according to a study to be presented at the ARRS 2010 Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA.
Instead of referring patients for ultrasound-guided biopsies, physicians may now be able to rely on certain conventional ultrasound characteristics to determine the pathology of some thyroid nodules,
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Apr 7 - Ultrasound can be useful in the workup of infants with a first urinary tract infection, researchers from Sweden report in the May issue of The Journal of Urology.
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Ultrasound elastography may be useful as an adjunct for the challenging task of evaluating thyroid nodules, according to a pair of recent studies.
In the first study, a multicenter trial concluded that combining elastography with grayscale ultrasound and color Doppler offers the potential of improving the characterization of thyroid nodules. Meanwhile, a separate Korean study also [...]

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Dec 30 - Tests show that certain MRI machines may demagnetize magnets used in cochlear implants to couple external and implanted components, according to a report in the December issue of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.
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(Radiology Review) For patients with mammographically occult breast lesions, an additional lesion marker placed at needle localization may enable immediate confirmation of lesion excision, according to radiologists at New York University School of Medicine in New York City.
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