Pediatric primary anaplastic ganglioglioma with malignant neuronal component

摘要

I read with great attention the case reportentitled ‘Pediatric primary anaplastic gangliogliomawith malignant neuronal component’ reportedby Kaymak-Cihan et al.1 in your prestigiousjournal. Although the case report was welldesigned in a broad sense, I still would like toemphasize several points I consider importantregarding the radiological descriptions madethroughout the manuscript. MRI descriptionsunder the header ‘Figure 1’ contain someerrors. The MRI image described in Figure 1belongs to a T1-weighted inversion recovery(IR) sequence but its legend states that itis a T1-weighted image. The post-contrastT1-weighted MR image given in Figure1B and described as depicting gadoliniumenhancement belongs to postoperative MRIcontrol examinations but not the preoperativeperiod. The described lesion did not showcontrast enhancement in the preoperative MRIexamination.Radiological descriptions being made bynon-radiologists in manuscripts containingradiological images lead to misinformationof readers, thereby both reducing the impactfactor of that article and call in question theprestige of the publishing journal. Hence,to avoid such inconveniences, it would beappropriate that radiological descriptionsand assessments in published manuscripts bemade by radiologists.