Hello. I am Dr David Johnson, professor of medicine and chief of gastroenterology at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Virginia. Welcome back to another installment of GI Common Concerns, in ...
The present paper provides a brief overview of the rationale behind magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, a description of the most common sequences used, and a general approach to performing ...
Liver biopsies are traditionally performed to determine the cause and stage of liver disease, as well as to inform treatment decisions and determine prognosis. In 2001, Bravo et al. observed that ...
A newly developed MRI-based scoring system may help identify patients at higher risk of early recurrence after surgical removal of small hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The findings, published in ...
A 72-year-old man with a history of chronic alcoholism and cirrhosis Child score A was referred to the oncology department of a tertiary hospital in Cali, Colombia, for assessment of a growing mass in ...
ENDRA Life Sciences NDRA recently announced positive findings from a clinical study assessing the measurement consistency of ...
A 68-year-old Japanese woman was referred for evaluation to our service in September 2013; she complained of abnormal uterine bleeding. She was 10 years postmenopausal, nulliparous, and otherwise ...
PET-CT imaging with [18 F]fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and [18 F]fluorocholine (FCH) altered treatment plans in only a tiny minority of patients undergoing initial staging for hepatocellular carcinoma ...