Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused a huge outbreak worldwide. Patients infected with COVID-19 most commonly present with respiratory tract symptoms and pneumonia. Gastrointestinal symptoms can also occur in these patients. Renal involvement presenting as acute renal infarct and/or acute kidney injury has been described in literature; however, these typically occur in patients with severe COVID-19. To the best of our knowledge, there are no reported cases describing abnormal renal imaging findings in a patient with only mild form of COVID-19. We, therefore, report a case of a patient with mild COVID-19 presenting with acute abdominal pain and acute renal infarct.
and Data System (BI-RADS) category 4A lesions can be distinguished from BI-RADS 3 lesions with main ultrasound (US) findings such as a well-defined contour, round/oval shape, and parallel orientation with a homogeneous echo pattern. Breast Imaging Reporting and Data System 4A solid masses might be diagnosed as simple fibroadenomas (SFAs), complex fibroadenomas (CFAs), or benign phyllodes tumors (BPTs). Complex fibroadenomas have an increased risk of invasive cancer development than SFAs, and BPTs have a risk of borderlinemalignant phyllodes tumor transformation; both of them are surgically treated, whereas follow-up procedures are applied in SFAs. It is essential to differentiate SFAs from CFAs and BPTs. Grayscale features of these lesions include a prominent overlap. Texture analyses in breast lesions have contributions in benignmalignant lesion differentiation. In this study, we aimed to use texture analysis of US images to differentiate these benign lesions. Methods-Grayscale US features of lesions (32 SFAs, 31 CFAs, and 32 BPTs) were classified according to the BI-RADS. Texture analysis of US images with LIFEx software (http://www.lifexsoft.org) was performed retrospectively. Firstand second-order histogram parameters were evaluated. Results-In grayscale US, the shape, orientation, and posterior acoustic characteristics had statistical significance (P < .05). In the statistical analysis, skewness, kurtosis, excess kurtosis, gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM)-energy, GLCMentropy log 2, and GLCM-entropy log 10 revealed significant differences among all 3 groups (P < .05). Conclusions-As grayscale US features show prominent intersections, and treatment options differ, correct diagnosis is essential in SFAs, CFAs, and BPTs. In this study, we concluded that texture analysis of US images can discriminate SFAs from CFAs and BPTs. Texture analyses of US images is a potential candidate diagnostic tool for these lesions, and accurate diagnoses will preclude patients from undergoing unnecessary biopsies.
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