Put Your Back into It: Pathologic Conditions of the Spine at Chest CT

Put your heart into the joint benefits of statins!

The recognition that systemic inflammatory diseases are associated with accelerated atherosclerosis offers the prospect of reducing morbidity and mortality of affected patients by attention to traditional cardiovascular risk factors. For example, in most studies of mortality in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, excess cardiovascular deaths predominate, with a risk ratio of about 2 (reviewed b...

Multidetector CT of emergent biliary pathologic conditions.

Various biliary pathologic conditions can lead to acute abdominal pain. Specific diagnosis is not always possible clinically because many biliary diseases have overlapping signs and symptoms. Imaging can help narrow the differential diagnosis and lead to a specific diagnosis. Although ultrasonography (US) is the most useful imaging modality for initial evaluation of the biliary system, multidet...

Energizing rheumatology training: put teaching back into the academic limelight.

Defining osteopathic medicine: can you put your finger on it?

Rogers • Editorial A of us have been in situations like this: You may have trained in a major medical center, you may work there now, or you may be attending a large educational symposium. You look around and you observe, “I am as good as anybody else here, but there is something different.” The problem is, can you put your finger on it? As members of a “hands-on” profession, we osteopathic phy...

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