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Thermal ablation effective long term in patients with thyroid cancer

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The emerging procedure has a relatively short history, with long-term findings now supporting its use over more invasive surgery, noted lead author Lin Yan, MD, of the Chinese PLA General Hospital in Beijing. Studies have shown favorable results of the procedures, yet to date, long-term outcomes have not been reported, the authors noted.

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Myosteatosis on preoperative chest CT suggests worse NSCLC survival

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And this result was independent of individuals' skeletal muscle index and subcutaneous adipose tissue, wrote a team led by Lea Mantz, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. They conducted a study that included 838 patients with stage 0 to IIB NSCLC who underwent lobectomy or bilobectomy at three hospitals between 2014 and 2017. (In

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Radiology Practice Consolidation By the Numbers

Ben White

Radiologist Workforce: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review ,” just published in AJR: Between 2014 and 2023, the number of radiology practices decreased by over 17%, while the number of practices with 25-49, 50-99, and 100 or more radiologists grew by 33%, 126%, and 349%, respectively. Consolidation in action.

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AuntMinnie 2014: Health information exchange lowers repeat emergency imaging

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Our top article in 2014 reported on the financial benefits of health information exchanges. They retrospectively accessed discharge data from the State Emergency Department Databases for California and Florida for 2007-2010, and then merged the data with information on hospital HIE participation from market research firm HIMSS Analytics.

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Tributes pour in for CT pioneer Willi Kalender

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Willi Kalender, PhD, and close colleagues at RSNA 2014. Willi Kalender, PhD. Courtesy of National Academy of Engineering. He was an honorary lecturer at ECR 2002 and was awarded ESR honorary membership in 2010. He leaves a lasting legacy in radiology and beyond." Courtesy of Wolfram Veitl.

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The state of radiology: Part 1 -- Is practice building dead?

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Using data gathered from the Medicare Provider Data Catalog for the years 2014-2023, Christensen saw an emerging trend of radiologists moving to large multispecialty practices. In his day-to-day life, he is a board member of a clinically integrated hospital network and an executive at Hackensack Radiology Group in New Jersey.

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Researchers offer age-specific dose estimator for fluoroscopy exams

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A team of researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital has developed an age-specific dose catalog for estimating radiation exposure to children from diagnostic and interventional radiology fluoroscopy procedures. They analyzed metrics to estimate age-specific effective dose per IR procedure type and diagnostic fluoroscopy exam.