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Scientific poster digital format offers potential to transform medium
By Cynthia E. Keen
CHICAGO - Displaying scientific posters in digital format at this year's RSNA meeting allows authors not only to convey facts, graphs, and photos, but also to incorporate some interactive functionality. Onsite digital displays offer huge potential to educate readers in ways that even the best developed paper poster cannot.
November 29, 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
Ultrasound matches CT for complicated pediatric pneumonia
By Erik L. Ridley
Chest ultrasound can provide the same diagnostic information as chest CT in children with complicated pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion, according to an article to be published in the December issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology.
November 19, 2009
Screening kids with ultrasound, ECG finds cardiac abnormalities
By Edward Susman
ORLANDO, FL - Heart screening isn't just for athletes anymore. Researchers at this week's American Heart Association meeting said that screening all middle-school-aged children for cardiac abnormalities with a targeted medical history, physical exam, electrocardiogram (ECG), and echocardiograph can identify those at risk of heart problems before they head out for recess.
November 16, 2009
High-pitch DECT unfazed by squirming kids
By Eric Barnes
Wednesday, December 2 | 3:10 p.m.-3:20 p.m. | SSM19-02 | Room N230Judging from the results of a phantom study using dual-energy CT (DECT), infants will soon be able to squirm and fuss all they want without blurring the images. Lead author Cynthia McCollough, Ph.D., told AuntMinnie.com there's a lot of excitement around the use of high-pitch scanning in children to facilitate the whole process.
November 15, 2009
Contrast exposure in utero shows little effect on thyroid function
By Eric Barnes
Sunday, November 29 | 11:15 a.m.-11:25 a.m. | SSA09-04 | Room E351Citing concerns about the risk of thyroid dysfunction in newborns after they are exposed in utero to iodinated contrast media, researchers from Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University in Providence, RI, tested contrast-exposed neonates for answers.
November 15, 2009
Childhood cancer ups dental problems
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study confirms another late toxicity that dentists have long suspected: radiation exposure to the face during treatment as a child increases the risk of bad teeth and a wide range of dental abnormalities as an adult.
November 12, 2009
Contrast MRI safe to detect central nervous system lesions in children
By Wayne Forrest
Wednesday, December 2 | 3:00 p.m.-3:10 p.m. | SSM19-01 | Room N230Results from this international multicenter study indicate that gadobenate dimeglumine is safe and effective for contrast-enhanced MRI of central nervous system lesions in children.
November 9, 2009
Automated segmentation could improve fetal heart echo
By Eric Barnes
A new method of segmenting the fetal heart with echocardiography could improve the evaluation of congenital heart defects compared to the time-consuming manual segmentation in use today, according to researchers from the U.K.
November 5, 2009
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Pseudoprogression in children merits scrutiny
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
CHICAGO - Pseudoprogression, an increase in the size of high-grade brain tumors that may occur following radiation therapy and chemotherapy, occurs in pediatric cancer patients as frequently as it does in adults, according to researchers from the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY.
November 4, 2009
AuntMinnie.com Pediatric Imaging Insider
By Cynthia E. Keen
November 1, 2009
Radiation therapy has good outcomes for pediatric glioma patients
By Cynthia E. Keen
The use of radiation therapy to treat pediatric low-grade glioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain cancer in children, is controversial due to the severe, adverse, late effects this treatment can cause. But the long-term outcomes of patients who participated in a large, nearly decade-long clinical trial are encouraging.
November 1, 2009
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