LITTLE FALLS, N.J., July 7-- Clinicians may miss a substantial number of new abdominal aortic dilations on CT scans, researchers have found. Clinical teams didn't record about 60% of dilations within ...

May 2, 2012 (Vancouver, British Columbia) — Computed tomography (CT) scans after inconclusive abdominal ultrasounds have a diagnostic yield of about one third, according to research presented here at ...

January 24, 2011 — A change in diagnosis and treatment was made in nearly half (49%) of adult patients presenting to an emergency department with nontraumatic abdominal pain after a computed ...

Plaque detected in abdominal CT scan could be a strong predictor of coronary artery disease and mortality, according to a Henry Ford Hospital study. Plaque detected in abdominal CT scan could be a ...

Abdominal CT scans can be performed markedly faster and with no loss of accuracy by using intravenous contrast only, rather than the more conventional IV plus oral contrast, according to two studies ...

A study of more than 12,000 children from emergency departments throughout the U.S. has identified seven factors that can help physicians determine the need for a computed tomography scan following ...

Unenhanced CT was about 30% less accurate than contrast-enhanced CT for the evaluation of acute abdominal pain in the emergency department (ED), a retrospective study showed. Of 201 adult patients, ...

A study in the September issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology says that a new low-dose abdominal computed tomography (CT) technique called adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than half of patients receiving abdominal CT scans, an advanced type of X-ray, got them for tests they did not need, exposing them to excess radiation that could raise the ...

Despite concerns about exposing patients to excessive amounts of radiation from CT scans, a Massachusetts General Hospital study finds that such tests avoided hospitalization in nearly one in four ...

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