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What can global radiology learn from Singapore?

AuntMinnie

Value-based radiology ("doing the thing right") and improving access to radiological expertise and services ("doing the right thing") are vital to success, he stated. Workforce issues Singapore is a young and very small country with challenges of a rapidly aging population, rising chronic disease load (e.g.,

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Chalk Stick Fracture in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Global Radiology CME

Ankylosing Spondylitis: Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a seronegative spondyloarthropathy and chronic inflammatory disease of the axial skeleton that leads to the partial or complete fusion and rigidity of the spine. Because radiography may not detect early signs of AS, non-enhanced MRI is recommended in identifying early signs of disease.

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Acute Infective Vasitis

Global Radiology CME

Discussion: Vasitis refers to a rare inflammatory disease of the vas deferens (1). Ultrasound can help exclude orchitis, epididymitis, and testicular torsion by color Doppler but it is still difficult to differentiate acute inguinal hernia from vasitis so CT or MRI is recommended (3-5).

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Inflammatory Breast Carcinoma

Global Radiology CME

Both tissue diagnosis of malignancy and clinical evidence of inflammatory disease are required to confirm the diagnosis of IBC [3]. Around 3-6 months and most commonly within 3 months into the disease progression, changes of the skin and development of an underlying mass will be appreciated and are used to validate the diagnosis.

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Radiology suffers in missile attack on Kyiv pediatric hospital

AuntMinnie

Rebenkov has been head of radiology at Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital since 2020. Rebenkov said he would welcome any support from the global radiology community. Attacking a children's hospital, where children are treated for cancer and other serious diseases, is not just a war crime; it is beyond the bounds of humanity.

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Porencephaly

Global Radiology CME

On MRI, the cystic components will appear as low signal intensity on T1 weighted images, high signal intensity on T2 weighted images, low signal intensity on FLAIR images, and will have no restricted diffusion on DWI [10-12]. Avery’s Diseases of the Newborn, Elsevier, 2018, pp. Am J Dis Child. 1991;145(6):688-695.

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Percutaneous Cholecystostomy in Pregnancy

Global Radiology CME

MRI of abdomen. Interventional approaches to gallbladder disease. A transperitoneal route is favored in patients with coagulopathy or diffuse liver disease [1]. Rumball will be a radiology resident at Medical College of Wisconsin in July 2024, after his Transitional Year at Gundersen Health System in La Crosse, Wisconsin.