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Communication errors: We sought to analyze the types of communication errors in radiology, investigate at which step communication errors occur, and evaluate the impact of communication errors on patient care, customer satisfaction, and workflow efficiency to identify opportunities for quality...

Image-guided biopsies are done in the context of imaging findings that are suggestive of malignancy. Biopsies are utilized for definitive diagnosis and characterization of the tumor pathology. However, in some of these cases, the pathology report is returned as benign or nondiagnostic. We...

Hyperpolarization is a technology for aligning, or polarizing, the nuclear spins in a contrast agent or metabolic tracer. Agents prepared this way can dramatically enhance nuclear magnetization and, as a result, produce MR signals up to 100,000 times stronger versus conventional imaging. This makes...

Interventional Radiology (IR) is rapidly increasing in terms of the types of procedures and the volume of cases. The growth of this field is evidenced by the new residency training program for this specialty. As IR requires proficient technical skills in interventions, assessment of those skills is...

Many decisions that general clinicians need to make daily are based on a risk assessment of different clinical (medical or surgical) interventions relative to the risk of non-intervention. We have a program for developing imaging protocols to better assess risk for patients in several clinical...

In this publication, we show that an 18G needle splenic biopsy is as safe as a splenic biopsy with smaller needles. So, even if it is daunting, you can still biopsy the spleen. Multi-institutional collaboration is the key to obtaining meaningful data. Thank you to the Society of Abdominal Radiology...

Lymphedema is caused by the accumulation of lymphatic fluid in the interstitial space due to impaired clearance, from congenital causes (primary) or infection, trauma, or medical/surgical treatments (secondary), resulting in (sometimes severe) swelling of the extremities. Visualization and...

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...

Vertebral fractures are a risk associated with bone metastases in a large range of cancers, with potentially debilitating consequences. While therapeutic interventions exist to reinforce the bone to prevent such fractures, it is currently difficult to evaluate a given patient for level of fracture...

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...