AJR Podcasts

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25417

For patients who have undergone prior lumpectomy for localized breast cancer, no clear guidelines exist regarding use of diagnostic or screening mammography for post-lumpectomy imaging surveillance. Amber Liles, MD, MPH dives into a recently published article which seeks to answer this research question.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25437

The triangular fibrocartilage complex is a structure which is often associated with ulnar sided wrist pain. Injuries to this structure can result in displaced tears which have a characteristic appearance. Shrey Patel, MD discusses a new AJR article that describes characteristic MRI findings and the frequency of this injury.

Full article: https://www.ajronline.org/doi/abs/10.2214/AJR.20.25315

Giuseppe V. Toia, MD reviews a retrospective study exploring prognostic factors for patients with chemorefractory metastatic colorectal cancer treated with Y-90 radioembolization. The study emphasizes primary tumor location as a predictor of overall survival.

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.