CT

Can you make the diagnosis?

What is your diagnosis on this CT of the neck?

Awareness of the variable imaging characteristics and behavior of thymic cysts over time should help guide clinical management.

A 78-year-old patient presents with chest pain. Can you make the diagnosis?

Patients suspected of having coronary stenoses may benefit from ultra-high-resolution CT, according to a recent study that showed high diagnostic confidence in severely calcified coronary atherosclerotic disease.

Computed tomography (CT) abnormalities are reported among a substantial proportion of patients after hospitalization with COVID-19.

What is causing this child’s esophageal and airway obstructive symptoms?

Radiologists should use this simple measure to detect osteoporosis when reading chest or abdominal CT scans and refer to orthopedic specialists for follow-up with positive findings.

Screening for COVID-19 exposure, particularly for patients with cancer on active treatment, has become a priority during the pandemic.

What most likely represents the imaging finding?

A tailored educational intervention involving collaboration among mental health, primary care and radiology clinicians may help overcome challenges to lung cancer screening among individuals with serious mental illness.

What is the diagnosis in this 35 year old patient with lower back pain?

Clinicians, especially those working in a region of high COVID-19 prevalence, should be aware that FDG PET/CT can detect lung and lymph node findings suggestive of COVID-19.

What is your diagnosis?

Combination can also help patients avoid unnecessary invasive procedures.

What is your diagnosis on this MRI?

Use of head and neck CTA has increased significantly among commercially insured and Medicare Advantage patients.

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Imaging use has spiked annually for nine years.

Patients who switch contrast media prior to a CT scan have fewer allergic reactions than do those treated with steroid pre-medication.

Warming media to body temperature does not decrease rate of adverse events.

Implementing routine use of these techniques could offer the most opportunity for assessment, but there are risks to doing so.

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Both board-certified radiologists and radiology residents more appropriately suggested chest CT follow-up when using artificial intelligence with chest X-ray.

More than 70 percent of patients exhibit lingering sequelae.

Measurements can help predict which tumors will respond to targeted therapies.

Study shows general radiologists in community settings have nearly the same level of diagnostic accuracy as abdominal fellowship-trained providers.

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System does a better job of indicating which patients with acute chest pain could experience adverse outcomes.