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MRI finds long-term concussion effects

Concussion is a known risk in many sports, but especially in soccer. Players may not realize that "heading" the ball or colliding with each other puts them at risk for neurologic damage. A group of researchers studies the link between concussion and possible long-term effects with MRI.

August 28, 2004

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Meniscal MRI studies highlight axial advantages, radial tear rates

Repeatedly jumping to spike and block on hard courts can take its toll on indoor volleyball athletes, even causing acute injuries like meniscal tears. MRI has long been used to visualize these injuries, but two new studies focus on the benefits of using standard axial images and identifying radial tear rates with MRI.

August 27, 2004

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Pitchers' shoulder injury throws a tough diagnosis

Pitchers are facing increased rates of elbow and shoulder problems, such as quadrilateral space syndrome, due to poor form and overuse of the muscles and joints. Sports medicine pros put their spin on this growing concern for athletes.

August 26, 2004

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Equine competitors get gold-medal care at Markopoulo clinic

Athletes aren't the only ones receiving expert medical care at the Olympic Games in Athens. Horses are getting state-of-the-art treatment at the Markopoulo Olympic Equestrian Centre. Their injuries, fortunately, have been few and far between.

August 25, 2004

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MRI pulls its weight in pectorals

Pectoralis injuries are rare, but they occur notably among athletes, particularly weightlifters and bodybuilders. Studies show how MRI weighs in when it comes to evaluating these injuries.

August 24, 2004

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Bone scans show footballers' limits after ACL repair

Playing American football sidelines many athletes with knee injuries, but the sport that the rest of the world calls football may be even more crippling. In fact, soccer players who return to competition after catastrophic knee injuries may be putting their joints at considerable risk.

August 23, 2004

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Rowers facing more rib stress factures

Rowing has been a competitive sport since it debuted in England in 1716. It became an international collegiate sport in 1793, and men made their Olympic rowing debut in 1900. Despite all that history, there’s not a great deal of medical literature about rowing injuries. But in recent years, rowers are getting hurt in greater numbers, suffering particularly from stress fractures of the ribs.

August 22, 2004

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Equine MRI clarifies navicular disease

For equine athletes, life just keeps getting better. The grueling long-distance endurance phase of the equestrian competition has been eliminated from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. And if horses are injured, they can now be imaged with an MRI scanner designed just for them.

August 21, 2004

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Doppler US shows near-ischemic catchers' hands

Baseball catchers are a strange lot. They choose to spend summer after summer squatting for hours in the heat, taking bat blows to the head and getting slammed by foul balls to the hand, wrist, throat, and worse. Now, a new study claims that catchers endure injuries they may not even be aware of: microvascular symptoms that point to a high risk of digital ischemia.

August 20, 2004

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Shoulders bear brunt of water polo's demands

Water polo is for the athlete not satisfied with mere sport. There may be no crying in baseball, but there’s no stopping in water polo. A match is 28 minutes of constant motion that is torture on players’ shoulders.

August 19, 2004

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LLMs decrease in accuracy over time on radiology exams

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate high accuracy on radiology exams, yet decrease in accuracy over time.

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Functional MRI illuminates what motivates e-cigarette use

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Student-led initiative working to close gender gap in radiology

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CT-defined CAC predicts cardiovascular events in lung cancer patients

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Medicare finalizes 2025 Fee Schedule cut

LLMs decrease in accuracy over time on radiology exams

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate high accuracy on radiology exams, yet decrease in accuracy over time.

November 21, 2024

Functional MRI illuminates what motivates e-cigarette use

By Kate Madden Yee

Functional MRI shows that e-cigarette users perceive the product as equally rewarding as money -- a finding that highlights the addictive potential of vaping.

November 21, 2024

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Student-led initiative working to close gender gap in radiology

By Amerigo Allegretto

A student-led initiative called Women in Radiology Education (WIRED) is working to close the gender gap in radiology.

November 20, 2024

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CT-defined CAC predicts cardiovascular events in lung cancer patients

By Kate Madden Yee

CT-defined coronary artery calcification (CAC) scores can help predict the occurrence of conditions such as heart attack or stroke in lung cancer patients.

November 20, 2024

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Medicare finalizes 2025 Fee Schedule cut

By Sandy Coffta

In a new column, Sandy Coffta of Healthcare Administrative Partners assesses how the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule will impact radiology.

November 20, 2024

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Share of nonphysician practitioners' imaging interpretation doubles

By Kate Madden Yee

Nonphysician practitioners' share of imaging interpretation in office-based medical practices has more than doubled over the past decade.

November 20, 2024

Nomogram model predicts malignancy risk in ovarian masses

By Amerigo Allegretto

A nomogram model based on O-RADS ultrasound findings and clinical and lab indicators can predict malignancy risk in adnexal cystic-solid masses.

November 19, 2024

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PET links chronic stress to aggressive endometrial cancer

Brain activity related to chronic stress may be associated with the aggressiveness of tumors in women with endometrial cancer.

November 19, 2024

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Head CT offers insight into old strokes

By Kate Madden Yee

Incidental discovery of old strokes on head CT imaging offers clinicians an opportunity to put measures against future strokes into place.

November 19, 2024

Climate change boosts emergency department use of x-ray, CT

By Kate Madden Yee

Climate change's effects -- particularly higher outdoor heat and air pollution -- increase imaging use in the emergency department, especially x-ray and CT.

November 19, 2024

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Radiologists prefer local AI advice over global

Radiologists and other physicians tend to trust AI more when the algorithms provide local rather than global explanations of findings on chest x-rays.

November 19, 2024

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FAPI-PET/CT superior to FDG-PET/CT in assessing liver cancer

A recent study suggests that PET/CT imaging with a FAPI radiotracer is superior to F-18 FDG-PET/CT for assessing patients with liver cancer.

November 18, 2024

Two cases of pathologically confirmed intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas in 68-year-old male patients. In both cases (A-H, case 1; I-P, case 2), CT scans (B, F, case 1; J, N, case 2) revealed intrahepatic bile duct dilation and suspected nodular lesions. While F-18 FDG PET/CT (A, C, D, case 1; I, K, L, case 2) failed to demonstrate abnormal tracer uptake (SUVmax 3.5, TBR 1.3 in Case 1; SUVmax 2.6, TBR 1.2 in Case 2), F-18 FAPI-04 PET/CT (E, G, H, case 1; M, O, P, case 2 ) showed positive uptake in the nodular lesions (SUVmax 9.7, TBR 3.5 in Case 1; SUVmax 9.6, TBR 3.3 in Case 2). Image available for republishing under Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0 DEED, Attribution 4.0 International) and courtesy of BMC Cancer.

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