Radiology MOC

Sandra Fryhofer, MD, provides both her professional and personal opinions on the new mammography screening guidelines -- and she has some concerns.
Medscape Internal Medicine

Molecular and functional imaging of the breast could alter clinical practice in diagnosing and staging primary breast cancer and assessing response to therapy.
Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center

An elderly man presents with sudden-onset abdominal pain centered in the epigastrium that is described as deep and burning. Hyperactive bowel sounds are heard on auscultation. What is the diagnosis?
Medscape

Diagnostic imaging for evaluating patients with abdominal conditions has increased the number of incidentally discovered kidney masses. Learn how using ablative therapy can help treat these patients.
Therapeutic Advances in Urology

Compared with mammography, new techniques that use radioisotopes increase radiation risk more than 20-fold and should not be used for screening.
Medscape Medical News

Investigators have identified a strong seasonal pattern in subclinical disease activity in patients with multiple sclerosis.
Medscape Medical News

Dyssynchrony by speckle-tracking echo may be associated with an increase in EF, and improved long-term outcomes after CRT.
European Heart Journal

A 42-year-old woman presents with a right-sided, gradual-onset headache that is constant, with repetitive vomiting and a reduction in her "thinking power" for the past 3-4 months. What's the diagnosis?
Medscape

A study considers how cancer survivors receive information about newly identified cancer treatment-related risks.
Medscape Nurses

Increased age-related interhemispheric "cross-talk" slows response time to motor tasks, imaging study shows.
Medscape Medical News

Reuters Health Information

Doctors are ordering too many unnecessary imaging tests, raising the cost of healthcare and exposing patients to excess amounts of radiation, imaging experts said on Tuesday.
Reuters Health Information

A study suggests that prepubertal overweight children with prediabetes may be at risk for poor skeletal development and that greater levels of central adiposity may be harmful to developing bone.
Medscape Medical News

Pulmonary artery hypertension is the most frequent cause of death in scleroderma patients, and its early identification is the best means of improving survival.
Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Can an inexpensive lab test for B-natriuretic peptide serve as a reliable screening tool for stage B heart failure in diabetic patients?
Southern Medical Journal

This brief review discusses the usefulness of ultrasound to assess central venous pressure in patients with suspected hypovolemia.
AccessMedicine from McGraw-Hill

Dr. Joe Lex explains how to use existing cervical spine rules to evaluate cervical spine injury in trauma patients -- no radiation required.
Medscape Emergency Medicine

Rapid and accurate dysphagia assessment can prevent aspiration and the cascade of events that often follow.
American Journal of Critical Care

An observational cohort study shows that varus, but not valgus, alignment of the knee increases the risk for the development of osteoarthritis.
Medscape Medical News

Radical cystectomy has long been the treatment of choice for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Can newer radiotherapy treatment protocols change the trend?
Future Oncology