RadioGraphics Podcast | RSNA

This week on the podcast, new residents and fellows can prepare for upcoming procedures with Dr. Frederick's segment on epidural steroid injections: anatomy, safety, and technique.  And Dr. Gibbs summarizes the latest recommendations for imaging pediatric and young adult patients with Non Hodgkin Lymphoma. Fluoroscopically Guided Epidural Injections of the Cervical and Lumbar Spine. RadioGraphics...

When is a non-diagnostic biopsy a good thing? And when should you go back? This week Wende Gibbs discusses a classic paper describing tips and decision making for musculoskeletal biopsies. And Ross Frederick discusses a useful new article on sphenoid wing lesions. Anatomy and Diseases of the Greater Wings of the Sphenoid Bone. Cochinski et al. RadioGraphics 2022; 42:0000–0000. Pearls and Pitfalls...

Vital, practical topics in this RadioGraphics podcast: join Ross Frederick and Wende Gibbs for discussion of the challenging problem of identifying the source of hyperparathyroidism and an algorithmic approach to splenic lesions. Contemporary Multimodality Imaging of Primary Hyperparathyroidism.  Naik et al. RadioGraphics 2022; 42:841–860.  Algorithmic Approach to the Splenic Lesion Based on Radio...

Join Drs. Frederick and Gibbs for in depth summaries of our focused topic:  Imaging of the hippocampus, and our multisystem review, important for all:  Imaging of the Lymphatic System. Imaging Aspects of the Hippocampus. Alves et al. RadioGraphics 2022; 42:0000–0000.  Understanding Lymphatic Anatomy and Abnormalities at Imaging. Lee et al. RadioGraphics 2022; 42:487–505.

In this week's podcast, Drs. Frederick and Gibbs discuss cancer inducing viruses and complications from radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. Adverse Radiation Therapy Effects in the Treatment of Head and Neck Tumors. Rocha et al. RadioGraphics 2022; 42:0000–0000. Human Oncoviruses and Thoracic Tumors: Understanding the Imaging Findings. Franquet et al. RadioGraphics 2022; 42:0000–0000.

Join us this week as Dr. Gibbs discusses a paper detailing the latest on intracranial aneurysm detection, characterization and the fascinating changes in practice with the expanding armamentarium of new devices used for treatment. Imaging Intracranial Aneurysms in the Endovascular Era: Surveillance and Posttreatment Follow-up. Chung et al. RadioGraphics 2022; 42:0000–0000.  

CTA is vital to determining whether an extremity mangled in trauma can be salvaged. Do you know what to look for and report?   And electronic stimulators- do you know them when you see them?  Drs. Frederick and Gibbs summarize important articles from the current issue and recent archives. Roles of Trauma CT and CTA in Salvaging the Threatened or Mangled Extremity. Dreizin et al. RadioGraphics 2022...

In this podcast, Ross Frederick provides an algorithmic approach to diagnosing spinal cord signal abnormality.  And Wende Gibbs reviews evaluation of thoracic outlet syndrome. Great topics for residents studying for boards and practicing radiologists! Diagnostic Approach to Intrinsic Abnormality of Spinal Cord Signal Intensity. Lee et al. RadioGraphics 2019; 39:1824–1839.  Imaging of the Patient w...

Lesions of the chest wall- these can be hard to figure out, especially when incidental.  Dr. Frederick summarizes a new paper that simplifies narrowing the diagnosis and providing management recommendations.  Also in this podcast, Dr. Gibbs provides an update on imaging of Covid, in the acute phase and in patients who have recovered from the disease. Diagnostic and Imaging Approaches to Chest Wall...

CAR-T immunotherapy- an amazing advance in oncology with high rates of remission, but most patients have complications.  In this podcast we describe the science of CAR-T, physiologic timeline, and imaging features of adverse events which are common.  All radiologists should be aware in order to better help our patients with cancer.  Also, CNS Lupus- increasing in prevalence and still with high mor...

In our first podcast of 2022, we learn about a life-threatening entity that is more common that we thought, and important for radiologists in all specialties to recognize:  Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection.  Also, pearls and pitfalls for distinguishing malignant, benign, and incidental findings on FDG PET/CT. Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: An Underdiagnosed Clinical Entity—A Primer...

ECMO is an important, last resort to save many of our patients with cardiopulmonary failure and we are seeing it used in our sickest COVID patients.  Do you know how it works?  Imaging plays a vital role in assessing the complications of ECMO, but the hemodynamic alterations and artifacts make CTA tricky.  Dr. Ross Frederick summarizes this new ECMO paper and additional information on how to do it...

This week on the Radiographics podcast, Informatics editors Drs. Juluru and Wang summarize recent papers on Natural language processing and Deep Learning.  Bag-of-Words Technique in Natural Language Processing: A Primer for Radiologists. Juluru et al. RadioGraphics 2021; 41:1420–1426. Deep Learning: An Update for Radiologists. Cheng et al. RadioGraphics 2021; 41:1427–1445.

In this podcast, Ross Frederick describes a promising new interventional radiology treatment for an extremely common source of morbidity around the world:  knee osteoarthritis.  And Wende Gibbs summarizes a multisystem paper describing the ever growing number of treatment related complications we might encounter in our cancer patients- we must be familiar with the possibilities to get them the bes...

Amyloid—the devious protein that when misfolded can cause serious incurable disease in nearly every body system. Wende Gibbs discusses a new article about amyloidosis, and Ross Frederick summarizes a new Rad-Path article on pituitary gland tumors in this week's RadioGraphics podcast.  Amyloidosis: Multisystem Spectrum of Disease with Pathologic Correlation. Sugi et al. RadioGraphics 2021; 41:1454–...

Acute, life-threatening GI bleeding- a frightening thing to find on call!  So many causes- do you know what they all look like?  Ross Frederick summarizes a valuable new atlas from the new Radiographics body imaging monograph. And from the Sept/Oct issue, Wende Gibbs summarizes updates in breast cancer lymph node imaging and intervention. Gastrointestinal Bleeding at CT Angiography and CT Enterogr...

The newest podcast highlights our monograph series, this time Emergency Neuroradiology - vital knowledge for all. Ross Frederick and Wende Gibbs discuss neck and skull base emergencies and the etiologies associated with the emergency presentation of headache - common but so important. Acute Headache in the Emergency Setting. Guryildirim et al.  RadioGraphics 2019; 39:1739–1759.  Traumatic Neck and...

This week's podcast features a useful approach to the common and difficult case of the cystic abdominal or pelvic mass, as well as the LI-RADS diagnostic algorithm for hepatocellular carcinoma. (And a brief bonus commentary on radiology reporting!) How to Use LI-RADS to Report Liver CT and MRI Observations. Cunha et al. RadioGraphics 2021; 41:1352–1367 Approach to Cystic Lesions in the Abdomen and...

In this podcast: a life-saving review of soft tissue infections, like the dreaded necrotizing fasciitis, seen by radiologists of all subspecialities. And a discussion of metabolic bone disease, primarily osteoporosis - more common, underdiagnosed, undertreated, and deadly than people think! Soft-Tissue Infections and Their Imaging Mimics: From Cellulitis to Necrotizing Fasciitis. Hayeri et al. Rad...

Radiotherapy is used to treat the majority of our patients. Do you know the technology and the lingo? How does proton differ from photon therapy? What is contouring, simulation, CTV?  Everything you need to know about radiation oncology (and pediatric mediastinal masses!) in this week's podcast. Fundamentals of Radiation Oncology for Neurologic Imaging. Mendel et al. RadioGraphics 2020; 40:827–858...

Radiologists have an increasing role in tumor treatment and pain palliation for patients with osseous metastatic disease. Join Ross Frederick and Wende Gibbs for discussion of the latest interventional radiology interventions. Bone Metastases: State of the Art in Minimally Invasive Interventional Oncology. Tomasian and Jennings. RadioGraphics 2021; 41:1475–1492.  

Degenerative changes of the spine: one of the most common indications for MRI. Wende Gibbs discusses unusual disc pathology and Ross Frederick describes common and uncommon pathology of the facet joints.  Practical topics and important considerations in evaluating imaging of the lumbar spine! Episode content  0:00-1:06 -Introduction by Dr. Gibbs 1:07-10:36 - Uncommon Manifestations of Intervertebr...

Ross Frederick helps us figure out those pesky calvarial lesions and Wende Gibbs talks about minimizing MRI artifacts in the presence of metallic hardware. Practical subjects! 00:00-10:20 - Summary by Wende Gibbs, MD Improving MR Image Quality in Patients with Metallic Implants. Lee et al. RadioGraphics 2021; 41:E126–E137  10:21-25:10 - Summary by Ross Frederick, MD on Imaging Spectrum of Calvaria...

Wende Gibbs discusses Radiographics articles important for all radiologists.  00:00-13:48 - CT for Evaluation of Hemoptysis. Marquis et al. RadioGraphics 2021; 41:742–761  

Wende Gibbs discusses Radiographics articles important for all radiologists:  skull base fractures- the new, improved Bosniak classification of renal masses and lean management principles that increase efficiency and improve patient flow in the ER. 00:00-00:32 - Introduction by Wende Gib bs, MD 00:33-07:22 -  Bosniak Classification of Cystic Renal Masses, Version 2019: A Pictorial Guide to Clinica...