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Francesca Rigiroli MD

TitleAssociate Professor
InstitutionUMass Chan Medical School
DepartmentRadiology at UMass Chan - Lahey
AddressLahey Hospital and Medical Center
41 Mall Road
Burlington MA 01805
Phone781-744-8170
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    InstitutionT.H. Chan School of Medicine
    DepartmentRadiology at UMass Chan - Lahey


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    University of Milan, Milano, MI, ItalyMD

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    1. Aslan B, Rigiroli F, Brook A, Brook OR. Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastases Visibility: Split-Bolus Single Scan Versus Portal Venous Phase CT. J Comput Assist Tomogr. 2026 Feb 23. PMID: 41729825.
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    2. Sari L, Rigiroli F, Brook A, Berkowitz SJ, Nougaret S, Brook OR. Preventing missed malignancies: impact of standardized radiology-pathology concordance assessment in CT-guided omental and mesenteric biopsies. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2026 Apr; 51(4):2192-2204. PMID: 40944875.
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    3. Sari L, Rigiroli F, Akyol Sari ZN, Siewert B, Brook OR. Assessing the risk of unintended intestinal sampling in omental and mesenteric core needle biopsies. Eur Radiol. 2025 Nov; 35(11):7363-7371. PMID: 40392296.
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    4. Rigiroli F, Charalel RA, Brook A, Cantos A, Babar HS, Mendiratta-Lala M, Planz V, Lubner MG, Galgano SJ, Brook OR. Assessing the Concordance between Imaging Findings and Pathology Results in Image-Guided Biopsies: Insights from the SIR and SAR (Society of Abdominal Radiology) Membership Survey. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2025 07; 36(7):1231-1233. PMID: 40157496.
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    5. Rigiroli F, Nakhaei M, Karam R, Tabah N, Brook A, Siewert B, Brook OR. Combining clinical and radiological features improves prediction of bowel ischemia in patients with CT findings of pneumatosis intestinalis. Abdom Radiol (NY). 2025 08; 50(8):3447-3456. PMID: 39873759.
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    6. Causa Andrieu P, Avesani G, Quesada S, McPhedran RL, Rigiroli F, Aineseder M, Chacon C, Kido A, Nougaret S. Endometrial Cancer: A Daily Clinical Practice Guide for Radiologists. Magn Reson Med Sci. 2025; 24(3):387-402. PMID: 40835435.
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    7. Rigiroli F, Hamam O, Kavandi H, Brook A, Berkowitz S, Ahmed M, Siewert B, Brook OR. Routine radiology-pathology concordance evaluation of CT-guided percutaneous lung biopsies increases the number of cancers identified. Eur Radiol. 2024 May; 34(5):3271-3283. PMID: 37857902.
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    8. Rigiroli F, Camacho A, Chung A, Andrabi SY, Brook A, Siewert B, Ahmed M, Brook OR. Safety profile and technical success of narrow window CT-guided percutaneous biopsy with blunt needle approach in the abdomen and pelvis. Eur Radiol. 2024 Apr; 34(4):2364-2373. PMID: 37707549.
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    9. Schwartz FR, Clark DP, Rigiroli F, Kalisz K, Wildman-Tobriner B, Thomas S, Wilson J, Badea CT, Marin D. Evaluation of the impact of a novel denoising algorithm on image quality in dual-energy abdominal CT of obese patients. Eur Radiol. 2023 Oct; 33(10):7056-7065. PMID: 37083742.
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    10. Rigiroli F, Hoye J, Lerebours R, Lyu P, Lafata KJ, Zhang AR, Erkanli A, Mettu NB, Morgan DE, Samei E, Marin D. Exploratory analysis of mesenteric-portal axis CT radiomic features for survival prediction of patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Eur Radiol. 2023 Aug; 33(8):5779-5791. PMID: 36894753.
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    11. Lyu P, Liu N, Harrawood B, Solomon J, Wang H, Chen Y, Rigiroli F, Ding Y, Schwartz FR, Jiang H, Lowry C, Wang L, Samei E, Gao J, Marin D. Is it possible to use low-dose deep learning reconstruction for the detection of liver metastases on CT routinely? Eur Radiol. 2023 Mar; 33(3):1629-1640. PMID: 36323984.
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    12. Karandikar A, Solberg A, Fung A, Lee AY, Farooq A, Taylor AC, Oliveira A, Narayan A, Senter A, Majid A, Tong A, McGrath AL, Malik A, Brown AL, Roberts A, Fleischer A, Vettiyil B, Zigmund B, Park B, Curran B, Henry C, Jaimes C, Connolly C, Robson C, Meltzer CC, Phillips CH, Dove C, Glastonbury C, Pomeranz C, Kirsch CFE, Burgan CM, Scher C, Tomblinson C, Fuss C, Santillan C, Daye D, Brown DB, Young DJ, Kopans D, Vargas D, Martin D, Thompson D, Jordan DW, Shatzkes D, Sun D, Mastrodicasa D, Smith E, Korngold E, Dibble EH, Arleo EK, Hecht EM, Morris E, Maltin EP, Cooke EA, Schwartz ES, Lehrman E, Sodagari F, Shah F, Doo FX, Rigiroli F, Vilanilam GK, Landinez G, Kim GG, Rahbar H, Choi H, Bandesha H, Ojeda-Fournier H, Ikuta I, Dragojevic I, Schroeder JLT, Ivanidze J, Katzen JT, Chiang J, Nguyen J, Robinson JD, Broder JC, Kemp J, Weaver JS, Conyers JM, Robbins JB, Leschied JR, Wen J, Park J, Mongan J, Perchik J, Barbero JPM, Jacob J, Ledbetter K, Macura KJ, Maturen KE, Frederick-Dyer K, Dodelzon K, Cort K, Kisling K, Babagbemi K, McGill KC, Chang KJ, Feigin K, Winsor KS, Seifert K, Patel K, Porter KK, Foley KM, Patel-Lippmann K, McIntosh LJ, Padilla L, Groner L, Harry LM, Ladd LM, Wang L, Spalluto LB, Mahesh M, Marx MV, Sugi MD, Sammer MBK, Sun M, Barkovich MJ, Miller MJ, Vella M, Davis MA, Englander MJ, Durst M, Oumano M, Wood MJ, McBee MP, Fischbein NJ, Kovalchuk N, Lall N, Eclov N, Madhuripan N, Ariaratnam NS, Vincoff NS, Kothary N, Yahyavi-Firouz-Abadi N, Brook OR, Glenn OA, Woodard PK, Mazaheri P, Rhyner P, Eby PR, Raghu P, Gerson RF, Patel R, Gutierrez RL, Gebhard R, Andreotti RF, Masum R, Woods R, Mandava S, Harrington SG, Parikh S, Chu S, Arora SS, Meyers SM, Prabhu S, Shams S, Pittman S, Patel SN, Payne S, Hetts SW, Hijaz TA, Chapman T, Loehfelm TW, Juang T, Clark TJ, Potigailo V, Shah V, Planz V, Kalia V, DeMartini W, Dillon WP, Gupta Y, Koethe Y, Hartley-Blossom Z, Wang ZJ, McGinty G, Haramati A, Allen LM, Germaine P. Radiologists staunchly support patient safety and autonomy, in opposition to the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Clin Imaging. 2023 01; 93:117-121. PMID: 36064645.
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    13. Rigiroli F. Editorial Comment: Does Washout CT Still Have a Role for Characterization of Adrenal Incidentalomas? AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2022 Nov; 219(5):813. PMID: 35766534.
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    14. Rigiroli F, Zhang D, Molinger J, Wang Y, Chang A, Wischmeyer PE, Inman BA, Gupta RT. Automated versus manual analysis of body composition measures on computed tomography in patients with bladder cancer. Eur J Radiol. 2022 Sep; 154:110413. PMID: 35732083.
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    15. Camacho A, Chung AD, Rigiroli F, Sari MA, Brook A, Siewert B, Ahmed M, Brook OR. Concordance Assessment of Pathology Results with Imaging Findings after Image-Guided Biopsy. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2022 02; 33(2):159-168.e1. PMID: 34780925.
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    16. Rigiroli F, Hoye J, Lerebours R, Lafata KJ, Li C, Meyer M, Lyu P, Ding Y, Schwartz FR, Mettu NB, Zani S, Luo S, Morgan DE, Samei E, Marin D. CT Radiomic Features of Superior Mesenteric Artery Involvement in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma: A Pilot Study. Radiology. 2021 12; 301(3):610-622. PMID: 34491129.
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    17. Rigiroli F. Radioactive Particle Implantation Combined with Chemotherapy for Treatment of Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma. Radiol Imaging Cancer. 2021 09; 3(5):e219020. PMID: 34533374.
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    18. Rao VN, Obeid MJ, Rigiroli F, Russell SD, Patel CB, Molinger J, Gupta RT, Agarwal R, Fudim M. Pericardial Adipose Tissue Volume and Left Ventricular Assist Device-Associated Outcomes. J Card Fail. 2022 01; 28(1):149-153. PMID: 34274515.
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    19. Lyu P, Neely B, Solomon J, Rigiroli F, Ding Y, Schwartz FR, Thomsen B, Lowry C, Samei E, Marin D. Effect of deep learning image reconstruction in the prediction of resectability of pancreatic cancer: Diagnostic performance and reader confidence. Eur J Radiol. 2021 Aug; 141:109825. PMID: 34144309.
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    20. Ding Y, Meyer M, Lyu P, Rigiroli F, Ramirez-Giraldo JC, Lafata K, Yang S, Marin D. Can radiomic analysis of a single-phase dual-energy CT improve the diagnostic accuracy of differentiating enhancing from non-enhancing small renal lesions? Acta Radiol. 2022 Jun; 63(6):828-838. PMID: 33878931.
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    21. D'Amico NC, Grossi E, Valbusa G, Rigiroli F, Colombo B, Buscema M, Fazzini D, Ali M, Malasevschi A, Cornalba G, Papa S. A machine learning approach for differentiating malignant from benign enhancing foci on breast MRI. Eur Radiol Exp. 2020 01 28; 4(1):5. PMID: 31993839.
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    22. Schwartz FR, Shaw BI, Lerebours R, Vernuccio F, Rigiroli F, Gonzalez F, Luo S, Rege AS, Vikraman D, Hurwitz-Koweek L, Marin D, Ravindra K. Correlation of preoperative imaging characteristics with donor outcomes and operative difficulty in laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. Am J Transplant. 2020 03; 20(3):752-760. PMID: 31553125.
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    23. Tonolini M, Rigiroli F, Scorza D. Predicting Risk of Contrast-Induced Nephrotoxicity in Hospitalized Patients Undergoing Computed Tomography Using the Mehran Stratification Score. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol. 2016 May-Jun; 45(3):238-9. PMID: 26921999.
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    24. Tonolini M, Ippolito S, Rigiroli F. Images in medicine: Spontaneous aortocaval fistula complicating abdominal aortic aneurysm. J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2014 Apr; 7(2):129-30. PMID: 24812461.
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    25. Tonolini M, Rigiroli F, Villa F, Bianco R. Complications of sporadic, hereditary, and acquired renal cysts: cross-sectional imaging findings. Curr Probl Diagn Radiol. 2014 Mar-Apr; 43(2):80-90. PMID: 24629661.
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    26. Tonolini M, Rigiroli F, Bianco R. Symptomatic and complicated nonhereditary developmental liver cysts: cross-sectional imaging findings. Emerg Radiol. 2014 Jun; 21(3):301-8. PMID: 24249390.
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