Reply to Perrella et al. Coming Back to the Basics. Comment on "Cangir et al. A CT-Based Radiomic Signature for the Differentiation of Pulmonary Hamartomas from Carcinoid Tumors. Diagnostics 2022, 12, 416"

Ayten Kayi Cangir^{1

2}, Kaan Orhan^{2

3

4}, Aysegul Gursoy Coruh⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery Ankara, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine (AUFM), Ankara 06100, Turkey.
² Medical Design Application and Research Center (MEDITAM), Ankara University, Ankara 06100, Turkey.
³ Department of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiodiagnostics, Medical University of Lublin, 20-093 Lublin, Poland.
⁴ Department of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry, Ankara 06100, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine (AUFM), Ankara 06100, Turkey.

Ayten Kayi Cangir et al. Diagnostics (Basel). 2023.

. 2023 Nov 21;13(23):3490.

doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13233490.

Ayten Kayi Cangir^{1

2}, Kaan Orhan^{2

3

4}, Aysegul Gursoy Coruh⁵

¹ Department of Thoracic Surgery Ankara, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine (AUFM), Ankara 06100, Turkey.
² Medical Design Application and Research Center (MEDITAM), Ankara University, Ankara 06100, Turkey.
³ Department of Dental and Maxillofacial Radiodiagnostics, Medical University of Lublin, 20-093 Lublin, Poland.
⁴ Department of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Ankara University Faculty of Dentistry, Ankara 06100, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Radiology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine (AUFM), Ankara 06100, Turkey.

Abstract

We thank to Dr. Perrella and and his fellow authors for your kind letter and thoughtful comments [...].

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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