Fellows’ Journal Club September 2014 (3 of 3) HASTE DWI was used to examine 16 patients before cholesteatoma surgery and the findings were compared with those seen intraoperatively. HASTE DWI showed 90% sensitivity, 100% specificity, 100% positive predictive value, and
Radiologists find satisfaction in detecting abnormalities and making diagnoses. However, our judgement is required when we identify incidental findings, especially if the cost of workup is high and the benefit of workup may be low. The incidental thyroid nodule is
American Society of Head & Neck Radiology 47th Annual Meeting Head and Neck in the Heartland September 25-29, 2013 The Pfister Hotel Milwaukee, WI 28.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ Call for Abstracts at www.ashnr.org Deadline: July 26, 2013 For information
There are currently no guidelines on how to report incidental thyroid nodules seen on MRI and CT with regards to recommending further workup with sonography. Your answers to the short survey below (5 mins to complete) will help us understand
“Head and Neck Neoplasms” is the new Special Collection from the American Journal of Neuroradiology. Collection Editor Christine M. Glastonbury of the University of California, San Francisco assembled the articles by adopting the perspective of an academic, but predominantly clinical,
A middle age woman presented with left progressive proptosis. A contrast enhanced CT was done and showed enlargement of the left superior ophthalmic vein on the axial plane (see below). A coronal image confirmed this abnormality and demonstrated that the
In the recent paper of Kim et al. [1], the authors attempt for first time to examine the relationship between pharmacokinetic parameters, obtained by dynamic contrast-enhanced (DCE)-MRI, of a metastatic target node and treatment outcome in patients with neck cancer.
Infantile Hemangioma Propanolol Treatment You may have heard that Propanolol is currently being used as treatment for some infantile hemangiomas of both types (RICH and NICH). In this presentation prepared for our weekly case conference by Mr. Danilo Bernardo the
This is a one month-old female with congenital hypothyroidism, hypoplasia of the thyroid gland, elevated TSH (eight times normal value), elevated FSH and LH (four times normal values), normal GH, without diabetes insipid. She is now being treated for the
The article “Is CT Still Useful in the Study Protocol of Retinoblastoma?“, published July 17 in the Publication Preview section of AJNR, confirms that even when high-field MRI is not available, CT can be avoided in the workup of the
