Departaments of Radiology and Otorhinolaryngology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro School of Medicine, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil: MD, Resident of the Department of Radiology; MD, Resident of Department of Otorhinolaringology; MD, Staff of the Department of Otorhinolaringology; MD, PhD, Associated Professor of the Department of Radiology. Paraganglioma jugulotympanic (PJT) are originated by...

conclusions the state of observed radiation protection principles was relatively in the weak level in the studied radiology departments especially in facilities such as ventilation system, radiography entrance, and darkroom situation. more important reason was usage changing of sections as radiology billet from related organizations. results the mean of radiation protection in the studied radio...

This paper analyzes the use of structured radiology reports since 1997 at Midway Hospital Medical Center, which is a full-modality 150-bed community hospital located in Los Angeles, California. We describe the transition from a conventional transcription-based reporting system to one in which radiologists create reports for twelve radiology modalities directly through a structured reporting sys...

E U R O P E A N C A R D I O V A S C U L A R D I S E A S E 2 0 0 6 1 Mathias Goyen is Chief Communication Officer (CCO) at the University Medical Center in Hamburg, Germany. He was previously Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology at the University Hospital Essen, Germany. Dr Goyen has edited four books and authored many peer-reviewed articl...

Abdominal Imaging seeks to meet the professional needs of the abdominal radiologist by publishing clinically pertinent original, review and practice related articles on the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts and abdominal interventional and radiologic procedures. Case reports are generally not accepted unless they are the first report of a new disease or condition, or part of a special s...

1 Resident Physician in Radiology and Image Diagnostics Instituto de Cardiologia do RS/ FUC. 2 Radiologist SIDI Medicina por imagem. 3 MSc in Health Sciences: Cardiology, Hemodynamics. 4 MD. Cardiovascular Radiologist. Head of the Radiology and Image Diagnostics at SIDI. 5 MD. Cardiovascular Radiologist. Head of the Radiology and Image Diagnostics at SIDI. SIDI Medicina por Imagem e Instituto d...

abstract necrotizing sarcoid granulomatosis (nsg) is a rare disease which is classified in the spectrum of pulmonary angiitis and granulomatosis. it is a variant of sarcoidosis and differs from it histologically. diagnosis is based on the pathological features, but radiology may help in the differential diagnosis. it is characterized by alveolar infiltrates or parenchymal nodules in multidetect...

Subspecialization in radiology was essentially nonexistent in the decade of the 1950s. The emphasis was on general radiology, and on the idea that all radiologists should perform and interpret all radiologic examinations. In the early 1950s, these consisted of chest films; upper and lower gastrointestinal examinations; excretory urograms; examinations of the skeletal system, gallbladder, parana...

BACKGROUND The majority of radiological reports are lacking a standard structure. Even within a specialized area of radiology, each report has its individual structure with regards to details and order, often containing too much of non-relevant information the referring physician is not interested in. For gathering relevant clinical key parameters in an efficient way or to support long-term the...

PURPOSE To retrospectively document the reported computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examinations that were left behind in our radiology department, to calculate their cost, and to determine possible sources of waste in order to draw attention to this subject. MATERIALS AND METHODS The reported and billed CT and MRI examinations for 2003 that were not taken from ...