conclusions there was a statistically significance correlation between thyrads score and pathologic bethesda scoring system. decision making basis on the radiologic thyrads score can improve the radiological diagnosis precision in nodular goiter patients. results the mean age (± standard deviation) of patients was 44.5 (± 12.8 years). most of them were female 138 (83.6%). the frequency of final...

Background & Aims: Compliance with standards of designing information systems leads to efficient utilization and ease of use for consumers. In this study, the compliance of the radiology and pathology subsystems of a hospital information system with ISO 9241 section 12 was assessed in selected hospitals affiliated with Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran. Methods...

Gastritis has a broad pathologic spectrum and anatomic distribution, as well as an evolving etiology. The Sydney pathologic classification of gastritis, which appeared in 1990 and was revised in 1994, emphasized the importance of combining etiologic, topographic, and morphologic criteria for establishing clinically useful diagnoses. Using this revised Sydney pathologic classification as a guide...

have a method, by means of serial X-ray examinations at different stages of the disease, of watching the pathological processes at work during life, and of correlating the findings with clinical symptoms and the degree of disability. In a case suspected, on clinical grounds, of silicosis, the two deciding points are (1) a history of exposure to silica dust, and (2) X-ray findings. Either alone ...

From the Department of Radiology, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, WA (VBH); Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD (VBH, JGS); Department of Radiologic Pathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC (JGS); Department of Neurology, Georgetown University Hospital; Washington, DC (FMM); Department of...

PURPOSE Much of the information needed for radiology teaching and research is not in the picture archiving and communication system but distributed in hospital information systems throughout the medical enterprise. Our objective is to describe the design, methodology, and implementation of a data warehouse to integrate and make accessible the types of medical data pertinent to radiology researc...

1Department of Oral Biology, School of Dentistry, Creighton University, Omaha, NE 68178, USA 2Preclinical Program, College of Dental Medicine-Illinois, Midwestern University, 555-31st Street, 102 Redwood Hall, Downers Grove, IL 60515, USA 3Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA 4Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School o...