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Symptomatic rotator cuff tears accompanied by contralateral asymptomatic tears
By Erik L. Ridley
Rotator cuff disease is the most common cause of shoulder pain, but the natural history of tears is unknown because patients already have symptoms at presentation. Researchers from the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR) in St. Louis looked at the significance of such tears using ultrasound.
April 1, 2003
Siemens debuts CV70
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Siemens Medical Solutions has introduced its Acuson CV70 cardiovascular ultrasound system at this week's American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago.
March 31, 2003
Pseudoaneurysm size affects success of thrombin injection with US
By Shalmali Pal
SALT LAKE CITY - Ultrasound-guided thrombin injection for the treatment of iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms is safe and effective, but best reserved for cases with volumes smaller than 50 cm3, according to a presenter at the Society of Interventional Radiology conference.
March 31, 2003
Philips boosts cardiac offerings
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Philips Medical Systems is displaying a number of new cardiac imaging products at this week's American College of Cardiology meeting in Chicago.
March 31, 2003
Philips hires new senior executives
Multimodality vendor Philips Medical Systems has hired two new senior executives, one of whom previously worked for Siemens, and the other with management experience at GE.
March 30, 2003
Longport adds new president, marketing deal
Portable ultrasound developer Longport has appointed Paul Wilson as president, and announced a potential new sales distributor in the wound-care market.
March 27, 2003
Doppler ultrasound keeps an eye on optic neuritis
By Ultrasound Review
(Ultrasound Review) Turkish radiologists discovered that patients with optic neuritis demonstrated increased peak systolic and end diastolic velocities in the affected ophthalmic artery.
March 27, 2003
Tubular structure on sonography indicates diverticulitis
By Ultrasound Review
(Ultrasound Review) According to researchers at Hospital da Criança Conceição in Porto Alegre,Brazil, a tubular structure on sonography is suggestive of a Meckel's diverticulum in children presenting with rectal bleeding due to diverticulitis.
March 26, 2003
US plus CT improves pediatric appendicitis management
By Ultrasound Review
(Ultrasound Review) Using an ultrasound-CT imaging protocol reduced the perforation and negative appendectomy rates in children suspected of having acute appendicitis, according to the a study in Pediatrics.
March 24, 2003
Color won’t enhance US of thyroid nodules
By Ultrasound Review
(Ultrasound Review) Color Doppler cannot be used to differentiate benign and malignant solid thyroid nodules, according to radiologists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. However, they demonstrated that 42% of solid hypervascular thyroid nodules are likely to be malignant.
March 23, 2003
Colorado MedTech sold
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical imaging technology manufacturer Colorado MedTech has entered into an agreement to sell the firm to CIVCO Holding, an entity controlled by KRG Capital Partners of Denver.
March 13, 2003
Biosound Esaote releases Technos MPX
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The system includes a new digital beamformer, TEI harmonic imaging, and a range of wide-bandwidth, multi-frequency transducers.
March 10, 2003
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