Dear AuntMinnieEurope Member,
The annual scientific meeting (ASM) of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists is known as a high-quality congress, and Europeans can learn plenty of lessons from the wealth of valuable information presented there.
This week's top article comes from last month's ASM and looks at how interventional radiologists treat hepatocellular carcinoma at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. The authors agreed to let us share two sets of clinical images with you.
Judging by our recent traffic figures, your appetite for medicolegal articles remains strong, and we've posted two new ones since Tuesday.
The first is about a U.K. tribunal involving a Czech-trained clinical oncologist who prescribed chemotherapy without documenting the consultation, failed to inform a patient about the results of a CT scan, and recommended a treatment that was not licensed for squamous cell carcinoma of the lung.
The second medicolegal story is about how a radiology practice miscoded an ultrasound examination conducted at 41 weeks that showed low amniotic fluid. This error resulted in the scan being sent "to nowhere," rather than to the mother's midwife. Tragically, the baby later died.
Another hot topic right now is how best to use chatGPT. One emerging area is its role in converting free-text knee MRI reports into structured reports. A second study, however, has found that large language models are not ready to assign PI-RADS classifications for prostate cancer.
Finally, please don't miss our piece about a U.K. group's work on the physical surroundings of mammography rooms required for optimal image quality.
Philip Ward
Editor in Chief
AuntMinnieEurope.com
