Nearly 40% of children undergoing CT scans for blunt abdominal trauma have incidental findings, with 3.5% requiring immediate evaluation and 5.4% needing follow-up within 4 weeks. This secondary ...

The growing use of cone-beam CT (CBCT) for diagnostic and treatment planning applications in dentistry has prompted a parallel body of discourse on the legal liabilities associated with 3D image ...

About 40% of cancers among Americans can be attributed to potentially modifiable factors such as smoking, drinking, obesity, and physical inactivity. If a widely reported study from earlier this year ...

CT scans, or CAT scans, are widely used to get internal images of the body and diagnose dangerous medical conditions — but they could pose a hidden risk. A new study from the University of California ...

When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New research shows that some of those abnormalities could be signs of other ...

Researchers at Yale University looked at hundreds of CT scans from patients who presented to the emergency department or an acute care facility in psychiatric distress. Diagnostic yield—defined as the ...

The prevalent use of CT scans may account for 1 in 20 cancers annually, according to new research. The study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, suggests CT-related radiation is linked to ...

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body's ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Low-risk patients with and without concerning CT findings had comparable clinical outcomes. More patients with ...

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