Gastrointestinal Radiology: Page 87

Surveillance polyps show little growth at follow-up

By Eric Barnes

CHICAGO - A preliminary study from Italy adds weight to the argument that two- to three-year surveillance of 6- to 9-mm polyps doesn't unduly increase the risk of colorectal cancers. Diminutive polyps grow faster but present less cause for concern.

November 29, 2009

New ACR guidelines overhaul VC practice, training standards

By Eric Barnes

A major revamp of virtual colonoscopy practice guidelines has been published in a white paper by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The update, the first since the ACR Colon Cancer Committee's guidelines debuted in 2005, will affect virtually every aspect of VC practice, from insufflation to radiation dose to training.

November 26, 2009

Biotronics3D licenses CAD technology

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Software developer Biotronics3D has agreed to license computer-aided detection (CAD) technology from Dublin City University in Ireland. The new CAD tool will combine with the London firm's existing 3Dnet colonoscopy offering.

November 25, 2009

FDG-PET/CT trumps CT in detecting anal carcinoma

By Wayne Forrest

FDG-PET/CT is superior to CT for detecting primary and nodal disease in anal carcinoma and is "highly predictive" of increased progression-free survival, according to a presentation at the recent American Society for Radiation Oncology meeting in Chicago.

November 24, 2009

Limit CT exams for appendicitis in kids

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

When emergency physicians are empowered to make pragmatic clinical decisions about children with symptoms of appendicitis, they may be inclined to avoid ordering CT exams as a component of the diagnostic workup.

November 23, 2009

GE to debut MR elastography

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

GE Healthcare has introduced MR-Touch, an MR elastography technique based on technology licensed from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

November 23, 2009

Merge to show liver MRI CAD app

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Merge Healthcare said that it will be presenting a liver application of its CADstream MRI computer-aided detection (CAD) software at the 2009 RSNA meeting in Chicago.

November 15, 2009

FDG-PET/CT helps manage treatment for Crohn's disease

By Wayne Forrest

A new study has found that FDG-PET/CT can provide important information on patients with Crohn's disease that can help determine whether medical therapy or surgery is the correct course of action.

November 15, 2009

Delaware orders coverage of VC screening

By AuntMinnie.com staff writers

Beginning December 1, private insurers in the state of Delaware will be required to include virtual colonoscopy as an approved procedure for colorectal cancer screening.

November 8, 2009

VC screening maintains performance in Medicare population

By Eric Barnes

Screening with virtual colonoscopy is as useful for older individuals as it is in the general population 50 years and older. Although Medicare-aged screening participants present with higher rates of extracolonic lesions, advanced adenoma findings are remarkably similar between the two groups, according to researchers at the University of Wisconsin.

November 8, 2009

PET/CT beats 3-tesla MRI for staging colon cancer patients

By Wayne Forrest

Friday, December 4 | 10:40 a.m.-10:50 a.m. | SST05-02 | Room E353CCall it a clash of imaging titans: 3-tesla MRI and PET/CT face off over the staging of colon cancer patients in this study to be presented in the scientific sessions by Italian researchers, who found that PET/CT is more accurate than whole-body MRI.

November 2, 2009

Ultrasonido más eficaz que la escintigrafia en estudio de la función vesicular

By Erik L. Ridley

La ecografía es más económica, reproducible y rápida que la escintigrafía en el estudio de la función vesicular con colecistoquinina (CCK), según una investigación publicada en el número de septiembre de la Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

November 1, 2009

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