Radiography

LAS VEGAS — Results showed femoral tunnel position may not be accurate if less than 4 cm of posterior cortical length is visible when performing radiographs during medial patellofemoral complex reconstruction.

Small-airway obstruction, which cannot be seen with conventional X-rays, was observed in a virtual chest X-ray enhanced by phase-contrast imaging, according to study results published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Compared with high-resolution CT, chest radiography appeared less accurate in detecting interstitial lung disease, according to a study published in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Approximately 83% of patients with fibromyalgia demonstrate visually straight cervical spines, according to data published in the Journal of Clinical Rheumatology.

In this video, Sumera I. Ilyas, MBBS, gastroenterologist, physician-scientist and transplant hepatologist with Mayo Clinic, discusses challenges in diagnosing cholangiocarcinoma during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In children exposed to tuberculosis, chest radiography helped in detecting asymptomatic coprevalent TB and predicting incident TB after baseline, according to a study in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

GRAPEVINE, Texas — Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Machine Learning Laboratory trained deep learning artificial intelligence algorithms to correctly identify arthroplasty implants from plain radiographs, a presenter said.

CHICAGO — Patients who have acute spine trauma without insurance may receive fewer resource-intensive procedures, such as operative fixation or MRI imaging, compared with patients who have insurance, according to results presented here.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — MRI prior to primary hip arthroscopy may not be as clinically useful as concordant history, physical exam and radiographs alone among young patients with femoroacetabular impingement, according to study data.

A routine radiographic protocol rarely alters the management of pediatric osteoarticular infections and significantly increases radiation exposure, health care utilization and costs, according to a speaker.