comparsion of imaging studies for follow- up

Follow-Up MR Imaging for Cerebral Sparganosis.

The recent article on follow-up MR imaging for cerebral sparganosis is interesting. Li et al noted, “Migration is a notable feature of cerebral sparganosis.” This finding is quite interesting. Due to its basic nature, sparganosis is usually a chronic localized disease. According to a large series from Thailand, no observation of cerebral migration was noted. The “tunnel” sign is a new finding t...

Follow up studies in rheumatoid arthritis.

n rheumatology we have been told for years that the results of randomised controlled trials may not be extrapolated to the long term, and that a gain in the beginning may not necessarily mean a gain in what we solemnly call the " final outcome ". In almost every review on disease modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), long term efficacy and long term toxicity are a...

Role of imaging studies in the diagnosis and follow-up of large-vessel vasculitis: an update.

Imaging studies play a central role in diagnosing and monitoring giant-cell and Takayasu arteritis. Deep, large vessels can be examined by CT or MRI, while colour Doppler ultrasound and MRI have been used with promising results to investigate the temporal arteries. Positron emission tomography is very sensitive in detecting large-vessel inflammation, although it does not delineate the vessel wa...

Follow-up imaging studies of blunt splenic injury: do they influence management?

BACKGROUND The exact value of follow-up ultrasonography and computed tomography in the non-operative management of blunt splenic injuries is not yet defined. Although follow-up studies have been recommended to detect possible complications of the initial injury, evidence shows that routine follow-up CT scans usually do not affect management of these patients. OBJECTIVE To determine whether fo...

NNT for studies with long-term follow-up.

Robust Click-Point Linking for Longitudinal Follow-Up Studies

This paper proposes a novel framework for robust click-point linking: efficient localized registration that allows users to interactively prescribe where the accuracy has to be high. Given a user-specified point in one domain, it estimates a single point-wise correspondence between a data domain pair. In order to link visually dissimilar local regions, we propose a new strategy that robustly es...