The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.-Sir Winston Churchill Healthcare is widely viewed as an essential service and even a right of all members of society. Global dynamic changes within the past decade in the legislative, financial and technological areas have had a dramatic effect on the practice of radiology. Interventional radiology is no exception. The provision of basic he...

BACKGROUND The patterns, performance characteristics, and yield of diagnostic tests ordered for the evaluation of acute kidney injury (AKI) have not been rigorously evaluated. METHODS We characterized the frequency of AKI diagnostic testing for urine, blood, radiology, and pathology tests in all adult inpatients who were admitted with or developed AKI (N = 4903 patients with 5731 AKI episodes...

background: with the introduction of computed tomography in diagnostic radiology a new and fundamentally different imaging modality has become available. meanwhile, it is clear that the absorbed doses by the patients during ct were relatively high in comparison with those of other diagnostic radiology techniques. the aim of this survey was to determine the average absorbed dose in yazd province...

The diagnosis is primarily based on clinical criteria because there are no specific diagnostic laboratory tests available and because of the non-specificity of the histopathologic findings. The multiorgan involvement of Behcet’s disease can be characterized. Here we will describe the radiological findings consisting of pulmonary, cardiovascular, neurologic, and abdominal involvement in Behcet’s...

Slavko [imuni}1, Laszlo Horváth2, Kre{imir Glavina1, Bela Fornet3, Nada Be{enski4, Gyula Vargha5 and Ivan Lovasi}6 1 Department of Radiology, University Hospital »Osijek«, Osijek, Croatia 2 Department of Radiology, University Hospital Medical School, Pécs, Hungary 3 Private Clinic, Miskolc, Hungary 4 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Center »Zagreb«, Zag...

N. A. Kraemer, E. Immel, A. Melzer, C. Ocklenburg, R. W. Guenther, G. A. Krombach, and E. Spuentrup Diagnostic Radiology, University Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany, BIOPHAN Europe GmbH, Germany, IMSat, Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, University of Dundee, United Kingdom, Institute for Medical Statistics, Universiy Hospital Aachen, Aachen, Germany, Diagnostic and Interventional ...