Imaging Pearls ❯ Musculoskeletal ❯ Techniques
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- Do you need to look at the full field of view on a CT scan and if so when?
- Cardiac CTA of Cardiac Calcium Scoring Study
- Spine CT especially T-spine, L-spine and Sacrum - “ Reviewing the full-FOV from lumbar spine CT examinations will result in the detection of a small number of substantial extraspinal pathologic findings in addition to many benign incidental findings.”
Extraspinal Findings at Lumbar Spine CT Examinations: Prevalence and Clinical Importance
Lee SY et al.
Radiology 2012; 263:502-509 - “ Extraspinal findings were present in 40.5% of adult outpatients undergoing lumbar spine CT examinations for low back pain and/or radiculopathy, most (62.3%) of whom had findings classified as benign and not requiring further work-up.”
Spine CT Examinations: Prevalence and Clinical Importance
Lee SY et al.
Radiology 2012; 263:502-509 - “ The full field of view (FOV) abdominal images were required o best visualize extraspinal abnormalities in 79.4% of cases.”
Spine CT Examinations: Prevalence and Clinical Importance
Lee SY et al.
Radiology 2012; 263:502-509 - “ A small percentage (14.8%) of patients had indeterminate or potentially clinically important findings requiring clinical correlation or further evaluation. Substantial extraspinal pathologic findings, consisting of an early stage renal cell carcinoma and transitional cell carcinoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, sarcoidosis, and 13 abdominal aortic aneuysms, were present in 4.3% of our cohort of 400 patients.”
Spine CT Examinations: Prevalence and Clinical Importance
Lee SY et al.
Radiology 2012; 263:502-509 - “ Substantial extraspinal pathologic findings, consisting of an early stage renal cell carcinoma and transitional cell carcinoma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, sarcoidosis, and 13 abdominal aortic aneuysms, were present in 4.3% of our cohort of 400 patients.”
Spine CT Examinations: Prevalence and Clinical Importance
Lee SY et al.
Radiology 2012; 263:502-509 - “ A small percentage (14.8%) of patients had indeterminate or potentially clinically important findings requiring clinical correlation or further evaluation.”
Spine CT Examinations: Prevalence and Clinical Importance
Lee SY et al.
Radiology 2012; 263:502-509