February 01, 2008
Greater utilization of dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI at the University of California, San Diego, over a 6-year period helped improve surgery planning for tough breast cancer cases without hiking mastectomy rates
December 01, 2007
Buoyed by effective postprocessing techniques, modern multislice CT has swept away some of the modality's limitations in visualizing the complex pancreas and created new challenges for radiologists in assessing incidentally detected lesions
December 01, 2007
The lack of an effective, detailed workup algorithm for positive results in multicenter lung cancer screening trials leads to a lower cancer yield from invasive procedures and later diagnoses for participants
November 01, 2007
Compared with optical colonoscopy, CT colonography achieves similar outcomes with a fraction of the number of polypectomies
October 01, 2007
Conventional wisdom holds that DCIS consists of malignant cells that have not invaded other tissue, but László Tabár, MD, has identified subtypes that he thinks are actually invasive and merely mimic DCIS. Fragmented casting (as seen on the page 1 image) and "snakeskin-like" calcifications, appearing either alone or with a mass on the mammogram, are particularly menacing, he maintains.