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AuntMinnie 2020: COVID-19 can be seen on CT scans outside the chest

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Topping the list in 2020 was a story on how patients with COVID-19 may initially present with non-respiratory symptoms. New articles will be published each Monday until our official anniversary at RSNA 2024. In the early stages of the global pandemic, articles on COVID-19 were very popular amongst AuntMinnie members.

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RadNet to launch retail mammography clinic at Delaware Walmart

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Imaging services provider RadNet will launch a mammography screening clinic December 8 at the Walmart Supercenter in Milford, Delaware. The MammogramNow clinics will deploy AI technology for mammography screening and interpreting mammograms developed by DeepHealth AI, a software firm RadNet acquired in 2020.

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Clinical value of some knee and hip MRIs questioned

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While MRI-detected biomarkers may serve a beneficial role for people with hip and knee pain, the modality's clinical utility may be limited in patients over the age of 45 in patients with advanced osteoarthritis, according to an article published in the American Journal of Roentgenology ( AJR ). Erin Alaia, MD.

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Clinical practice LCS program finds more disease than NLST

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Over a five-year period, a clinical practice lung cancer screening program at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC, found more disease than did the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), researchers have reported. The study included 3,326 patients who underwent 5,150 LCS exams between January 2015 and June 2020. versus 2.4%.

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Radiologists are reading more cardiac CT exams, but not cardiac MRI

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And it appears that radiologists are reading more cardiac CT exams, but not cardiac MRI studies, presenter Mustafa Al-Ogaili, MD, of the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, AZ, told session attendees. The investigators found that 38, 806 cardiac CT exams were performed in 2013 and 112,909 in 2020, an increase of 191%. Cardiologists 49.2%

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Cancer mortality rates decline, health disparities persist

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between 2000 and 2020, racial and ethnic disparities persisted for many cancers, a study published January 12 in JAMA Health Forum found. They focused on data collected from the National Center for Health Statistics between 2000 and 2020. While cancer mortality rates declined in the U.S. over the past two decades. per 100,000.

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PI-RADS optimizes MRI-based diagnostics for prostate cancer detection

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It's better to take Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) upgrading rules into account when it comes to deciding whether a patient with clinically significant prostate cancer needs a biopsy, researchers have reported. "[Our] The study results were published February 14 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.