State-of-the-art scanners enable noninvasive assessment of bypass grafts and native vasculature for patency and arterial disease
Clinical History: A 45 year old African-American nulligravida female presented to the emergency department complaining of 8/10 nonradiating pain deep within her vagina.
Most infected individuals remain asymptomatic carriers, but hepatosplenic form of schistosomiasis can be associated with serious complications
Radiation plays an important role in the treatmentof primary and secondary centralnervous system neoplasms.
The advent of multislice CT, advanced computer workstations, and 3D and postprocessing algorithms has allowed for new perspectives from which to view imaging data. These are especially useful for pancreatic cancer and biliary pathology.
34-year-old male presented with worsening numbness and increasing weakness in right hand, progressing to proximal right upper extremity.
Results are in for the first group of radiologists to take the ABR Certifying Exam.
Noninvasive cardiac imaging is gaining widespread acceptance. Both CT and MRI can determine the absence or presence of coronary artery disease accurately and reliably. This is done by either assessing the coronary artery morphology or by offering detailed insight into functional aspects and myocardial perfusion.
Three suggestions for radiology practices to consider when adopting the new Technical Standard for Electronic Practice of Medical Imaging.
Coronary CT angiography is commonly performed using beta blockers to slow the heart rate and reduce motion artifacts in the images, thereby improving diagnostic accuracy. Oral metoprolol is often prescribed one hour prior to the procedure. Intravenous metoprolol may be given immediately prior to the procedure as an alternative or if oral beta blocker alone did not achieve adequate heart rate control.
Case history: A 67-year-old female with a history of long standing goiter presented with a short onset history of cough and breathlessness. She did not have any fever or hemoptysis. The chest X-ray was unremarkable.
The spectrum of usual and unusual primary neoplasms involving the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum is extremely wide. Our own database of digestive pathology contains a range of benign small bowel neoplasms (adenoma, leiomyoma, lipoma, familial polyposis, hemangioma, lymphangioma, and fibroma), as well as examples of malignancy (adenocarcinoma, carcinoid tumor, lymphoma, leiomyosarcoma, direct extension from extraintestinal tumors, and metastasic lesions).
We must accept: 1) the assertion that market and political forces are designed to lower our incomes and profits; and 2) it is our responsibility to innovate and act proactively to manage change. With this acceptance we can actually improve our income and profits rather than sitting on the sidelines as a helpless non-participant. Please join us this year with this mind set as our focus.
With the release of the iPhone 4S and Siri, Apple has introduced speech recognition (SR) technology to the masses. Apple bills and markets Siri as a “humble personal assistant.” However, I doubt many radiologists, who have been working with SR technology for multiple years, would describe their SR software systems this way.
Case History: 55-year-old male with burning urination, hypertension, left flank pain, weight loss.
Female infertility accounts for two-thirds of all infertility problems, and it can be due to tubal, ovarian, and/or uterine factors. Tuboperitoneal disease is thought to be a contributing factor to infertility for up to 40% of infertile couples.
The term “acute abdomen” refers to the sudden onset of severe abdominal pain requiring emergency medical or surgical management.
Despite obtaining my basic radiology residency training in New Delhi, I had never attended any of the Indian radiology meetings. When I was invited as a speaker, I was keen on using this opportunity to experience radiology in the Indian setting.
Hysterosalpingography is the radiographic evaluation of the uterine cavity and fallopian tubes after injection of radiopaque contrast through the cervical canal. The first hysterosalpingography, performed in 1910, was considered to be the first interventional radiological procedure.
Transrectal ultrasound provides clear images of the prostatic anatomy and accurate guidance for prostate biopsy.1 The technique has become useful for the evaluation of patients with prostatic disease, but its success depends greatly on individual operators. It is important for radiology staff to understand the correct approach to prostate scanning and biopsy procedures, as well as the indications and limitations.
Ovarian cancer accounts for nearly 3% of all cancers among women. It is the second most common gynecological malignancy in the U.S., following carcinoma of the uterine corpus.
Women's health and imaging's role in it are of enormous social, economic, and psychological importance. Recognition of this importance prompted the University of Rochester Medical Center's imaging sciences department to hold its first annual Women's Health and Imaging in a Digital Environment conference in San Antonio, TX, in January 2007.
Diagnostic, staging and follow-up exams for tumors are among the most frequent CT exams performed in many radiology departments. For the University of Erlangen, oncology related imaging represents approximately 60% of the daily CT workload. To date, exams are read and evaluated in 2D, employing manual measurement and reporting of lesions.
Case History: 26-year-old male with complaints of pain and swelling in left knee joint, had sustained knee injury from falling from a bicycle one month prior.
Case History: 60-year-old female with complaint of breathlessness during rest, unrelated to smoke/dust; non-purulent non-blood stained whitish expectorant in cough; fever.
Case History: 15-month-old with focal seizure, developmental delay, disproportionate increase in size of head.
Case History: 65-year-old woman with dry cough, sore throat and mild fever, had upper airway infection diagnosis and similar attacks in previous years.
Stanford University radiology officials are reevaluating their conflict of interest policies for continuing medical education programs in light of new School of Medicine rules that severely restrict funding from pharmaceutical and device companies.
CT angiography of the abdominal aorta is a wellacceptedmodality in the evaluation of bothaneurismal and occlusive disease. In patientswith abdominal aorta aneurysms, it has a major rolein all stages of evaluation.