Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25207 

Shrav Sridhar MD, discusses a retrospective study in which target-specific prostate cancer detection rate in a cohort of patients who underwent in-bore MRI biopsy was compared to the rate in a cohort of patients who underwent ultrasound-MRI fusion-guided biopsy. 

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24918 

Frederic J. Bertino, MD discusses a recent AJR article that investigates how to optimize the cores samples for in-gantry prostate MRI biopsy. It is suggested by this retrospective study that three cores from the dominant lesion achieves the “sweet spot” in balancing significant cancer detection and reducing anesthesia and procedure time. Study limitations and future directions are discussed.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24874 

Pei-Kang Wei, MD and Cinthia Cruz-Romero, MD discuss the importance of ultrasound as a reliable and affordable method to evaluate fatty liver and the applicability of ultrasound to evaluate fatty liver in various patient populations, both in children and adult.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24224 

Kalen Riley, MD discusses a new AJR article in which the authors believe TI-RADS should be accounting for nodule location and that a revision to the scoring system should be considered.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25124 

Incidental infectious or inflammatory findings are commonly identified by lung cancer screening computed tomography but determine whether findings have little or no clinical consequence and which are significant enough to require further work-up is not always clear. Kerem Ozturk, MD discusses how adoption of a conservative management algorithm can standardize recommendations and reduce unnecessary imaging without increasing the risk of missing a malignancy.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24708 

David Ballard, MD discusses an important contribution to the literature in assessing the ongoing debate of conventional vs. drug eluting bead transarterial chemoembolization.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25210 

Identifying primary pain generators with lumbar spine MRI can be a challenging task. Adequate patient symptom information is often lacking and its absence may allow radiologists astray in their own interpretations. Drew Guino, MD discusses the development of a patient symptom questionnaire appears to address this very issue, however.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24509 

David Robinson, MD discusses an AJR pilot study exploring 18F-Fluciclovine PET/MRI for initial staging of prostate cancer and the effects of androgen deprivation therapy on 18F-Fluciclovine uptake.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24264 

Giuseppe V. Toia, MD reviews a timely meta-analysis which defines the normal reference ranges for MRI-derived left ventricular strain in healthy adults.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.24758 

Kerem Ozturk, MD discusses why awareness of early chest CT findings is required for early detection and accurate diagnosis of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy-related adverse events such as pneumonitis, new consolidation, worsening thoracic tumor burden, pleural/pericardial effusion, and pulmonary emboli in the emergency department.