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Latest articles on COVID-19

Jul 1, 2020

A predictive model and scoring system combining clinical and CT characteristics for the diagnosis of COVID-19 This study establishes a scoring system which could be helpful for the prediction of COVID-19, assisting physicians and radiologists to reliably identify...

Reply to the Letter to the Editor: “MRI targeted single fraction HDR Brachytherapy for localized Prostate Carcinoma: a feasibility study of focal radiation therapy (ProFocAL)”

Jun 30, 2020

Dear Professor Menu, Dear Editors, Many thanks for the comments and recommendation of Dr Abhinav Sidana and his team for the study of MR guided, targeted and single fraction HDR Brachytherapy for localized Prostate Carcinoma. Of course, we cannot comment on...

Letter to the Editor: “MRI targeted single fraction HDR Brachytherapy for localized Prostate Carcinoma: a feasibility study of focal radiation therapy (ProFocAL)”

Jun 30, 2020

Dear Editor, We found the recent article by Fischbach et al on focal MRI-guided high-dose-rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer (CaP) of great interest as it investigates a new and promising modality for focal therapy of localized CaP [1]. In patients with low or...

Impact Factor 2019: 4.101

Jun 30, 2020

The European Society of Radiology (ESR) is pleased to announce that European Radiology, the flagship journal of the society, has received an Impact Factor (IF) for 2019 of 4.101. The newly released IF, together with nearly one million downloads and over 3,600...

Letter to the Editor: “Retrospective evaluation of CT findings to shape epidemiological models of COVID-19 outbreak”

Jun 8, 2020

Dear Editor, Since January 2020, COVID-19 virus has rapidly spread in mainland China and into multiple countries worldwide [1]. The first registered case in Italy (apart from two Chinese tourists in Rome), was reported the February 21st in Codogno, Lombardy. At that...

Letter to the Editor: “Pneumonia in COVID-19: Time to change the paradigm for chest CT”

May 19, 2020

Dear Editor, Since the beginning of Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, Hubei province of China, in late 2019 [1, 2], greatly resembling viral pneumonia, most of the available studies, case series, and case report, mainly from the Chinese...

Reply to the Letter to the Editor: “Efficacy of contrast-enhanced FDG PET/CT in patients awaiting liver transplantation with rising alpha-fetoprotein after bridge therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma”

May 18, 2020

Dear Editor, We thank the colleagues Sami Akbulut and Tevfik Tolga Sahin for their letter regarding our paper entitled “Efficacy of contrast-enhanced FDG PET/CT in patients awaiting liver transplantation with rising alpha-fetoprotein after bridge therapy of...

Letter to the Editor: “Efficacy of contrast-enhanced FDG PET/CT in patients awaiting liver transplantation with rising alpha-fetoprotein after bridge therapy of hepatocellular carcinoma”

May 18, 2020

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the recent article published by Refaat and colleagues [1]. The authors stated that they found a significant correlation between the alpha-fetoprotein level and maximum standardised uptake value (SUVmax) ratio. We would like to...

Letter to the Editor: “Radiomics for COVID-19: A time for more precise approach”

May 18, 2020

Dear Editor, COVID-19 is now the leading cause of death worldwide, and is an emergency problem that should be managed quickly. To diagnose and manage COVID-19, real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) and computed tomography (CT) are used as...

Letter to the Editor: “CT and COVID-19: Chinese experience and recommendations concerning detection, staging and follow-up”

May 18, 2020

Dear Editor, I read the recent recent European Radiology article “CT and COVID-19: Chinese experience and recommendations concerning detection, staging and follow-up.” with great interest [1]. I fully agree with the authors for using CT for diagnosis of possible...