Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Is axillary scanning really necessary in diagnostic breast ultrasound? No, according to our most highly read story this week on AuntMinnie.com this week.
After retrospectively analyzing nearly 20,000 exams, researchers found that less than 1% of incidental axillary findings were given a BI-RADS category 3 or 4 classification. And none resulted in diagnosis of an occult breast cancer.
Read our coverage or stop by our Women's Imaging Community, where you can also peruse other popular articles on how PET/CT is better than contrast-enhanced CT for monitoring patients with metastatic breast cancer, and how PET/CT is better than scintigraphy for detecting and staging bone metastases in women with invasive breast cancer.
MICI Q4 2022 results
Radiology administrators tended to be highly confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology exam volumes would grow in 2023, according to fourth-quarter 2022 data from the Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI). What's more, they also had high confidence in their facilities growing as a profit center.
The MICI report, released quarterly by the MarkeTech Group, is developed from survey responses of radiology administrators who are members of the Association for Medical Imaging Management. What else did the survey reveal? Check out our article for the full story.
Another story generating substantial page views in our Imaging Leaders Community shared strong reactions from a number of imaging and legal experts on the March federal court ruling that vacated nationwide insurance mandates for free preventive services such as many cancer screenings.
Photon-counting CT
Finally, photon-counting CT is having a real clinical impact and revolutionizing the modality, allowing radiologists to "see more with less," according to a recently published commentary. What specific applications are seeing the most benefit?
Head on over to the CT Community to get all of the details.
