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 …

Arnolda Marija Baškytė1, Agnė Kavaliauskaitė1, Saulius Lukoševičius2, Carl Bruno Neisser3 1Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Lithuania 2Department of Radiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Lithuania 3Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St. Joseph Krankenhaus, Berlin, Germany Abstract The aim: to accomplish CT measurements and evaluate the impact of unchangeable risk factors and comorbidities on …

Kamilė Počepavičiūtė1, Rasita Pavilionė 2  1Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Academy of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania 2Republic Klaipeda Hospital, Department of Radiology, Klaipeda, Lithuania ABSTRACT The most common causes of shock are traumatic events. Although signs of hypoperfusion complex are detected in only 5% of patients, who suffered blunt abdominal trauma, unfortunately, these …

Rūta Pačinskaitė1, Rymantė Gleiznienė2 1Academy of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania. 2Department of Radiology of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania. ABSTRACT DAI is a frequent and detrimental type of traumatic brain injury that may lead to death and disability. DAI is classified into 3 grades based on …

Vaida Atstupėnaitė1, Ieva Kraujutienė1, Rūta Jonė Nakaitė1, Edita Bieliūnienė1, Algidas Basevičius1 1Department of Radiology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania ABSTRACT Background and aim. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most useful and frequent methods of examinations to monitor patients after chemoradiotherapy, in order to assess residual tumor tissue and …

Ričardas Kundelis1, Laura Dobrovaitė1, Mažvydas Užkurnys1 1 Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Academy of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania ABSTRACT Bronchopulmonary sequestration is an uncommon congenital anomaly in which part of the non‐functioning pulmonary tissue is divided from the normal lung and has no normal connection with the tracheobronchial tree and pulmonary artery. This …

Dalia Mitraitė 1, Dovilė Duličiūtė 1, Edita Treiklerytė-Varškienė 2 and Rūta Tatarėlytė 3 1    Department of Radiology, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania 2    Department of Family Medicine, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania; 3    Clinical Department of Internal Diseases, Medical Academy, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania; …

Ugnė Kulnickaitė1,  Laura Dobrovaitė1 , Kamilė Grigaitė1 1Faculty of Medicine, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania Corresponding author’s email: ugne.kulnickaite@gmail.com ABSTRACT Background: The 2019 coronavirus disease pandemic (COVID-19) has spread at an astonishing speed across the world, causing major morbidity and mortality. Computed tomography (CT) examination plays an important role in crisis areas in …