#MyRadGirlfriend No. 105: Good news and bad news

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Mar 5, 2020
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POCUS training leads to successful nerve block placement
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Training can help novice point-of-care ultrasound users with guiding nerve blocks in patients with hip fractures.
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What causes lung cancers to be missed on screening?
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Incomplete smoking history documentation appears to be one of the reasons.
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By Will Morton
Early imaging is not only more patient-friendly but also has the potential to simplify clinical workflows.
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Study highlights risk-based breast cancer screening; ACR responds
By Amerigo Allegretto
A study showing the potential benefits of risk-based breast cancer screening has drawn criticism from the ACR.
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Is AI ready for autonomous reads of chest x-rays?
By Liz Carey
A debate at RSNA 2025 reviewed the current use of autonomous AI for chest radiographs and assessed future opportunities.
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At RSNA 2025, thoracic radiologists debated using autonomous AI for chest radiograph interpretation. They also fielded many audience questions and comments as well.
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A majority of survey respondents would not agree to AI as a sole reader.
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Lung cancer rates low on chest CT after incidental neck imaging findings
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The results could indicate that follow-up chest CT may not be necessary in this situation.
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Adding AI to MRI improves return to play classification frameworks
By Kate Madden Yee
Predicting when athletes can safely return to play after an injury is key.
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Marathon training does not have long-term negative effects on heart
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Echocardiography shows that endurance training by marathon runners does not have long-term negative effects on the heart.
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Phase I trial reveals the potential of a new PSMA-PET tracer
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The radiotracer detected more lesions in men with metastatic disease than F-18 piflufolastat.
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Scans in a 73-year-old man with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer (prostate-specific antigen level of 0.5 ng/mL) who underwent PET/CT with 9.4 mCi of F-18 piflufolastat and a second PET/CT examination with 8.1 mCi of copper 61-NODAGA (1,4,7-triazacyclononane,1-glutaric acid-4,7-acetic acid)–prostate-specific membrane antigen for imaging and therapy (Cu-61 PSMA I&T) 24 days apart, with no intervening therapy. Maximum intensity projection (MIP) images obtained (A) 1 hour after F-18 piflufolastat administration and (B) 1, (C) 2, and (D) 4 hours after Cu-61 PSMA I&T administration are shown. Physiologic uptake is seen in the lacrimal glands, salivary glands, liver, spleen, kidneys, ureters, and bladder. Pathologic uptake in pelvic nodal metastases is labeled with arrows. The F-18 piflufolastat PET/CT MIP image reveals two avid pelvic nodal metastases (arrows). Cu-61 PSMA I&T PET/CT scans demonstrate three avid pelvic nodal metastases on 1-hour and 2-hour images (arrows); five avid pelvic nodal metastases were suspected on the 4-hour image (arrows).
Radiologists can designate nonmass lesions on breast ultrasound
By Amerigo Allegretto
Breast radiologists achieved moderate to substantial interreader agreement for classifying nonmass lesions on ultrasound.
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Images depict a 50-year-old woman with a lesion detected during screening ultrasound. (A) Transverse and (B) longitudinal images reveal a 0.5-cm hypoechoic lesion (arrow) in the left breast. (C) Transverse color Doppler ultrasound image does not show an increase in vascularity. Two readers classified the lesion as a mass, whereas two others categorized it as a nonmass lesion, leading to its designation as a controversial nonmass lesion. Ultrasound-guided core needle biopsy and subsequent pathologic examination confirmed a nonproliferative breast change.
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