CT

CT scans for children with head injuries from sports should not be routine practice.

33-year-old male with history of cyanotic congenital heart disease status post multiple palliative cardiac surgeries.

This Q&A series explores radiology’s role in overdiagnosis in a variety of conditions. Here, we discuss mild traumatic brain injury.

FDG PET/CT scanning before treatment for invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast can predict survival.

Tips for radiology practices on preparing for new legislation and avoiding reimbursement cuts.

Patients who smoke and undergo early lung cancer screening may not feel the need to stop smoking.

A miss in radiology is inevitable; you just have to be lucky.

Doses over 7.5 mSv of radiation from cardiac CTA cause cellular damage.

Multi detector computed tomography for autoimmune pancreatitis may not provide fully accurate diagnosis if abnormalities are detected.

Imaging with electron beam tomography or CT helps determine plaque build-up in coronary artery calcification among asymptomatic patients.

Physicians can use MRI and CT scan to measure exercise limitations and understand symptoms among patients with COPD.

Performing routine abdominal and pelvic CTs does not increase detection of cancer among patients with unprovoked venous thromboembolism.

Low-dose CT observation of nonsolid lung nodules is safe.

Absolute recommendations for imaging, rather than conditional recommendations, result in more patients receiving the exams.

Patients who undergo coronary CT angiography receive lower radiation doses and are more pleased with the experience than with MPI.

Case History: 27-year-old patient presented with history of trauma.

Patient education can be taxing.

Coronary CT angiography detects links between arterial plaque, diabetes, blood pressure, and cholesterol levels.

Neuroimaging may not be necessary for all children with sports-related concussion.

Case History: 67-year-old female with progressive increase in size of left breast for five years.

CT may be used less often in diagnosing TBI with early measurement of glial fibrillary acidic protein and its breakdown products (GFAP-BDP).

Case History: 60-year-old female with shortness of breath worsening with exertion and fatigue.

A new study of amyloid PET brings imaging to the forefront of research for Alzheimer's disease.

Imaging examinations interpreted by diagnostic radiology residents and fellows have increased.

A CT protocol with lower radiation and contrast dose for aortic assessment provides acceptable diagnostic imaging.