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How Is Medical Imaging Used to Diagnose Broken Bones?

Midstate Radiology Associates

Even if an X-ray shows a fracture, your doctor may recommend a CT scan or MRI for better visualization of damaged tissue and other secondary injuries. Bone Scans A bone scan is a type of nuclear imaging test that allows for better observation of certain bone diseases.

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REBEL Core Cast 107.0 – Vertebral Osteomyelitis

REBEL EM

Take Home Points Clinical presentation is very nonspecific; evaluate all patients presenting with back pain for infectious risk factors. The degree of elevation does not predict disease severity. Baseline labs should not guide diagnosis, but may assist in later management. ESR and CRP are sensitive, yet not specific.

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Good Radiologists Are Like Car Salespeople- Make Them An Offer They Can’t Refuse!

RadsResident

As I was on the phone with a colleague trying to convince the referrer of why I think a patient has Paget’s disease instead of metastases, I described the cortical thickening of the iliopectineal line and the lack of activity on the bone scan at the site and elsewhere throughout the body.

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AuntMinnie 2007: Gadolinium: A 'necessary factor' in the development of NSF?

AuntMinnie

Editor's note: As part of the celebration of AuntMinnie.com 's upcoming 25th anniversary, we're presenting 25 for 25 -- a series featuring our most popular content for each of the last 25 years. Imagine going in for a diagnostic MRI scan and coming out with a progressive, irreversible, and potentially fatal disease.

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Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma

Global Radiology CME

Bone scan shows diffuse uptake in the markedly enlarged right breast secondary to increased blood pool activity and impaired washout. Discussion: 63-year-old woman presented to a clinic with a one month history of progressively enlarging right breast with redness and tenderness. Mammogram CC view.

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PET tracer shows promise in prostate cancer patients

AuntMinnie

CHICAGO – Gallium-68 (Ga-68) RM2-PET/MRI is better than MRI alone for detecting relapse in prostate cancer patients, according to research presented November 26 at RSNA 2023. ng/mL after prostatectomy or ≥ 2 ng/mL after radiotherapy) and negative conventional imaging (CT and/or bone scans).

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The rise of theranostics: Part 4 -- Women's theranostics on the horizon

AuntMinnie

Several presenters at the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging's (SNMMI) 2024 meeting in Toronto shared new findings in women's studies. Preliminary data showed that CAM-H2 demonstrated high affinity for the HER2 target and rapid tissue penetration, explained Josie Gayton, PhD, during her presentation at SNMMI.

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