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The ESR Audit Tool (Esperanto)
In 2017, the ESR published a Clinical Audit Tool booklet (Esperanto), consisting of an explanation of clinical audit, guidance on how to start a program in a radiology department, and 17 sample audit templates which could guide departments through the process of...
Imaging of urgencies and emergencies in patients with lung cancer
Lung cancer patients often experience potentially life-threatening medical urgencies and emergencies. Since early diagnosis is important for adequate patient management and prognosis, radiologists have a crucial role in recognising and communicating these urgencies...
Elucidating early CT after pancreatico-duodenectomy
Pancreatico-duodenectomy (PD) is the standard surgical treatment for resectable malignancies of the pancreatic head, distal common bile duct, periampullary region and duodenum, and is also performed to manage selected benign tumours and refractory chronic...
Xantogranulomatous pyeloneprhritis in children
Xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XPN) is an unusual and severe form of chronic inflammatory lesion of the kidney. It is characterised by the destruction of the renal parenchyma and the presence of multinucleated giant cells and lipid-laden macrophages, inflammatory...
Postmortem fetal magnetic resonance imaging
Postmortem fetal magnetic resonance imaging (PMFMRI) is a technique that is increasingly used thanks to its good overall concordance with histology paralleling the rising incidence of parental refusal of autopsy. However, before it could become a routine clinical...
Differentiating intramedullary spinal cord lesions
Due to the challenging nature of diagnosing intramedullary spinal cord abnormalities, magnetic resonance imaging is becoming the modality of choice for diagnosis and preoperative assessment of patients with spinal cord abnormalities. This article provides a systematic...
Convolutional neural networks
Convolutional neural network (CNN) is a class of deep learning methods dominant in various computer vision tasks and is attracting interest across a variety of domains, including radiology. This review article offers a perspective on the basic concepts of CNN and its...
Editor-in-Chief Luis Marti-Bonmati receives ESGAR Gold Medal
Prof. Luis Marti-Bonmati received the ESGAR Gold Medal during the society’s congress 2018 in Dublin.
