20-622 ·PMID:33936962

BACKGROUND: We aimed to investigate the efficacy and safety of echo contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) during high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation therapy for abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE). METHODS: A total of 67 patient…

observational 2021
doi:10.21037/qims-20-1193 ·PMID:34341743

BACKGROUND: More than 50 million women suffer from infertility worldwide, among whom 30% have associated fallopian tube pathology. Fortunately, the diagnostic accuracy of tubal patency has been enhanced with the consistent development of ul…

other 2020
doi:10.21037/qims.2019.12.07 ·PMID:32190576
other 2020
doi:10.21037/qims.2020.02.19 ·PMID:32269933

BACKGROUND: To assess the ability of preoperative positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans to predict postoperative residual disease in advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (AEOC). METHODS: Thirty-one women with suspec…

review 2019
doi:10.21037/qims.2019.09.03 ·PMID:31867236

Masses involving the abdominal wall are common in clinical practice and have many etiologies, including tumors and tumor-like lesions. Abdominal wall tumors include primary and secondary tumors, the former of which constitute a heterogeneou…

lab-animal 2019
doi:10.21037/qims.2019.06.15 ·PMID:31367559

BACKGROUND: Iatrogenic or traumatic ureteral injuries are life-threatening but difficult to diagnose early. Ureteral visualization is essential for both the prevention and diagnosis of iatrogenic or traumatic ureter injuries. In the present…

review 2018
doi:10.21037/qims.2018.01.10 ·PMID:29675360

In this pictorial review, MR imaging findings of deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) are illustrated together with surgical correlation. DIE can appear as irregular nodules or plaques with similar signal intensity to muscle on both T1-wei…

other 2018
doi:10.21037/qims.2018.08.06 ·PMID:30211039

We read the manuscript titled “ Deep infiltrating endometriosis MR imaging with surgical correlation ” by Tang et al . with educational interest (1). We would like to congratulate the authors for presenting valuable pictorial review of deep…

other 2016
doi:10.21037/qims.2016.01.02 ·PMID:27190779

Endometriosis is a common disorder which affects 5–10% of women of reproductive age, for which the gold standard investigation for the diagnosis is laparoscopy and biopsy with histological confirmation (1,2). Urinary tract endometriosis occ…

case-report 2015
doi:10.3978/j.issn.2223-4292.2014.08.05 ·PMID:26029655

Endometriosis is a benign gynecological disease that is characterized by the presence of functional endometrial tissue outside the uterus. Although the ovaries and uterine ligaments are the most common locations, urinary tract involvement e…