The American Society of Emergency Radiology held its 35th Annual Meeting from Oct. 18-21 in San Diego, Calif. Congratulations to Dr. Robin Levenson, who was inducted as a Fellow of the American Society of Emergency Radiology (FASER) at the Annual Meeting, and Dr. Melissa Tannenbaum, who received a...
BIDMC Radiology Resident Dr. Charissa Kim's work, "Missed Cancer Diagnosis Rate in CT-Guided Core Lung Biopsies with a Histopathologic Finding of Organizing Pneumonia," with mentor Dr. Olga Brook, was featured in an RSNA Daily Bulletin article during the 2023 Annual Meeting. Read the full article...
Dr. Francesca Rigiroli, BIDMC Radiology Body MRI Fellow, has been appointed to serve as Associate Editor of the Editorial Board of Radiology: Imaging Cancer, an RSNA journal, beginning in December 2023. The mission of this publication is to "foster communication, scientific discovery, and technology...
Acute pancreatitis may be the initial clinical presentation of pancreatic cancer. However, since the vast majority (approximately 98%) of acute pancreatitis is due to other causes (e.g. alcohol, gallstones), pancreatic cancer is generally not pursued as a possible etiology unless a mass is...
In a cohort of 870 patients, we found that the best predictor of bleeding risk during liver biopsy is the highest INR within the last 3 months before the biopsy. This begs the question: Is the time, money, and potential morbidity of INR "correction" with FFPs worth it? Does it actually decrease the...
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