Musculoskeletal Radiology: Page 53

Ultrasound tracks icatibant effects in osteoarthritis

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jan 7 - For the most part, contrast-enhanced ultrasound performs as well as contrast-enhanced MRI in monitoring the action of the bradykinin receptor 2 antagonist icatibant in patients with painful knee osteoarthritis, German researchers report.

January 6, 2009

Greatest pain comes four hours after MR arthrogram injection

By Wayne Forrest

Researchers in Switzerland have found that patients who undergo MR arthrography temporarily experience the most pain in the affected joints four hours after injection. The study also showed that the pain is most pronounced in younger patients, but the discomfort for virtually all patients disappears after one week.

December 25, 2008

Ultrasound suitable for soft-tissue mass triage

By Erik L. Ridley

Ultrasound can be a useful triage tool for evaluating soft-tissue masses, according to researchers from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in the U.K. They prospectively studied 358 consecutive patients with soft-tissue masses who had received ultrasound exams over a six-month period.

December 23, 2008

FDG-PET/CT recommended for staging Hodgkin's disease

By Wayne Forrest

A British study confirms the high sensitivity and specificity of PET/CT in identifying focal bony disease in patients with Hodgkin's disease, according to research presented at the recent 2008 RSNA meeting. The results further suggest that the imaging modality can play an important role in initial staging of the disease.

December 18, 2008

Joint pain is increased in breast cancer patients

By Reuters Health

SAN ANTONIO, (Reuters Health), Dec 12 - Joint pain is more common and more severe in women with breast cancer than in age-matched controls without breast cancer, researchers reported at the 2008 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS).

December 11, 2008

Smartphone vs. PACS: Smartphone does just fine for skeletal trauma

By Cynthia E. Keen

CHICAGO - A new study from the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London pitted a new-generation smartphone against a PACS diagnostic workstation for diagnostic quality display of skeletal trauma radiographs, and the smartphone held its own.

December 3, 2008

Ultrasound guides treatment for long-term relief of plantar fasciitis

By Edward Susman

CHICAGO - An ultrasound-guided technique appears to provide long-term, near sequelae-free relief to patients suffering from chronic, debilitating plantar fasciitis, researchers reported at the 2008 RSNA annual meeting in Chicago.

December 1, 2008

MRI shows prowess in diabetic foot with osteomyelitis

By Wayne Forrest

Italian researchers have concluded that MRI shows high sensitivity for detecting osteomyelitis in a diabetic foot, but lower specificity related to Charcot neuropathic osteoarthropathy. The study comes from Carlo Poma Hospital and was published online on October 25 by La Radiologia Medica.

November 9, 2008

SPECT ties functional brain abnormalities to fibromyalgia

By Wayne Forrest

Using SPECT, researchers in France have detected functional abnormalities in certain regions of the brain in fibromyalgia patients. The findings support the idea that fibromyalgia symptoms are related to a dysfunction in the parts of the brain where pain is processed.

November 6, 2008

RSA takes mdesk order

By AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writers

RSA Biomedical of Umeå, Sweden, has received an order from Uppsala Akademiska for its mdesk orthopedic preoperative planning and templating system.

November 5, 2008

Esaote

By Wayne Forrest

(Booth 3247) Italian imaging firm Esaote will reprise its 2007 introduction of S-scan, a musculoskeletal MRI system designed to scan all joints, including spine segments such as L- and C-spines.

October 30, 2008

Ongoing joint damage despite RA in remission tied to subclinical inflammation

By Reuters Health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Oct 28 - When rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is in clinical remission yet structural deterioration continues, the cause appears to be subclinical joint inflammation (synovitis) that can be detected by ultrasound and by MRI, according to a prospective longitudinal study.

October 27, 2008

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