Dear CT Insider,
The death of Elena Baltacha last month focused public attention on the destructive powers of liver cancer. The Ukrainian-born U.K. tennis pro was only 30, and she was playing at the highest level until last year.
Against this background, award-winning French research presented at last week's European Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology meeting was bound to prove popular. The authors spelt out how to use CT more effectively in assessing tumor response in liver cancer. To learn more, go to your CT Digital Community, or click here.
The misuse of CT due to incorrect referrals seems to be a growing problem. At this month's U.K. Radiological Congress, a Saudi group found that a significant percentage of CT requests are inappropriate, and there's an urgent need to develop local guidelines or adapt international ones for imaging referrals. Get the story here.
It would be fascinating to conduct a study of 100,000 accident victims to investigate whether the 40,000 people examined with state-of-the-art CT had better survival rates than the 60,000 examined with older machines, according to Dr. Norbert Hosten, president of the German Radiological Society. Hosten has presented his vision of radiology's future, focusing particularly on technology assessment. Click here to read more.
Many cases of congenital heart defects now occur in adults, so general radiologists must know about these defects and how best to use CT. Austrian experts have studied this area, and you can click here to get their findings.
Increasing numbers of extremely old and frail patients are being referred for CT, but is it always appropriate for them to undergo a procedure? Dr. Paul McCoubrie considers this question in his latest column. To find out more, click here.
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