Dear Women's Imaging Insider,
MRI bested CT for staging breast cancer and for evaluating any metastasis. Our Insider Exclusive highlights the findings from two studies that validate MR's superiority to CT for characterizing hepatic lesions and the modality's ability to reveal intraductal carcinoma. Click here for the details.
You can also find the latest news in computer-aided detection (CAD) for mammography in the Women's Imaging Digital Community. Learn about how a CAD multimodality workstation can improve radiologist performance for differentiating malignant and benign breast lesions. Plus, find out how to submit your comments to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on a proposed cut to the reimbursement rate for CAD with digital mammography.
Shifting gears, there are also several articles on maternal and fetal imaging. First, read about the relative safety of sentinel lymph node biopsy with a radiocolloid in pregnant women with breast cancer. Another article has the International Intersex Consensus recommending abdominopelvic sonography for assessing sex development disorders. Also, Chinese clinicians have developed an ultrasound-guided interstitial laser treatment to restore fertility in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.
Finally, ultrasound specialists suggest spatiotemporal image correlation and tomographic ultrasound imaging to simplify fetal echocardiography.
