Fellows’ Journal Club This was a retrospective study including 62 patients diagnosed with primary head and neck squamous cellcarcinoma who underwent contrast-enhanced CT examinations for staging, followed by chemoradiotherapy. CT texture features of thewhole primary tumor were measured using an
Editor’s Choice Seventy-seven patients with unilateral internal carotid artery stenosis underwent preoperative 3DT2*-weighted imaging using a multiple dipole-inversion algorithm with a 7T MR scanner. Quantitative susceptibility mapping images wereobtained, and oxygen extraction fraction maps were generated. Quantitative brain perfusion single-photon
Fellows’ Journal Club The updated eighth edition of the Cancer Staging Manual of the American Joint Committee on Cancer will be implemented in January 2018. There are multiple changes to the head and neck section of the manual, which will be relevant
Editor’s Choice This was a retrospective analysis of 465 consecutive aneurysms treated with the Pipeline Embolization Device between 2009 and 2016, at 3 academic institutions in the United States. Cases with angiographic follow-up were selected to evaluate factors predictive of
Practical Guides in Interventional Radiology: Varicose Veins Felipe B. Collares and Salomão Faintuch (Authors/Editors) Thieme; 2017; 150 pages; 106 illustrations; $79.99
Fox JC, ed. Clinical Emergency Radiology. 2nd ed. Cambridge Medicine; 2017; 650 pp; 1271 ill; $165.00 Emergency radiology encompasses a wide array of topics across various subspecialties and imaging modalities, providing a challenge to any author or editor putting together a text
Fellows’ Journal Club The authors review the relevant cardiac implantable electronic devices encountered in practice today, the background physics/technical factors related to scanning these devices, the multidisciplinary screening protocol used at their institution for scanning patients with implantable cardiac devices,
Editor’s Choice Radiation dose–matched energy-integrating detector and photon-counting detector head CT scans were acquired with standardized protocols (tube voltage/current, 120 kV(peak)/370 mAs) in both an anthropomorphic head phantom and 21 asymptomatic volunteers. Image noise, gray matter, and white matter signal-to-noise
Raza SM, Gidley PW, Meis JM, Grosshans DR, Bell D, DeMonte F. Multimodality Treatment of Skull Base Chondrosarcomas: The Role of Histology Specific Treatment Protocols. Neurosurgery. 2017;81(3):520-530. doi:10.1093/neuros/nyx042. The authors studied the impact of histological subtype/grade on progression-free survival (PFS)
Härtl R, Bonassar LJ. Biological Approaches to Spinal Disc Repair and Regeneration for Clinicians. Thieme; 2017; 216 pp; 94 ill; $149.99 The book Biological Approaches to Spinal Disc Repair and Regeneration for Clinicians is an inclusive review of the anatomy and
