Musculoskeletal Radiology: Page 125

AuntMinnie.com Musculoskeletal Imaging Insider
By Shalmali Pal
February 3, 2008
Imaging set to play pivotal role for delivering molecular therapeutics
By Edward Susman
Treatment specialists experimenting with molecular medicine will achieve more targeted results by injecting drugs with imaging guidance, according to Dr. Lawrence Hoffmann, chief of interventional radiology at Stanford University Medical Center in California. In a recent presentation, Hofmann stressed that interventional oncology and interventional regenerative medicine will pair imaging and molecular therapeutics, as imaging plays a pivotal role in therapeutic angiogenesis.
January 30, 2008
CMS drops chiropractor x-ray exception
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Radiologists can no longer order x-rays for Medicare patients referred to them by chiropractors in a nonhospital setting, according to a January 1 ruling from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
January 23, 2008
Stark, raving mad? Physicians say Maryland's self-referral laws too broad
By Kate Madden Yee
To the dismay of Maryland orthopedists, urologists, and emergency surgeons, a trial court in that state has upheld a self-referral law that virtually out-Starks the Stark law by banning nonradiologists from referring for in-office imaging. Nonradiologists argue that Maryland is overstepping the federal rule and that the law diminishes patient care by taking clinical procedures that are part of standard practice out of the hands of specialty doctors.
January 14, 2008
Anterior knee puncture approach technically on-target, well-tolerated
By Shalmali Pal
Knee arthrography is generally used as the first-line imaging study before patients move on to MR or CT arthrography. The lateral patellofemoral approach is most commonly used for knee puncture, but it is a painful procedure and not always technically successful. Instead, French musculoskeletal radiologists have used an anterior approach for knee arthrography to good effect.
January 13, 2008
Comprehensive musculoskeletal US exam offers most value
By Erik L. Ridley
While a focused musculoskeletal sonographic exam can identify most abnormalities, a protocol-based exam allowed for identification of 98% of symptomatic abnormalities in a recent retrospective study, according to researchers from the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor.
January 2, 2008
3D CT planning organizes acetabular fracture fragments into a surgical framework
By Shalmali Pal
International orthopedic surgeons and trauma specialists have teamed up to develop a CT-based virtual 2D planning system for acetabular fracture reduction. The team tested a 2D CT data-driven virtual software application for more accurate planning in acetabular fracture operative reduction and internal fixation.
December 23, 2007
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Orthocrat lands Canadian install
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Orthopedic template and surgical planning developer Orthocrat of Tel Aviv, Israel, has landed an installation of its TraumaCad software at a Canadian hospital.
December 20, 2007
AuntMinnie.com Musculoskeletal Imaging Insider
By Shalmali Pal
December 18, 2007
3D CT aids review of pelvic fractures; Canadian isotope redux
By Brian Casey
December 12, 2007
3D volume-rendered CT for pelvic fractures scales back imaging studies, not quality
By Shalmali Pal
Diagnosing acetabular fracture, particularly in the trauma setting, is an elaborate process that involves multiple, time-consuming, radiation dose-heavy imaging studies. In an effort to simplify this complex imaging paradigm, radiologists and orthopedists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, NC, have proposed using 3D volume-rendered CT to assess acetabular fractures. Their protocol would reduce the number of imaging studies as well as the patient dose.
December 12, 2007
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Vertebral body pattern may indicate risk for cement-related fracture
By Shalmali Pal
In a paper in the December American Journal of Roentgenology, Dr. Noboru Tanigawa and colleagues from the department of radiology at Kansai Medical University in Osaka, Japan, hypothesized that different cement patterns in treated vertebrae have an impact on the frequency of new compression fractures. They tested this theory in 76 patients with 266 osteoporosis-related fractures who underwent vertebroplasty.
December 4, 2007
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