Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for bladder cancer are becoming more common and may provide accurate information that helps improve patient care. Here, we describe a standardized reporting criterion for bladder MRI. This should improve communication between doctors and allow better comparisons between patients.
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the seventh most common histological type of cancer in
the Western world and has shown a sustained increase in its prevalence. The
histological classification of RCCs is of utmost importance, considering the
significant prognostic and therapeutic implications of its histological subtypes.
Imaging methods play an outstanding role in the diagnosis, staging and follow-up of
RCC. Clear cell, papillary and chromophobe are the most common histological subtypes
of RCC, and their preoperative radiological characterization, either followed or not
by confirmatory percutaneous biopsy, may be particularly useful in cases of poor
surgical condition, metastatic disease, central mass in a solitary kidney, and in
patients eligible for molecular targeted therapy. New strategies recently developed
for treating renal cancer, such as cryo and radiofrequency ablation, molecularly
targeted therapy and active surveillance also require appropriate preoperative
characterization of renal masses. Less common histological types, although sharing
nonspecific imaging features, may be suspected on the basis of clinical and
epidemiological data. The present study is aimed at reviewing the main clinical and
imaging findings of histological RCC subtypes.
The rapid guide includes three diagnosis recommendations and four management recommendations covering patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 with different levels of disease severity, throughout the care pathway from outpatient facility or hospital entry, to home discharge. The rapid guide offers considerations about implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and identifies research needs. The guide will be relevant for clinicians, hospital managers and planners, policy-makers, hospital architects, biomedical engineers, medical physicists, logistics staff, and control officers involved in water/sanitation and infection prevention.
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