IntroductionStingray envenomations are a common marine animal injury for which it is important to identify and remove retained barbs prevent secondary infection. The optimal imaging modality in stingray foreign body detection not well characterized the existing literature. In this study, we compared accuracy of plain radiography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance (MRI) detecting human foot ankle.M...

S ome have argued that physicians have difficulty regulating themselves (an argument recently echoed by the ACGME, in fact), and they often point to physician laboratory and radiology self-referral abuses that occurred throughout the 1980s as their major talking point. These discussions led to a series of federal laws, referred to collectively as the Stark Laws (after California Congressman Pet...

The actual transition from being a resident (or fellow) to an independent radiologist is major step. Newly graduated radiologists need prove that they can work independently and handle clinical workloads [ 1 Cronan J.J. My first job: the residency employment—what employer employee should know. J Am Coll Radiol. 2008; 5: 193-196 Abstract Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (10) Google Scholar ]. However...

OBJECTIVES To assess whether 10 focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) examinations could be used as a minimum standard for training, as suggested previously. METHODS This was a retrospective review of patients with abdominal trauma who underwent resident-performed FAST examinations before surgical or Department of Radiology evaluation. RESULTS Six hundred ninety-eight patients were...

Large-colon torsion is a common cause of colic in horses and has a worse prognosis and highercost than other causes of surgical colic of the large colon. During large-colon torsion, the colonwall becomes thick due to vascular occlusion. Therefore, we hypothesized that detectingincreased colon-wall thickness during ultrasonography would be an accurate pre-operative testfor large-...