REBEL EM
APRIL 17, 2023
Background: The increased utility and accessibility of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has allowed clinicians the freedom to rethink their diagnostic approach for many common diseases, including peritonsillar abscess (PTA). Question: How well does the US perform in diagnosing PTA compared to CT, needle aspiration, or Incision and Drainage?
AuntMinnie
JANUARY 30, 2024
FDG-PET imaging shows promise for use as a diagnostic criterion for neurosarcoidosis, with a recent case series illustrating the approach was effective when gold-standard approaches were not, according to a group of researchers in Berlin. “To
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AuntMinnie
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Lymphoscintigraphy (LSG) is recommended but seldom used to diagnose lymphedema in real-world settings in the U.S., The finding comes despite guidelines recommending LSG as the diagnostic test of choice and underlines the need for a better diagnostic test, wrote lead author Tina Moon, MD, of Tufts Medical Center in Boston and colleagues.
AuntMinnie
JANUARY 10, 2024
Diagnostic errors, including those from radiology among hospitalized adults who died or were transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU), are common, according to a study published January 8 in JAMA Internal Medicine. The team reported that of the total, 550 patients (23%) had experienced a diagnostic error. years in 29 hospitals.
AuntMinnie
MARCH 6, 2024
“Ultrasound contrast agent use can be ubiquitous in interventional practice and can solve many logistical or clinical diagnostic problems,” he said. In ultrasound, contrast use has been shown to improve differentiation of liver lesions and the diagnostic performance of O-RADS in assessing ovarian lesions among other examples.
AuntMinnie
JANUARY 8, 2024
PET/MRI imaging shows promise in diagnosing fevers or inflammation of unknown origin and may have advantages over PET/CT, according to a study published January 3 in the European Journal of Radiology. Fever of unknown origin (FUO) is defined as a temperature higher than 38.3 °C
AuntMinnie
DECEMBER 12, 2024
A convolutional neural network (CNN) model used with a one-inhalation lung CT scan protocol can effectively diagnose and stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), researchers have reported. CT is also used to diagnose COPD, and it requires two image acquisitions, inspiratory and expiratory.
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