Podcasts by AJR Podcast Series

Can We Reliably Utilize Ultrasound to Evaluate Fatty Liver? from 2021-03-04T15:37:40

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24874 

Pei-Kang Wei, MD and Cinthia Cruz-Romero, MD di...

Should Thyroid Nodule Location Factor into TI-RADS Scoring? from 2021-03-04T15:29

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24224 

Kalen Riley, MD discusses a new AJR article in ...

Incidental Infectious and Inflammatory Findings on Lung Cancer Screening CT: Significance and Outcomes from 2021-02-18T17:21:22

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25124 

Incidental infectious or inflammatory findings ...

Conventional vs. Drug Eluting Bead TACE - the Debate Continues from 2021-02-03T15:05:33

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24708 

David Ballard,...

The Potential of a Patient Symptom Questionnaire and its Potential Role in Improving Diagnostic Specificity of Pain Generators for Lumbar Spine MRI from 2021-01-27T15:37:02

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25210 

Identifying primary pain generators with lumbar...

18F-Fluciclovine PET/MRI: Too Little, Too Late? from 2021-01-27T15:34:21

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24509 

David Robinson, MD discusses an AJR pi...

Normal Range MRI-derived Left Ventricular Global Strain – Is It Ready for Primetime? from 2021-01-27T15:27:14

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24264 

Giuseppe V. Toia, MD reviews a timely meta-anal...

Chest CT Findings of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy-Related Adverse Events from 2021-01-14T00:24:44

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24758 

Kerem Ozturk, MD discusses why awareness of ear...

Gadolinium deposition in pediatric brains when using gadobutrol and other macrocyclic agents from 2021-01-14T00:21:56

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24536 

Tyler Richards, MD discusses an AJR article tha...

Chest Radiograph as Predictor and Clinical Guide for Management of Patients with COVID-19: Current Studies and Future Direction from 2020-12-15T16:45:21

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24801 

In this podcast, Pei-Kang (Ken) Wei, MD and Dia...

Findings of COVID-related Disseminated Leukoencephalopathy from 2020-12-15T16:43:02

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24364

While the primary manifestations of COVID-19 are...

Radiofrequency Tag Localization Is a Feasible Alternative to Wire Localization of Breast Lesions from 2020-12-08T17:21:16

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24374 

Wire localization has long been the standard of...

Borderline Resectable and Locally Advanced Pancreas Cancer: FDG PET/MRI and CT Tumor Metrics for Assessment of Neoadjuvant Therapy Pathologic Response and Prediction of Survival from 2020-12-01T17:33:16

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24567 

Patients with borderline resectable and locally...

Use of Enteric Contrast for Abdominopelvic CT in Penetrating Traumatic Injury in Adults from 2020-11-18T01:17:09

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24636

Michael Nellamattathil, DO discusses whether or ...

Thermal Ablation versus stereotactic body radiation therapy following trans-arterial chemoembolization – A comparison of outcomes from 2020-10-26T19:03:33

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.20.24117 

Percutaneous interventions are the mainstay for patient...

Malignant Outcomes of Architectural Distortion from 2020-10-14T20:59

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.23935 

Architectural distortion is a subtle but suspic...

Ultrasound guided percutaneous biopsy of small pleural lesions from 2020-10-14T13:24:18

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.20.24120 

In this episode, Yoon-Jin Kim, MD discusses a study eva...

Evaluating PI-RADS 3 atypical BPH nodules using v2.1. from 2020-10-05T14:03:38

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24370 

Jeff Guccione, MD discusses a new article compa...

Prediction of Stroke Recurrence: A Comparison of Transthoracic Echocardiography, Cardiac CTA, and Cardiac MRI in Patients with Suspected Cardioembolic Stroke from 2020-09-30T18:06:51

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.23903 

Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is the sta...

Can an unconventional diffusion weighted technique aid in the MRI management of sacroiliitis? from 2020-09-17T15:52:06

Article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.23953 

Shrey Patel, MD discusses a new AJR article...

CT and MR perform similarly using Bosniak v2019 for cystic renal masses from 2020-09-17T15:46:14

Article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.23656 

In this episode, David Ballard, MD summarizes Bosnia...

Liver steatosis categorization on contrast-enhanced CT using a fully-automated deep learning volumetric segmentation tool: Evaluation in 1,204 healthy adults using unenhanced CT as the reference standard from 2020-09-17T15:40:36

Article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24415 

Shrav Sridhar, MD discusses a retrospective study in...

Increasing Specificity of Recommendations for Renal Incidentalomas from 2020-09-17T15:35:41

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24245 

Incidentally detected renal masses are common, ...

Treating Sinistral Portal Hypertension: Stenting or Embolization? A first-of-its-kind study. from 2020-09-09T13:45:15

Frederic J. Bertino, MD reviews a new AJR study in which the authors attempt to compare the clinical efficacy and technical feasibility of Splenic vein stenting and splenic artery embolization (...

A New Medial Meniscal Extrusion Threshold Relating Clinical Symptoms and MRI Findings from 2020-08-26T15:46:40

The addition of clinical information and verified cartilage damage progression on MRI may represent a new standard in determining progression of knee osteoarthritis. Drew Gunio, MD, MS discusses...

Altar of the Hounsfield Unit from 2020-08-14T19:12:28

Can HU reliably differentiate any benign sclerotic bone lesion (not just bone islands) from sclerotic metastases? David Robinson, MD explores the topic through the lens of a new AJR art...

Improving radiologist performance in detection of microinvasive disease on mammography from 2020-08-12T15:15:37

Jordan Perchik, MD discusses a new AJR study in which a team of breast imaging radiologists determine if case review and a targeted educational session can improve detection of microinv...

A Look at Thermal Ablation of RCC in the Morbidly Obese from 2020-08-11T12:52:37

In this podcast, Edgar Perez, MD reviews new AJR data on how ablation fares in the morbidly obese demographic. Additionally, this podcast may help facilitate discussions about expectati...

Predictors of Anesthetic Exposure in Pediatric MRI from 2020-08-03T17:40

Michael Nellamattathil, MD analyzes and reviews a recent AJR article on the various factors contributing to anesthesia time and exposure in pediatric patients undergoing MRI examination...

Comparing Chest CT findings in Coronavirus and Influenza Pneumonias from 2020-08-03T17:37:26

Jeffrey Guccione, MD highlights the keys points of a new AJR article, which retrospectively compares the imaging features on CT of coronavirus pneumonia and influenza. The importance of...

Stroke and COVID-19: A New Association from 2020-07-29T14:09:45

COVID 19 has been shown to affect a variety of organ systems. In this podcast, Ben Kipper, MD examines the association between stroke subtypes and COVID-19 as well as the effect that association...

Lung US Findings in Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Patients from 2020-07-22T18:59:02

On this episode, Alicia Chen, MD takes a closer look at a very timely new AJR article titled, “Lung US Findings in Coronavirus Disease-19 (COVID-19) Patients” by Yao Zhang and colleagues from Be...

Factors Associated with Background Parenchymal Enhancement on Contrast Enhanced Mammography from 2020-07-08T18:06:50

In this episode, Yoon-Jin Kim, MD, discusses a study evaluating factors associated with background parenchymal enhancement (BPE) on contrast-enhanced mammo...

Opportunistic Screening for Metabolic Syndrome in Asymptomatic Adults Utilizing Fully Automated Abdominal CT-based Biomarkers from 2020-07-07T17:52:48

Metabolic syndrome is typically thought of as a clinical disease. In this podcast, Shrey Patel explores reevaluating the role of imaging in identifying and potentially diagnosing patients at ris...

Whole-Body Bone Scintigraphy Helps to Detect Kidney Diseases from 2020-07-07T17:52:46

Shravan Sridhar, MD, MS discusses his study in AJR that provides a retrospective review of patients with abnormal renal uptake Technicium 99m MDP bone scans in which the causes of abnormal renal...

ACR TI-RADS: What Are We Missing? from 2020-06-17T18:01:57

Compared to other guidelines, ACR TI-RADS results in a decreased number of thyroid nodules which are either followed or given a recommendation of fine needle aspiration (FNA). Find out on this p...

Pediatric COVID-19: What Radiologists Need to Know from 2020-05-12T17:28:50

Although the clinical symptoms of pediatric COVID-19 pneumonia may be non-specific, some characteristic imaging findings have emerged or are currently emerging. This presentation focuses on ches...

Imaging Findings of Vaping Associated Lung Injury from 2020-02-21T08:00

Vaping associated lung injury exploded into a public health crisis in 2019 in the United States and the introduction of a new term into the medical lexicon – EVALI. This episode briefly explores...

Axillary Lymph Node Staging and Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer Patients from 2020-01-22T16:15:31

Lymph node staging in patients with invasive breast cancer and preoperative imaging of the axilla plays are essential for preoperative staging. Unlike many other areas of the body, it is the nod...

DICOM images have been hacked. Now what? from 2019-12-20T05:30

As healthcare moves into a new era of increasing information vulnerability, radiologists should understand that they may be using systems exposed to altered data or data that contains malicious ...

Stener-Like Lesions of the Superficial Medial Collateral Ligament of the Knee: MRI Features from 2019-11-15T15:15:58

Erin F. Alaia provides an overview of stener-like lesions of the superficial medial collateral ligament of the knee and MRI features associated with this injury pattern.

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Nomenclature of Subchondral Nonneoplastic Bone Lesions from 2019-10-25T17:43:52

Donna Blankenbaker, Miriam Bredella, and Tetyana Gorbachova discuss the nomenclature of nonneoplastic conditions affecting subchondral bone through a review of the medical literature and expert ...

Comparison of Radiography and Histopathologic Analysis in the Evaluation of Hip Arthritis from 2019-09-20T17:00

Julia Crim discusses the correlation of radiography findings with findings of gross and microscopic histopathologic analysis to assess the usefulness of radiography in preoperative assessment fo...

Dual-Energy CT in Musculoskeletal Imaging: What Is the Role Beyond Gout? from 2019-08-22T17:00

Naveen Subhas discusses the current role of dual-energy CT in musculoskeletal imaging primarily focusing on nongout entities, including evaluation of bone marrow edema, bone tumors, as well as r...

Os Conundrum: Identifying Symptomatic Sesamoids and Accessory Ossicles of the Foot from 2019-06-21T17:00

Brian Chan discusses how image-guided injections targeted to the symptomatic ossicle can confirm suspected diagnoses and predict therapeutic outcomes before surgical intervention. 

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MRI of the Sacroiliac Joint in Healthy Children from 2019-04-23T17:00

Increasing reliance on MRI for the evaluation of sacroiliitis requires that radiologists be familiar with the normal appearance of the developing sacroiliac joint. In this episode, Nancy Chauvin...

Naviculocuneiform and Second and Third Tarsometatarsal Articulations: Underappreciated Normal Anatomy and How It May Affect Fluoroscopy-Guided Injections from 2019-04-03T17:00

A discussion about the least arthritic or technically most straightforward joint injection when a fluoroscopically guided therapeutic injection is ordered for the second and third tarsometarsal ...

Imaging Quantification of Glenoid Bone Loss in Patients With Glenohumeral Instability: A Systematic Review from 2019-03-06T17:00

How to determine the most accurate imaging techniques to measure glenoid bone loss in anterior glenohumeral instability through a systematic review of existing literature.

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Ulnar Collateral Ligament Insertional Injuries in Pediatric Overhead Athletes: Are MRI Findings Predictive of Symptoms or Need for Surgery? from 2019-02-01T17:00

Tony Wong discusses his study on how to determine whether ulnar collateral ligament insertion below the articular margin exists in the pediatric population and whether MRI features can be used t...

Factors Predicting Positive Culture in CT-Guided Bone Biopsy Performed for Suspected Osteomyelitis from 2019-01-18T17:00

Matthew Bucknor discusses his study in AJR that identifies clinical factors and radiographic characteristics associated with positive culture results from bone biopsy in cases of suspec...

The Relevance of Ulnar-Sided Contrast Extravasation During Radiocarpal Joint Wrist Arthrography from 2019-01-18T17:00

Contrast material often extends from the radiocarpal joint into the proximal soft tissues adjacent to the ulnar aspect of the ulnar styloid during single-compartment radiocarpal joint MR arthrog...

MR Arthrogram Features That Can Be Used to Distinguish Between True Inferior Glenohumeral Ligament Complex Tears and Iatrogenic Extravasation from 2019-01-10T17:00

Eric Chang discusses his study on features seen at shoulder MR arthrography that distinguish between iatrogenic contrast material extravasation and inferior glenohumeral ligament complex tears. ...

Supraspinatus Myotendinous Junction Injuries: MRI Findings and Prevalence from 2018-12-05T17:00