Head and Neck Radiology: Page 20

Sonothrombolysis improves outcomes in patients with ischemic stroke

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 11 - Sonothrombolysis with recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator has a beneficial effect in patients with middle cerebral artery main stem occlusion, according to a report in the May issue of Stroke.

June 10, 2008

DW-MRI shows value in RTP for head and neck cancer

By Barbara Boughton

A pilot study presented at the 2008 American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting is the first to demonstrate the value of diffusion-weighted MRI for nodal staging in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, according to investigators from Belgium.

June 2, 2008

NordicNeuroLab forms U.S. office

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Norwegian functional MRI developer NordicNeuroLab has opened a U.S. office in Milwaukee.

April 15, 2008

Routine CT scanning is most cost-effective for minor head injuries

By Rob Skelding

VIENNA - Trying to be more selective about which patients receive a CT scan following minor head injury may sound like a good idea, but most of the major selective strategies are less cost-effective and riskier to patients than just routinely scanning all such patients. That's according to new data presented Friday at the 2008 European Congress of Radiology (ECR).

March 6, 2008

Headgear: Is radiosurgery the right treatment for trigeminal neuralgia?

By Sydney Schuster

The nerve disorder trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is not that common, but with the median age of 67 at diagnosis it has the potential to be a widespread health issue among aging baby boomers. Radiosurgery has gained popularity as a way to manage TN, but will it become the gold standard treatment? Neurosurgeons who work with radiosurgery praise it as being faster, safer, and just as effective as traditional management methods.

December 30, 2007

Migraine with aura may be linked with patent foramen ovale

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Nov 28 - The results of a study published in the October issue of Headache suggest a possible association between migraine with aura and patent foramen ovale. Researchers from Poland evaluated 121 migraine patients, and transcranial Doppler with contrast medium was performed during Valsalva maneuver to diagnose patent foramen ovale.

November 27, 2007

Insight Agents launches contrast media in Europe

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

German contrast media developer Insight Agents announced the European launch of two new generic contrast media products, one for x-ray and CT in Germany, and one for MRI in 22 European countries.

November 25, 2007

GE to sell Imtec conebeam CT scanner

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

GE Healthcare of Chalfont St. Giles, U.K., has signed an exclusive agreement to distribute the Iluma conebeam CT scanner from dental products developer Imtec of Ardmore, OK.

September 17, 2007

GE warns of impending Ceretec shortage

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

Bad weather and flooding have forced Chalfont St. Giles, U.K.-based GE Healthcare to close its manufacturing facility in Gloucester, U.K., temporarily interrupting supplies of an imaging radiopharmaceutical.

August 20, 2007

Presurgical fMRI for tumor resection: Are we there yet?

By Shalmali Pal

BERLIN - In theory, functional MRI offers the ultimate noninvasive, presurgical management tool for brain tumor resection. In practice, fMRI techniques have a way to go before they can be as accurate as intraoperative cortical stimulation (ICS), according to Dr. Stefan Sunaert, Ph.D., from the University Hospital of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. Sunaert discussed some of the strengths and weaknesses of fMRI for brain tumor mapping in a talk Sunday at the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) meeting.

May 20, 2007

Higher thyroid cancer rate from Chernobyl confirmed

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jul 7 - A new study confirms a substantially increased risk of thyroid cancer among people exposed to radiation during childhood and adolescence after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident.

July 6, 2006

Pheochromocytoma tied to carotid vascular remodeling

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 9 - Intimal medial thickness (IMT) is increased in patients with pheochromocytoma compared to both essential hypertensives and healthy controls, according to Italian researchers.

June 8, 2006

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