Diagnostic Imaging Europe

Four-year-old girl presented with painful knee swelling that had continued for eight weeks (erthrocyte sedimentation rate [ESR] = 45 mm/h; C-reactive protein [CRP] = 1.2 mg/dL). Juvenile idiopathic arthritis was diagnosed after exclusion of other causes.

A 60-year-old woman, diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma, sought medical relief for intense back pain. The neurological exam revealed a slight deficit in strength and degree of left leg extension, without tone or sensibility deficits or atrophy of the lower extremities.

An 84-year-old male hemodialysis patient with a history of prostate cancer treated with external beam irradiation was hospitalized for intermittent melena. Colonoscopy had shown thickened mucosa of the sigmoid colon with three ulcers.

Genitourinary tuberculosis is the most common manifestation of extrapulmonary TB, accounting for 15% to 20% of infections outside the lungs.

Mammography is the only screening modality that has been proven to reduce mortality from breast cancer.

A U.K. radiologist has created a winning design in a competition to create a commemorative coin for the 2012 Olympics, to be held in London.

The Society of French Radiology has bestowed its prestigious Antoine Béclère Medal on Prof. Pierre Schnyder, the former head of radiology at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois in Lausanne, Switzerland.

An editorial published in BMJ has stirred up debate once again about whether breast MRI leads to more mastectomies. The author said yes it does while others insist it does not.

The ability to control time—or, more specifically, temporal resolution—for volumetric acquisitions, is helping to create new applications and boost diagnostic confidence, particularly in musculoskeletal examinations.