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PET/CT improves diagnostic biopsy rates in lung cancer patients

AuntMinnie

“Our study showed that the availability of PET/CT prior to the [percutaneous needle lung biopsy] improves the diagnostic biopsy rates,” wrote lead author Konstantinos Stefanidis, MD, of King’s College Hospital in London, and colleagues.

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

AuntMinnie

"If private practices don't thrive and don't survive, then everyone has to become an employee at some point, and the leverage we have and negotiating power of radiologists goes away." Sixty-six percent of radiologists are working full-time before retirement which means that fully a third are on part-time schedules."

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Another radiology taster week experience

Radiology Cafe

I organised a taster week to discover what a career in radiology was like and to identify the skills required from a competent radiologist. A common misconception is that radiologists do not have patient contact. A common misconception is that radiologists do not have patient contact. That statement is false.

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Image-Guided Epidural Injections for Back Pain

Midstate Radiology Associates

As technology evolved, doctors turned to imaging-guided procedures using computed tomography (CT) or X-ray technology. Considered a minimally invasive procedure, image-guided epidural injections for back pain may be administered at a doctor’s office, surgical center or hospital imaging center.

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Tricuspid Valve Repair with MitraClip

Global Radiology CME

However, minimally invasive methods are starting to gain popularity as the mainstay of treatment. These minimally invasive procedures include heterotopic caval transcatheter valve implantation, transcatheter tricuspid valve annuloplasty, and tricuspid clip placement (MitraClip) [4,5].