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Purpose We aimed to compare COVID-19 imaging findings of young adults (19–35 years of age) with those of children (0–18 years) and to correlate imaging findings of young adults with their laboratory tests. Materials and methods This retrospective study included Real Time-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) confirmed 130 young adults (mean age: 28.39 ± 4.77; 65 male, 65 female) and 36 children (mean age: 12.41 ± 4.51; 17 male, 19 female), between March and June 2020. COVID-19 related imaging findings on chest CT were examined in young adults and compared with children by the Mann-Whitney U, and Chi-square or Fisher's exact test. Laboratory examinations of young adults were assessed in terms of correlation with radiological findings by the Spearman's correlation analysis. Results Bilateral multiple distributions (p = 0.014), subpleural involvement, and pleural thickening (p = 0.004), GGOs with internal consolidations were more frequent in adults (p = 0.009). Infiltrations were significantly larger than 20 mm in young adults (p = 0.011). The rates of feeding vessel sign, vascular enlargement, and halo sign were significantly higher in young adults (p

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the role of chest computed tomography (CT) examinations acquired early after initial onset of symptoms in predicting disease course in coronavirus disease 2019. METHODS: Two hundred sixty-two patients were categorized according to intensive care unit (ICU) admission, survival, length of hospital stay, and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction positivity. Mean time interval between the onset of symptoms and CT scan was 5.2 ± 2.3 days. Groups were compared using Student t test, Mann-Whitney U, and Fisher exact tests. RESULTS: In the ICU (+) and died groups, crazy paving (64% and 57.1%), bronchus distortion (68% and 66.7%), bronchiectasis-bronchiolectasis (80% and 76.2%), air trapping (52% and 52.4%) and mediastinal-hilar lymph node enlargement (52% and 52.4%) were significantly more encountered (P < 0,05). These findings were correlated with longer hospital stays (P < 0.05). There were no differences between reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction-positive and -negative patients except bronchiectasis-bronchiolectasis. CONCLUSION: Computed tomography examinations performed early after the onset of symptoms may help in predicting disease course and planning of resources, such as ICU beds.

Iron deposition in various organs can cause endocrine complications in patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia. The aim was to investigate the relationship between endocrine complications and pancreatic iron overload using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Forty patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia (TDT) were enrolled in the study. The magnetic resonance imagings of the patients were performed using a 1.5 Tesla Philips MRI scanner. Two out of three patients had at least one clinical endocrine complication. The rate of iron deposition was 62.5% in liver, and 45% in pancreas tissue, and was 12.5% in heart tissue. Pancreatic T2* and hepatic T2* values were significantly positively correlated (p = 0.006). Pancreatic T2* and ferritin were significantly negatively correlated (p = 0.03). Cardiac T2* values were negatively correlated with fasting blood glucose (p = 0.03). Patients with short stature had significantly higher cardiac iron burden (22.3 vs. 36.6 T2*ms; p00.01) and patients with hypothyroidism had higher liver iron concentrations (9.9 vs. 6.4 LIC mg/g; p = 0.05). The ferritin level of 841 ng/mL, and liver iron concentration (LIC) value of 8.7 mg/g were detected as the threshold level for severe pancreatic iron burden (AUC 70%, p:0.04, AUC 80%, p = 0.002, respectively). Moreover, males were found to have decreased pancreas T2* values compared with the values in females (T2* 19.3 vs. 29.9, p = 0.05). Patients with higher ferritin levels over than 840 ng/mL should be closely monitored for pancreatic iron deposition, and patients with endocrine complications should be assessed in terms of cardiac iron burden.

Rationale and Objectives This study aims to reveal the imaging features of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in children. Materials and Methods Sixty-nine chest radiographs and 37 chest CT examinations of 74 children (36 male; median (interquartile range) age:11 (6.25–15) years, 38 female; median (interquartile range) age: 12 (5.75–16) years) with positive real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction results between March 10 and May 31, 2020, were evaluated in this retrospective study. Differences in 0– 0.05). The rate of ground-glass opacities with or without consolidation (17/37, 45.94%) was higher than consolidation alone (6/37, 16.2%). Feeding vessel sign (16/37, 43.2%), halo sign (9/37, 24.3%), pleural thickening (6/37, 16.2%), interlobular interstitial thickening (5/37, 13.5%), and lymphadenopathy (3/37, 8.1%) were other imaging findings. Conclusion Unilateral or bilateral distributed ground-glass opacities often associated with feeding vessel sign, halo sign, and pleural thickening on chest CT without significant differences between age groups were findings of COVID-19 in children.

Male breast cancer is an uncommon disease that constitutes 1% of all breast cancers and encapsulated papillary carcinoma (EPC) is a rare subtype of malignant male diseases. Gynecomastia is the most common disease of the male breast. We report a 63-year-old male patient with EPC accompanied by gynecomastia that was diagnosed and treated at our breast center. Mammography showed an oval-shaped dense mass with circumscribed margins on the ground of nodular gynecomastia. On ultrasonographic exam, we saw a well-circumscribed complex mass with a solid component which was vascular on Doppler ultrasonography. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a complex cystic mass containing solid components. Dynamic images showed enhancement of the cystic mass wall and mural components. Tumor stage was evaluated as T2N0. The lesion's histologic examination and immunohistochemical analysis by showing no myoepithelial layer revealed an encapsulated papillary carcinoma. To our knowledge, this is the first case report which describes MR imaging findings of male breast encapsulated papillary cancer.

The relationship between pancreatic iron overload and glucose dysregulation has not been well defined and need further investigation. Pancreas iron load measurements are also necessary to understand how hepatic, pancreatic, and cardiac iron burden prospectively modulate the evolution of diabetes in transfusion dependent thalassemia (TDT). Aim: This study aims to evaluate the presence of pancreatic iron overload among TDT patients in Turkey based on the MRI R2* and T2* results as well as to determine its association to Fasting blood glucose (FBG), insulin, fructosamine, Homa-IR, C-peptide, ferritin, liver, cardiac and hypophysis MRI R2* results. Material and Methods: This study was conducted at the Thalassemia Center in Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty. Forty-one TDT patients included the study with a mean age of 29.9±9,9 (median 29) years old, ranging from 11 to 45 years old. Pancreatic, liver, cardiac and hypophsis MRI's were conducted using 1.5 Tesla Philips MRI machine in the Department of Radiology. Pancreatic MRI R2* results < 30 Hz were considered normal, 30-100 Hz as mild, and > 100 Hz as moderate to severe pancreatic siderosis. Pancreatic MRI T2 results >26 ms were is normal, < 10 ms is severe iron overload as presented at literature. Correlations between pancreatic MRI R2* results and FBG, insulin, fructosamine, Homa-IR, C-peptide, ferritin, cardiac and hypophysis MRI R2* were evaluated using the Pearson correlation, Man Whitney U test. Results: Laboratory findings of glucose metabolism and MRI's of liver, pancreas, hypophsis and cardiac iron are shown at Table 1. There were no significant relationship between fasting blood glucose, insülin, C-peptid level, fructosamine, Homa-IR, ferritin and Pancreas T2* and R2* results (p>0.05). There was significant correlation between liver and pancreas MRI T2* and R2* results. (p0.05). Fourteen patients were found to have normal pancreatic MRI R2* (34,1%) while 19 patients have normal pancreatic MRI T2 (46.3%). It is reported that T2 is irrelevant to age and sex, and R2 can be related to age-related fatty degeneration. There was significant pancreatic iron burden in 31.7% of patients (R2*>100 Hz), of whom only 1 patient was under 18 years of age.There were 22 (53.6%) patients with T2* Discussion:The lack of correlation between pancreatic and cardiac MRI R2* are in contrast to another demonstrating that pancreatic iron load are good predictors of cardiac iron load. This is due to the fact that our patients are followed up with cardiac MR and taken to the intensive chelation programs of the patients who detect iron in the heart. Previous studies also report that while pancreatic R2* may be sensitive for glucose dysregulation, most patients may still have no symptoms and normal blood glucose, indicating the presence of a preclinical iron burden. Pancreatic MRI R2* can detect pancreatic iron accumulation at a much earlier stage. Lack of excessive iron load in liver of our patient can be explain low glucose metabolism disorder despite high pancreatic iron overload. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.