Gastrointestinal Radiology: Page 80

HIFU for liver, pancreatic cancer has high complication rate

By Cynthia E. Keen

While effective, high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment of solid cancerous tumors comes with risk for both major and minor complications, according to research from the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul.

July 11, 2010

Beekley flavors CT contrast taste

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Imaging accessories developer Beekley has introduced a flavored beverage designed to mask the taste of oral iodinated contrast used in abdominal CT scans.

July 8, 2010

Access to VC promoted as tool to increase screening

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Echoing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's call for additional colon cancer screening tools, advocates for virtual colonoscopy are calling for increased support for noninvasive procedures such as VC to help increase colon cancer screening rates.

July 8, 2010

Active surveillance advised for elderly kidney cancer patients

By Cynthia E. Keen

The best treatment for patients older than 75 who are diagnosed with localized renal cell carcinoma may be active surveillance, according to urologists at the Cleveland Clinic, whose recommendations were reported in the July 1 issue of Cancer.

July 8, 2010

FDG-PET/CT may help quantify Crohn's disease severity

By Wayne Forrest

The use of maximum standardized uptake values from FDG-PET/CT scans may be a reliable, objective method for quantifying the activity and severity of Crohn's disease, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

July 8, 2010

CO2 volumes higher than previous reports in VC

By Eric Barnes

Using more CO2 to insufflate the colon during virtual colonoscopy doesn't produce better distention, but patients with ileocecal valve incompetence -- most patients presenting for screening -- require more insufflation, say researchers from Ireland.

July 5, 2010

Smoking associated with flat polyps at colonoscopy

By Eric Barnes

Smoking is strongly associated with the presence of flat adenomas, and those who smoke are also likely to have larger flat adenomas, according to research from Stony Brook University Medical Center. The group says its results are the first to associate smoking with flat colorectal lesions.

June 30, 2010

CT-based Crohn's diagnosis takes aim at endoscopy

By Eric Barnes

GENEVA - Japanese researchers hope to supplant the invasive and time-consuming process of diagnosing Crohn's disease with a CT technique that is unaffected by intestinal stenosis and other impediments to conventional endoscopic evaluation.

June 28, 2010

Surveillance colonoscopy best for high-risk patients

By Brian Casey

Surveillance optical colonoscopy is most appropriate for following high-risk patients and may not be cost-effective or clinically appropriate for individuals at lower risk of colorectal cancer, according to a new study published in Gastroenterology.

June 22, 2010

Preoperative CT helps reduce negative appendectomies

By Eric Barnes

The third major study of CT for acute appendicitis to appear in as many weeks has found that one institution's negative appendectomy rate dropped steadily over an 18-year period, in tandem with a rise in the use of CT to evaluate patients suspected of having appendicitis.

June 21, 2010

ASIR halves VC dose without drop in image quality

By Eric Barnes

Thanks to a noise-reduction algorithm known as adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR), virtual colonoscopy scans acquired at half the normal dose delivered image quality equivalent to standard images, according to a study published in the July issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.

June 20, 2010

Screening VC sorts out incidental kidney lesions

By Eric Barnes

Incidental renal masses are a common finding at virtual colonoscopy, but fortunately, most can be safely ignored, according to a study of 3,000 patients from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

June 14, 2010

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