Gintaras Kuprionis1, Raimondas Valickas1, Rasita Pavilionė1, Žygimantas Štaras1, Ugnė Marcinkutė1 1Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania Abstract Introduction: There have been various systems for identifying risk of thyroid nodule malignancy using ultrasound (US), with the most recent being 2017 American College of Radiology proposed TI-RADS. However, this system does not take vascular patterns into …

 Gerta Repečkaitė1, Rokas Kurtinaitis1, Laima Dobrovolskienė Md Phd.1, Algidas Basevičius Md Phd.1 Domas Golubickas1  1Department of Radiology of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas, Lithuania. Abstract Background: Fluid in the pleural cavity is a common clinical problem with many potential causes. Despite the clinical and radiological findings providing important data about the cause(s) of content …

Inga Zaborienė1, Tomas Tvarijonas3, Gertrūda Rudaitytė3 , Saulius Lukoševičius1, Giedrius Barauskas2, Kristina Žvinienė1 1Department of Radiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas, Lithuania. 2Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy. Department of Surgery. 3Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas, Lithuania. Abstract Background and aim: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the most malignant cancer  forms. It …

Ruta Pupalyte1, Algidas Basevicius2 1 Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2Department of Radiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania ABSTRACT Background and aim: Inflammatory diseases of the kidney are a broad group of various renal pathologies. They are usually recognized by clinical symptoms and laboratory tests. However, radiology also …

Artjoms Suponenkovs 1, Ardis Platkajis 2, Zigurds Markovics 1 1Faculty of computer science and information technology, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia 2Medical Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia Abstract Introduction: There is a growth in the number of people with osteoarthritis. Consequently, the analysis of knee articular cartilage degeneration by magnetic resonance imaging data is very …

Severina Šedienė 1, Ilona Kulakienė 1, Viktoras Rudžianskas 2 1Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Medical Academy 2Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Oncology Institute Abstract The role of 18F-fluorodeoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) imaging in head and neck carcinoma (HNC) during pre-treatment staging, treatment response assessment after induction chemotherapy, radiotherapy planning and after entire …

Dr. Sanjay Khaladkar1, Dr.Pooja Karanjule1, Dr. Arijit Ghosh1, Dr. Vaibhav Aher1 1Department of Radio-diagnosis, Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical College and Research Center, Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pimpri, Pune, India Abstract Congenital lumbar hernia is a rare anomaly. Congenital lumbar hernia is usually associated with lumbo-costo vertebral syndrome. Lumbo-costo vertebral syndrome is a condition that …

Ruta Pupalyte1, Algidas Basevicius2 1Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania 2Department of Radiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania ABSTRACT Background and aim. e adrenal tumors are a reasonably common pathology. Radiologic imaging detects an adrenal neoplasm in approximately 4% of the patients incidentally. It is also a valuable tool …

Gerta Repečkaitė1, Kristina Banionienė1, Eglė Kirklienė1, Jurgita Zaveckienė.1 1Department of Radiology of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas, Lithuania.   ABSTRACT Background: Traumatic injuries are the fourth most common cause of death in all age/race/sex groups. Computed tomography (CT) is considered to be the current gold standard when providing a quick and accurate diagnosis of …

Abstract Objective: to evaluate the importance of patient preparation for diagnostic quality of PET-CT images. Methods: prospective study of 188 patients‘ who underwent PET-CT examination at our Nuclear medicine department has been carried out. Patients were asked to fill in questionnaire about preparation for PET-CT. Then PET-CT images were analysed and attributed to one of …