Category: AJR OnTrend

  • Reversed Halo Signs Manifest in Septic Pulmonary Embolism Due to IV Drug Use

    Reversed halo signs were frequently observed on the chest CT scans of patients with IV substance use disorder– related septic pulmonary embolism (PE). Of the 62 patients (54.8% women; 32.8 ± 8.3 [SD] years) who met Harvard Medical School radiologist Renata R. Almeida and colleagues’ inclusion criteria—IV substance use disorder,…

  • Diagnostic Radiologists with Lifetime ABR Certificates Less Likely to Participate in MOC

    Lifetime-certified diagnostic radiologists whose Maintenance of Certification (MOC) was not mandated by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) were far less likely to participate in ABR MOC programs—especially general radiologists and those working in smaller, nonacademic practices in states with lower population densities. Defining diagnostic radiologists as those whose only…

  • Gender Affirmation Surgery: A Primer on Imaging Correlates for the Radiologist

    Since gender incongruence is now categorized as a sexual health condition, Florence X. Doo, Alexander S. Somwaru, and colleagues at Mount Sinai West in New York City contend that all subspecialties must be prepared to identify radiologic correlates and distinguish key postoperative variations in the three major categories of gender…

  • Increasing Quality of Imaging Histories

    Collaborative research has not only standardized the definition of a complete imaging history, but also engineered systems to include supportive prompts in the order entry interface with a single keystroke.

  • Magnetic Eyelashes: A New Source of MRI Artifacts

    With U.S. sales of false eyelashes having increased 31% since 2017 and magnetic eyelashes trending as the top beauty-related Google search of 2018, Einat Slonimsky and Alexander Mamourian at Penn State Health utilized a phantom to show that magnetic eyelashes worn during MRI can cause substantial artifact and that detachment…

  • Aspirin and Embolization of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    Aspirin therapy is associated with both improved liver function test results and survival after transarterial embolization (TAE) for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), according to a retrospective review of 304 patients led by F. Edward Boas at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.