A fast search on the PubMed site in September 29, 2010 with the words “Cardiovascular imaging”, covering a ten-year period, revealed 12,560 articles. By limiting the search to 2010 alone, 1,489 scientific articles were found. With these surprising figures, one can conclude that this is the greatest advance in developments in the field of cardiovascular imaging ever achieved in medicine. This in...

The radiologist makes a valuable contribution to the staging of laryngeal cancer and this has a direct influence on treatment planning. This review focuses on the main anatomical concepts, patterns of tumour spread and how to detect this with optimal cross sectional imaging. Issues surrounding the relationship of tumour to the ventricular complex, submucosal laryngeal spaces, anteroposterior ex...

Endoscopic sinus surgery has become an increasingly popular procedure since Messerklinger [1) and Wigand et al. [2] described the advantages of the intranasal endoscope and its surgical application . The concept of "functional endoscopic sinus surgery" [3] evolved from the work of Hilding [4, 5), Proctor [6, 7], and Messerklinger [8-1 0] on mucociliary clearance and air flow in the paranasal si...

Coronary anomalies comprise a diverse group of malformations, some of them asymptomatic with a benign course, and the others related to symptoms as chest pain and sudden death. Such anomalies may be classified as follows: 1) anomalies of origination and course; 2) anomalies of intrinsic coronary arterial anatomy; 3) anomalies of coronary termination. The origin and the proximal course of anomal...

ObjectiveTo investigate the general population’s view on use of artificial intelligence (AI) for diagnostic interpretation screening mammograms.MethodsDutch women aged 16 to 75 years were surveyed using Longitudinal Internet Studies Social sciences panel, representative Dutch population. Attitude toward AI in mammography was measured by means five items: necessity a human check; as selector sec...