European Radiology

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a common chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative disease [ 1 ]. Demyelinating lesions in the brain and spinal cord are the pathological hallmarks of MS, which are detectable in vivo with magnetic resonance imaging …

Complete tumour response to chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for rectal cancer occurs in approximately one-quarter of patients [ 1 ]. Rather than subject such patients to surgery, in which morbidity from bowel and sexual dysfunction occurs up to 65% and …

Left atrial (LA) enlargement (LAE) is common in hypertension [ 1 ] and is postulated to be compensatory to left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH)-associated diastolic dysfunction. However, LAE may develop before LVH in hypertension [ 2 ] and LAE is an …

Pregnancy leads to a number of anatomical and physiological changes in the breast. Higher hormone levels cause ductal and lobular growth leading to an increase in breast size and higher density of glandular tissue [ 1 , 2 ]. Clinical examination in …

Obesity is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes, and for many cancers including the oesophagus, stomach, pancreas, gallbladder, liver, colorectum, breast, endometrium, and kidney [ 1 ]. For colorectal cancer …