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Letter to the Editor: “Outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19): What is the role of radiologists?”

Apr 21, 2020

AI lends itself to the war of COVID-19 Dear Editor, We read with great interest the editorial, “Outbreak of novel coronavirus (COVID-19): What is the role of radiologists?” by Dr Hyungjin Kim published online on 18 February, 2020 [1]. The author mentioned that AI...

Letter to the Editor: “Pandemic novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV pneumonia and acute pulmonary embolism: are we underestimating the problem?”

Apr 9, 2020

Dear Editor, The COVID-19 outbreak that is currently ongoing in Northern Italy is intensely stressing the health machine. ICU departments are under a great deal of pressure because of the number of critically ill patients. As many other radiologists in the Lombardia...

Reply to Letter to the Editor: “Patients undergoing recurrent CT scans: assessing the magnitude”

Apr 7, 2020

Dear Editor-in-Chief, We have read with interest the letter to the editor by Dr. Pankaj Gupta on our recent paper “Patients undergoing recurrent CT scans: assessing the magnitude” [1]. We thank Dr. Gupta for the observations, comments and will like to respond to...

Letter to the Editor: “Patients undergoing recurrent CT scans: assessing the magnitude”

Apr 7, 2020

Dear Editor, I read with interest the paper titled “Patients undergoing recurrent CT scans: assessing the magnitude” by Rehani et al. published in the April issue [1]. I would like to congratulate the authors for this excellent work and highlighting a less well...

Radiomics studies: Let’s improve!

Apr 1, 2020

As with any emerging field, reporting of radiomics suffers from many methodological inconsistencies. This article provides important recommendations to improve future works, preferably from the very beginning of the experiment. Article: Quality of science and...

Reply to the Letter to the Editor: “Hepatocellular adenomas: is there additional value in using Gd-EOB-enhanced MRI for subtype differentiation?”

Apr 1, 2020

Dear Editor, With great interest we have read the Letter to the Editor by Rezeine et al. regarding our recent publication “Hepatocellular adenomas: is there additional value in using Gd-EOB-enhanced MRI for subtype differentiation?” [1]. They raise three concerns to...

Letter to the Editor: “Hepatocellular adenomas: is there additional value in using Gd-EOB-enhanced MRI for subtype differentiation?”

Apr 1, 2020

Dear Editor, We have read with great interest the article entitled “Hepatocellular adenomas: is there additional value in using Gd-EOB-enhanced MRI for subtype differentiation?” by Auer and colleagues published recently in European Radiology [1]. We would first like...

Letter to the Editor: Chest CT and RT-PCR: radiologists’ experience in the diagnosis of COVID-19 in China

Mar 30, 2020

Dear Editor, In December 2019, corona virus disease (COVID-19) initially occurred in Wuhan, China, which was associated with the infection of severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and the number of infected people increased rapidly in...

Reply to the Letter to the Editor: “Does quantitative assessment of arterial phase hyperenhancement and washout improve LI-RADS v2018–based classification of liver lesions?”

Mar 25, 2020

Dear Editor, With great interest we have received the “Letter to the Editor” by Mulé and Luciani regarding our recent publication “Does quantitative assessment of arterial phase hyperenhancement and washout improve LI-RADS v2018–based classification of liver lesions?”...

Letter to the Editor: “Does quantitative assessment of arterial phase hyperenhancement and washout improve LI-RADS v2018–based classification of liver lesions?”

Mar 25, 2020

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the article by Stocker and colleagues in the recent issue of European Radiology about diagnostic accuracy of LI-RADS v2018-based categorization of focal liver lesions using quantitative MRI assessment of arterial phase...