Sep 25, 2023

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.23.29670 

Sid Dogra, MD discusses an AJR article in which the authors show that retained biopsy site markers following resection of breast lesions increases risk of residual malignancy, particularly in patients whose initial pathology suggested malignancy....

Sep 13, 2023

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.23.29655 

Shruti Kumar, MD discusses an AJR study that compares the performance of mammography alone, standalone artificial intelligence (AI), ultrasound alone, and a combination of these methods in a sample of 1,325 women. The study suggests that adding AI to...

Sep 13, 2023

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/ajr.23.29570 

Childhood obesity is a growing epidemic globally. Precisely quantifying abdominal fat distribution on MRI could be valuable for research and clinical care, but manual segmentation is extremely tedious. Farzaneh Ghazi Sherbaf, MD discusses a recent study...

Sep 5, 2023

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.23.29607 

When grading hepatic steatosis on MRI, we generally assume that chemical-shift images are needed. Robert Smalley, MD takes a look at a recent AJR article that proposes a simpler way using in-and-opposed-phase images. How good is it, and is it ready...