Ultrasound: Page 53

Ultrasound has tradeoffs for detecting skin cancer metastases

By Amerigo Allegretto

Ultrasound has higher sensitivity but also higher false-positive rates than clinical examination alone when it comes to detecting skin cancer in the head and neck areas that may have spread to the lymph nodes.

January 10, 2022

Ultrasound best in margin assessment for breast surgery

By Amerigo Allegretto

Diagnostic ultrasound outperforms other imaging methods when it comes to assessing margins of cancers being excised during breast-conserving surgery, according to research published January 4 in Academic Radiology.

January 6, 2022

Ultrasound jostles for bigger role in screening dense breasts

By Emily Hayes

With a national reporting standard for breast density across the U.S. on the near horizon, ultrasound is poised to play a greater role as an adjunct to mammography in screening, along with other imaging modalities.

January 6, 2022

AuntMinnie.com Ultrasound Insider

By Amerigo Allegretto

January 5, 2022

Should breast ultrasound scans after COVID vaccines be postponed?

By Amerigo Allegretto

When using ultrasound to follow up on suspicious breast masses in patients who just got a second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, it may be wise to postpone scans to between 12 and 16 weeks to reduce unnecessary biopsies, according to research published December 22 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

January 5, 2022

POCUS good for localizing catheters in newborn patients

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an effective alternative to conventional x-ray when it comes to localizing small-bore percutaneously inserted central catheters, according to Italian research published December 28 in the Journal of Pediatrics.

January 4, 2022

Sentinel Capital acquires TTG Imaging Solutions

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Sentinel Capital Partners has entered an agreement to acquire diagnostic imaging equipment firm TTG Imaging Solutions.

January 3, 2022

Subharmonic ultrasound better with contrast flow in breast masses

By Amerigo Allegretto

3D subharmonic ultrasound is better at detecting contrast flow in vascular breast masses than 3D harmonic ultrasound, according to research presented by Flemming Forsberg, PhD, at the RSNA 2021 annual meeting.

January 2, 2022

Routine ultrasound does not reduce hospital length of stay

By Amerigo Allegretto

Performing focused ultrasound scans on cardiopulmonary patients just admitted to the hospital may not decrease their length of stay compared to standard treatment, according to Australian research published December 20 in JAMA Network Open.

December 21, 2021

GE completes BK acquisition, expands ultrasound business

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare recently completed the acquisition of BK Medical from Altaris Capital Partners for a cash purchase price of $1.45 billion.

December 20, 2021

POCUS a good tool for detecting coins swallowed by kids

By Amerigo Allegretto

Parents may be horrified when their young child swallows a coin that isn't the chocolate kind. But a recent case report described how point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) was used to detect a metal coin that a 3-year-old boy had swallowed.

December 19, 2021

Koios ultrasound AI software gets FDA clearance

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Koios Medical's Koios DS, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based software platform used to diagnose thyroid and breast cancer.

December 16, 2021

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